BERLIN — Lenovo unveiled two new flagship Android tablets at IFA 2026, the Yoga Tab Gen 2 and Yoga Tab Plus Gen 2, positioning both devices as premium, creator-focused slates aimed squarely at Apple’s iPad Pro lineup and Samsung’s high-end Galaxy Tab S series, backed by an unusually long software support commitment.

The 11.1-inch Yoga Tab Gen 2 starts at $729.99, while the larger 13-inch Yoga Tab Plus Gen 2 starts at $999.99 in the United States, with European pricing set at €649 for the standard model and €849 for the Plus. Both tablets are set to become available this month following their unveiling at Lenovo’s Innovation World event at the Berlin trade show.

The smaller Yoga Tab Gen 2 features an 11.1-inch display with a 3,840-by-2,560-pixel resolution, translating to a pixel density of roughly 415 pixels per inch, running at up to a 144Hz refresh rate with support for Dolby Vision and peak brightness reaching 1,100 nits. The tablet is powered by MediaTek’s Dimensity 9500s chipset, the company’s 2026 flagship processor, paired with either 8GB or 12GB of RAM and 128GB or 256GB of expandable storage. An 11,000 mAh battery keeps the device running, supported by 68-watt charging, and the tablet measures just 8.56 millimeters thick.

The larger Yoga Tab Plus Gen 2 steps up considerably in both size and hardware. Its 13-inch “PureSight Pro” display shares the same 3,840-by-2,560-pixel resolution and 144Hz refresh rate as its smaller sibling, while adding full coverage of the DCI-P3 color gamut and matching the same 1,100-nit peak brightness rating. Rather than MediaTek silicon, the Plus model runs on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite platform with an Oryon CPU, paired with 12GB or 16GB of RAM and 256GB or 512GB of expandable storage. A substantial 12,700 mAh battery, among the largest currently found in any Android tablet, powers the device alongside the same 68-watt charging support, and the Plus measures 8.27 millimeters thick despite its larger footprint. The Plus model also includes a six-speaker audio system tuned by Harman Kardon, along with a 13-megapixel-plus-2-megapixel rear camera setup and an 8-megapixel-plus-0.3-megapixel front camera combination.

Notably, the choice of processors between the two models has drawn some attention from reviewers, given that the cheaper Yoga Tab Gen 2’s MediaTek chip actually outperforms the pricier Plus model’s Snapdragon processor in certain benchmark tests. According to figures cited by Gagadget, the Dimensity 9500s benchmarks roughly 13% to 22% faster than the Snapdragon 8 Elite in GPU and multi-core performance tests, an unusual dynamic in which the entry-level tablet edges out its more expensive sibling on raw processing numbers, even though Lenovo has positioned the Plus as the more premium overall offering.

Both tablets ship with Android 17 out of the box, and Lenovo has committed to an unusually long software support window for the devices, covering seven major Android version upgrades through Android 24, alongside security updates continuing through 2033. That level of long-term software commitment places the tablets in line with, or ahead of, similar pledges recently made by companies including Google and Samsung for their premium smartphone lineups, reflecting a broader industry shift toward extended device longevity across product categories.

On the artificial intelligence front, both tablets include Lenovo’s own Qira AI assistant built into the software experience. However, full access to Google’s Gemini Intelligence features, including on-device AI processing, requires at least 12GB of RAM, meaning only the higher-memory 12GB configuration of the standard Yoga Tab Gen 2, along with both available memory configurations of the Plus model, are guaranteed to support the complete range of Gemini-powered AI features.

Both tablets support Lenovo’s Tab Pen Pro 2 stylus, which introduces several new gesture-based features, including squeezing the pen barrel to create new content, double-tapping the pen, clicking the pen’s tail to begin drawing, double-clicking the tail to start a recording, and flipping the pen over to erase. Both devices also support external keyboard accessories, though the Plus model includes a dedicated one-step magnetic keyboard folio as a more integrated accessory option compared with the standard model’s optional detachable keyboard.

