{"updates":[{"id":2244,"category":"SFTBG","date":"2026-10-10","headline":"Scene 12: Paris 1919","author":"Kyle Whelliston","imageUrl":"https://x.82.al/scenes/12.png","externalUrl":"","internalURL":"https://tmm.ba/scene/12","hoop":true,"freePreview":false,"text":"General John J. Pershing opens the Inter-Allied Games at a stadium outside Paris, an American gift to France. The Games are the idea of the YMCA's Elwood Brown. In Europe's first international basketball tournament, Team USA beats France 93-8."},{"id":2243,"category":"SFTBG","date":"2026-10-04","headline":"Scene 20: Buenos Aires 1950","author":"Kyle Whelliston","imageUrl":"https://x.82.al/scenes/20.png","externalUrl":"","internalURL":"https://tmm.ba/scene/20","hoop":true,"freePreview":false,"text":"At a packed Luna Park in Buenos Aires, Argentina meets the United States, represented by the Denver Chevrolets, for FIBA's first World Championship. Juan Perón's government backs the home team, whose players are later banned from basketball after his overthrow."},{"id":2242,"category":"SFTBG","date":"2026-10-01","headline":"Scene 10: St. Louis 1904","author":"Kyle Whelliston","imageUrl":"https://x.82.al/scenes/10.png","externalUrl":"","internalURL":"https://tmm.ba/scene/10","hoop":true,"freePreview":false,"text":"At the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, which puts Indigenous people on display, Spalding's guide crowns the Buffalo Germans the first Olympic basketball champions. But the fair's champions come from its Model Indian School exhibit: ten girls from Montana's Fort Shaw boarding school."},{"id":2241,"category":"SFTBG","date":"2026-09-30","headline":"Scene 17: Melbourne 1938","author":"Kyle Whelliston","imageUrl":"https://x.82.al/scenes/17.png","externalUrl":"","internalURL":"https://tmm.ba/scene/17","hoop":true,"freePreview":false,"text":"Australia and New Zealand play netball's first test match in Melbourne. The game and its three-second rule come from Senda Berenson's women's basketball, which Martina Bergman-Österberg brought home to England in 1893 and which spread through the British Empire."},{"id":2240,"category":"SFTBG","date":"2026-09-28","headline":"Scene 38: Kigali 2022","author":"Kyle Whelliston","imageUrl":"https://x.82.al/scenes/38.png","externalUrl":"","internalURL":"https://tmm.ba/scene/38","hoop":true,"freePreview":false,"text":"Tunisia's US Monastir meets Angola's Petro de Luanda in a sold-out Basketball Africa League final in Kigali. Critics ask why the NBA is partnering with Rwanda's president, Paul Kagame, accused of repression, and New Fortress Energy, a gas company flagged for greenwashing."},{"id":2229,"category":"Shirtdoku","date":"2026-08-13","headline":"136. 2022-23 Chennai Heat","author":"Kyle Whelliston","imageUrl":"https://x.82.al/doku136.png","externalUrl":"https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-08-13","internalURL":"","hoop":true,"freePreview":true,"text":"Kyle discovers Indian Spotify and recalls the NBA's mid-2010s super-discounted “India Pass”, then details how India’s basketball leagues, like the UBA and INBL, seem to keep collapsing into chaotic and forgettable ghost memories."},{"id":2226,"category":"Shirtdoku","date":"2026-07-29","headline":"135. 2026-27 Miami Heat","author":"Kyle Whelliston","imageUrl":"https://x.82.al/doku135.png","externalUrl":"https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-07-29","internalURL":"","hoop":true,"freePreview":true,"text":"Kyle dismisses Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey as shouty Xbox sludge, trashes Anne Hathaway’s Penelope, and transitions to Giannis Antetokounmpo as a truly worthy epic hero."},{"id":2224,"category":"Shirtdoku","date":"2026-07-27","headline":"134. 1988-89 Atlanta Hawks","author":"Kyle Whelliston","imageUrl":"https://x.82.al/doku134.png","externalUrl":"https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-07-27","internalURL":"","hoop":true,"freePreview":true,"text":"Kyle muses on EuroLeague possibly readmitting CSKA Moscow, recalling Cold War basketball nostalgia and his Both Sides Suck stance on Ukraine, sarcastically questioning whether flag-emoji warriors will ever admit they were wrong."},{"id":2223,"category":"Shirtdoku","date":"2026-07-20","headline":"133. 2026 Toronto Tempo","author":"Kyle Whelliston","imageUrl":"https://x.82.al/doku133.png","externalUrl":"https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-07-20","internalURL":"","hoop":true,"freePreview":true,"text":"Kyle watches basketball drama unfold after coach Sandy Brondello gets suspended for calling Angel Reese a “protected species,” a phrase lifted from Australian slang and tragically lost in American translation."},{"id":2221,"category":"Shirtdoku","date":"2026-07-17","headline":"132. 2023-24 G League Ignite","author":"Kyle Whelliston","imageUrl":"https://x.82.al/doku132.png","externalUrl":"https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-07-17","internalURL":"","hoop":true,"freePreview":true,"text":"Kyle notes 2027 arrives faster than a forgotten soup can, while USA Basketball’s aging stars and flimsy excuses mask an impending collapse that the doomed G League Ignite might have postponed."}]}