Just 24 hours after setting NBA Twitter ablaze with his latest hot take, ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith was, once again, front and center defending his much-talked-about stance on LeBron James and Stephen Curry’s place on the NBA’s Mount Rushmore.
Appearing on NBA Countdown ahead of Lakers-Warriors Game 2, Smith took a moment to double down on the controversial comments he made regarding what a fifth NBA championship would do for Curry or James’s respective legacies.
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The Worldwide Leader in Sports was back to their exceptional commentary on Thursday.
Previewing the Lakers and Warriors’ Game 2, ESPN-NBA analyst Jalen Rose went into a hysteria talking about COVID. Warriors big man Kevon Looney was reportedly dealing with an illness before the game. The broadcast noted that Looney was expected to be on minutes restrictions.
Rather than champion a potential flu-game performance from Looney, Rose started venting his concerns over spreading COVID.
In 2023, ESPN’s analysts are still worried about COVID.
Matt Harmon and Scott Pianowski reveal Yahoo’s Fantasy Football Team Power Rankings now that all 32 team’s rosters are mostly set after free agency and the draft.
Russell Westbrook and Patrick Beverley’s tenures with the Lakers may have ended in less-than-harmonious manners. But they’ll be pulling for the purple and gold for the rest of these NBA playoffs.
Why would they do that? For one simple reason: They want their rings.
Beverley confirmed as much on is podcast, Pat Bev Podcast With Rone, when he recounted running into Westbrook at the gym this week. He said both he and Westbrook expect to be included when the time comes to order championship rings if the Lakers are able to continue their postseason run and win another NBA title.
During the pre-draft process, teams put players through all sorts of different tests. Of course, the physical tests — like the ones at the scouting combine — are well-known prior to the NFL Draft. But it’s during the interviews that teams get to know the players. And Atlanta Falcons head coach Arthur Smith has an odd way of accomplishing that.
The Falcons ultimately drafted Texas running back Bijan Robinson with the 8th overall pick in the NFL Draft. But as a team with many holes on its roster, the Falcons likely considered many different positional needs.
After five successful seasons, the Milwaukee Bucks are making a questionable move by moving off head coach Mike Budenholzer.
Coming off a disappointing first round against the Miami Heat, the Bucks organization looked for a problem to solve — not just finish regular seasons as a top seed in the East but advance further than the first round with a loaded cast.
The Milwaukee brain trust landed on Budenholzer as the issue. Milwaukee “dismissed” the coach on Thursday, according to The Athletic’s Shams Charania.
In year 20, LeBron James is still delaying Father Time and defying the odds with greatness on the hardwood.
With the Lakers seeking to take a 2–0 lead in the best-of-seven series against the Warriors, the four-time NBA champion will have has hands full facing a Warriors’ team seeking to avenge its Game 1 loss. But before the two superstars were battling head-to-head in iconic NBA postseason performances, James was a huge fan of Curry’s during his days at Davidson.
The Bucks fired coach Mike Budenholzer on Thursday following their first-round exit from the NBA playoffs.
While some fans were shocked that Milwaukee would part ways with their coach just two years after the team won the NBA title, the firing actually seems to follow an odd pattern that has emerged in the league over the last few years.
Three of the last four coaches from the NBA championship teams no longer work for the team they won the title with. Nick Nurse coached the 2019 Raptors championship team and he was just fired on April 21.
Two USC journalism students were arrested for the theft of first-round NFL draft jerseys, with the value of the stolen property estimated at over $1,000 dollars.
The pair—Eric Lambkins II and Jude Ocañas—were in Missouri covering the draft for student-run news outlet Annenberg Media as part of USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. According to Noah Goldberg of the Los Angeles Times, Lambkins and Ocañas were seen on security footage shortly after 1 a.m. on Friday morning entering NFL draft areas that were restricted.
The Bucks have fired coach Mike Budenholzer after losing in the first round of the playoffs to the Heat.