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The San Antonio Spurs have done something nobody saw coming at this scale — they walked into Oklahoma City, took Game seven, and sent the Thunder home for the summer. Victor Wembanyama, just twenty-two years old, looked like the future and the present all at once, and OKC's response? No excuses, just work.
Speaking of futures, the question now hanging over the Thunder is whether Chet Holmgren can be the guy when the lights are brightest. He vanished in Game seven in a way that drew immediate comparisons to Ben Simmons — a player defined by his disappearance in big moments. That is not the conversation you want your franchise center in, and Oklahoma City knows it.
Across the Atlantic, the Liverpool managerial search is heating up fast. Arne Slot is out after two years at Anfield, and Steven Gerrard is putting Andoni Iraola's name firmly in the mix. The Bournemouth boss is just forty-three, but Gerrard says he absolutely belongs in the conversation to take one of the biggest jobs in world football.
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