Love Island Is In The Air

...Game 7, baby. The Pacers and Thunder will be playing Summer Basketball on Sunday night in OKC. May this winner-take-all yield all the gifts of the last NBA Finals to go the distance, in 2016. Surely, you remember.

The WNBA is giving soap opera vibes lately. Actually, maybe it’s giving more kung fu film. Black belt Sophie Cunningham is fighting people, Marina Mabrey is doing what she’s best at (not cooking—the other thing: also fighting people), and Natisha Heideman and Courtney Williams are crashing out.

Forbes dropped its list of its 50 Top Creators, which includes plenty of OffBall faves: Flau’aje, Livvy, and Haley Kalil who quip for quip, skit for skit, is poking fun in all the right cultural places. This week, Kalil dropped into the NBA Finals with a message for her fellow Minnesotan Chet Holmgren.

Nobody parties harder than Stanley Cup winners. The Florida Panthers’ championship bender is still going strong, and the Cup is taking its fair share of bumps and bruises along the rage.

Winter Olympics posters, but make them Italian contemporary art. Ahead of the 2026 Milano Cortina Games, the Triennale di Milano museum enlisted ten local artists to collab on posters we’re already making space for at OB HQ.