Key Points
- Nike's Air Zoom Flight '98 "The Glove" returns July 31 in its original white-and-black colorway for $170.
- Draymond Green re-signs with the Warriors on a one-year, $27.7 million deal after LeBron James chose the 76ers over Golden State.
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day opens today, tracking for $230-250 million domestically per Box Office Pro, with Box Office Theory at $249 million.
- Apple briefly topped a $5 trillion market cap on July 28, becoming only the second company ever to do so after Nvidia.
The latest roundup covers Reebok's Angel Reese 1 "Barbie", the Dodgers landing Tarik Skubal, Spider-Man: Brand New Day's $355M opening, and OpenAI's 80% GPT-5.6 Luna price cut.
Today's roundup covers the LeBron 23 "Hardwood Classic", Chelsea Gray's buzzer-beaters, and the DeepMind shakeup.
The August 6 Daily Roundup covers the Air Jordan 13 "Wings" release, the NFL preseason opener in Canton, and Anthropic's $10 billion Volta compute deal.
Sneakers
Gary Payton's Nike Air Zoom Flight '98 "The Glove", confirmed for a July 31 return back in June, returns today in its original white-and-black colorway for $170 (style code IV6206-010), releasing on Nike.com and select Nike Sportswear retailers. The zippered neoprene shroud and red "Monkey's Paw" support cage make it one of Nike's more unusual archive pulls this year — its first proper retro in the colorway that made it a cult object.
Nike also confirmed the return of the Shox BB4 OG in Black/Metallic Silver/Lapis for $190 on August 28 — the shoe Vince Carter wore for his 2000 Olympic dunk over Frédéric Weis, back for its first retro since 2019.
Sports
Draymond Green has re-signed with the Golden State Warriors on a one-year, $27.7 million contract, essentially the same number he opted out of in late June to give the team cap room to chase two stars. Neither arrived: LeBron James signed a two-year, $8 million deal with the Philadelphia 76ers on July 24, and Golden State's pursuit of Anthony Davis never advanced past internal planning, according to HoopsHype. Green, 36, enters his 15th season with the Warriors and needs 51 games to reach 1,000 for his career, per the Associated Press.
Elsewhere, Concacaf's 41 member federations rejected FIFA's plan to sell a stake in a new $20 billion commercial subsidiary to private investors, hours after UEFA's 55 members voted to boycott FIFA competitions over the same proposal. And with the MLB trade deadline set for Monday, August 3 at 6pm ET, the Detroit Tigers are weighing whether to trade ace Tarik Skubal, with rival executives viewing the Los Angeles Dodgers as the favorites to land him if he becomes available, per ESPN's trade deadline tracker.
Culture
Spider-Man: Brand New Day opens in roughly 4,000 North American theaters today. Tracking firms have Sony's latest swinging to 2026's biggest domestic opening: Box Office Pro projects $230-250 million and Box Office Theory has settled on $249 million, both well clear of Toy Story 5's $159.6 million debut, though still short of Spider-Man: No Way Home's $260.1 million domestic record from December 2021.
On the music side, this week's New Music Friday is led by Davido marking 15 years in music with Oriadé, Ariana Grande's Petal — her first release on her own Babydoll Music imprint — and new albums from Shaboozey, Jacquees, Arca, Cautious Clay, and Isaiah Falls.
Technology
Apple's stock touched $342.89 a share on July 28, pushing its market capitalization to roughly $5.036 trillion before the shares pulled back to close at $339.70, just under the official $5 trillion close threshold. Apple is only the second public company to cross the mark, after Nvidia did so in October 2025, capping ten volatile days between the two for the title of world's most valuable company, per CNBC.
In AI infrastructure, Commonwealth Fusion Systems raised another $1 billion, bringing its total funding to $4 billion, from pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and industrial partners it declined to name. The fusion startup has already signed Google for 200 megawatts and Eni for more than $1 billion in future electricity from its Arc reactor.
Today on Uristocrat
Oklahoma City's new USL Championship club, OKC United, is one of the more unusual ownership groups in American soccer — the Chickasaw Nation sits alongside Russell Westbrook and Baker Mayfield as co-owners of a club that won't kick off until 2028.
Also published in the last 24 hours: New Music Friday rounds up today's biggest album drops, and Concacaf's rejection of FIFA's private-investor plan sets up a governance standoff heading into the World Cup year.
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