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ESPN’s ‘The Last Dance’ Becomes Network’s Most Watched Documentary
"The Last Dance" was the Michael Jordan of documen- taries for ESPN -- at least in terms of ratings.
Giants’ CB DeAndre Baker Released From Jail After Posting $200,000 Bail
Unsurprisingly, ESPN’s ten-part “The Last Dance” documentary has broken rat- ings records for the network.
Sunday night’s airing of the final two parts in the series averaged 5.6 million viewers
across all ESPN platforms, the network said in a news re- lease. The average rating for all ten episodes was also 5.6 million viewers. That makes it the most watched ESPN doc- umentary of all time.
A Florida judge granted Giants corner DeAndre Baker release from jail on $200,000 bail on Sunday morning but said Baker can- not leave the state at this time. Baker also has been told to stay away from the Giants’ vir- tual meetings for the time being and focus on his legal is- sues, according to a source fa- miliar with the club’s thinking.
Baker, 22, had spent the night at the Broward County main jail in downtown Fort Lauderdale after turning him- self in on Saturday morning.
Judge Michael Davis of the Seventeenth Judicial Cir- cuit of Florida granted Baker bail at $25,000 per count on all eight charges he faces from an alleged Wednesday night armed robbery in Miramar,
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The judge granted Seattle
Seahawks corner Quinton Dunbar release on $100,000 bail, on the same $25,000 per count amount, for the four charges Dunbar faces related to the same alleged incident. Dunbar, who turned himself in mid-Saturday afternoon, also cannot leave the state at this time.
The prosecutor said Dun-
bar’s charges would be “pun- ishable by life" if he is con- victed.
Davis stipulated that his ruling does not mean the Florida State Attorney’s office cannot file a motion to have Baker held and not released prior to his first trial date, anyway. But the state attor- ney’s office does not intend to file such a motion.
Baker Apologizes For ‘Distractions’ To Giants
Deandre Baker has is- sued his first public statement since his arrest for armed rob- bery and aggravated assault.
Baker issued a statement through attorney Patrick G. Patel apologizing to the Gi- ants and the rest of the NFL for the “distractions” his case has produced.
Shaq Fires Back At
Lakers' Dwight Howard Mourning After Son's
Draymond Green Over
Mother Dies Of Epileptic Seizure
Cross-Era Trash Talk
Draymond Green is getting into it with yet an- other member of the TNT crew.
Speaking Tuesday on an episode of his podcast, Bas- ketball Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal re- sponded to some recent com- ments made by Golden State Warriors star Draymond Green. The former Defensive Player of the Year had said that he and Warriors team- mate Stephen Curry would “destroy” O’Neal in the pick- and-roll in a hypothetical matchup across eras.
“I like Draymond. I like guys that voice their opinion,” he said, per Michael Kaskey-Blomain of CBS Sports. “I try not to get per- sonal with guys. I like him, I like the way he plays. You have to listen to his points. He made good, key points. He said in their era. He didn’t say
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in my era.
“In my era, [the Warriors]
would have been the six or seven seed,” O’Neal added. “You had us, you had San An- tonio, you had the Utah Jazz, you had Portland, you had White Chocolate and C- Webb [in Sacramento]. But again, it’s his opinion. I try not to get personal with peo- ple’s opinions. But however, Mr. Draymond, like you said, I would’ve torn your a– up on that block.”
DWIGHT HOWARD
The mother of Dwight Howard's 6-year-old son died nearly six weeks ago due to an epileptic seizure, the Los Angeles Lakers center says.
Although Howard has spent the NBA's hiatus dealing with the difficult task of ex- plaining Melissa Rios' death to their son, he is also grateful for the chance to heal from the loss without the daily grind of the NBA schedule.
"It's been one of the tough- est things I've ever had to deal with," Howard said. "It's re- ally hard, especially during this time. There's nowhere to go. Usually if things are happen- ing, we have basketball or something to keep our minds going. But a situation like this, it's a situation that I'll have to deal with forever because of our child."
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