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Tarik Skubal is back, ahead of most projected recovery timetables. And not a moment too soon for the Tigers.

Pitchers who undergo elbow surgeries similar to the one performed on Skubal on May 6typically need two to three months to recover. When the Tigers ace steps atop the mound to face Cleveland at Progressive Field on Saturday afternoon, he will be just 38 days post-op. Viva la “Skubal Scope”!

This is a remarkable development for arguably the best pitcher in the sport, and how he performs going forward will have ripple effects for both his team and any suitors ahead of the Aug. 3 Trade Deadline. 

Here are three pressing questions that will hover over Skubal both tomorrow and in the weeks ahead:

Will he look like himself?

Skubal’s one rehab start provided plenty of optimism: five scoreless innings on 54 pitches, two hits allowed, no walks and six strikeouts while reportedly popping 99 mph on the radar gun. Of course, shutting down High-A hitters isn’t the same as dominating Major Leaguers, so the question will remain unanswered until we see exactly what he has for the Guardians.

Can he help the Tigers make a run?

Detroit fell into an abyss as soon as Skubal hit the injured list on May 4. From that point, the club went 4-21 to finish out the month, dropping from a first-place tie into the AL Central cellar. The main issue had little to do with Skubal’s absence; the Tigers’ offense averaged 2.6 runs per game during that stretch.

Detroit, however, is slowly climbing back into contention. It has won seven of its first nine games this month and is averaging 6.9 runs per. Despite a 29-40 record, the Tigers are just 5 1/2 games back of a playoff spot in the wide-open American League.

Just a couple more solid weeks could turn the Tigers from prospective sellers into buyers (or at least cause them to stand pat and ride out the rest of the season with their two-time Cy Young Award winner). Skubal’s presence will obviously help the cause, but whether the bats stay hot will have just as much of an impact on the team’s postseason chances.

If not, will the Tigers make a Skubal swap instead?

There must be a growing sense of optimism around the Tigers as they prepare to welcome Skubal back into the fold.

But there is a very real possibility that this just doesn’t work out. If Detroit slumps over the next six weeks, a trade involving Skubal seems likely. MLB Network insider Jon Heyman opined last week that there was a 90% chance that the left-hander will be on a new team by the Deadline.

That also hinges on the answer to our first question. If Detroit gets stuck in neutral but Skubal proves that he is back to normal, the chances of a trade would seemingly increase, especially since the pending free-agent and the team have been far apart in contract extension discussions, according to MLB.com’s Mark Feinsand. 

HISTORICALLY HIGH OCTANE

For the large majority of baseball history, measuring pitch velocity has been an inexact science.

In 1917, Walter Johnson’s fastball was clocked with military technology used to measure the speed of artillery shells.

Bob Feller’s fastball was measured against the speed of a passing police motorcycle in 1939.

Nolan Ryan at least had rudimentary radar guns to document the velo on his legendary heater.

If you want to say that any of those guys threw the hardest pitches in baseball history, feel free. Just understand that there’s absolutely no way to prove that.

Thanks to advancements in tech, what we can prove, unequivocally, is that the Brewers’ Jacob Misiorowski is the hardest-throwing pitcher in MLB history.

It’s not close, really. And there’s data to back it up.

MLB.com’s Anthony Castrovince lays out all of the evidence here. And Misiorowski will add to it tonight when he starts against the Phillies in Milwaukee (7:40 p.m. ET, MLB.TV). 

GAMES TO WATCH THIS WEEKEND

We’ve got an unlikely duel between first-place clubs, an AL East postseason rematch and a pitching matchup with Cy Young implications this weekend. Here are three games to watch, one for each day. 

Today: Dodgers at White Sox (7:40 p.m. ET, MLB.TV) 

The Dodgers are in first place in the NL West. Sounds about right. 

The White Sox are in first place in the AL Central. Wait, come again?

The only series this weekend between clubs at the top of their respective divisions isn’t one we could have possibly predicted two months ago. But isn’t that what makes baseball grand? The White Sox just took two games at home from the powerhouse Braves. Meanwhile, the Dodgers are waiting to see if Shohei Ohtani will be good to go after leaving Thursday’s game with left knee inflammation.

