Also: Clippers Owner Faces Heat, Brown's Family Truth.
August 18, 2026 | Edition #397
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Hey NBA Fans,
Turns out the Lakers-Buss family update you witnessed in the previous edition wasn’t as straightforward as we all thought. Jeanie Buss now appears ready to go down the legal route to get her way. Elsewhere, the Clippers owner faces heat again over the Kawhi Leonard fiasco.
Let’s tip things off…
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Which NBA Star Was Drafted While Sleeping, Finding Out From His Agent at 4:30 AM While Still Wrapped in a Blanket?
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Yesterday’s Result: 41% of you picked Pau Gasol, the right answer. Gasol was enrolled in medical school in Spain before his basketball career took off professionally. Despite pursuing sports full-time, Gasol never forgot the basic training he received at the school.
Years later, Chief orthopedic surgeon David Skaggs spoke about a meeting with Gasol, who came to his hospital and asked about medical topics only someone with prior education would ask. The very next month, Gasol was scheduled to sit in on spinal surgery with Skaggs.
“We talk to him now almost like he is a surgical colleague,” Skaggs says.
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The NBA’s Hall of Fame probability index is here, with LeBron James, Stephen Curry, Joel Embiid, and all the regular suspects making it to the top 20 of this list comfortably.
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