After the Grizzlies Game 2 win over the Lakers on Wednesday, forward Dillon Brooks doubled down on not being scared of facing LeBron James. Brooks said that he isn’t afraid to guard the four-time NBA champion because of his age.
“I don’t care, he’s old,” Brooks said. ”I poke bears. I don’t respect no one until they come and give me 40.”
On Friday, a day before the two sides face off in Los Angeles, James was asked if he had any response to Brooks’s trash talk, and the veteran had a very simple answer.
“No,” he said, via The Athletic’s Jovan Buha.
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Ever been hit so hard, so many times that you puked your guts out uncontrollably? Yes? Then you now have something in common with one kickboxer who lost his lunch all over the mat earlier this week.
The nasty scene unfolded during a Petchyindee event between some cats named Praewpraw and Dokmaipa over in Thailand.
According to boots on the ground, it was a pretty even fight before things took this disgusting turn in the third round.
Dokmaipa was in control of the fight until Praewpraw found that left cross over his jab and start pouring on him, mixing left cross and knee to the body.
Cubs left-hander Drew Smyly was so close to pitching a perfect game Friday at Wrigley Field when disaster struck.
And he can thank his catcher, Yan Gomes, for that.
With no outs in the top of the eighth inning, Dodgers left fielder David Peralta hit a dribbler down the left side of the infield. Smyly quickly went to make a play on the ball but so did Gomes, who ended up running into his pitcher. The two fell to the ground as Peralta made it to first base on what was quickly ruled a hit.
Ouch.
On a Thursday episode of ESPN’s SportsCenter, Adam Schefter revealed Day 2 of next week’s NFL Draft as a potential “soft deadline” for any Aaron Rodgers trade between the Packers and Jets.
“The line of demarcation, the soft deadline, is next Friday night, picks 42 and 43,” Schefter said, via Bleacher Report. “Because if picks 42 and 43 come and go without Aaron Rodgers being traded to the New York Jets, then the wait for him to become a Jet could go on for an awful long time.”
The Jets hold pick No. 13 in the first round as well as two high-second round selections.
Sometimes you’re in the right place at the right time.
New York Mets legend David Wright surprised a bartender in San Francisco who happened to be wearing his jersey.
In a video posted by the Mets, Wright waits at the bar to place his order. The bartender turns around and, after a brief moment of disbelief, realizes it’s her favorite baseball player standing in front of her.
“When your bartender in SF is wearing a David Wright jersey… And you’re David Wright.” the Mets posted on social media.
Welcome, back to the NHL Weekly Awards! Now that 16 teams are off golfing and partying it up at some tropical locale, 16 other teams are still hard at work vying for an opportunity to hoist Lord Stanley’s Cup.
I’m so excited, I’ve been using “because it’s the Cup,” to justify anything and everything.
Why did I eat a brownie for breakfast?
Because it’s the Cup.
Are pitchers taken out of games too soon when chasing individual accomplishments? Curt Schilling certainly thinks so.
During his most recent episode of The Curt Schilling Baseball Show, he was asked about Chicago White Sox pitcher Lucas Giolito.
Giolito was recently facing the Philadelphia Phillies in Chicago and was dominant over six innings. He allowed just one walk, struck out seven, and most importantly, didn’t allow a single hit.
After 102 pitches, however, White Sox manager Pedro Grifol made the decision to remove Giolito from the game.
The NFL did away with its use of the Wonderlic test ahead of the 2022 scouting combine. That hasn’t stopped franchises from finding new methods by which to measure the cognitive abilities of prospects—especially quarterbacks—and the leaked scores of some of this year’s top signal-callers have started to make their way into the narratives surrounding those players.
The new test du jour comes from Nashville’s S2 Cognition, and has been in use by teams for upwards of seven years, according to longtime NFL writer Bob McGinn of Go Long.
In addressing the media on Friday, 76ers coach Doc Rivers didn’t mince words in regards to the Game 3 Joel Embiid kicking incident, the recent suspension of Draymond Green and the overall state of NBA officiating.
Although he admitted he shouldn’t be speaking about the situation, the Philadelphia leader did not hold back about his fears that the league could be headed down a dangerous path.
“Listen, I’m gonna say this, probably shouldn’t.
Victor Wembanyama, the electrifying 7’ 3” French forward, has officially declared for the 2023 NBA draft.
Wembanyama, who is widely considered to be the top prospect in this year’s draft, made the announcement on ESPN’s NBA Today with Malika Andrews.
“First of all I want to thank everybody that has been part of that journey and all of the previous years and my coaches, my family and I am really excited to declare for the 2023 NBA draft,” Wembanyama said.