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After wins and losses, they work on adjustments during practices to address problems from the previous game and attempt to predict counter moves opponents will make in the next matchup.

In the Orlando-Detroit series, coachesJamahl MosleyandJ.B. Bickerstaffare close friends who have intentionally spent time together off the court and communicated frequently for a couple decades.

Just not right now.

“We won’t talk for the rest of this series,” Mosley said.

The Mosley-led,eighth-seeded Magicupset the Bickerstaff-led,first-seeded Pistons112-101 on Sunday night.

“Friends as close as us don’t typically get to these spots, having two of 30 jobs, so it’s special from that standpoint,” Bickerstaff said. “It’s not always the easiest because you know somebody’s got to lose, somebody’s got to win, but it’s competition and you get it.”

Game 2 is Wednesday night in Detroit, where the Magic will shoot for a 2-0 lead before the series shifts to Orlando.

Later on Wednesday night, the top-seeded Oklahoma City Thunder will host eighth-seeded Phoenix. The defending champions will have a chance to take a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven series after opening with a119-84 winagainst the Suns.

Bickerstaff, in his last year with the Cleveland Cavaliers, eliminated Mosley and the Magic in their last NBA playoff matchup in a Game 7 of a first-round series in 2024.

It's business, not personal.

“We’ll always be friends, through thick and thin,” Mosley said. ”But at the end of the day when we cross the lines, it’s like you’re going into an octagon or a boxing match."

The 47-year-old coaches developed their friendship as up-and-coming assistants in the NBA about 20 years ago. They also shared a connection through Bickerstaff's father, Bernie, when he and Mosley were assistants together in Cleveland during the 2013-14 season.

Bernie Bickerstaff, who won 419 NBA games as a head coach, has joined his son in Detroit this week.

“I couldn't be more fortunate to have someone who has been through all the stuff that he's been through, and will talk with you honestly and purely with no agenda,” J.B. Bickerstaff said Tuesday after his father watched the team's practice. “It's a ton of help, just having him here.”

J.B. Bickerstaff, who previously coached in Houston, Memphis and Cleveland, is in his 10th season as a head coach in the league. Mosley is in his fifth year as an NBA head coach with the Magic.

Oklahoma City’s Mark Daigneault and Phoenix’s Jordan Ott are both 41, born less than a week apart in 1985.

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The similarities seem to end there.

Daigneault, the NBA’s Coach of the Year in 2024, has led the Thunder to the top seed in the Western Conference three straight years and guided them to their first NBA title last year.

"He’s just as committed to winning as we are,” Oklahoma City wing Jalen Williams said. “And he’s a basketball mind, so I think that makes everybody on the team respect him. And he’s cool to be around, too.”

Ott is in his first year as an NBA head coach and lost his playoff debut on Sunday. He said the Thunder are tough to prepare for because of their quality depth and ability to change lineups.

“They have guys ready, and they’re able to stay ready," Ott said. "It allows them to go a bunch of different ways.”

Orlando Magic at Detroit Pistons

When/Where to Watch: Game 2, 7 p.m. EDT (ESPN)

Series: Magic lead, 1-0.

Betting line: Pistons by 9 1/2.

What to Know: Orlando hasn't started a series with two wins since 2010 when it swept Charlotte and Atlanta in the first two rounds and reached the conference finals. Detroit lost an NBA-record 11th straight home playoff game in Game 1 despite Cade Cunningham scoring a playoff career-high 39 points. The Magic did not trail in the opener as their starters scored at least 16 points apiece and allowed just two Pistons to score in double figures. Detroit All-Star center Jalen Duren, a finalist for Most Improved Player, was 3 of 4 and scored only eight points against Wendell Carter. “He kept Duren, basically, out of the game,” Magic guard Anthony Black said Tuesday.

Phoenix Suns at Oklahoma City Thunder

When/Where to Watch: Game 2, 9 p.m. EDT (ESPN)

Series: Thunder lead, 1-0.

