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Boston Celtics star Jaylen Brown is receiving a $369K bonus for reaching the Eastern Conference finals this postseason. This bonus is among his incentives outlined in the five-year, $304 million supermax contract extension he signed with the Celtics last offseason. Boston Celtics’ Jaylen Brown has an average salary of $57.24 million based on his five-year, […]
Boston Celtics legend and NBA Hall of Famer Paul Pierce was hospitalized and will undergo surgery following a gruesome finger injury, he shared on social media Friday. Ex-Boston Celtics star Paul Pierce says finger requires surgery; injury caused a ton of blood, a few broken bones Pierce, 46, didn’t explain what caused his finger injury. […]
Boston Celtics center Kristaps Porzingis will likely miss Games 1 and 2 of the Eastern Conference finals next week due to a soleus strain of his right calf, but there’s optimism he’ll be able to return during the series, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Kristaps Porzingis suffered the calf injury in Game 5 of the […]
Houston Rockets star Jalen Green and his girlfriend, Draya Michele, welcomed their baby girl into the world recently. Michele, 39, revealed the news on Friday in an Instagram post, adding that Mother’s Day has always been hard to celebrate since her dad passed away on the holiday in 2021. Houston Rockets guard Jalen Green first […]
The Denver Nuggets lost 115-70 against the Minnesota Timberwolves in Thursday night’s Game 6 of their Western Conference semifinals series — a 45-point defeat that surpassed their 44-point loss to the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 5 of the 1985 WCF for the worst NBA playoff loss in franchise history. Denver Nuggets become the first […]
A gambler from Schaumburg, Illinois, won $536,614.25 on a $5 bet on April 28 while playing at Dollar Storm Wild Ninja slot machine at the Four Winds Casino Resort in New Buffalo, Michigan. The winner chose to remain anonymous. Illinois gambler joined other Four Winds Casinos’ winners Four Winds has three casinos in Michigan — […]
Sports betting first launched in Massachusetts in 2023, and the Bay State has already seen a 121% increase in calls to the problem gambling helpline. However, a third of the callers were reportedly asking for technical help with their sports betting apps, according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH). Legalization of sports betting […]
Meridianbet, a prominent global sports betting and iGaming operator and a part of the Golden Matrix Inc. Group, continues to expand its political betting as it plans to focus on the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election. Meridianbet has over 15 years of experience in political betting, offering bets on the outcomes of elections Meridianbet has over […]
The Alabama House of Representatives closed out the 2024 legislative session Thursday without a final vote after holding up the Education Trust Fund (ETF) budget in efforts of reaching a compromise on the now-dead sports betting bill. Revised Alabama sports betting bill would have authorized a statewide lottery, slot machines The House had delayed voting […]
The Sports Betting Alliance, a coalition representing BetMGM, DraftKings, FanDuel, and Fanatics Sportsbook, is warning Illinois bettors that a proposed tax rate increase in the state will negatively impact sports betting. Illinois bettors disapprove of Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s (D) state budget proposal for a sports betting tax rate increase Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s (D) state budget proposal […]