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The Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame made history with one of its most powerful induction classes in recent memory. Candace Parker, Elena Delle Donne, Chamique Holdsclaw, and the legendary nineteen ninety-six U.S. Olympic team are all Hall of Famers now. These are the names that built women's basketball into what it is today, and the game is better for every one of them.
Shifting to the hardwood, Kevin Garnett is getting his number retired a second time. The Minnesota Timberwolves will raise his number twenty-one to the rafters, and they're doing it around a game against the Boston Celtics — the franchise where KG won his championship ring. Two cities, two numbers, one legacy that spans an entire generation of basketball.
And we have to pause and acknowledge something deeply sobering out of Europe. Nineteen-year-old British cyclist Finlay Tarling died following a serious crash during the eighth stage of the Volta a Portugal. He was just at the beginning of what promised to be a remarkable career. The entire cycling world is mourning tonight, and our thoughts are with his family and teammates.
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