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Zach LaVine is staying with the Bulls, which has surprised me. The Celtics are trading to get Malcolm Brogdon. Otto Porter Jr is leaving the Warriors to join the Raptors, and Gary Payton II is joining the Trail Blazers. My favourite news is that the Summer League is trialing making a take foul into a free throw and keeping possession, which will hopefully get rid of the deliberate fouls stopping fast breaks. There's also this:

I'm baffled by the Richarlison deal. I don't see where he fits into the squad, nor have I seen anything to suggest he'll improve things (especially not for £60 million). I trust Conte and the other decision makers, but this one is pushing that trust.

To brighten the mood after the last week of horror in F1, there is this:

I'd be lying if I said I understood how Murray and Trae are going to work as a tandem. One of them is going to have to switch to not being a primary ball-handler.

I'm really starting to struggle with Ms. Marvel now...

I was stunned to learn that Raducanu hasn't won 2 matches in a row since winning the US Open. I hope she can sort out whatever is stopping her progression.

It's the sequel the world wanted to see!

I'm baffled how Daryl Mitchell has become the most difficult batsman in the world to get out. I wouldn't put it past him getting another century in this innings.

It's taken me quite a while to work out who we actually have thanks to the trades, but Walker Kessler looks like he could be a very impactful defender. I can't see much of an issue with pushing KAT out to PF at this point if they want Kessler and KAT to play together. I'll be interested to see what we do with Wendell Moore, I assume he'll be a bench player for a while though. And we drafted an Italian, which pleases me. I think we got the ABC coverage in the UK, which was Stephen A complaining about the Knicks for the whole time, and openly admitting he didn't know much about various players.

Every year it baffles me just how bad the NBA draft is, from the ridiculous rules regarding trades requiring verification, to the presentation (the crowd barely being audible, presenters talking or coughing on a live mic when the picks are announced) to simply the presence of Stephen A Smith. That said, the expected picks not happening added some intrigue.

Dara! They got Dara! Dara O'Briain Fern Brady John Kearns Munya Chawawa Sarah Millican That's a pretty strong line-up from a name standpoint.

On that note, @Lineker please could we have a 2022/2023 thread with the draft being tonight? I have no idea if the Magic will pick Smith or Holmgren, common sense says Smith, but the Magic's love of tall guys they can train makes me think they'll go Holmgren.

This sums up my feelings about the episode perfectly.

Multiverse of Madness is on Disney+. Yes, already. If you want to keep track, it released in cinemas 48 days ago.

Juri Vips has been suspended by Red Bull indefinitely whilst they investigate his bright idea of calling Liam Lawson the n-word whilst Lawson was doing a Twitch stream. He was doing alright in F2, but perhaps more importantly he was the official reserve driver for both Red Bull and Alpha Tauri.

As much as I really want Eriksen back at Spurs, I don't really see how he fits in to the existing squad and our usual abundance of central midfielders.

I have zero confidence in Sainz being able to get past Max. His only chance is at the final chicane and Max is just so much better at coming out of the hairpin.

This feels like a very nicely timed safety car. Thank you to Yuki Tsunoda for driving straight out of the pits and into a wall.

For a moment I thought it was Max, and kinda hoped it was as it feels pretty set in stone that he's winning this unless he has an issue.

Gotta love Jacques Villeneuve brutally describing Fernando and Carlos's year so far in the guise of asking them questions. "So you've had shit results this year, but this qualifying was pretty good, right?"

Watching Alonso drift around the final corner on his way to taking provisional P1 was great, but Max just seems to be on another level. Hoping Alonso or Russell get P2. OK, maybe it won't be Russell, because he has lost his actual mind. Fernando P2!

And let's face it, not a single one has done any research into Seb's character to see what he has said in the past and all the work he puts in to almost counteract his carbon footprint. There's plenty of people in F1 you can call an asshole but Seb Vettel isn't one. Unless you're Mark Webber at Malaysia in 2013. My only issue is that F1 has to do something about the schedule to lower the amount of long haul travel.

A lot of pro-oil Canadian politicians are going after Seb, calling him a hypocrite for criticising Canada's oil usage on his helmet whilst driving an F1 car and being sponsored by Aramco. Unfortunately they do have a point, which even Seb has admitted in the past, and their criticism is amplified by the fact that the teams have flown all their equipment from Miami to Barcelona/Monaco to Baku to Montreal in the space of six weeks.

Frustratingly Ms Marvel's Disney+ viewership figures are pretty bad, the first episode had just over half the number of viewers of the second lowest MCU series (Hawkeye) - 775,000 to 1,500,000.