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Jonathan Kuminga is making his price known and it is not cheap. The former Golden State Warriors champion has reportedly set a twenty million dollar per year floor for any team looking to land him, with the Lakers and Cavaliers both circling. Two playoff-hungry franchises, one asking price — someone's going to blink first.
Shifting to Europe, Andrea Pirlo's path to the Italy head coaching job just hit a serious wall. The Italian Football Federation has pumped the brakes on what looked like a done deal, now scrutinizing Pirlo's commercial ties to a Russian betting company. Federation president Giovanni Malagò wants answers before any pen touches paper, and right now, those answers aren't coming fast enough.
And in Baltimore, Dylan Beavers is quietly becoming one of the most clutch young players in baseball. The Orioles outfielder delivered his third walk-off hit in less than a year at the major league level Saturday night, an RBI single in the ninth to edge the Atlanta Braves two to three and pull Baltimore within two and a half games of a postseason spot. The kid does not flinch.
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