Isaac Popper 🟦

Working at ESPN has been a dream of mine for years. This past month, that dream became reality! I’m thrilled to share that I’ve started working as a Sports Content Researcher on the ESPN Research team! I will work on wide range of sports and shows📊🎥🎬 linkedin.com/posts/isaac-po…

James Harden is now 9-56 (16%) from 3-PT in Game 7s since Oklahoma City. He went 0-6 from deep, yet the Cavaliers crushed the Pistons and his 3-pt % in Game 7s since OKC dropped just 2 percentage points.

Victor Wembanyama (22 years, 134 days) passes Lew Alcindor (22 years, 352 days) as the youngest player with 40 points and 20 rebounds in a playoff game😲

A TRIPLE THREAT 💥 Victor Wembanyama, Stephon Castle and Dylan Harper are the first teammate trio age 22 or younger each with a double-double in a playoff game in NBA history.

Tuesday, @ESPNNBA tips off its wall-to-wall coverage of the 2026 #NBA Eastern Conference Finals Complete details: bit.ly/3Rg0jdn | #NBAPlayoffs

An 8 foot tall French guy just shot a 30 footer like it was nothing and I am aghast as a mf over here.

At just 22 years old, Victor Wembanyama is already rewriting NBA history ⭐ The Spurs star is the youngest player ever to lead his team in both PPG and RPG entering the conference finals, passing Jayson Tatum in 2020.

@CoreyGloor @TulaneSP @GreenWaveFB @GreenWaveMBB @GreenWaveBSB @GreenWaveWBB @MaddyHudak_94 Congrats on another incredible season! You made my first year away from Tulane a lot better.

And with that, year five is done. 134 games this season, put on by a very dedicated team, telling the stories of incredible people and connecting with you amazing fans. Thank you all for joining us for the ride. Talk soon! #RMFW | #MANFY | #LLGGIII

Tuesday-Sunday, ESPN presents more than 20 @NCAABaseball Conference Championships ⚾Tournament winners will book their spot in the '26 #NCAA DI Baseball Tournament More: bit.ly/3ROejv1 | #RoadToOmaha

Sources said top Pelicans officials maintained consistent communication with Mosley since he was dismissed by the Magic on May 4 and the sides formally met in person last week at the NBA draft combine in Chicago. The Pelicans believe the franchise is at a point similar to Mosley's leadership and development plan when he took over the rebuilding Magic in 2021 after a 21-win season. It led to season-by-season improvement, then playoff appearances. In Orlando, Mosley built teams anchored by strong defenses, with the Magic ranked No. 3 overall in 2023-24 and No. 2 overall in 2024-25.

This will be the first time this season where Detroit will have lost consecutive home games.

Duke rolls over Georgetown to advance to Championship Weekend 😤 The NCAA Men's Lacrosse semifinals are locked in 🔒

DUKE DOES IT! They win back-to-back against Arizona to move on to the Supers 😈

Game 5 winner has gone on to win 82% of the time when tied 2-2 in a best-of-7 series in NBA postseason history (196-44 series record all-time in that situation), according to ESPN Research.

THE ORANGE PUNCH THEIR TICKET TO CHAMPIONSHIP WEEKEND 🍊 Syracuse advances to back-to-back NCAA Semifinals for first time since 2008 & 2009 🥍

.@DukeSOFTBALL got its fifth run-rule win in NCAA Tournament history over Marshall 11-1 😲 This is the Blue Devils' second run-rule win this weekend 🔥

Virginia advances to its second regional final in program history 🔥

This century, teams were 0-640 when trailing by 8+ runs in an NCAA softball tourney game. It's now 1-640. Texas Tech was down 8 runs WITH ONLY ONE OUT LEFT and somehow became the first 🤯

@sambruchhaus @CFSTulane Awesome, Sam! Thanks for sharing your reflections

I just finished teaching my first class as an adjunct for @CFSTulane. Here is what I learned! 1. Students know how to use AI tools. They don’t know how to scale or validate — I wanted to provide a fresher view on AI tools than I expected most would provide. i HEAVILY encouraged them to use it at almost all costs. What I found was quite interesting. The students were very willing to use them to do stuff they didn’t want to do, but got frustrated with AI output when they were more interested or bought into the results. In the future, I’m going to basically lead of any course with HOW TO PROMPT TO SUCCEED IN THE COURSE. I think this will create a lot more buy in and iteration. 2. Education is now similar to Netflix shows. You must repeat yourself if you want to break through. — I just finished the new season of “Running Point” on Netflix. It was making me laugh how many times the main character would “tag” another character. “, you are my CFO, what should we do?” Education is now like that though. If you want the students to get a point across, you have to say it many, MANY times. 3. Sports analytics is now the entry point, not the addition — I was shocked by how often the students, who came from a host of backgrounds — legal, psych, coaching, etc — always started an argument or question with data. Whereas watching the games or highlights used to be the entry point, it seems that due to social media, data and stats is now the entry point to sports. It was super fun to teach! Thanks to everyone who made it possible!

College baseball fans: ASK AND YOU SHALL RECEIVE 🙌 Regular-season Squeeze Play all night long on ESPN2! 🙏

Phillies territory in Fenway tonight. Very quiet. Not the park I grew up with…