This week in sports, Shohei Ohtani got $700 million from the Los Angeles Dodgers. He then posted the team’s logo like he was a two-star recruit out of Louisiana who just committed to Coastal Carolina in the 2010 Instagram climate. I was so tempted to make him my hero of the week because, honestly, I need to care a little bit less about some of the idiocy and performative-ness of Instagram.
But alas, this is about basketball, not baseball so I will instead use this opportunity to highlight my favorite ever NBA Instagram post:
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That man just won the first ever In-Season Tournament MVP, an award that we can all anticipate will be named the “LeBron James In-Season Tournament Most Valuable Player, sponsored by T-Mobile.