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Giannis Antetokounmpo celebrated with his NBA Finals MVP award after leading the Milwaukee Bucks to a Game 6 win over the Phoenix Suns on Tuesday night for the Bucks’ first title in 50 years. With his dominant Game 6 performance, Antetokounmpo became the first player in NBA history to score at least 40 points with at least 10 rebounds and at least five blocks in an NBA finals game.
“I could go to a superteam and just do my part and win a championship. But this is the hard way to do it,” Antetokounmpo said after the game, which was played at Milwaukee’s Fiserv Forum in front of a full-capacity crowd. (Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)
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NBA Finals MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo held up the Larry O’Brien championship trophy during the Milwaukee Bucks’ victory parade on Thursday alongside fans celebrating in the Deer District of Fiserv Forum. (Patrick McDermott/Getty Images)
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Retired NBA player Bo Outlaw gave instruction during a youth basketball camp hosted by the Orlando Magic and Pepsi on Monday in Orlando. While the coronavirus raged last summer, the Magic held virtual youth training camps over Zoom in partnership with basketball training app Ballogy. (Gerardo Mora/Getty Images)
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A view of an empty Ariake Urban Sports Park in Tokyo as the venue prepares to host the first-ever Olympic skateboarding event on July 25. The park will also host BMX events during the Tokyo Games. (Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)
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Anti-Olympic protests continued Sunday in Tokyo with the Games set to begin on Friday. On Sunday, U.S. tennis star Coco Gauff announced she tested positive for COVID-19 and will miss the Games. CNN has reported there to be 55 confirmed positive cases linked to the Games, including officials and staff. (Yuichi Yamazaki/Getty Images)
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Former Baylor University big man Isaiah Austin handled the ball against Chris Johnson during Sunday’s BIG3 game between the Enemies and Ghost Ballers at Orleans Arena in Las Vegas. Players are wearing jerseys with the Xbox logo as part of Microsoft’s deal to be the official technology partner of the Big3. (Steve Marcus/Getty Images)
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A women holding two young children was among a crowd of fans who fled their seats at Nationals Park and entered the field after gun shots were heard during Saturday night’s MLB game between the Washington Nationals and San Diego Padres. Padres players Fernando Tatís Jr, Manny Machado, and Wil Myers were seen opening the gate to help fans onto the field and into the dugout for shelter.
The game was suspended as a result of the shooting, which occurred outside the stadium and left three people wounded from the gunfire. “I hope that the fans come back and that the fans understand, hey, this happens everywhere, unfortunately,” Nationals manager Dave Martinez said, according to CNN. (Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)
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Members of Brazil’s military police stood guard next to the Boca Juniors’ team bus on Wednesday outside a police station in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Six Boca Juniors players were charged on counts of damaging property, causing bodily harm and abusing authorities after they attempted to storm Atlético Mineiro’s dressing room on Tuesday. The incident ended with Boca players and staff being tear gassed by police and occurred after Mineiro defeated Boca in a penalty shootout to eliminate them from the Copa Libertadores. (Pedro Vilela/Getty Images)
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Formula E team Envision Virgin Racing displayed its electric race car and a replica ice sculpture on Wednesday in London in an event to highlight the race against climate change. Genpact, the team’s business transformation partner, asked fans on Twitter to predict how much ice would melt in 24 hours and donated $1 per entry to the Arctic Ice Project. (Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images)
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