Connectivity across both tablets is largely identical, with Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6.0 and USB-C 3.2 Gen 1 support included on both models, along with microSD card expansion for additional storage beyond the built-in configurations. Each tablet also includes a small status LED display on its back panel, which Lenovo has said serves a largely decorative function but can sync with music, video or game activity while in use.

Weight represents one of the more significant practical differences between the two models. The standard Yoga Tab Gen 2 weighs approximately 480 grams, while the larger Plus model weighs roughly 605 grams, a difference of about 125 grams that buyers will need to weigh against the Plus model’s larger screen, stronger battery capacity and included keyboard accessory.

The new tablets enter a competitive premium Android tablet market that has grown increasingly crowded in recent months. Lenovo’s Yoga Tab Plus Gen 2 faces direct competition from the recently released OnePlus Pad 4, which uses Qualcomm’s newer Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset and offers a slightly larger 13.2-inch display, though with a lower overall resolution of 3,392 by 2,400 pixels compared with Lenovo’s panel. Both Lenovo tablets are also positioned to compete against Apple’s latest iPad Pro lineup and Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S11 and Tab S11 Ultra models, with additional competition expected from Samsung’s rumored upcoming Tab S12 Plus and Tab S12 Ultra devices.

With both the Yoga Tab Gen 2 and Yoga Tab Plus Gen 2 launching this month across the U.S. and several European markets, Lenovo is positioning the pair as its most ambitious entry yet into the premium Android tablet segment, betting that a combination of high-end display technology, extended software support and creator-focused accessories can help the devices stand out against increasingly capable competition from Apple, Samsung and OnePlus heading into the final months of 2026.

Elizabeth Smart, the child safety advocate and kidnapping survivor who took up bodybuilding earlier this year, is reflecting on resilience rather than results after placing last in two divisions at a national competition in Pittsburgh.

Smart, 38, competed in the National Physique Committee’s North American Championships, held in Pittsburgh from Wednesday, Sept. 2, through Saturday, Sept. 5. She shared her experience in an emotional Instagram post Saturday, accompanied by video of herself posing onstage in a blue bikini and high heels.

“Another show for the books! Had such a blast,” Smart wrote. “I’ve always said ‘just stepping onstage is a win for me!’ And I completely stand by that.”

Smart competed in two divisions at the championship: the “Masters 35+” category for bodybuilders 35 and older, and the height-based “Open Class D” category. She said she placed at the bottom of both classes.

Despite the result, Smart emphasized the personal significance of the experience over the competitive outcome.

“Regardless of where I placed, I loved the whole experience, had an amazing coach Robyn Maher, got to step onstage with my best friend Mackenzie Paralee Holsombake and had the best support squad in the audience I could ask for,” Smart wrote. “I brought a better physique and stage presence than at my previous shows, and I’m so proud of myself for the hard work, discipline and bravery it takes me to compete. So, here’s to pursuing goals and not giving up!”

The result comes roughly five months after Smart claimed first place in the Fit Model Novice category at the Wasatch Warrior competition in Salt Lake City, Utah, in April, which marked her fourth bodybuilding competition overall.

“This was a big change for me,” Smart wrote following that earlier win. “It was hard. It pushed me, challenged me not to give up. I am so proud of myself for doing this.”

Smart has spent decades as one of the country’s most prominent voices on child safety and survivor advocacy since her own experience as a kidnapping victim more than two decades ago. At age 14, Smart was abducted from her family’s Salt Lake City home in June 2002. She was held in captivity for approximately nine months, during which she was subjected to sexual abuse by Brian David Mitchell, a man her family had previously hired for odd jobs, before she was ultimately rescued. Mitchell and his then-wife and accomplice, Wanda Barzee, were both apprehended by law enforcement shortly after Smart’s rescue.

Smart discussed her decision to pursue bodybuilding during a May interview on “CBS Mornings,” explaining that the shift followed a period of marathon training that had begun causing knee problems. She said a former trainer reached out and asked whether she would be interested in working out together again, an invitation that ultimately led her toward competitive bodybuilding.

