Winless in November and possibly in December too by the time 2024 rings in, a once-proud NBA franchise is the laughing stock of the US sporting scene this week.

It’s almost as though the founding clubs of Major League Soccer learned from the grievances that power Florentino Pérez & Co’s attempts to carve into UEFA’s centralised controls and created their dream league.

The Giants' breakout star Tommy DeVito and his agent, Sean Stellato stole the show.

The NBA will be one of the distractions on display in Vegas today and tomorrow with the last four remaining teams battling it out in their inaugural in-season tournament.

Jay Mwamba speaks about his new book, Crash of the Buffalo

Sean O’Bradaigh will be one of the top 15 light heavyweights in the USA challenging to qualify for the Paris Games

That a young up-and-coming boxer must look to the UFC for a co-promotional twist, the first combat sport deal of its kind, is yet another damning indictment of how the fight genres have experienced inverted commercial realities.

It will be their final opportunity to win the NWSL Championship.

News of Bobby Knight’s passing on Wednesday evening at the age of 83 was greeted widely as not so much a sporting tragedy but rather as a question of how you grapple with the blemishes of a sporting life that achieved so much.

Barring injury, Wembanyama will almost certainly live up to the hype and he showed it early in what was a widely watched nationally televised game.