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AP, NBA Referee Settle Lawsuit Over Sports Writer's Tweet

The AP and NBA referee William Spooner have reached a settlement in a lawsuit against the news agency and one of its writers "over a Twitter message suggesting the referee intentionally made a bad call to make up for another one" in a Jan. 24 Rockets-T'Wolves game. Spooner agreed to drop the suit, filed last March in Minneapolis, "pending removal of the tweet from Jon Krawczynski’s Twitter account and a payment of $20,000 for Spooner’s litigation costs" (AP, 12/7).

Sue Bird and Dawn Porter talk upcoming doc, Ricardo Viramontes of UNINTERRUPTED and NBA conference finals

This week’s pod comes to you from 4se where SBJ’s Austin Karp is joined by basketball legend Sue Bird and award-winning director Dawn Porter as the duo share how their documentary, Power of the Dream, came together and what viewers can expect. Later in the show ,Ricardo Viramontes of The SpringHill Company/UNINTERRUPTED talks about how LeBron James and Maverick Carter are making their own mark in original content. Plus SBJ’s Mollie Cahillane joins the pod to add insight into the WNBA’s hot start and gets us set for the NBA Conference Finals.

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