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Anyone familiar with the Minions could easily envision one of the lovable yellow characters pulling off the “night, night” pose made famous by two-time NBA MVP Stephen Curry after either committing or thwarting a crime. The thought channelled a Gru “light bulb” moment for Illumination Entertainment to reach out to Topps with a crazy idea:…

The Bounce Newsletter  | This is The Athletic’s daily NBA newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Bounce directly in your inbox. We did it. We made it to September. This is the last month until July that we don’t have official NBA basketball games. Training camps begin in a few weeks. Over/unders are being bandied about. Season…

NEW YORK — In the tennis funhouse that is the U.S. Open, everything is amplified — and Naomi Osaka has taken her signature moment at Grand Slam tournaments and turned up the volume. Osaka has been debuting elaborate outfits as she walks out onto court for years. With pieces commissioned with her own money and…

By any business metric, the NBA has never been on better footing. It’s a year into its massive 11-year, $77 billion media rights deal, with new partners NBC/Peacock and Amazon Prime joining longtime stalwarts ESPN/ABC in a package that has, for the first time in history, made the NFL envious. Despite initial misgivings about where…

The Bounce Newsletter  | This is The Athletic’s daily NBA newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Bounce directly in your inbox. RIP, Tim Curry, one of the funniest and most talented actors I’ve ever seen. You could name a dozen of his roles and claim it’s his best. He was so talented. But if I may suggest…

Three of the most significant basketball cards of the current era, including the one-of-a-kind Cooper Flagg Rookie Debut Patch Autograph card, will be auctioned off through Fanatics Collect next month, the company announced Friday. Alongside the Flagg, Debut Patch cards for San Antonio Spurs guard Dylan Harper and Charlotte Hornets sharpshooter Kon Knueppel will also…

All the power, as it usually does, resides in Stephen Curry’s hands. Saturday, Aug. 29, marks the first day the 38-year-old superstar can sign a max extension with the Golden State Warriors. As he prepares for his 18th season, Curry is entering the final year of his current contract, worth nearly $63 million. The Warriors…

The NBA seems to be gathering steam as it weighs whether to add up to two new franchises. Earlier this month, the league and PJT Partners, the financial firm it hired to advise on expansion exploration, asked bidders interested in bringing a franchise to Las Vegas or Seattle to submit information, including cap-table sketches, investors…

As we head into MLB’s stretch run, it’s a great time to take a glance at the standings. Some quick takeaways: In the American League, once you get outside the AL East, it’s all a delightful mess. Some might call it parity, others mediocrity. The race for the third wild-card spot is a perfect example,…