Tomorrow: Yankees at Blue Jays (3:07 p.m. ET, MLB.TV) 

About one hour before Skubal throws his first pitch in Cleveland, Cam Schlittler — the American League’s ERA leader (1.87) — will toe the rubber at Rogers Centre. This will be his and the Yankees’ first trip to Toronto since last season’s ALDS, which the Blue Jays won in four games. The Yankees are tied for first in the AL East (41-26) while Toronto (33-36) is nine games back in the division but only 1 1/2 behind in the Wild Card chase.

Sunday: Phillies at Brewers (2:10 p.m. ET, MLB.TV) 

A matchup between Cristopher Sánchez and Kyle Harrison would have looked more attractive if the latter hadn’t just given up eight earned runs in his most recent start against the A’s. Even still, Harrison has been one of the most pleasant surprises of the season and had given up only four earned runs in his previous 39 2/3 frames before that outing in Las Vegas. On the other side, Sánchez is not too far removed from an historic run of scoreless innings. Watching these two southpaws on contending clubs go pitch for pitch should be must-watch stuff on Sunday afternoon. 

SEE THE STARS OF TOMORROW — TODAY!

Actually, right now!

There’s likely a Men’s College World Series game on as you read this. The MCWS began this afternoon in Omaha with West Virginia taking on Troy. It continues tonight with North Carolina facing Mississippi at 7 ET.

Twenty-three players in the eight-team field are among MLB.com’s Top 200 Draft Rankings. Here are a few names to keep your eye on:

Alabama SS Justin Lebron (No. 9)
No NBA jokes, please. Perhaps the most tooled-up player in the entire class, Lebron was viewed last year as a possibility for the No. 1 overall pick in the upcoming Draft. That’s no longer the case, but with plus power, speed and defense, Lebron should still hear his name called early in the first round. In his most recent mock draft, MLB.com’s Jonathan Mayo has Lebron coming off the board at No. 11 to the Nationals.

Mississippi RHP Cade Townsend (No. 27)
Townsend registered 88 strikeouts in 64 innings this season and a 4:1 strikeout-to-walk ratio. The Draft-eligible sophomore features a five-pitch mix, highlighted by a fastball that can touch 98 mph and a curveball, slider and cutter that each have a 60 grade on the 20-80 scouting scale.

Texas OF Aiden Robbins (No. 30)
The right-handed slugger has hit 24 home runs this season, including five through five games in the NCAA Tournament. He has a tendency to chase too much, but that aggressiveness has played a central role in his increased power.

Read MLB.com’s full team-by-team breakdown of the MCWS here >> 

NEVER GIVE UP

Daniel Espino was primed to be a star for the Guardians. A 2019 first-round Draft pick and the No. 16 overall prospect in MLB as recently as 2023, the right-handed pitcher could once throw 103 mph. 

He just couldn’t stay healthy. From 2022-25, Espino pitched a total of 19 Minor League innings. He underwent multiple shoulder surgeries and missed entire seasons. He also endured a profound loss away from the field.

But his story is one of perseverance, and that has paid off. The Guardians are promoting Espino from Triple-A Columbus ahead of tonight’s opener against the Tigers at Progressive Field, putting the 25-year-old in line to finally make his big league debut this weekend.

Read all about Espino’s journey to the Majors here >> 

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The World’s First Trillionaire

Jeff Brown

Founder and CEO

What a fantastic day!

To see SpaceX go public is such a triumph of human ingenuity, ragged determination, and the incredible vision and persistence to attempt to do things thought to be impossible.

I can’t help but be reminded of all the haters, the decels, and even the NASA Apollo astronauts who were so disparaging of Elon Musk and SpaceX. As Seneca said, The best revenge is to not be like them.

Musk and his teams didn’t allow that nonsense to bother them. They used it as fuel. They proved them wrong. And they delivered.

Elon Musk is now a trillionaire – the world’s first, and rightfully so.

This should be celebrated.

