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Aaron Judge and KD on playing for Team USA 🇺🇸 🎙️ full Cover Story drops 3.25 👀

Some of the @WNBA's biggest stars are building major followings as the league enters a new CBA era. 🏀📈⁠ ⁠ With higher salaries and revenue share in play, player influence is becoming real value.

Rare air for Ronald Acuña Jr. after Venezuela’s win over Team USA. ⁠ ⁠ (via @statmuse)

Shohei Ohtani is rewriting the economics of baseball. The Japanese two-way superstar is projected to earn $125 million in endorsement income alone for 2026, the highest single-year total ever for an athlete.⁠ ⁠ His business profile has reached another level, with nearly 20 global brand partners and a memorabilia market supercharged by back-to-back World Series titles.⁠ ⁠ Despite earning just $2 million in salary this season due to his deferred $700 million Dodgers deal, he still leads MLB in total income for the third time in four years.⁠ ⁠ (via @sportico)

Bob Iger steps down from Disney today as one of the most successful CEOs in modern media.⁠ ⁠ Across two stints, Iger transformed Disney into a global IP machine, anchored by four defining deals. Pixar ($7.4B, 2006) restored Disney’s animation dominance with hits like Toy Story and Inside Out. Marvel Entertainment ($4B, 2009) unlocked the MCU, now a $30B+ box office engine. Lucasfilm ($4B, 2012) brought Star Wars back to life and turned it into a multi-platform franchise, per @Variety. ⁠ Then came 21st Century Fox ($71.3B, 2019) — the most complex bet of all. The deal added Avatar, X-Men, The Simpsons, FX, and a controlling stake in Hulu, giving Disney the scale and library to compete in streaming and fully integrate Disney+. While direct revenue isn’t broken out like the others, the Fox assets became foundational to Disney’s streaming push and global content pipeline.⁠ ⁠ His 2022 return stabilized the business at a critical moment, restructuring operations, repairing creative relationships, and pushing streaming toward profitability as parks and studios rebounded. The only real misstep: a failed 2020 succession plan that brought him back. Still, Iger leaves Disney reset and operating off the blueprint he built.⁠ ⁠ Legend.⁠

Different stage. Same pride. Playing for something bigger than yourself. 🇺🇸⁠ @KDTrey5 🤝 @TheJudge44 Full Cover Story drops 3.25 🎙️

Harry Styles with an instant Top 5 entry — his 4th studio album, 'Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally' dropped March 6.⁠ ⁠ (via @billboard)

.@MLB franchise values keep climbing. 📈⁠ ⁠ The average team is now worth $2.95 billion, up 13% year over year, according to CNBC’s latest valuations. The Yankees lead the league, followed by the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Chicago Cubs moved into third, surpassing the Boston Red Sox.⁠ ⁠ Elsewhere, the Padres jumped 48% to $3.1B and the Athletics reached $2.5B. Even with rising valuations, MLB operating margins remain below 2%.⁠ ⁠ (via @CNBC)

Kevin Durant debuts the Nike KD 19 👀

Two new releases land in this week’s Top 5: Reminders of Him and Undertone, both debuting in theaters March 13. Based on the bestselling novel by Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him stars Maika Monroe as a woman rebuilding her life after prison while trying to reconnect with the daughter she’s never met. The romantic drama continues Hollywood’s recent run of Hoover adaptations hitting theaters. Meanwhile, A24’s psychological horror Undertone — starring Nina Kiri as a paranormal podcaster haunted by mysterious recordings, quickly became a breakout indie performer at the box office. (via @IMDb)

Congrats to Michael B. Jordan 🏆 (🎥: @jayshetty)

Forbes just dropped its annual list of the highest-paid stars in Hollywood. ⁠💰🎬 ⁠ At 22, Millie Bobby Brown becomes the youngest actor on the list by nearly twenty years. ⁠ (via @Forbes)

Meryl Streep is in a league of her own. #oscars

Sinners had Spike Lee jumping out of his seat like the Knicks beating the Celtics at The Garden.

Full converastion: boardroom.tv/kith-kevin-dur…

KD hints at the long-term vision for the KD brand 👟

.@amazon announced a $54 billion bond sale today, marking one of the largest corporate debt offerings ever. The record-breaking raise is aimed at helping finance the company’s expanding investments in artificial intelligence, cloud infrastructure, and data centers as the tech arms race continues to accelerate. (via @YahooFinance)

The migration of wealth to South Florida isn’t slowing down.⁠ According to @WSJ, former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz reportedly spent $44 million on a Bal Harbour penthouse, becoming the latest A-list exec to make the switch. (via @yahoofinance, @forbes)

winning over everything for SGA 🏆 (🎥: @okcthunder)

History for SGA 📈