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Ben Couch

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Digital Content Production @nba | Formerly: TNT Sports 🏀, MLS ⚽️, Knicks/Liberty/Nets 🏀. Went from the minors to the ⚾️ Hall in 3 seasons. ✡️
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2025 NBA Draft: Takeaways from the 2nd round at Barclays Center

2025 NBA Draft: Takeaways from the 2nd round at Barclays Center

NBA.com — On a night that features 8 reported trades, the Suns lead a group of teams that spend Day 2 chasing intended targets.
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2025 Draft: 5 takeaways as Cooper Flagg, former teammates make big splash

2025 Draft: 5 takeaways as Cooper Flagg, former teammates make big splash

NBA.com — Cooper Flagg and Duke leave their mark, the Jazz take a chance on Ace Bailey and Brooklyn makes the most of its 5 picks.
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2025 NBA Draft: Cooper Flagg's coronation, and other things to know heading in

2025 NBA Draft: Cooper Flagg's coronation, and other things to know heading in

NBA.com — The Mavericks are on the clock at the NBA Draft, and all eyes are on Cooper Flagg as well as his high school teammates and a pair of Rutgers stars.
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Consensus Mock Draft: Where things stand as 2025 NBA Draft arrives

Consensus Mock Draft: Where things stand as 2025 NBA Draft arrives

NBA.com — With the 2025 NBA Draft just hours away, here's how the final consensus shakes out for the top picks.
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5 takeaways: French players make history in 1st round of 2024 NBA Draft

5 takeaways: French players make history in 1st round of 2024 NBA Draft

NBA.com — France produces 3 of the top 10 picks, Portland powers up, Dalton Knecht slides to No. 17 and more from Round 1 of the 2024 NBA Draft.
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3 takeaways: Trades and more trades in 2nd round of 2024 NBA Draft

3 takeaways: Trades and more trades in 2nd round of 2024 NBA Draft

NBA.com — No fewer than 15 picks are traded during a wild 2nd round, capping the 1st multi-day Draft in NBA history.
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3 things to know ahead of Round 1 of 2024 NBA Draft

3 things to know ahead of Round 1 of 2024 NBA Draft

NBA.com — Family (and French) connections abound as Wednesday's 1st round of the 2024 NBA Draft nears (8 ET, ESPN/ABC).
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About Last Night: Spurs shoot their way to Game 7 | NBA.com

About Last Night: Spurs shoot their way to Game 7 | NBA.com

NBA.com — Let's be real. No one's surprised this is the series headed to seven games. The Nuggets, for all their regular-season success, are making their inaugural playoff run with this core -- an NBA recipe for early exits and anguish. The Spurs, well ... they're the Spurs.
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About Last Night: Westbrook rocks 'Dame Time' | NBA.com

About Last Night: Westbrook rocks 'Dame Time' | NBA.com

NBA.com — Well that was fun. To watch at least. On the court, throughout this first-round series between the third-seeded Portland Trail Blazers and No. 6 Oklahoma city Thunder, the competition between Damian Lillard and Russell Westbrook seems a bit, ah ... intense.
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About Last Night: The droughts are ending | NBA.com

About Last Night: The droughts are ending | NBA.com

NBA.com — Win and they're in, they were told. The Nets and Magic did. And, that simply, two of the NBA's playoff droughts have come to a close. For the Magic, it's seven seasons. From the end of the Dwight Howard era on through all kinds of roster experimentation, it was a former assistant who finally, ah ...
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About Last Night: Butler's Twin Cities Victory Lap | NBA.com

About Last Night: Butler's Twin Cities Victory Lap | NBA.com

NBA.com — Jimmy Butler, man. I'm not quite sure anyone actually "enjoys" people rooting against them, but if anyone embraces it more than Jimmy Butler ... I've yet to see it outside the squared circle. The trade demand. The third-team-vs.-the-starters practice. Joining a "Big Three" that's now a "Big Four."
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About Last Night: An improbable comeback's unlikely hero | NBA.com

About Last Night: An improbable comeback's unlikely hero | NBA.com

NBA.com — Of course it was Rondae Hollis-Jefferson. On a night when the comeback was the story, when D'Angelo Russell's career-high 44 points made everything happen, when Jared Dudley hit the three that finally gave the Brooklyn Nets the lead after a franchise-best 25-point fourth-quarter climb, it was the longest-tenured member of the team who hit the game winner.
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About Last Night: Nurkic stands alone, career-high Kawhi | NBA.com

About Last Night: Nurkic stands alone, career-high Kawhi | NBA.com

NBA.com — Happy New Year, NBA fans. The first day of game action is in, and though there were but five games on the slate, we didn't lack for standout performances. On to the action: Portland Trail Blazers center Jusuf Nurkic is known for filling the stat sheet.
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LAFC acquire Christian Ramirez from Minnesota United FC

