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No announcement has been made for seasons beyond then, but the investor presentation provides information on how prices have increased for NBA tickets across the league.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
Villa's tally of 32 crosses, the lowest in the league, is half as many as Tottenham have managed.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
They just tied the major league record for consecutive postseason appearances with 14.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
In 2024, the NBA struck media partnerships worth $77 billion over 11 years that more than doubled fees shared by teams in the league.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
His championship playing didn't just get him into the major league; it got him the Most Valuable Player award in 1949 and had proved him to be an All-Star player for the last five years.
From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals
Once we’re leagued up, we’ll post the results, and there’ll be a weekly column here summing up the score, the scenario, and the stats.
From The Verge ● Feb. 28, 2019
Other Post stockholders leagued to announce that Newhouse's 15% invasion was as far as he would be allowed to go.
From Time Magazine Archive
He may be leagued with his appointees to abstract and share a larger percentage of the assets than the law allows, thus cheating legitimate creditors.
From Time Magazine Archive
The interests leagued against Wiley, finally manufactured charges that he had misused the funds of his Bureau; and, though exonerated by President Taft after a careful investigation had been made, he resigned in protest.
From Time Magazine Archive
Big-hoofed gray horses spackled like wolves, that rolled their eyes and whinnied at my footfall, leagued with men as if strapped to their business by harness I could not see.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
The godlike wish of genius, man to bless, With rank and wealth still leaguing to oppress!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various
In the first place, he was on bad terms with Mrs. Oldershaw, which would protect me from all danger of the two leaguing together against me if I trusted him.
From Armadale by Wilkie Collins
The personal advancement of the southern Hy-Nials was more to him than the political advancement of his country; and he disgraced his name and his nation by leaguing with the invaders.
From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Mary Frances Cusack
He had made a fatal mistake in leaguing himself with uncongenial partners, and began to feel that this mistake must be expiated by the ruin of his present venture.
From The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson By One of the Firm by Anthony Trollope
There is a common class feeling between the lawyers leaguing them against the judge.
From The Man in Court by Frederic DeWitt Wells
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