Speaking with “CBS Mornings” host Gayle King, Smart described the intense vulnerability she felt stepping into the sport, particularly given her personal history around visibility and comfort with her own body.

“It was terrifying,” Smart said. “I don’t think I wore a bikini until I was on my honeymoon, so stepping up onstage in a bikini felt like the most vulnerable thing I could possibly do.”

Smart has described her involvement in bodybuilding as carrying deeper personal meaning tied to her ongoing healing process as a survivor of sexual abuse, drawing a connection between the sport and the broader work she has done supporting other survivors through her advocacy.

“In my line of work, I’ve met so many victims of sexual abuse and violence who feel like their body betrayed them, and we see a lot of self-harm, eating disorders, feelings of self-loathing,” Smart said. “And for me doing this, I feel like it has been a celebration of my body, because it has carried me through every worst day, every bad experience.”

Since her rescue in 2003, Smart has built a decadeslong career as a public advocate focused on child safety, abduction prevention and survivor support, founding the Elizabeth Smart Foundation and frequently speaking publicly about her own experience in an effort to help other survivors and raise awareness around abuse prevention. She has also appeared in various media projects addressing missing persons cases, including the docuseries “America’s Most Wanted: Missing Persons.”

Smart’s latest bodybuilding result, despite placing last in both divisions she entered, drew a similarly reflective response from the advocate as her earlier competitive win, with Smart framing the experience through the lens of personal growth and continued participation rather than competitive placement alone. Her public discussion of the sport has continued to draw attention given the way she has tied her physical training directly to her broader work and personal history as a survivor advocate, offering her social media followers an ongoing look at both her competitive results and the personal meaning she continues to find in the sport regardless of outcome.

This report references sexual abuse and self-harm, sensitive subjects that can be distressing for some readers. If you or someone you know is affected by these issues, support is available through resources such as the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-4673.

NEW YORK — Users across the United States reported trouble reaching Google Search, Gmail, YouTube and related apps on Labor Day, even as Google’s own public status dashboards listed no companywide incident.

DownDetector, which tracks sudden jumps in user complaints, said reports of problems with Google rose above typical levels beginning at 11:07 a.m. Eastern time on Monday, Sept. 7. A companion alert for Gmail followed around 11:01 a.m. The site asked readers how the disruption was affecting them and attached the tag #GoogleDown. Those alerts do not by themselves prove a global collapse. They mark a statistically unusual wave of people saying the same services failed at the same time.

The Monday spike came after a longer stretch of complaints that began overnight Saturday into Sunday. The Houston Chronicle reported that excessive outage reports first appeared on DownDetector about 2 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 6, and that by about 9 a.m. the volume was running about 10 times higher than normal. Readers described search pages that would not load, Gmail that would not open in a browser or an app, YouTube thumbnails that stayed blank, YouTube TV streams that buffered or looked “glitchy,” and at least one report that Google Pay would not work on a phone. By 10:30 a.m. Sunday, the Chronicle said google.com was returning some search results again, though image search still lagged.

Independent uptime checkers painted a split picture. Down For Everyone Or Just Me later recorded a Google incident on Monday lasting about 56 minutes and said the problem had been resolved. Google Cloud’s public health page reported “no broad severe incidents.” The Google Workspace Status Dashboard and the Google Ads Status Dashboard both displayed “No incidents” in updates posted Monday afternoon Coordinated Universal Time. UptimeRobot said probes to google.com completed without error.

That gap — loud user reports, quiet official boards — is common in modern consumer outages. Google runs Search, Gmail, YouTube, Maps, Drive, Meet, Play and Android sign-in on overlapping systems. A failure in authentication, DNS, a regional cache or a mobile app backend can look like “Google is down” to a household while enterprise dashboards that watch Workspace tenants stay green. It can also work the other way: a local internet provider, a congested cellular tower or a holiday travel-weekend routing snarl can generate the same flood of screenshots.

