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USA TODAY Pull up YouTube and type the words “LeBron James Nemanja Bjelica” in the search bar. The page will load with clips – one titled “LeBron James Wanna Murder Nemanja Bjelica With Dunk Then Stare Down” – of James firing down the lane and dunking over Bjelica. Watch it free of charge. Replay it as often as desired. On Monday, a NBA Top Shot user named “jesse” paid $208,000 for that highlight.   Except in this case, highlight might be the wrong word. So what was purchased? On Top Shot, the latest Internet craze, such highlights are referred to as “moments.” And what �...

Steven Branscombe-USA TODAY Sports Two old Big East foes were reunited Tuesday night, as Georgetown and Connecticut met for the first time since the latter rejoined the conference from the basketball hinterlands of Aresco. The game was at times ugly and fierce, and for long stretches nip-and-tuck, but ultimately the Huskies’ second-half firepower gave the visitors the victory going away. The first half was basically a basketball snuff film. Georgetown shot 7 of 27 from the field, managing more turnovers (9) than made shots. Qudus Wahab put in a couple at the rim, and Jamari Sibley made a h...

Welcome to the future of sports cards, where they're no longer stored in the closet of the room you grew up in at your parents' house but instead on the internet, like everything else. You're welcome, Mom! While the rest of us were focused on everything but digital trading cards during the first year of COVID, the NBA was teaming up with a company called Dapper Labs to create a platform called NBA Top Shot. After officially launching last week, Dapper Labs CEO Roham Gharegozlou referred to the product as a "revolutionary new experience in which jaw-dropping plays and unforgettable highlights...

Would you pay $11,000 for a three-second clip of Bam Adebayo blocking an Atlanta Hawks player in a random regular-season game? What about dropping $40,000 on a clip of Jimmy Butler hitting a three-pointer? May I interest you in a $100,000 highlight of a LeBron James dunk? No? Seems crazy, right? Nobody would ever do that, would they? But they would, and they are. Tens of thousands of people, to be exact, are doing just that thing on a new platform called NBA Top Shot, a blockchain-based platform that allows fans to buy, sell, and trade numbered versions of specific, officially licensed vide...

“Difficult to Fix it in Our Calendar”: Rafael Nadal Opens up on Tokyo Olympics 2021 Participation By February 1, 2021 4:00 pm Tennis superstar Rafael Nadal has said that he wants to represent his homeland in the forthcoming Tokyo Summer Olympics. The Spaniard, who is currently tied with Roger Federer for the most number of Grand Slam titles at 20 apiece, will carry his nation’s hopes in the ATP Cup which is set to get rolling in Brisbane on Tuesday. Nadal will open his campaign at the team event against rising Australian star Alex De Minaur. Rafael Nadal says he will seek expert advic...