The Milwaukee Bucks.
The Bucks have reached a deal with former Nets guard Cam Thomas. Free agent guard Cam Thomas has agreed to a deal with the Milwaukee Bucks, his agent, Tony Ronzone of Wasserman, confirmed on Sunday. The 24-year-old guard had spent his entire career with the Nets, who selected him out of LSU with the 27th overall pick in the 2021 draft. Thomas, 24, has averaged 21.4 points per game over the past three seasons and provides an immediate talent boost to a Bucks team still trying to contend this season with Giannis Antetokounmpo.
Thomas was waived by the Brooklyn Nets after the trade deadline last Thursday in a somewhat surprising move. “I picked Milwaukee because they wanted me, and they told me they’ve been interested for years now. So, it’s good to have this opportunity come to fruition. And I’m just hoping to meet everybody, get to know everybod, and contribute as soon as possible,” Cam Thomas told Andscape. Thomas has struggled shooting — hitting 40% from the field and 33% from 3 — but his scoring ability will be a welcome addition for Milwaukee, which has found it hard to find offense whenever Antetokounmpo isn’t on the floor. The team is without Antetokounmpo as he recovers from a right calf strain. Hamstring issues also limited Thomas to 25 games last season, though he scored 24 points per game when available. Thomas, who is 6-foot-3, averaged 22.5 points and played 66 games in 2023-24.
The Bucks have won three games in a row for the first time all season but are currently the 12th seed in the Eastern Conference, two games behind the Hornets at No. 10. Coach Doc Rivers reiterated before Friday’s game that the team has no plans to shut Antetokounmpo down for the rest of the season. The hope for the Bucks is that Thomas turns into a player who can work alongside Giannis Antetokounmpo as one of the top players on the team. While Antetokounmpo may be injured, Thomas could have the opportunity to earn his spot on the team moving forward with a strong second half of the season. Thomas is getting the chance to play alongside fellow guards Ryan Rollins, Kevin Porter Jr., Gary Harris, and Gary Trent Jr. He may have a difficult time earning minutes at first, but the Bucks have to give him some kind of opportunity to see what they have in him before he becomes a free agent again in the summer.
Lindsey Vonn in the Olympic Games. The five-time Olympian was airlifted off the mountain after getting tripped up by a course marker just 13 seconds into her run on Feb. 8. Vonn, 41, crashed just 13 seconds into her run after her right ski pole got caught in a course marker. In the high-speed race, Vonn lost her balance and tumbled through the air multiple times before landing on the mountain. The five-time Olympian could be heard yelling, “Oh my God,” in pain as a medical team carefully put her on a stretcher and airlifted her off the mountain.
Spectators in the stands who’d come to cheer on the star, including rapper Snoop Dogg, could be seen with their heads down as Vonn remained on the slopes. After more than 15 minutes being attended to by medical staff, Vonn was put on a stability board and airlifted by helicopter out of the mountains to a hospital. Lindsey Vonn had “completely ruptured” her ACL just a week earlier, and the 2010 Olympic gold medalist was also determined to make these Milan Cortina Games happen for a deeply personal reason. Lindsey Vonn underwent surgery just a few hours after her crash. “In the afternoon, she underwent orthopedic surgery to stabilize the fracture sustained in her left leg,” the hospital said in a statement, Reuters reported. The leg is the same one in which Vonn tore her ACL a week before the competition.
Breezy Johnson won Olympic gold on Sunday, attacking so fearlessly that she managed to overcome getting off her line on a series of turns in the middle of the course. Johnson joins Lindsey Vonn as the only Americans to ever win gold in women’s Olympic downhill. But what should have been a moment of jubilation for Johnson turned bittersweet when Vonn’s bid for Olympic glory went horribly wrong. For Johnson, Olympic gold is the product of a turbulent journey wrought with difficult moments and overwhelming successes.
Johnson, 30, has long been heralded as the next in line behind Vonn and Mikaela Shiffrin, but there have been times when it appeared she might not be able to live up to that heir apparent status. Johnson had to watch the Beijing Olympics from afar four years ago because of injuries that she sustained in a devastating crash during a training run in Cortina, site of Sunday’s downhill, of all places. Before that, she had been skiing as fast as any downhill racer in the world and appeared to be in position to contend for a medal. Since she has returned to action, Johnson has increasingly looked like the old Breezy, the one expected to be atop medal podiums.
The Super Bowl game of 2026.
It was a wimp of a first half with Seattle being able to kick three field goals and the Patriots not being able to score at all. The second half picked up a bit, with Seattle kicking two more field goals. A kind of boring game broken up by a half-time show by a rock star appropriately named Bad Bunny. A cultural display all in Spanish with little music except for the Spanish version of rap. The show was mostly for political purposes, against the current administration, but also to try to hasten the spread of the NFL’s popularity worldwide, which is not likely to happen until the political situation changes and other countries are looked upon by the United States as being worthy to have as friends and partners.
So far, the U.S. leadership has only accepted a few of the 199 countries of the world as friends. Russia, Hungary, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, and Israel, among them. Note the lack of democracies in that array. Seattle won the Super Bowl while the leader of the supposed free world stayed at home and pouted.
