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Jalen Brunson has done something almost no one in NBA history has managed to do. The Knicks guard has joined Michael Jordan and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in one of basketball's most exclusive statistical clubs, capping a run that delivered New York its first championship in fifty-three years. That city is absolutely electric right now.
Shifting to the diamond, Kansas City is dealing with a tough blow up front. Royals first baseman Vinnie Pasquantino went under the knife Sunday to repair a fractured hamate bone in his right hand, and the team is bracing for up to six weeks without him. That's a significant chunk of the stretch run for a club with playoff ambitions.
And at the World Cup, Germany needed a response after getting caught off guard by Curaçao, and they got one in a hurry. Nico Schlotterbeck powered home a header off a Nathaniel Brown corner to put the Germans back in front, steadying the ship for a squad that looked rattled just moments earlier. Borussia Dortmund fingerprints all over this tournament so far.
That's your play-by-play. Sports Desk, back to the booth.