Betting line: Thunder by 17 1/2.

What to Know: Oklahoma City scored 119 points in Game 1 despite Shai Gilgeous-Alexander making only 5 of 18 field goals. The reigning MVP and finalist to win the award again made 55.3% of his shots this season. Phoenix will attempt to keep him off the line after he made 15 of 17 free throws. Dillon Brooks was 6 of 22 and scored 18 points for the Suns, who may want to get more shots for All-Star Devin Booker after he had 23 points on 17 shots. Oklahoma City’s Chet Holmgren finished second in voting for Defensive Player of the Year behind Victor Wembanyama. The Suns shot 34.9% in the series opener.

AP Sports Writer Cliff Brunt in Oklahoma City contributed to this report.

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• The beauty mogul wore a custom Calvin Klein gown and minimal glam for the event

• Earlier this month, Hailey was out supporting husband Justin Bieber at Coachella for his headlining performances

Hailey Bieberwent right from the desert to the concrete jungle in style.

After two weekends in the Coachella Valley supporting husband and headlinerJustin Bieber, Hailey glammed up for the April 23 TIME100 Gala in New York City wearing a custom Calvin Klein gown that had us dreaming of '90s fashion.

The 29-year-old Rhode founder's look was directly inspired by another design debuted in the Spring/Summer 1992 collection. It hugged Hailey's curves with its flattering column silhouette and sculpted inset bra, while having a soft and romantic element with the lilac and silver floral lace fabric.

Hailey's love for classic minimalism found its way into her glam, which consisted of a simple middle-parted hairstyle and makeup with a rosy nude lip color.

While spending her days in the Palm Springs sunshine, Bieber retired her bohemian festival wardrobe for something more laid-back and sporty. She did, however, bring high fashion to the festival in a vintage purple and yellow Dior minidress at Rhode's pop-up event.

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Justin, 32, made his Coachella headlining debut on April 11 during weekend one. After giving the crowd an intimate performance featuring covers of his throwback hits like "Baby" and "That Should Be Me," he doubled the energy the following weekend with surprise cameos from Big Sean, SZA, Sexxy Red and Billie Eilish, who was his "One Less Lonely Girl."

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On Instagram, Hailey showed her support for the pop star, writing, "Such a special weekend. nobody will ever know even an ounce of what it's taken to get here. so grateful for this beautiful life. SO proud. let's do it all again!!!!"

In her recap, Hailey also featuredphotos of their little boy, Jack Blues, watching his dad rehearse on stage. Like Hailey, who rocked temporaryBelieber-inspired tattoos, Jack was included in the fun with hisown cute ink.

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The Chargers had the worst offensive line in football last year by multiple metrics. As a result, LA's set to have three new starters along the interior of its O-line. New additions Tyler Biadasz and Cole Strange are penciled in at center and right guard, respectively. There's a vacancy at left guard that could be filled in the draft.

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Here's everything you need to know about the Los Angeles Chargers for this year's draft, including a round-by-round look at picks and a potential trade candidate already on the roster.

New Orleans Saints

Tyler Shough #6 of the New Orleans Saints and Chris Olave #12 celebrate a touchdown during the second half against the Carolina Panthers in the game at Bank of America Stadium on November 09, 2025, in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Washington Commanders

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New York Giants

Jaxson Dart #6 and Cam Skattebo #44 of the New York Giants celebrate after Skattebo carried the ball into the endzone for a touchdown during the second quarter of the game against the Philadelphia Eagles at MetLife Stadium on October 09, 2025, in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

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Tennessee Titans

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Cleveland Browns

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Dallas Cowboys

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Las Vegas Raiders

Maxx Crosby of the Las Vegas Raiders celebrates after a missed field goal during the game against the New England Patriots at Gillette Stadium on September 07, 2025, in Foxborough, Massachusetts.

