After a brutal Game 7 loss to the Heat in the Eastern Conference finals, the Celtics’ coaching staff might look significantly different next season. Boston assistant coaches Ben Sullivan, Aaron Miles and Mike Moser are expected to join former Celtics coach Ime Udoka’s Rockets staff this offseason, according to The Boston Globe’s Gary Washburn.
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Roman’s shine is rubbing off
No one has benefited more than Roman Reigns from The Bloodline story line.
Over the past three years, Reigns has cemented himself as an all-time great. He is long removed from the period in time when he was forced upon viewers, instead earning his place as the very top star in the industry.
When Reigns speaks, we listen. His matches are always tense and gripping.
Both franchises had a unique road to constructing a potential championship roster. Here’s a look at the history of how their starting fives were formed.
Ron Holland, the No. 2 recruit for 2023 who decommitted for Texas in April, is joining the G League Ignite. He is No. 6 in ESPN’s 2024 NBA draft rankings.
The Nuggets and Heat will meet for Game 1 of the NBA Finals in Denver on Thursday. The Nuggets, a 53-win team during the regular season, have mowed down the opposition en route to the first Finals appearance in franchise history. Miami, the No. 8 seed that survived an elimination game in the play-in tournament to advance, will play in its second Finals in the last four years.
Sports Illustrated asked a veteran NBA coach to weigh in on some of the key questions in this series.
Denver took the regular season series against Miami, 2–0.
The Nuggets are in the NBA Finals for the first time in franchise history and they’ve been installed as sizable favorites over the Heat, who have played on this stage before, most recently in 2020.
This is the sixth time coach Erik Spoelstra has led Miami to the Finals. Bringing a No. 8 seed this far is no small feat — the 1999 Knicks are the only other team to do so and they ended up losing in five games. Denver winning in five games is the most likely outcome, according to the betting odds.
The Nuggets were the No.
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One collegiate golf trophy wasn’t enough for Texas Tech golfer Ludvig Aberg as he completed the trifecta winning all three.
Texas Tech golfer Ludvig Aberg has had a big week having been named the 2023 Hogan Award winner. It got even better on Tuesday as he completed the sweep of college golf awards, winning the 2023 Jack Nicklaus and Fred Haskins Awards.
Before the NCAA tournament, he won the Ben Hogan Award, becoming the second golfer ever to take home back-to-back titles. Jon Rahm is the only other player to have achieved this feat.
The Vegas Golden Knights and San Jose Sharks aren’t super fond of each other, and the latest chapter in their rivalry played out following the Golden Knights’ Western Conference victory over the Dallas Stars.
The two teams are division rivals with a heated rivalry that reached a boiling point during the 2019 Stanley Cup Playoffs. In Game 7 of their first-round meeting, a controversial (and excessive) major penalty led to four Sharks powerplay goals and a series win.
Not to mention, Pete DeBoer was the coach of the Sharks back then. He was fired by San Jose and hired by Vegas.
The Heat will attempt to solve what the Wolves, Suns and Lakers couldn’t: the thin air of the Mile High City, where the Nuggets haven’t lost since March.
We’re almost to June, and veteran minicamps are next week. Ahead of all that, here’s what you wanted answers to from me this week …
From Nick Cosellian (@nick_cosellian): Are people sleeping on the Browns? Watson’s last full year …
• 4,823 passing yards
• 33 passing TDs
• 7 INTs
• 112.4 rating
• 70.2 completion %
• 444 rushing yards
• 3 rushing TDs
It feels like a full offseason, and no suspension will be much easier for the Browns to compete.
Nick, I agree.