Musk has defined an entire industry of electric vehicles. He developed the most advanced and safest self-driving technology the world has ever seen, which will eventually save a million lives a year. He created clean energy production through residential solar panels. He helps those who are paraplegic speak and work with computers just using their thoughts through Neuralink. He removes congestion in cities with tunneling technology through the Boring Company. He created reusable rockets at SpaceX, which has enabled the entire space economy. He’s enabling artificial general intelligence at xAI. And perhaps the greatest gift of all has been restoring freedom of speech at X.

Almost his entire net worth is tied up in equity in the companies that he has built. He’s not living a lavish and leisurely lifestyle. Musk works nearly every waking hour to accomplish as much as he can. And his guiding purpose is to make the human race a multi-planetary species so that we can expand human consciousness among the stars – and have a backup plan in the event that something horrible happens here on Earth.

What a gift to humanity.

We need Musk to stay healthy and productive for as long as possible. Just imagine what breakthroughs he will bring in the next 20 years.

So yes, we should celebrate his success and the success of SpaceX.

The human race is transforming into a world of abundance. It’s within our reach as long as we fight for freedom and maintain a regulatory environment that is pro-innovation, pro-growth, pro-energy, and supports the rule of law.

We have so much to look forward to.

Elon’s Wish List

Hey Jeff, so what do you think Elon is going to do with the $26B/yr rental income he’s going to pull in renting Colossus I to Anthropic and Google? Does this revenue sweeten the SpaceX IPO at all for you? I put in to buy 20 shares for next week’s offering. Cheers.

– Gary D.

Hello, Gary,

I’m glad you wrote in about this topic. It’s an interesting one that most aren’t aware of.

For everyone’s benefit, the “$26B/yr rental income” refers to two recently announced deals by SpaceX:

• Anthropic signed up to spend $1.25 billion a month through May 2029 to gain access to all the capacity on the SpaceX Colossus I data center
• Google signed up to spend $920 million a month for capacity on the Colossus II data center starting October 2026 through June 2029

Combined, these two deals will bring up to $26 billion a year of cloud services revenue to SpaceX.

This is so impressive. xAI went from being considered too far behind to even have a chance at catching up with the rest of the frontier AI model field… to demonstrating best-in-class performance across most AI benchmarks in less than 18 months.

SpaceX/xAI built out massive AI data centers in a fraction of the time as the rest of the industry. Even NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang said he has never seen anything like it.

SpaceX was more efficient and productive than all of the major cloud service providers and AI companies. And SpaceX is also the most efficient in training its own AI models, which is why it has the ability to lease out compute to Anthropic and Google. And how ironic that Google is leasing computational resources from SpaceX, considering it is one of the largest cloud service providers in the world.

Back of the envelope, my estimation is that SpaceX has spent $25–30 billion to build out Colossus I and Colossus II. So, generating $26 billion in annual revenue is pretty incredible. This is a phenomenal business in itself.

However, SpaceX’s goal isn’t to just sit still and pull in the profits. SpaceX will continue to invest heavily in building out more AI data center capacity, the Terafab, and of course, executing on the engineering and vision for the Starship.

So yes, long term, this is a great development for SpaceX and a very smart business. It’s also very smart from an antitrust perspective. SpaceX is demonstrating that it will lease out its own capacity to direct competitors in artificial intelligence and cloud services like Anthropic and Google.

We should expect a lot of volatility in SpaceX’s share price, along the lines of how Tesla trades. Because this is an Elon Musk company, it will trade at a premium valuation, so there will be a lot of hemming and hawing over whether SpaceX is overvalued or undervalued.

Putting today’s valuation aside, long-term, I am certain that SpaceX will eventually be worth tens of trillions of dollars.

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Can We Really Trust Blockchain Technology?

I just read an article by MN Gordon. Maybe he’s an alarmist. He refers to the idea of restricting our behavior through the government control of money and people through stablecoins.

He also says the struggle behind the new legislation in Congress is about the ability of banks to keep using deposits almost for free (and take advantage of depositors) so they can continue to make a profit on the spread or lend it out in our fractional reserve system. It also allows the government an endless stream of backed cash in the form of Treasury bills for continued overspending. It’s the way the bills are written that allows this.

It will be sold on the basis of convenience, lower transaction fees, and implemented at a time of crisis like a recession or other calamity. The article also comments that the only recourse to avoid this situation will be to have assets off the electronic grid like precious metals. In order to be free, we would need a black market and break the law.

