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BRIAN MAHONEY Associated Press

UNCASVILLE, Conn. — Vince Carter remembers the 2000 Slam Dunk Contest like it just happened, when he went from an up-and-comer to a full-fledged phenom.

He had been the NBA Rookie of the Year the season before with Toronto and now he was a first-time All-Star. But when he slammed the ball down in Oakland, leaping so high with such force that he put his arm through the rim, he had created perhaps the biggest highlight of a Hall of Fame career that would last another 20 years.

“What the dunk contest did for me, overnight it changed my life,” Carter said Saturday during a press conference at Mohegan Sun Casino to discuss his induction.

Some players have careers like that, where they seem to hit the ground running from the moment they are drafted and never stop — in Carter’s case until he had played an NBA-record 22 seasons.

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And then there are guys like Chauncey Billups.

The No. 3 pick in the 1997 draft was traded by Boston in his first season and had already played for four teams in his first four seasons.

There’s more than one way to reach the Hall of Fame.

Billups eventually found his footing and on Sunday will join Carter as the headline names in the 13-member class that will be enshrined in Springfield, Massachusetts, not far from where his first NBA stop went so poorly that some labeled him a bust.

Billups, now the coach of the Portland Trail Blazers, wouldn’t…

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Mohegan CEO Ray Pineault’s phone was ringing off the hook in the early days of May.

Executives, cohorts and friends were clamoring to get tickets to watch Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark’s pro debut against the Connecticut Sun, which is owned by the Mohegan tribe, a Native American group that manages and owns entertainment resorts in the United States and Canada. He was the bearer of bad news, as the May 14 season opener sold out faster than any home game in the Sun’s 25-year franchise history. It was one of 11 sellouts that the WNBA franchise had this season, including Wednesday’s series-clinching 87-81 win over Clark and the Fever in the first round of the playoffs.

“Kudos to her, she’s a fantastic player,” Pineault said. “You can see the statistics. But we also have fantastic players on our team who have shown their mettle, strength and competitiveness on the court.”

The Sun, with year-to-year increases in nearly all business categories from group sales to TV viewership, look to capture their first WNBA championship as they ride the momentum from the league’s banner year. The first pro sports team to be owned by a Native American tribe has reached the WNBA Finals four times but is still chasing that elusive title. The semifinals-bound team hopes to finally get over the hump this year, all while playing a pivotal role in the overall business strategy for Mohegan.

The growth in women’s sports has been beneficial for Mohegan, but so has the explosion of online sports betting and gambling. The Sun’s current playoff run comes at a good moment for the team’s parent company, which operates the Mohegan Sun Arena located inside its casino complex in Uncasville,…

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Indiana Fever rookie Caitlin Clark’s sensational first season in professional basketball came to an end on Wednesday, as the Fever were eliminated from the WNBA playoffs by the Connecticut Sun.

Per usual, Clark was fantastic on offense. She rebounded from a lackluster scoring effort during Game 1 on Sunday to score 25 points on 10-23 shooting from the field while adding 9 assists and 6 rebounds on Wednesday.

Clark re-finding her form on offense isn’t a surprise, given how elite of a playmaker and shooter she is. Yet, one play during Wednesday’s game has many fans believing that offense should not be Clark’s biggest concern.

Connecticut’s “dagger” on Wednesday came when guard Marina Mabrey hit a clutch three-pointer with 45 seconds left in the game to put Indiana up four points. Clark was supposed to be guarding her but appeared to fall victim to “ball watching”, which freed Mabrey up to hit the shot.

Clark caught a lot of criticism on social media for what appeared to be a defensive lapse in pivotal possession.

“Lmaoooooo throwing your hands up when that was your man should be a crime ,” X user @keepitplay8 wrote in a response to a video of Mabrey’s shot.

Lmaoooooo throwing your hands up when that was your man should be a crime https://t.co/OqUvNdsHOC

— Kia 🅱️ (@keepitplay8) September 26, 2024

X user @CallingsonMaka added, “The fact that their season ended on her typical bad defen[s]e is so poetic. Like you literally can’t make this s*** up”.

“On the first watch, I thought that she got caught going under a screen, but after watching again, she was just ball watching, lol. Wasn’t glued on her man whatsoever…,” added a third.

On the first watch, I thought that she…

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Now that the Indiana Fever have been eliminated from the WNBA playoffs, fans will have to (most likely) wait until the spring to see superstar Caitlin Clark back on the court, playing regular season games.

Despite the Fever being eliminated in the first round of the playoffs by the Connecticut Sun, there’s no question that this season was a success for them. Not only had Indiana not made the playoffs since 2016 before this year, but they’ve been perpetual bottom-dwellers in the WNBA standings for most of the time since that point.

But their elite young core now appears destined to turn Indiana into a championship contender in the coming years.

While winning a WNBA championship is an obvious goal for any WNBA player and franchise, Caitlin Clark made it clear that she has a more specific goal in mind for her Fever in 2025 during her end-of-season exit meeting on Friday.

“You got a taste of getting the playoffs, obviously we haven’t been there since 2016,” Clark said, per X user Ken Swift. “So I think that’s what the message was for us, is like, hey, great, we got the six-seed. Our goal was to get back to the playoffs. But we probably could have given ourselves a little bit better of a chance to try to get it to game three to give our fans an opportunity to cheer us on at home, and that’s kind of what stunk about it.

“But next year, we’re wanting to be a top-four seed,” Clark added. “We believe we can build this place into a championship contender. That’s what I believe. That’s why I’m going to do everything in my power to help this organization get there. But you’ve got to let it hurt you a little…

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