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Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailCNBC's 2024 Stock Draft: Kenny Smith picks Warner Bros. Discovery for his first-round pickCNBC’s annual stock draft is underway. Celebrities, athletes, and financial gurus join ‘Power Lunch’ to make their picks.
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Basketball Star Kenny Smith Learned From the Best
  + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Emily Bobrow | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Kenny “the Jet” Smith won back-to-back NBA championships with the Houston Rockets in the mid-90s and has since found yet more fame as a basketball analyst on TNT. Still, he wonders what might have been if he had played for the Chicago Bulls alongside his former teammate at the University of North Carolina, Michael Jordan. “That’s why I was always jealous of Scottie Pippen. When Scottie Pippen first came into the NBA, he wasn’t a threat, but then he became one of the 75 best players of all time. That’s what Michael did for him,” he says.
Discovery own the NBA rights until the end of the 2024-2025 season — more than two more years from now. Warner Bros. Warner Bros. NBC aired its last NBA games during the 2002 finals, when the Los Angeles Lakers swept the New Jersey Nets. Regular season NBA games across ABC, ESPN and TNT are averaging 1.6 million viewers this season.
Must-watch videos of the week
  + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +1 min
CNN —Mariah Carey rolls with a wardrobe malfunction, a dog misbehaves at daycare, and a dinosaur discovery. These are the must-watch videos of the week. Watch Mariah Carey freestyle during costume malfunctionVideo Ad Feedback Wardrobe malfunction interrupts surprise Mariah Carey performance 02:00 - Source: CNNWhose wardrobe malfunction was worse … Mariah’s Carey’s or Rudy Giuliani’s? Amateur fossil hunters find rare intact plesiosaur skeletonVideo Ad Feedback Amateur fossil hunters find 19-foot-tall, 100 million-year-old skeleton 01:02 - Source: CNNAmateur paleontologists in Australia uncovered a rare,100 million-year-old marine reptile’s skeleton. Shaquille O’Neal pushed into Christmas tree during on-air raceVideo Ad Feedback Shaquille O'Neal pushed into Christmas tree during on-air race 01:34 - Source: CNN BusinessKenny Smith pushed co-host Shaquille O’Neal into a Christmas tree.
Vasu Kulkarni is the founder and CEO of Courtside VC, a venture firm focused on sports. His company was one of the early investors of StockX and The Athletic, but "missed" on Overtime. Kulkarni built Courtside VC to help sports startup founders like himAs Krossover grew into a multimillion-dollar company, Kulkarni began to realize the opportunity to invest in other sports-related startups. But Courtside VC has hit on enough startups to raise another $55 million in 2019. Courtside VC has invested in focusing on youth sports, fitness and wellness, esports, sneaker culture, and real-money gaming.
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