There are a lot of machines and systems I use that I don’t fully understand, but they function well and allow me a better life. I don’t know if blockchain will be one of them. It scares the hell out of me.

– Thomas K.

Hello, Thomas, I’m not familiar with the article that you reference, but I can provide some context on the points that you share.

No, blockchain technology isn’t a force for taking away any freedoms, nor are stablecoins. Just like pretty much any technology, people can choose to use it for good or malicious purposes.

During the Biden administration, a cabal of people wanted to implement a central bank-controlled digital wallet and a central bank digital currency (CBDC) for the explicitpurpose of restricting and controlling our behavior – and for the redistribution of wealth from the working class (us taxpayers) to those that they deemed suitable to receive payments.

There is also truth to your comments above about the banks wanting to “keep using deposits almost for free (and take advantage of depositors).” This is exactly what is happening today. The spread on what banks pay us for deposits versus what they receive from the U.S. government in U.S. Treasuries is arguably criminal.

And the only reason that the digital assets market structure bill – the CLARITY Act – hasn’t already become law is because the banks are trying to stop non-bank institutions like Coinbase or Kraken from offering competitive interest rate payments on stablecoin deposits. They are trying to avoid consumers moving their capital to where it will be treated better.

From my perspective, this should be a free market. Digital asset exchanges should be able to offer yield on stablecoin deposits. It would benefit consumers. And that’s what we’re fighting for. Brownstone Research is a long-standing member of The Digital Chamber, and we help advocate for fair and reasonable regulations for digital assets, consumers, and investors.

At the moment, the current administration is pro-digital assets and extremely supportive of the new regulatory framework that the industry is working so hard to put in place. Under this regulatory environment, this technology can be used to reduce friction and dramatically lower transaction fees for consumers (i.e., they want to use this technology for the benefit of Americans and, for that matter, the rest of the world).

As for stablecoins and overspending, this isn’t a technology issue. This is a government issue. Whether stablecoins exist or not, any government can “print money” and create massive deficits.

I’m not happy at all with the size of the current deficit and want to see it shrink by at least $1 trillion during the next 24 months. If we’ve learned anything over the last 12 months, it’s that there has been more than $1 trillion of systemic fraud that has robbed honest, hardworking taxpayers of their money. It is so refreshing to see the current task force on fraud making so much progress right now. It’s time to shut all the fraud down, eliminate wasteful spending, and ultimately get back to a balanced budget.

Crypto All-Time Highs

Congratulations on realizing your 2026 New Year’s prediction for all-time highs on AMD and NVDA, among others, in 2026. It already happened! It is marvelous.

But I’m concerned about your crypto services… You predicted BTC would reach 130K and ETH over 5K by 2026. Given recent market developments and BTC’s dramatic failure to act as “digital gold,” do you still think 130K and 5K would happen in 2026?

– Nian Y.

Hi, Nian,

Thanks for that. I always take heat for so many of my predictions. Many subscribers think that I am crazy, time and again, for my “outlandish” predictions. And yet here we are… right again. That makes me very happy because it means that my subscribers are increasing their wealth and taking steps toward a wonderful retirement.

And you’re right. Digital assets have had a tough run since October last year. The culprit has been the delay in the passing of the market structure bill for digital assets – the CLARITY Act. I mention this because my predictions about BTC and ETH are premised on the CLARITY Act passing this year. If it doesn’t pass, then I don’t expect to hit those predicted targets.

I still have optimism. The wind blows differently every day in Washington, D.C., over the digital assets legislation. There are so many hard-working, smart people doing their very best to push this bill over the line this summer. Something as large, complex, and transformative as the CLARITY Act doesn’t come easy. I am confident it will happen; I just can’t promise a date.

It’s worth noting that all asset classes go through bullish and bearish cycles. No asset class has ever been in a perpetual bull market. This is precisely why I produce a wide range of investment research on different asset classes and investment/trading strategies. My goal is to always have valuable investment research regardless of what kind of market we’re in. That’s exactly why we have a product like Deep Access, which enables subscribers to profit from volatility – and even in horrible bear market conditions.