Comments posted on DownDetector from California overnight Monday were specific. One user in the Central San Joaquin Valley wrote that Google Maps would not load as of 3:20 a.m. Another in the same region said Gmail and YouTube would not load around 3 a.m. while “everything else is running fine.” A San Diego user on AT&T reported that the Gmail suite would not load, pages were slow and YouTube icons failed. Those posts describe symptoms. They are not a root-cause analysis.

Google had not, by late Monday in the United States, published a public incident note that named a cause for the Labor Day reports. The company has been more explicit in other recent disruptions. In June, after Gemini inside Workspace failed for hours, Google wrote that “the issue was triggered by a performance issue in our backend database which impacted the retrieval of Gemini App tools catalog.” Engineers said they eased the load on that database and that most users were restored. That explanation belongs to June, not to Sept. 7. It is useful only as a reminder that Google will sometimes describe a backend fault after the fact and that its consumer apps and Workspace tools can fail separately.

The practical effect of even a short Search or Gmail stall is outsized because those products sit in the middle of ordinary life. Labor Day travel depends on Maps. Holiday plans sit in Gmail threads and Calendar invites. Classroom work after a long weekend sits in Docs and Classroom. Small businesses that live on Google Business Profiles and Ads lose both visibility and a way to answer customers if sign-in hangs. YouTube is not a luxury add-on for many households; it is the default television.

None of that requires treating every DownDetector pulse as a historic blackout. The tracker itself says it flags an incident when reports rise well above the usual volume for that hour. A holiday Monday can produce more people poking at the same apps at the same time. It can also hide a real, uneven outage that official dashboards do not yet classify as an incident because it never crossed an internal severity line.

History supplies the scale. Google’s own products have gone dark in ways the company later confirmed: a software-update failure in August 2022 that hit Search, Maps, Drive and YouTube; a May 2026 Search disruption that returned 500 errors for users in multiple countries; YouTube playback failures that StatusGator logged as lasting many hours in early September even when YouTube did not immediately post an official acknowledgment. Those earlier events are documented. Monday’s event, as of this writing, is documented mainly as a user-report spike plus local news accounts of failed pages.

For people still seeing errors, the usual checks remain the ones support desks recite because they work. Try a different network. Try an incognito window. Clear the app cache or switch from the app to the mobile website. Check whether the problem follows a single internet provider. Look at Google’s Workspace and Cloud status pages rather than only social media. If Gmail webmail fails but IMAP in a desktop client still delivers mail, the fault may be in the web front end, not in the mailbox store.

If the company’s dashboards stay green and the complaint charts fall back to baseline, the episode will look, in the official record, like a brief, unexplained blip. If engineers later post an incident, the useful details will be the ones Google has given before: which product, which region, which subsystem, when mitigation started, when they declared the majority of users restored.

Until then the accurate sentence is narrower. On Labor Day 2026, enough people could not load Search, Gmail or YouTube that DownDetector raised an alert at 11:07 a.m. Eastern. Newspapers on the Gulf Coast had already described a similar wave the day before. Google’s public status pages did not match that noise with a named outage. The services most people treat as plumbing were, for some stretch of a holiday weekend, not behaving like plumbing.

AT&T customers began reporting widespread service problems Monday afternoon, with outage-tracking site Downdetector logging a surge in complaints starting around 3:16 p.m. EDT, adding to a series of intermittent reports that had already surfaced earlier in the holiday.

According to breakdowns of the reported issues, 39% of problems involved 5G home internet service, 29% involved broadband internet, and 25% involved WiFi connectivity, indicating the disruption was concentrated primarily in AT&T’s home internet offerings rather than its traditional wireless calling network.

Downdetector’s official account flagged the surge in a post shortly after the reports began, asking affected users how the disruption was impacting them and directing people to its live outage map for updates. The hashtag “AtTDown” began circulating on social media as users compared notes on the issue.

