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WEDNESDAY'S BROADCAST HIGHLIGHTS:MLB: NY Mets at Philadelphia, 1 p.m. (MLB Network)MLB: Cincinnati at LA Dodgers, 4 p.m. (MLB Network)MLB: Boston at NY Yankees, 6:35 p.m. (ESPN)MLB: Houston at Oakland, 10 p.m. (MLB Network)NBA: Indiana at Boston, 7 p.m. (NBCSB, TNT)NBA: Detroit at Milwaukee, 8 p.m. (NBATV)NBA: Utah at Houston, 9:30 p.m. (TNT)NHL: Boston at Toronto, 7 p.m. (NBCSN, NESN)NHL: Nashville at Dallas, 8 p.m. (USA)NHL: Calgary at Colorado, 10 p.m. (NBCSN)
AROUND THE WEB:
-- It was Bill Belichick's 67th birthday on Tuesday and Tom Brady used his new Twitter platform to send his coach birthday wishes.
Happy birthday Coach! He'll definitely see this.. big social media guy..
— Tom Brady (@TomBrady) April 16, 2019"Happy birthday Coach! He'll definitely see this.. big social media guy..," Brady joked.
Julian Edelman also wished the Patriots coach a happy birthday with an Instagram post, calling him "Mr. All Smiles."
A post shared by Julian Edelman (@edelman11) on Apr 16, 2019 at 1:29pm PDT
"HBD to Mr. All Smiles #GOAT," Edelman captioned the photo.
Jon Bon Jovi commented on the post to also wish Belichick a happy birthday, writing, "Look .. you can have your cake and eat it too .. happy bday BB JBJ."
-- Brady used his other social media account on Instagram to post his 2000 NFL combine photo to celebrate the 19th anniversary of the Patriots drafting him and his former teammate Jacoby Brissett had a savage response.
A post shared by Tom Brady (@tombrady) on Apr 16, 2019 at 9:40am PDT
"Not much has changed huh? Lol," Brissett commented.
And Brady went right back at him with a comment of his own.
"I've seen your combine pics and they ain't much better," Brady responded.
Boom. Roasted.
QUOTE OF THE DAY: "I've been hit multiple times in the same area, and literally it's just a deep bruise, I got back out there. The wind initially got knocked out of me. It was weird because when I hit Vucevic, I took an extra step and thought I was fine then I just felt like somebody stabbed me with a knife and I went down." -- Marcus Smart, on the injury he sustained last week against the Magic