Brownstone Research is the largest growth asset investment research firm in the world. This is what we specialize in. That’s why it is critical for us to publish investment/trading research on digital assets in bull or bear markets. And once the CLARITY Act passes – and it will – the digital asset markets will take off.

Jeff

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• Compassion Connect Service Project–Friday, July 17. More info to follow!
• Faith and Family Night–Friday, August 21

Donate Now!MEET GODJOIN US ON YOUTUBE LIVE FOR SUNDAY SERVICEJoin us through June 21 as our sermon series focuses on the Book of James-“Living Faith When Life Gets Tough”.  The Book of James (Jacob), Jesus’ half brother and pillar of the Jerusalem church under persecution combines Jesus’ teaching from the Sermon on the Mount with the Proverbs to give the early church needed instruction on how to have a Living Faith during trials.  Welcome to Ernesto and his family!  Ernesto has accepted the position of 3-5 hours per week as the Executive Administrator.  He will be taking over the newsletter, calendar, and social media posting for now!  Ernesto and his family are currently on vacation in California and Mexico visiting family.  He will start mid-July!PRAYER CONCERNS:
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*Ray who is battling cancer
*For Dave’s family at his passing
*For Simone and Bob and their family at the passing of Simone’s mother
*For Elton
*Bonnie’s mother for the loss of her husband
*Healing for the following:  Kayden, Lynette, Sharon, Vickie,  Nicole, Evie, Barbara, Bob and Andy

PRAYER JOYS
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* The generous hearts of our congregation
* All those celebrating June birthdays, anniversaries and baptisms
*Virginia’s granddaughters new baby
*Mike and Darlene’s new grandson

CONTINUED PRAYERS:
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* Pray for world peace and wisdom for our leaders
*For those who feel undervalued at work

MEET FRIENDSJoin us for Book Club and Fellowship on Thursday, June 18.  Our next book selection is:  Ten Women of The Bible:  One by One They Changed the World by Max Lucado.  We will be  discussing the third woman in the book, Abigail.  We will be meeting at 6:00pm at Vickie’s house.  For more details, contact Rondi or Jenifer.Save the Date!  We need to pre-purchase tickets for this event.  If you are interested in attending, please let Rondi know!  Right now we are just gauging interest!STATION COFFEE CO. HAPPENINGSCopyright © 2023 Crossroads Church, All rights reserved.
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Open Bottle Thursday

June 11, 2026

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Perfect for lighter summer fare and sipping on the deck or at the beach, this wine is sourced from the heart of the Upper Loire. It is celebrated for its purity and acidity, pairing exceptionally well with fresh goat cheese, seafood, and salads.

Sourced from the legendary hillsides of the Loire Valley, this exceptional Sancerre beautifully captures the region’s world-renowned terroir. Crafted by a boutique producer with production so limited it isn’t even submitted to wine critics, each bottle is a rare find. Every crisp sip reveals vibrant citrus aromas and a mouth-watering, refreshing acidity born from an ideal cool climate. Rooted in ancient, mineral-rich limestone soils, it delivers the signature, flinty complexity that has made Sancerre a global benchmark for luxury white wine.

About the Sancerre region…located in France’s eastern Loire Valley, is one of the world’s most renowned wine regions for Sauvignon Blanc. Its rolling hills and limestone-rich soils produce crisp, vibrant wines known for their bright citrus, gooseberry, and mineral character. While best known for white wines, Sancerre also produces elegant reds and rosés from Pinot Noir, offering fresh fruit flavors and distinctive regional charm.

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We now know definitively who has baseball’s nastiest pitch

Mason Miller’s potent slider easily passes the eye test. But a new Statcast metric gives us the full picture, and it’s not pretty for the hitters, who are missing the pitch by nearly a foot on average. 

Giants go from down 8 to ultimate grand slam walk-off winners!

Perdomo, MLB-best defense since May 1 a bright spot for D-backs

Home Sweet Home on the South Side! Sox move into top Central spot

Callihan blasts 1st MLB HR off Ohtani — and his 2nd lifts Bucs in dramatic rally

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Lugo gets mound visit from ex-teammate Nimmo, walks off after liner hits head

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Harper, Schwarber, Bohm all go deep to back Luzardo’s 8-K effort

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Good morning, I’m Dan Gartland. I’ll be honest, if I went into Manhattan to watch last night’s game, I would have gotten on the train home at halftime.  