Monday’s complaints followed an earlier round of reports that had already surfaced overnight and into the morning. According to the Independent, user reports on Downdetector first began climbing around 3:20 a.m. Eastern time, with more than 600 total problem reports logged by the time coverage of the outage picked up later in the day.

Reported outage locations were concentrated in several states, with Texas, Louisiana and Kansas among the top affected areas, according to independent status-tracking service StatusGator. AT&T maintains a significant service presence across Texas, including in cities such as Princeton and Allen, offering both wireless and home internet service throughout the state.

Some user reports pointed to overlapping mobile connectivity problems alongside the home internet complaints. One complaint originating from Princeton, Texas, specifically described a phone entering SOS mode when not connected to WiFi, suggesting that at least some affected users were experiencing mobile network issues in addition to problems with their home internet service.

The confusion surrounding Monday’s outage was compounded by users struggling to pinpoint exactly which service was responsible for the disruptions they were experiencing. One user, posting on X under the handle @unX, described a broader pattern of connectivity failures across multiple platforms and devices.

“Not only do the physical devices not work in my house, but Gmail, YouTube, my Fire TVs and more are not working,” the user wrote. “Both YouTube and AT&T think this is a Texas problem, but I’m in California.”

That confusion reflects a recurring challenge with modern outage reporting, in which interconnected services relying on shared underlying infrastructure can make it difficult for individual users to determine which specific provider is actually responsible for a given disruption, particularly when multiple platforms appear to be affected simultaneously.

The timing of Monday’s outage carries some added context given recent severe weather in the region. AT&T had previously confirmed that its wireless network was operating normally across Louisiana and Texas following restoration work completed after Tropical Storm Edouard affected the area on Sept. 3, just days before Monday’s reported disruptions began.

As of the most recent checks, AT&T’s own public service-status information did not show a broad, officially acknowledged nationwide incident, even as third-party monitoring services offered mixed readings on the overall health of the network. StatusGator characterized AT&T as “currently operational” as of its most recent assessment, while still logging 79 user-submitted outage reports over the preceding 24-hour period, illustrating the gap that can sometimes exist between a company’s official status designation and the volume of user-reported problems being tracked independently.

AT&T has a documented history of significant network disruptions, including a major nationwide outage in February 2024 that left nearly 75,000 customers without service at its peak, according to tracking data from that incident. That earlier outage affected cities including Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Atlanta and Miami, and prompted AT&T to advise customers to rely on WiFi calling while the company worked to restore service. The 2024 incident also raised serious public safety concerns, with several cities, including San Francisco, urging residents to find alternative ways of reaching emergency services after reports emerged that some AT&T customers were unable to successfully place 911 calls during the disruption.

For customers experiencing connectivity issues, technology support resources generally recommend a series of standard troubleshooting steps before assuming a broader network-wide outage is responsible. These include checking for any planned maintenance notices in a customer’s specific area through the AT&T website or app, confirming that a local power outage is not affecting the modem or router, verifying that account status and billing are current, and restarting home networking equipment to rule out a simple device malfunction before concluding that the issue reflects a wider AT&T service disruption.

Given that Monday’s reported problems appeared concentrated specifically in home internet and WiFi services rather than traditional voice calling, the disruption’s practical impact on customers’ ability to make emergency calls appeared more limited than in AT&T’s more severe 2024 outage, though affected customers relying on 5G home internet or WiFi-dependent devices, including smart home equipment, streaming devices and WiFi-calling-enabled phones, reported meaningful disruptions to their day-to-day connectivity throughout the holiday.

AT&T has not issued a detailed public statement specifically addressing the cause of Monday’s reported outage as of the time of this report. Affected users were advised to continue monitoring both Downdetector’s live outage tracker and AT&T’s own official service-status tools for location-specific updates on restoration efforts, as the company worked to address the underlying issues contributing to the reported disruptions in 5G home internet, broadband and WiFi connectivity across the affected states.