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Miami Dolphins

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Kansas City Chiefs

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The 10 NFL teams with the most at stake in the 2026 draft

10. New Orleans Saints
    
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Los Angeles Chargers NFL Draft best prospect fit: Edge Derrick Moore, Michigan

Per USA TODAY's Ayrton Ostly:

The Chargers need more difference-makers on defense, especially in the pass rush, as they can't rely on Khalil Mack continuing to produce late into his 30s. It may seem uninspired to pair a former Wolverine to Jim Harbaugh's squad but Moore would be an intriguing option in Round 2 who wins with speed-to-power and an improving bag of pass rush moves.

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Los Angeles Chargers NFL Draft trade candidate: RB Kimani Vidal

Per USA TODAY'sJack McKessy:

Vidal proved he has what it takes to be a starting running back in the NFL with his 10-game performance as Los Angeles' starter in 2025. With Omarion Hampton set to return to his starting job after an injury-marred rookie campaign, the Chargers could look to move Vidal to a team more in need of running back help.

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Los Angeles Chargers NFL Draft Picks by round

• No. 22 (1.22)

• No. 55 (2.23)

• No. 86 (3.22)

• No. 123 (4.23)

• None

• No. 204 (6.23)

• None

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SEOUL, April 23 (Reuters) - South Korea's government said on Thursday it would ensure no discrimination against U.S. tech companies, including ‌e-commerce firm Coupang, following a letter from U.S. lawmakers calling for ‌an end to unfair targeting of American businesses.

South Korea's Foreign Ministry said in a statement that ​Seoul was implementing measures to ensure U.S. digital companies did not face discriminatory measures or unnecessary barriers.

The assurance was included in a U.S.-South Korea joint fact sheet signed in November under a trade deal between the two countries, the ‌ministry said.

The response came after ⁠a letter was sent this week by some U.S. lawmakers to South Korean Ambassador Kang Kyung-wha, demanding an immediate end ⁠to "discriminatory regulatory actions" against American businesses operating in South Korea.

Led by the Republican Study Committee (RSC) member Michael Baumgartner, the lawmakers said: "systematic targeting of American companies such as ​Apple, Google, ​Meta, and Coupang is particularly concerning."

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South ​Korea "recently leveraged a low-sensitivity data leak ‌in November 2025 as a pretext to launch a whole-of-government assault on Coupang," they said, citing a series of actions including threats to revoke its business licences and pressuring pension funds to divest its shares in the holding company.

"We are committed to ensuring that your government ceases its persecution of Coupang ‌and other American companies operating in South ​Korea," the letter said.

The Korean Foreign Ministry said ​the ongoing probe into Coupang's ​data breach was proceeding under domestic law and procedures, regardless ‌of the nationality of the company.

Coupang ​Korea, operated by ​U.S.-listed Coupang Inc., faced a public and lawmaker backlash in South Korea over a data breach that affected more than 30 million customers.

On Wednesday, ​the ministry said the ‌issues regarding Coupang should not be linked to ongoing security negotiations ​with Washington, which include South Korea's plan to build nuclear-powered submarines.

(Reporting ​by Heejin KimEditing by Ed Davies)

Fascinated by the moxie shown by the remaining sevenCatholic schools, Ackerman used the league’s plan as a case study for her students.

Six months later, she was named the league’s commissioner.

Since then, Ackerman, who announced she will retire in August, has presided over what might arguably be the greatest start-up business in college athletics history. In its early days, the Big East had no office, borrowing space in a Manhattan-based law firm. It had no benefits packages to offer to employees and no email accounts. Ackerman used her personal Gmail for correspondence.

The Big East has steadied its membership, since the conference’s revival, by adding Butler, Creighton and Xavier, luringUConnback to its rightful home, winning fourmen’s basketball national championships, fourwomen’s hoopstitles and now operating out of the Empire State Building.

Above all else, the Big East cleared space for college basketball in a world increasingly run roughshod by the pigskin.

