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The Los Angeles Lakers are about to change hands in the most expensive sports transaction North America has ever seen. Bob Iger and venture capitalist Josh Kushner have agreed to purchase the franchise for a staggering twelve point five billion dollars, shattering every previous record for a sports franchise sale on this continent. The Buss family era is over.
Across the Atlantic, the Football Association has dropped a serious charge on Everton forward Martin Sherif. The twenty-year-old is accused of placing sixty-one bets on football matches over a sixteen-month window stretching from November twenty twenty-four through February twenty twenty-six, a direct violation of FA Rule E one point two. At just twenty, his career now hangs in genuine jeopardy.
Meanwhile in Cleveland, the Cavaliers are running out of runway in their pursuit of Jonathan Kuminga and Peyton Watson. The front office has been aggressive pushing for a deal that would bring in James Harden, but sources indicate if something doesn't get done soon, Cleveland may walk away entirely and regroup before training camp opens.
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