Willy Walker
Chairman, President & CEO

Good afternoon, and welcome to another Walker Webcast. It’s my great pleasure to have my friend, my colleague, the exceptional analyst, Ivy Zelman join me today. Hi, Ivy.

Ivy Zelman
Executive Vice President

Hi. Love it, thank you. Nice to be here again.

Willy Walker
Chairman, President & CEO

It’s great to have you. Since I have you alone today, usually when we have Chris Mikkelsen and Aaron Appel joining us, I kind of dive right into the questions. And since I have you a loan today, I’m going to do a full bio on you because it’s been a while since I’ve done that bio, and most people who listen to the Walker Webcast know you and know of your background, but I think it is worthwhile to run back through it today as we have a little bit more time of just a one-on-one conversation.

So Ivy bear with me as I embarrass you a little bit on how extraordinary this background is. So Ivy Zelman is one of the most influential housing analysts in the United States and is currently Executive Vice President and Co-Founder of Zelman, a Walker & Dunlop Company. She has spent more than 30 years analyzing housing, homebuilding, mortgage finance, building products, demographics and the broader residential real estate ecosystem. She began her career at Salomon Brothers in 1990, initially in investment banking before moving into equity research covering housing.

She joined Credit Suisse First Boston in 1998 when those firms were still Credit Suisse First Boston, where she became Managing Director and one of

Operator

Good afternoon, and welcome to the Team Internet Group plc investor presentation. [Operator Instructions] Before we begin, I’d like to make the following poll. I’d like to hand you over to management team. Michael, good afternoon, sir.

Michael Riedl
Group CEO & Executive Director

Good afternoon, and good afternoon to everyone, and thank you for joining us today. My name is Michael Riedl, Group CEO of Team Internet Group. And with me is Billy Green, our Group CFO. Let me start with the headline of today’s presentation because it’s a simple one. These results contain no surprises. Everything you see today was set out earlier this year and delivered. And trust me when I say we would like no surprises to become a habit at Team Internet.

You can see the agenda on the screen, and it’s also the story of the company right now in 5 chapters. First, what we said and what we delivered, and we hold ourselves to our own words. Then the results by segment, followed by the balance sheet and financing. And I know this is where some of you have questions, and we’ll take them head on. Then we proceed to the strategic review and other sources of value. And finally, we look into the outlook. And then we will see enough time for your questions as many of you will have a few.

So let’s jump straight in what we said and what we delivered. This slide is a scorecard, and it’s deliberately the first thing we show to you. On the left, you see the commitments that we made publicly, each

BOSTON — Former NBA forward Glen “Big Baby” Davis has publicly named several prominent former players he claims were investigated as part of the league’s multimillion-dollar healthcare fraud scandal but ultimately avoided prosecution, prompting swift denials from at least three of the individuals he identified.

Davis, who served 17 months in federal prison for his role in the fraud scheme before his release last March, made the claims during an appearance on the “Locked In with Ian Bick” podcast. Davis, now serving a three-year probation term following his release, insisted that federal prosecutors and the NBA selectively pursued charges against a small group of former players while others who engaged in similar conduct avoided legal consequences entirely.

“I think the Feds picked and chose who they wanted to be,” Davis said. “I think the NBA let the Feds pick who they wanted and choose to. Because if 180 people were investigated, subpoenaed, we didn’t hear about those people. We just heard about the 20, 22 people that got caught or that got jammed in a situation.”

Davis went on to name several former players he said had been investigated but never publicly charged, including some who have since built prominent media careers.

“Your favorite podcast, people you see on different podcasts,” Davis said. “Matt Barnes, Stephen Jackson; all those people were investigated. Gilbert Arenas, Corey Maggette, Cuttino Mobley; thousands of NBA players were investigated. They only sent some of them to jail. Some of them, the fed got, like, Tony Allen. He didn’t go to jail. Whatever he did to get free.”

Davis also suggested a broader conflict of interest existed between the healthcare fund and federal prosecutors handling the case, though he offered no documentation to support that specific claim.