LAFC acquire Christian Ramirez from Minnesota United FC

MLS Soccer — TRANSFER TRACKER: Trade Superman's flying to the City of Angels. In an evening surprise, Minnesota United FC sent forward Christian Ramirez -- one of the young MLS club's most closely identifiable players -- to LAFC for up to $1 million in allocation money: $250,000 in General Allocation Money (GAM)
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2019 MLS debut in sight, expansion FC Cincinnati "don't want to be average"

2019 MLS debut in sight, expansion FC Cincinnati "don't want to be average"

MLS Soccer — CINCINNATI-FC Cincinnati are in. For 2019. Yes, the upcoming MLS season will see FCC's expansion debut. As MLS Commissioner Don Garber will readily acknowledge, history indicates that's a "short runway" to accomplish a multi-item checklist that looms large for managing owner Carl H. Lindner III
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On Orange-and-Blue Day, expansion city Cincinnati "a perfect fit for MLS"

On Orange-and-Blue Day, expansion city Cincinnati "a perfect fit for MLS"

MLS Soccer — CINCINNATI-Tuesday evening in Cincinnati's "Over-the-Rhine" neighborhood, a multi-year journey culminated in a single moment. With a raucous, Orange-and-Blue clad crowd of 800 gathered at the Rhinegeist brewery, two bleachers full of chanting supporters surrounding the stage and thousands of others in Fountain Square and beyond tuning into the live stream, Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber slipped a scarf around the neck of Carl H.
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LAFC acquire Lee Nguyen from New England Revolution in blockbuster trade

LAFC acquire Lee Nguyen from New England Revolution in blockbuster trade

MLS Soccer — TRANSFER TRACKER STATUS: Trade The Primary Transfer Window came to a blockbuster close, with New England Revolution playmaker Lee Nguyen heading to LAFC for at least $350,000 in General Allocation Money and $350,000 in Targeted Allocation Money. The Revolution could ultimately receive $950,000 in
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Miami celebrates MLS expansion after a decade of determination

Miami celebrates MLS expansion after a decade of determination

MLS Soccer — MIAMI - For everything extra about him - the stardom, the smile, that winning lilt and the twinkle in the eye - it's easy to forget that David Beckham made his soccer bones on work. The rest made for movies, but innumerable reps put the perfect bend on every free kick, each corner.
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Miami MLS expansion team to begin play in 2020

Miami MLS expansion team to begin play in 2020

MLS Soccer — MIAMI - Twenty-twenty. That clear. That succinct. As first reported by the Miami Herald, MLS Commissioner Don Garber confirmed Monday that David Beckham's Miami expansion team will begin play in 2020 in a temporary venue. Their privately funded stadium opening is expected to follow in 2021.
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How David Beckham finally brought MLS to Miami

How David Beckham finally brought MLS to Miami

MLS Soccer — MIAMI - Monday was triumphant. MLS was coming to Miami. Finally.
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Nashville ownership group praise Atlanta's example, eye Southeast rivalry

Nashville ownership group praise Atlanta's example, eye Southeast rivalry

MLS Soccer — NASHVILLE, Tenn. - When MLS2Nashville Chairman Will Alexander visited the Major League Soccer offices on Dec. 6, he mentioned that part of the city's pitch was that it would close a geographic hole in the MLS map, instantly providing the closest league club for 13 million fans across nine states.
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Fans, politicians, ownership rally to make Nashville's longshot bid reality

Fans, politicians, ownership rally to make Nashville's longshot bid reality

MLS Soccer — NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The chanting started more than 30 minutes before the big moment. As a crowd co-mingled - Nashville's MLS expansion group, Major League Soccer executives, various Nashville dignitaries and a slew of soccer fans pushing the total to 1,100 guests at the Country Music Hall of Fame
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Best Of MLS: Top 10 Moments of 2017

Best Of MLS: Top 10 Moments of 2017

MLS Soccer — Editor's Note Let's be real: Any discussion of 2017's top moments needs to include Toronto FC lifting the cup that clinched the historic treble, their club's first MLS championship and the culmination of a season-long sending back all challengers to Canadian Championship, Supporters' Shield and MLS
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View from Couch: Zlatan, Chicharito and the opening salvos in Los Angeles

View from Couch: Zlatan, Chicharito and the opening salvos in Los Angeles

MLS Soccer — Zlatan. Chicharito. Y'all know the names. But why now? And what would it mean for MLS? The War in the West is coming, and if rumors are to be read as opening salvos, it's going to be glorious.
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