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The Dallas Mavericks are going all in as they pursue an NBA championship, adding a top-tier talent to play in the backcourt alongside transcendent guard Luka Doncic . According to multiple reports, the Mavericks acquired eight-time All-Star Kyrie Irving in a trade with the Brooklyn Nets on Sunday afternoon. Dallas is sending Spencer Dinwiddie, Dorian Finney-Smith and "a package of draft picks" to the Nets in the deal, per the Associated Press . The news of Irving's trade comes just two days after reports surfaced that he had requested to be dealt from Brooklyn amid unsuccessful contract extension talks. Irving—who won an NBA title with the Cleveland Cavaliers alongside LeBron James in 2016, before stints with the Boston Celtics and Nets—is set to become a free agent this summer. While the Houston Rockets were not directly impacted by Sunday's trade, they potentially stand to benefit from the fallout. As a result of the James Harden trade two years ago, the … [Read more...] about Kyrie Irving reportedly traded to Dallas Mavericks

Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton said that Formula 1 can be like the NFL with the amount of people who are changing teams. As all 10 teams go to battle on the track, there is an army of personnel at each team making that possible, and these days, the people have an even more important role to play. With a budget cap now active in Formula 1, it means that the talent level within the team’s personnel, rather than the size of their budget, is key. It is no surprise then that the teams are constantly battling to bring the best people onboard, and Hamilton says this leads to changing faces on a regular basis. Recently Red Bull brought in a chunk of staff from Mercedes for Red Bull Powertrains, while Aston Martin’s recruitment drive has seen them snatch several people from Red Bull, including their former head of aero Dan Fallows, who is now Aston Martin technical director. “In my team there are 2000 people,” Hamilton said in a UBS/Mercedes interview. “It is actually over 2000 … [Read more...] about Lewis Hamilton likens in-team ‘silly season’ to NFL player trading

Introducing a green Red Bull as it was dubbed at the Spanish Grand Prix, Aston Martin team boss Mike Krack says they “anticipated” accusations of copying – but that there was never a “war of words” with Red Bull. Aston Martin raised eyebrows at the Barcelona race when they hit the track in their upgraded AMR22, the revised car showing a resemblance to the race-winning Red Bull RB18. Team boss Christian Horner told the media it was “no coincidence” the AMR22 resembled the RB18 given Aston Martin had employed several former Red Bull personnel, including technical director Dan Fallows. He added that while “what they take in their head, that’s fair game, that’s their knowledge, what isn’t fair and what is totally unacceptable, which we wouldn’t accept, is if there has been any transfer of IP at all.” Nothing, though, came of that with chief technical officer Andy Green saying: “The FIA came in and did a thorough investigation, examined all the data leading up in the history of … [Read more...] about Aston Martin: ‘No war of words from our side’ over Red Bull copying allegations