“I just really think the healthcare company and the feds, they were working together,” Davis said. “The woman that works for the healthcare company was also the lawyer for the feds: the prosecutor, right? And so now the NBA is like, ‘Oh, s—, they got these guys, you know, doing this stuff. Like, we got to give them something.’ And they picked and chose who they wanted to give, right? You’re not going to get our ESPN analyst guy.”

The scheme Davis was convicted for centered on a scam masterminded by former 2009 first-round draft pick Terrence Williams, who recruited former players to submit false medical and dental claims to the NBA’s Health Fund in exchange for kickbacks tied to fabricated invoices for procedures that were never actually performed. In 2021, federal prosecutors charged 18 former NBA players, along with a doctor, a dentist and a chiropractor, with conspiring to defraud the fund of more than $4 million.

Of those 18 charged, only five ultimately went to prison. Davis received the second-longest sentence among those convicted, at 40 months, trailing only Williams’ 10-year term. Davis maintained his innocence throughout his case and chose to go to trial rather than plead guilty, a decision that ultimately resulted in his conviction and a sentence that also included $80,000 in restitution. Among the 18 defendants, only Davis and former guard Will Bynum chose to fight their cases in court rather than accept plea deals; both were convicted and sentenced to prison, while those who pleaded guilty generally received lighter sentences, including probation in several cases.

Notably, of the specific names Davis cited during his podcast appearance, only Tony Allen was among the 18 individuals actually charged in the case. Allen pleaded guilty and repaid the money prosecutors said he had improperly obtained from the fund, resulting in a sentence of probation rather than prison time. The other players Davis named, including Barnes, Jackson, Arenas, Maggette and Mobley, were not among the defendants formally charged in the case, and publicly available court records and Justice Department materials do not establish that they were investigated or implicated in the fraud scheme, according to a review of the public record.

Arenas responded directly to Davis’ claims in a video posted online, firmly denying any involvement in the scheme. Barnes and Jackson also pushed back on the allegations, though their responses came through comments posted on social media rather than standalone video statements.

Beyond addressing the specific allegations against him, Davis also reflected on the broader personal toll his conviction and imprisonment has taken on his life and public standing.

“You lose relationships that you’ve been building up for years. Your image is tainted. All the hard work you put in as a role model is now depleted,” Davis said. “You gotta start over, and you have to be a special person to start over, you know what I mean? To look that in the face and be like, oh OK, I’m going to move on and keep going. That’s hard to do.”

The NBA healthcare fraud case remains one of the more significant scandals to affect the league’s alumni community in recent years, given both the scale of the alleged fraud and the number of former players implicated. Davis’ latest comments add a new layer of controversy to the case, reigniting public discussion of the scandal nearly five years after the original charges were first announced, even as the specific claims he has made about additional, uncharged players remain unsupported by any publicly available evidence beyond his own personal account.

As of this report, none of the other players named by Davis beyond Arenas, Barnes and Jackson had issued public statements directly addressing his allegations. The Justice Department has not indicated any plans to reopen or expand its investigation into the healthcare fraud scheme in response to Davis’ recent comments.

NEW YORK — Zheng Qinwen produced a remarkable second consecutive comeback from a 0-5 deficit at the U.S. Open on Monday, storming back to defeat No. 8 seed Iga Swiatek 7-5, 6-3 on Arthur Ashe Stadium to become the first qualifier to reach the tournament’s quarterfinals since Emma Raducanu’s title run in 2021.

Zheng, of China and the 2024 Olympic gold medalist, quickly fell behind 5-0 against the 2022 U.S. Open champion, with Swiatek holding multiple set points at both 5-1 and 5-3. Rather than folding under the pressure, Zheng steadily found her range on return as Swiatek’s level dropped, ultimately winning seven consecutive games to claim the opening set before pulling away in the second.