In today’s SI:AM:

🤯 Historic Knicks comeback

👏 OG Anunoby’s shot for the ages

😬 Where it went wrong for the Spurs 

Another miraculous Knicks comeback

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I would have liked for this newsletter to arrive in your inbox a little earlier, but I’ve been sitting here for a while this morning trying to wrap my head around what I witnessed last night. The Knicks erased a 29-point deficit, capped by an outrageous flying tip-in by OG Anunoby, to beat the Spurs and take a commanding 3–1 lead in the NBA Finals. It was the biggest comeback in Finals history, and the second time this postseason that the Knicks had come back to win after trailing by at least 20 points. 

There are a million different aspects of the game that I could choose to focus on—De’Aaron Fox’s decision not to run out the clock, Karl-Anthony Towns’s deflection on the Spurs’ final inbounds play, the officiating, Jose Alvarado’s unexpectedly significant role—but the thing I keep coming back to is how exhausted Victor Wembanyama looked. 

Wemby was excellent in the first half, with 16 points, six rebounds and two blocks. More than that, he was brimming with confidence—cocky, even. Late in the first quarter, he scored over Mitchell Robinson and then taunted him on his way back down the floor, eventually baiting Robinson into committing a flagrant foul. But Wembanyama disappeared in the second half, scoring eight points on a dreadful 3-for-14 shooting. Part of the reason was that Karl-Anthony Towns, who spent much of the first half on the bench in foul trouble, returned to the floor and played good defense on Wemby, as he had in the first two games of the series. But go watch the highlights of the fourth quarter, and you’ll see that Wembanyama was completely gassed. He wasn’t moving with the same aggression and determination as he was in the first half. 

It’s easy to see why Wemby was so exhausted. He played 44 minutes, a new career high for a regulation game (regular season or playoffs). The only time in his 202 career games that he saw more playing time was in San Antonio’s double overtime win over the Thunder in Game 1 of the Western Conference finals last month. He was only on the bench for 58 seconds in the second half of last night’s game. CONTINUE DAN’S COLUMN ON SI 

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• Chris Mannix has the details on what was said in the Knicks’ locker room at halftimebefore New York pulled off the greatest comeback ever, putting the franchise on the brink of ending its 53-year NBA title drought.
• Liam McKeone recounts the euphoric reactions from Knicks fans after OG Anunoby’s improbable tip-in sent Madison Square Garden into pandemonium.
• Mannix also details how Leon Rose, the elusive Knicks president, has transformed the franchise. 
• The Browns continue to search for a franchise QB while reshuffling their roster through the draft and trades. In our Super Bowl road map series, Gilberto Manzano says Cleveland is repairing and not rebuilding in 2026.
• With offseason workouts wrapping up, Matt Verderame gives each team one reason to hope and one reason to mope.
• Tim Capurso articulates why Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman, who recorded his 2,500th base hit on Tuesday, may be one of the last of a dying breed in an ever-changing sport.
• Pat Forde implores the Big 12 to end the saga with Texas Tech and quarterback Brendan Sorsby before it completely consumes college football.
• Is Sky coach Tyler Marsh on the hot seat? Our WNBA staff analyzes what’s going on in Chicago.

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… angles of OG Anunoby’s game-winner: 

5. From high above the court. 

4. Former Yankees and Mets pitcher (and Manhattan native) Dellin Betances’s view. 

3. The U.S. World Cup team’s reaction. (Midfielder Tyler Adams was climbing all over the furniture in a way that made me think he was going to turn an ankle.)

2. This video, where a fan replaced the broadcast audio with a classic clip from Hot 97 DJ Funkmaster Flex. (When Jay-Z and Kanye West’s song “Otis” debuted on Funk Flex’s show in 2011, he restarted the song 25 times and played his signature “Flex Bomb” sound effect over 60 times.)

1. Kirk Herbstreit’s view from courtside.  

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