Phil Jackson: 15 years I’ve been asking the NBA rules committee to widen the court apron. Corner shot b-comes 23.9”
15 years I’ve been asking the NBA rules committee to widen the court apron. Corner shot b-comes 23.9”
— Phil Jackson (@PhilJackson11) April 27, 2026
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Fullcourtpass: Ja Morant and Jaren Jackson Jr in Orlando taking in the Magic and Pistons
Ja Morant and Jaren Jackson Jr in Orlando taking in the Magic and Pistons pic.twitter.com/axAv9lJov2
— Fullcourtpass (@Fullcourtpass) April 28, 2026
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According to the team’s latest Instagram post, a wrong has been righted and the two-ways are in fact on the trip to San Antonio for Game 5. https://t.co/uaeV08fJCRpic.twitter.com/5pxmUaTasf
— Sean Highkin (@highkin) April 27, 2026
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Tyrese Haliburton: “Who’s got a bigger name? Me or him?”
“Who’s got a bigger name? Me or him?” https://t.co/9FDdmuxpR4pic.twitter.com/lRNwVHDa9v
— Tyrese Haliburton (@Hali) April 27, 2026
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Bayern Munich head coach Vincent Kompany will miss his team’s Champions League semifinal match against Paris Saint-Germain due to a suspension.
“I’ll be sitting somewhere in the stadium. Maybe not too far from you [journalists]. The procedures are clear. I know when I’m allowed to do something and how I can support the team. I’m not involved in every part. The most important thing is that we solve this as a team, and we can do that,” Kompany said (as captured by @iMiaSanMia). “Danksy (Aaron Danks) already has experience; he spent some time on the sidelines in England. He also usually plays a more vocal role, both in training and in games. I have 100% confidence in the staff and everyone else as well.
When asked if he would pull a José Mourinho and sneak into the dressing room via a laundry basket, Kompany chuckled at the notion.
“I’m 1.92m tall, so unfortunately I don’t fit in any laundry basket,” Kompany said with a laugh.
As a former defender, Kompany’s focus against PSG immediately flows toward the French club’s incredible attacking group, but he thinks maybe PSG should be worried about his attackers.
“I can turn the question around: What do they do with our attackers? It goes both ways. Both teams have an incredible amount of creativity, also in terms of positioning and finding solutions. It’s about details, intensity, and energy. We’re playing each other four times now. We have experience against them, but so does the opponent.” Kompany said.
Kompany’s squad will be a little thin due to the injuries to Raphaël Guerreiro, Lennart Karl, Tom Bischof, and Serge Gnabry.
“We always want to have the entire squad available. Raphaël Guerreiro’s injury isn’t too serious, but it’s obviously a pity that it happened at this stage. Tom Bischof and Lennart Karl will also be back soon, and Sven Ulreich is back. We have the squad we need to take on this game” said Kompany.
Kompany also noted that he admires the job that his counterpart, Luis Enrique, has done. Consequently, Kompany also addressed Enrique saying that PSG is the best team in the world.
“He’s doing an incredible job. A year and a half ago, when we beat Paris, a swarm of journalists was criticizing Luis Enrique. But I felt back then what kind of team they had, and that something was happening here. They had a young team, but they sent a clear message. I wasn’t surprised that they won the Champions League. You can see that there’s a real team spirit in Luis Enrique’s teams. His players run, they fight – he does that with all his teams, a huge compliment to him,” said Kompany. “In my view, the defending champions are fully entitled to claim what they want. We’re fighting for the title that PSG won last year. They deserve every bit of praise. We want what they have. We’re hungry. Tomorrow is the first leg; there will be a second leg in Munich, and we hope that over the course of these two matches we’ll prove to be the better team.”
The manager was asked what would be different from the last match between the squads and he thinks the games between the clubs have been so close that is difficult to tell.
“It’s hard to say. These games have always been very close; sometimes we’ve won, sometimes they’ve won. It could have gone either way. We have plenty of players with experience in matches like this. Luis Enrique said it all comes down to the finer details – and that’s exactly what it will be. The players will decide the outcome. It’ll be decided by the players’ belief and quality,” said Kompany.
Finally, when asked if the Bayern Munich vs. PSG contest should be the final, Kompany dismissed the notion.
