Welcome to the Weekend Read. Below you'll find our favorite stories of the week, a tale about the first-ever NBA free agent to sign and a snapshot from perhaps the greatest tennis match of all time. Enjoy.

Last Sunday, four-time All-Star and 20,000-point scorer Tom Chambers was at his cabin above Park City, Utah, as NBA free agency was getting underway. Internet access there is spotty at best, so Chambers listened to SiriusXM’s NBA station as the countless transactions rolled in. “I’d never seen anything go that quickly,” he recently told The Crossover.

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