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In Las Vegas, the future of the NBA put on a show Thursday night. AJ Dybantsa, the number one pick in the two thousand twenty six draft, got the better of number two pick Darryn Peterson in their Summer League debut, with stars packed into the stands to witness the matchup everyone had circled on the calendar. Dybantsa looked composed, physical, and ready — the early edge belongs to him.
Shifting to Philadelphia, Joe Mazzulla has finally broken his silence on the Jaylen Brown trade to the Sixers, and the basketball world has been waiting on every word. The Celtics head coach addressing that blockbuster move for the first time carries real weight — it signals where Boston's head is at heading into a retooled season, and how Mazzulla plans to move forward without one of the franchise's cornerstones.
And in the WNBA, Sophie Cunningham is having the time of her life. After Indiana's last-second win over Phoenix Thursday night, Cunningham recreated her now-legendary pointing meme directly at the Mercury crowd, leaning fully into the moment that turned her into one of the league's most recognizable faces. Pure theater, and she earned every second of it.
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