Zheng saved break points on her second serve during the pivotal turning point of the match before launching a deep return and a backhand winner down the line to break Swiatek’s serve, a game that appeared to drain the remaining momentum from her opponent, who grew visibly frustrated as unforced errors mounted. Zheng ultimately sealed the straight-sets victory when Swiatek hit a ball into the net on match point.

Speaking after the win, Zheng reflected on the improbable pattern now defining her tournament, coming just two days after she rallied from an identical 5-0 deficit in the deciding third set to upset No. 22 seed Madison Keys.

“I guess to come back 0-5 yesterday is not lucky, that’s all I can say,” Zheng said.

Zheng entered Monday’s match having lost seven of her eight previous meetings with Swiatek, with her only prior victory coming two years earlier in the Olympic semifinals in Paris, when she came back from a 4-0 deficit in the second set to stop Swiatek’s 25-match winning streak at Roland Garros, the venue where the Polish star has won four French Open titles.

Monday’s win marked the seventh consecutive victory for Zheng in New York and pushed her into the U.S. Open quarterfinals for the third time in her career, following previous appearances at that stage in 2023 and 2024. Zheng has never advanced beyond the quarterfinal round at Flushing Meadows, meaning Monday’s win sets up a chance for her to reach new territory at the tournament if she can continue her run.

This year’s path to the milestone has been particularly demanding for Zheng, who underwent elbow surgery earlier in the year and was forced to work through the qualifying rounds just to reach the main draw at this year’s tournament. Her run to the final eight as a qualifier now places her among an exclusive group at the U.S. Open, with Raducanu remaining the most recent qualifier to advance that deep in the tournament, a run that culminated in Raducanu becoming the first qualifier to win a Grand Slam title in the Open era, which dates to 1968.

Zheng will next face the winner of a separate fourth-round matchup between two-time U.S. Open champion Naomi Osaka and No. 2 seed Elena Rybakina for a spot in the semifinals.

Monday’s night session at Flushing Meadows also featured a marquee all-American matchup between No. 4 seed Coco Gauff and No. 14 seed Iva Jovic, with the winner set to face French Open champion Mirra Andreeva, the tournament’s No. 5 seed, in the quarterfinals. Andreeva advanced earlier Monday with a comeback win of her own, defeating No. 24 seed Anastasia Potapova 5-7, 6-4, 6-3.

Swiatek’s exit continues a difficult stretch at the U.S. Open specifically for the six-time major champion, who has now suffered a notable upset at Flushing Meadows despite her status as a former champion at the tournament and one of the most dominant players in the sport over the past several years. Her loss to Zheng adds to a recent pattern in which the Polish star has shown occasional vulnerability against lower-ranked opponents capable of sustaining pressure over long, physically demanding matches, even as she remains one of the leading figures in the women’s game.

For Zheng, the back-to-back comebacks from identical 5-0 deficits have become a defining storyline of her tournament run, drawing significant attention from tennis analysts and fans given how rare it is for a player to overcome such a substantial early deficit even once at a Grand Slam event, let alone in consecutive matches. Her ability to maintain composure and steadily claw back into both contests, rather than allowing an early setback to spiral into a lopsided defeat, has been cited repeatedly by commentators covering the tournament as a marker of significant mental resilience under pressure.

Zheng’s continued success at the U.S. Open also carries broader significance for Chinese tennis, given her status as one of the sport’s most prominent rising stars from the country following her Olympic gold medal performance in 2024. Her run through this year’s draw as a qualifier, following surgery that had disrupted her earlier-season form, adds a notable comeback narrative to her broader career trajectory heading into the tournament’s final rounds.

With the quarterfinal matchup against either Osaka or Rybakina still to be determined, Zheng will look to build on the momentum from consecutive dramatic comebacks as she attempts to advance past the quarterfinal stage at the U.S. Open for the first time in her career. Her run has already reshaped the storylines heading into the tournament’s closing rounds, adding an unexpected and closely watched thread to a women’s draw that has also seen strong performances from Gauff, Andreeva and Jovic as the tournament moves into its final stretch at Flushing Meadows.