Yet, Ackerman leaves as the Big East faces another critical juncture in its existence. Revenue sharing has underscored the line between those with and withoutfootball money. The Big East’s expected draw – that it could put all of its money into basketball – has proven more difficult to actually pull off. Largely because, while its member schools can put cash behind hoops, it has fewer funds to offer. It is no coincidence that the three schools that spent the most money – St. John’s, UConn andVillanova– finished 1-2-3 in the conference for men’s basketball.

Furthermore, the league’s hold on UConn, while stronger than tenuous, is less than airtight. The Huskies are always a dangling goalpost away from a jump to save football.

And while college basketball is coming off of its bestNCAA Tournamentviewership in more than 30 years, football continues to siphon all it can from the coffers. Calls to expand the tournament are largely fueled by football-first conferences looking not just to get more teams into the dance but also to earn more units from March Madness payouts.

McGlade also leaves a massive void

With the departure of Ackerman – coupled with the retirement of Atlantic 10 commissioner Bernadette McGlade – hoops is losing not just two powerful women, but two champions of its game. Both Jersey girls came up similarly: star players who pivoted into administration.

McGlade, a UNC graduate, first coached before heading into conference leadership and, like Ackerman, deftly and delicately shepherded the Atlantic 10 through its own vulnerability via thoughtful expansion. The A10 found a basketball steward in new commissioner, Dan Leibovitz, who cut his teeth as John Chaney’s assistant at Temple before charting his own path through coaching and on to admin.

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Replacing Ackerman is even more critical in the big picture. Since its inception in 1979, the Big East has stood as the epicenter of college basketball. Its name synonymous with hoops excellence. When at its best, it is because the Big East leaned into its identity and on a leader who made basketball its priority.

Dave Gavitt started the league while finishing up his coaching career at Providence, and then tapped his right-hand man, Mike Tranghese, to take over. Only the respect owed to Tranghese helped the league stave off total implosion from its first football dalliance, back when it bloated its geographic reach to South Florida, Cincinnati and Virginia Tech.

As Ackerman was studying the league’s rebirth, the Big East rightfully was studying her. An outstanding player at Virginia, Ackerman worked first as legal counsel in the NBA before being tabbed by then-commissioner David Stern as his special assistant. She was one of the original NBA appointees to USA Basketball’s board of directors and, in 1996, was named the first president of the WNBA, guiding the league through its first eight years.

Ackerman’s unwavering devotion to basketball served as the stabilizer as she maneuvered the Big East through its very delicate rebirth that many observers initially dismissed as folly. It is easy to forget, given the league’s current haul of trophies, that a conference predicated on basketball would fold like a house of cards upon arrival.

Instead, the Big East flourished under Ackerman’s disciplined stewardship. While outsiders crowed for her to add more teams, she remained steadfast in keeping the league small but mighty, recognizing both its name-brand strength and the value of a true round-robin. She and the university presidents wisely kept their relationship with Madison Square Garden, refusing to budge from its historic tournament location, cementing the conference’s elite status.

And as the leader of the basketball version of the sixth league in the so-called Power 6 (the American Conference gets the nod in football), Ackerman had a seat at the big boys’ table – literally in her case.

Of the then-12 and now 10 female commissioners, Ackerman was the only woman in charge of a league with that sort of institutional muscle. Like that of her predecessors, her voice garnered respect based on a lifetime of service at the sport’s highest levels. She didn’t preside like an SEC king or prance like a Big Ten prince, but with a relentless, lived-in devotion to the game.

It is difficult to envision the Big East straying from this established blueprint.

However, money has a way of blurring a league’s vision. More leagues are pivoting toward corporate-minded administrators tasked with running collegiate athletics like the businesses they are.

Now is not the ideal time for the Big East to pivot from its roots. The league needs a basketball champion, a forward thinker and maybe above all else, a fighter. It may not be a fledgling start-up anymore, but it’s not a bad idea to think like one.

