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Lendeborg joins Chamberlain and Barry: Dimitri keeps the pause before the name
With two games of at least 30 points in his first seven appearances, Yaxel Lendeborg joins Wilt Chamberlain and Rick Barry in Warriors history. His 37 points against the Clippers are the most by a Golden State rookie since Stephen Curry’s 42 in April 2010.
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A Diaz Graham twin replaces the other in Dallas: Dimitri swaps only the first name
The Dallas Mavericks cut Spanish power forward Jorge Diaz Graham on Thursday and signed his identical twin Guillermo about five hours later. According to Eurohoops, it is a formality: both brothers are…
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Garnett would coach Portland, but never: Dimitri still prepared the entrance
Kevin Garnett named the Portland Trail Blazers as the team he would pick if he had to coach, during a live stream with streamer N3ON. The Hall of Famer insists, though, that…
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Lendeborg admits he was scared of Doncic: Darnell’s mother sees a good sign
Yaxel Lendeborg, Golden State Warriors rookie and 11th pick in the 2026 Draft, told BasketNews he was spooked to learn he would guard Luka Doncic. Doncic ended up resting, and Steve Kerr…
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The NBA hunts flopping with a four-letter acronym, Martine looks for the column
The NBA says calls for “flopping” will be enforced this season once the line between exaggerating contact and faking it is crossed. In the preseason, Jalen Brunson (Knicks) was given a technical…
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Anthony Edwards promises no friends in the NBA: Darnell’s mother asks who will defend
Anthony Edwards, the Minnesota Timberwolves star, has warned that opponents should expect no friendly treatment this season, according to BasketNews. LeBron James, for his part, said he had not watched Edwards’s Adidas…
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Perasovic back at Baskonia for the fourth time: Dimitri digs out the same jingle
Baskonia made official on 14 October 2026 the departure of Paolo Galbiati and the return of Velimir Perasovic, who played for the club from 1993 to 1997 and has coached it three…
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Micah Nori stops a scrimmage with one word, Martine resets the clock to six minutes
In his first season in charge of the Portland Trail Blazers, Micah Nori wants to get his messages across in as few words as possible. At a messy practice, he stopped a…
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Noah Penda’s dunk comes back out off his face: Darnell’s mother looks for a defender
A dunk by Noah Penda, Orlando’s Frenchman, was disallowed against Cleveland: the ball, not yet fully through, hit his face and popped back out briefly before dropping in again. Penda blocked himself,…
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The NBA repaints thirty floors for the NBA Cup, Chantal eyes her three sets of lines
For the fourth edition of the NBA Cup, the NBA has unveiled 30 fully painted floors in each franchise’s colours, with the team name in giant letters and a slogan in the…
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The Caitlin 1 goes red-pink: Darnell’s mother, in Indiana, read the sole
The Caitlin 1, Caitlin Clark’s signature shoe, comes out in “Midnight Fever”, its third colourway. Under the sole are “Shoot More Threes”, “From Anywhere” and “It was never a long shot”.
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Noah Penda dunks, the ball goes back through the hoop: two points struck out in red pen
In Orlando’s win over Cleveland, a Noah Penda dunk was ruled out for “basket interference”. Coming down, still hanging from the rim, the ball bounced off his head before it had fully…
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Olympiacos go ahead after trailing by 28 points: Dimitri announces the 88-86
Olympiacos beat Valencia 102-97 after overtime in the EuroLeague, having trailed 62-34 at the start of the third quarter. The reigning champions took the lead seventeen minutes later, on points from Mbaye…
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Four columnists, zero press cards
Martine
Timekeeper at home and scorer away for a second-provincial club on the Herve plateau, since her son stopped playing. A game only exists through what is on the sheet, and the buzzer is always right.
Chantal
President of a second-provincial club in the Condroz, near Namur, “because nobody else wanted the job”. Reads NBA contracts in the only unit she knows: what they would be worth at her club, in raffles, minibuses and heating.
Dimitri
Announcer for a Brussels club in the Flemish second regional division, in both languages: the mic, the music and the introductions in the dark with the school-fair spotlights. Everything is a moment, and the NBA sometimes does too little.
Darnell
Arrived from Indiana in 2000 for one season in Charleroi, never left. Watches the NBA, his own country, like an exile who found something better: here people play defence, and check before they believe it.
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