“No, there are still four teams left. All four of them can still dream of the title. When it comes to playing style, we’re facing a match that’s incredibly intense. They can prevent the opposition from getting into their rhythm. With PSG, it’s like a storm bearing down on you,” said Kompany.
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The Rays won a well-pitched, sharp defense nail biter tonight in Cleveland, with Steven Matz (seven innings pitched) and Ryan Vilade (three hits, two RBI) leading the way.
If you like quick moving pitching duels, then the first four and a half innings of this game would be your idea of a good time.
The Rays had their work cut out for them, facing Plant City’s own Parker Messnick, a 25-year old lefty who has been phenomenal over his short career.
Steven Matz, pitching for the Rays, came off a terrible start against the Reds but tonight he had overcome whatever had caused him to give up four walks and three homers in just three innings (or maybe his problem last time was simply having to face the 21st century iteration of the Big Red machine).
He scattered two hits until the fifth inning, when he gave up a two-run homer to Daniel Schneemann (fun fact, his last name translates to “snow man.”) You know the baseball truism, “it’s not the home runs, it’s the walks before the home runs?” Tonight that was truly the case. Just before Snow Man’s homer, David Fry had walked on a 10 pitch at bat, with ball four coming after Cleveland challenged a called strike.
The Rays did get one of those runs back in the sixth inning. Yandy Diaz drew a walk, advanced to second on a ground ball and scored on Ryan Vilade’s two out single. This was nice because it cut the Cleveland lead in half, and also led to Messick’s exit from the game.
Matz pitched very well — his final line was seven innings, four hits, two runs and one walk. He only struck out two but being a weak contact guy > being a big K guy, at least sometimes, because a weak contact guy is more likely to get through seven innings.
He was also helped by good defense, with really no “what the heck” plays in the field, and a few very nice outs like this one:
The Rays finally managed to barrel up a few pitches, and take the lead, in the eighth inning. Jonathan Aranda homered on a mistake pitch over the plate.
Junior Caminero hit a 114mph single, after which he was pulled for a pinch hitter, Richie Palacios. Palacios immediately stole second. Although some of us speculated that Vilade, up next, would be replaced by Jake Fraley to face the right handed pitcher, but Cash stuck with Vilade, and Ryan singled Richie home. The Rays took the lead and made their manager’s decisions look like genius. Take that, “Fire Cash” twitter account.
Ian Seymour came out to pitch the eighth, and when he walked the lead off batter and fell behind 2-0 to the next batter, many of us might have been thinking “Um Kevin, seriously? Ian Seymour?” But a fly out and two strikeouts later that, too, looked like a brilliant move.
It was no surprise that Cash went to Bryan Baker to close out the 3-2 game, but for a few miserable minutes that, ironically, looked like the one move that was going to bite the team in the rear. After getting the dangerous Jose Ramirez out, Baker allowed hits to the next two batters, putting men on second and third with just one out. But Baker reached back for that something extra, and struck out the next two batters.
Here is how the game ended:
That’s five in a row, and wins in nearly every game against an American League team. Suddenly I think interleague play is the worst!
The Rays won a well-pitched, sharp defense nail biter tonight in Cleveland, with Steven Matz (seven innings pitched) and Ryan Vilade (three hits, two RBI) leading the way.
If you like quick moving pitching duels, then the first four and a half innings of this game would be your idea of a good time.
The Rays had their work cut out for them, facing Plant City’s own Parker Messnick, a 25-year old lefty who has been phenomenal over his short career.
Steven Matz, pitching for the Rays, came off a terrible start against the Reds but tonight he had overcome whatever had caused him to give up four walks and three homers in just three innings (or maybe his problem last time was simply having to face the 21st century iteration of the Big Red machine).
He scattered two hits until the fifth inning, when he gave up a two-run homer to Daniel Schneemann (fun fact, his last name translates to “snow man.”) You know the baseball truism, “it’s not the home runs, it’s the walks before the home runs?” Tonight that was truly the case. Just before Snow Man’s homer, David Fry had walked on a 10 pitch at bat, with ball four coming after Cleveland challenged a called strike.
