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Jaylen Brown is processing a whirlwind of emotions after learning he's headed to Philadelphia. The former Celtic told reporters he's both excited and disappointed about the trade to the seventy-sixers — a rare dual reaction that tells you everything about how complicated this deal really is for him personally and professionally.
Shifting to baseball, and one of the more remarkable stories of the young season — eighteen-year-old Frank Cairone took the mound in the Arizona Complex League on July second for his professional debut, just six months after surviving a serious car crash on New Year's Day in New Jersey. Milwaukee selected him in the second round, sixty-eighth overall, and the Brewers showed up wearing his number in support before the draft. Incredible resilience from a kid just getting started.
And out in Los Angeles, the Lakers made their biggest offseason move yet, landing Walker Kessler from Utah in a sign-and-trade. The deal costs them unprotected first-round picks in two thousand thirty-one and two thousand thirty-three, but the front office believes the seven-footer is exactly the rim-protecting center Luka Doncic needs to take this team somewhere serious.
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