Box Score 6/8: Durant delivers a dagger

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Happy birthday today to Lindsay Davenport, Troy Vincent and Bryant Reeves. On this date in 2001 Ray Bourque played his last game of hockey.

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• The climate between baseball and Black America today. 
• Best June draft first-round pick in the history of every MLB franchise. 
• And the most frustrating players of the 2017 MLB season. 

Around the league

• Did the emergence of the shift kill Ryan Howard’s career? [538]
• Cal's stadium deal could cripple the school as the budget spins out of control. [Deadspin]
• The Undefeated interviewed Alan Siegel, designer of the NBA logo, about how the iconic image came to be. (And yes, it's an outline of Jerry West even if West doesn't want to talk about it.) [The Undefeated]

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