The Rays did get one of those runs back in the sixth inning. Yandy Diaz drew a walk, advanced to second on a ground ball and scored on Ryan Vilade’s two out single. This was nice because it cut the Cleveland lead in half, and also led to Messick’s exit from the game.
Matz pitched very well — his final line was seven innings, four hits, two runs and one walk. He only struck out two but being a weak contact guy > being a big K guy, at least sometimes, because a weak contact guy is more likely to get through seven innings.
He was also helped by good defense, with really no “what the heck” plays in the field, and a few very nice outs like this one:
The Rays finally managed to barrel up a few pitches, and take the lead, in the eighth inning. Jonathan Aranda homered on a mistake pitch over the plate.
Junior Caminero hit a 114mph single, after which he was pulled for a pinch hitter, Richie Palacios. Palacios immediately stole second. Although some of us speculated that Vilade, up next, would be replaced by Jake Fraley to face the right handed pitcher, but Cash stuck with Vilade, and Ryan singled Richie home. The Rays took the lead and made their manager’s decisions look like genius. Take that, “Fire Cash” twitter account.
Ian Seymour came out to pitch the eighth, and when he walked the lead off batter and fell behind 2-0 to the next batter, many of us might have been thinking “Um Kevin, seriously? Ian Seymour?” But a fly out and two strikeouts later that, too, looked like a brilliant move.
It was no surprise that Cash went to Bryan Baker to close out the 3-2 game, but for a few miserable minutes that, ironically, looked like the one move that was going to bite the team in the rear. After getting the dangerous Jose Ramirez out, Baker allowed hits to the next two batters, putting men on second and third with just one out. But Baker reached back for that something extra, and struck out the next two batters.
Here is how the game ended:
That’s five in a row, and wins in nearly every game against an American League team. Suddenly I think interleague play is the worst!
The NBA and FIBA are in the process of going through bids from those seeking franchises for a new league in Europe, with multiple potential ownership groups from all 12 of the league’s targeted cities expressing interest.
NBA Deputy Commissioner Mark Tatum, speaking at an Associated Press Sports Editors meeting on Monday, said the NBA and FIBA “were very, very happy” with the interest shown by the bids. The new league could begin play in October 2027.
“Right now, we’re just going through that process of narrowing down those bids into a little bit of a short list and trying to go out and continue to build partnerships with the right people in those markets,” Tatum said.
Officials from the NBA, FIBA and EuroLeague will meet in Geneva on Tuesday, Tatum said.
“We hope to be able to come together with the EuroLeague to align on the right system and the right setup here,” Tatum said. “That’s our goal with those guys moving forward.”
Expanding the league’s footprint into Europe and growing the game — both on the floor and from a commercial standpoint — have been NBA priorities. The NBA and FIBA announced plans for the league in March 2025.
The impact of European stars on the NBA game is clear and has been for some time, with Serbia’s Nikola Jokic, Greece’s Giannis Antetokounmpo, France’s Victor Wembanyama and Slovenia’s Luka Doncic among the biggest basketball stars on the planet.
“We’re really thinking this is a global opportunity and we want to take advantage of the European culture and the European affinity for the game of basketball,” Tatum said. “This is not going to be the NBA opposing anything in Europe. This is going to be a European league, built by Europeans, with Europeans, with our partners in FIBA as well.”
Potential host countries for the NBA-FIBA endeavor are believed to include Britain (with the likely spots for teams in London and Manchester), France (likely Paris and Lyon), Spain (Madrid and Barcelona), Italy (Rome and Milan), Germany (Munich and Berlin), Greece (Athens) and Turkey (Istanbul).
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The Dodgers continue their series against the Miami Marlins with the middle game on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.
Shohei Ohtani takes the mound on Tuesday, needing six more innings to get back on the ERA leaderboard for at least another day. The Dodgers mulled flipping Ohtani and Tyler Glasnow in the rotation such that Ohtani could pitch on Wednesday, the day before a team off day, but decided to stay in order after Glasnow pitched eight scoreless innings last Thursday in San Francisco.
Janson Junk starts for Miami. Among the 138 pitchers with at least 20 innings this season, Junk’s 15.5-percent strikeout rate ranks 116th, so expect a lot of balls in play.
Chicago Cubs (17-11) at San Diego Padres (18-9), April 27, 2026, 6:40 p.m. PST
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