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LeBron James: New-Look
Naomi Osaka To Sign Adidas’ Biggest Deal With A Woman Athlete At $8.5M
NAOMI OSAKA
After defeating Serena
Williams, 20-year-old Naomi Osaka has become a household name.
Osaka is slated to make history by inking the biggest deal that Adidas has ever of- fered to a woman athlete.
Osaka is reportedly work- ing on a deal with the sports brand that is worth $8.5M per year, the news outlet writes. The deal could possibly make her one of the highest-paid women in the realm of sports; out-earning her tennis oppo- nents. Osaka currently has a contract with Adidas for six fig- ures which is ending this year.
Nike Donates Millions To
Lakers Have 'A Long Way
Republicans While Making Billions
To Go' To Catch Warriors
From Kaepernick Endorsement
Los Angeles Lakers fans might be dreaming of catch- ing the Golden State Warriors now that LeBron James is wearing purple and gold.
Keep on dreaming for now, considering James in- dicated Monday it’s not going to happen anytime soon.
“They can pick up where they left off starting with training camp,’’ James said of the Warriors at the Lakers’ media day. “... We’re picking up from scratch, so we have a long way to go.
“We can’t worry about what Golden State is doing. Golden State is Golden State. They’re the champions and they’ve been together for a few years now. We put that to the side. We can only focus on what we could do to get better every day as the Lakers fran- chise.’’
But James, who has
LEBRON JAMES
signed a four-year, $154 mil- lion contract with the Lakers in July, clearly hopes the team can add a 17th NBA title while he’s on the roster. The Lakers missed the playoffs the past five seasons and have not won a championship since 2010.
“Hopefully some day we can put ourselves in position where we can compete for a championship as Golden State has done for the last few years,’’ he said.
Nike did it.
They took the glorious afro-ed Colin Kaepernick, the face of a movement against the killings of unarmed black men, women and children, and made him the face of their “Just Do It” campaign.
It was a beautiful “f--- you” to the NFL, who essentially whiteballed the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback from playing in the league, as Nike scheduled the commer- cials to run during the league’s highest-profile football games.
White guys took to social media to burn their “Chew Spit Cup 4s” because they weren’t going to support a company that so openly sup- ported a righteous Black man someone who dared disrespect their beloved flag.
Sales at Nike not only in- creased, they skyrocketed. “Nike’s stock recently hit an all-time high and has gone up nearly five percent since the Kaepernick ads launched in
COLIN KAEPERNICK
early September. That trans- lates to an additional $6 bil- lion in market value,” reports to Yahoo Sports.
Nike became the corporate face who was willing to put their money where their mouth was. Or were they?
According to a new report from the Center for Respon- sive Politics—a non-profit, non-partisan research group focusing on money in poli- tics—“Nike employees and its political action committee have donated more than three times as much money to Re- publican candidates as demo- cratic challengers for the 2018 election season.”
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