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Another 13 people were injured when the trains collided between the towns of Hillerod and Kagerup, around 40km north ofCopenhagen.

Images of the scene on public broadcaster DR showed two yellow and grey trains, both with visible damage to the front, facing each other in a wooded area and surrounded by emergency services.

Dozens of emergency workers were called to what authorities described as a “serious accident”. Police said they have a “massive” presence on the scene.

"It is two local trains that have collided head-on," a spokesperson for the rescue services said.

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"There are injuries among the passengers. Everyone is out of the trains, so no one is trapped... Large resources have been dispatched to the scene," the spokesperson added.

The injured have since been transported away from the scene of the accident in ambulances and helicopters, the fire department said on X.

“Rescue work at the scene is still ongoing,” the department said. “Passengers who are not physically injured have been gathered at the collection point.”

Police said technical investigations are underwayt at the scene which will “continue over a longer period of time”.

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Amal Khalil, who worked for the Lebanese newspaperAl Akhbar, was killed inthe village of al-Tayriwhile covering Israel’s bombing of southernLebanonon Wednesday. Two strikes are reported to have struck the town in the Bint Jbeil district,killing two people and injuring another.

The Lebanese health ministry toldThe Independentin an official statement that the Israeli military “pursued Khalil and her colleague, Zeinab Faraj, who had taken refuge from the first raid in a nearby house,targeting the house where they had sought shelter”.

When the Lebanese Red Cross arrived to transport the wounded, they were obstructed by Israeli troops who “fired a stun grenade at the ambulance and targeted it with gunfire”, the ministry said. “They were unable to retrieve Khalil.”

“Amal had gone into a building to shelter, and the military attacked it,” a spokesperson for the Lebanese health ministry, toldThe Independent.“After that, no one was allowed to go back – the teams needed special tools to take her out from under the building. But the [Israeli military] was attacking any vehicle or anything that was going to search for Amal. She was stuck, wounded under the rubble for more than seven hours before we were able to reach her.”

The spokesperson added that medical aid was further delayed by roads being closed due to bombing and the fact that the Israeli military “attacked the ambulances with guns and grenades”.

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“How is it permitted that a media person with no weapons is attacked and no one is allowed to help her when she is wounded?” they asked. “And in a ceasefire. What ceasefire is this? This is not the first time that medical convoys have been attacked. We have more than 100 casualties from amongst medical staff. This constitutes a blatant double violation: obstructing the rescue efforts of a citizen known for her civic media activism, and targeting an ambulance clearly marked with the Red Cross emblem.”

Lebanon’s prime minister, Nawaf Salam, has condemned the attack and accused Israel of repeatedly targeting journalists in what he described as an “established approach”. “Targeting journalists, obstructing access to them by relief teams, and even targeting their locations again after these teams arrive constitutes described war crimes,” he said.

The Committee for the Protection of Journalists has warned that Israel is engaging in the “deadliest and most deliberate effort to kill and silence journalists that the CPJ has ever documented”. A record 129 journalists were killed in 2025, according to the CPJ. Two-thirds of those were killed by Israel.

The Israeli military said: “Earlier today [Wednesday], IDF troops identified two vehicles in southern Lebanon that had departed from a military structure used by Hezbollah. The terrorists in the vehicles crossed the forward defence line and approached the troops in a manner that posed an immediate threat to their safety.

“After identifying the individuals as violating the ceasefire understandings and posing an imminent threat, the Israeli Air Force struck one of the vehicles. Subsequently, the structure from which the individuals had fled was also struck. Reports were received that two journalists were injured as a result of the strikes.

“The IDF is not preventing rescue teams from reaching the area. The details of the incident are under review. It should be noted that the map of the forward defence line has been published and the area has been evacuated. The IDF does not target journalists and acts to mitigate harm to them while maintaining the safety and security of its troops.”

After Ms Khalil was pronounced dead, the military added: “As said in the statement, the incident is under review.”