SEPT 10 TNT WANTS ANTETOKOUNMPO VS. DONCIC TNT looks to absorb as many games as possible in its last year as an NBA media partner. Who’s better to have in a primetime slot than Western Conference Finals MVP Luka Doncic? TNT picked up the Dallas Mavericks vs. Milwaukee Bucks game, scheduled for a 6:30 PM Central Time start. Giannis Antetokounmpo and Damian Lillard vs. Doncic and Kyrie Irving spell primetime entertainment.

Giannis Antetokounmpo and Damian Lillard vs. Doncic and Kyrie Irving spell primetime entertainment.

The contest marks the last game of the Mavericks preseason schedule. You can also listen to the game on 97.1, the Eagle, with Chuck Cooperstein on the call.

SEPT 4 “A+++++.” How slick was the New York Knicks’ signing of Jalen Brunson in the 2022 offseason as he was ripped away from the Dallas Mavs?

Brunson is an All-Star now. He’s the best player on a contending team. He’s earning respect by forfeiting salary to help sign other teammates. And so when NBA watchers choose to grade him and the move?

Bleacher Report’s look at some of the most important free agency signings in the last five years obviously includes the Brunson get. … as they grade it an “A+++++.”

“If there is a downside to New York landing Brunson, it’s yet to reveal itself,” Dan Favale writes. “His time on the Knicks has so far exceeded even the most outrageously optimistic expectations.”

So outrageous that it’s an “A+++++.”

SEPT 1 SURVEY SAYS … Mark Cuban of the Dallas Mavericks offered up a Presidential poll with an interesting twist.

Cuban took to social media to ask his followers about Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, with the central question being, would his followers on X if rather have their children grow up be more like Donald Trump or more like Kamala Harris?

“Who’s persona and character would you like to see young children grow up to have?” Cuban wrote on social media.

Trump won the poll with 68.9 percent of the votes, while Harris received 31.1 percent of the votes