Author: Michael

There have already been a bunch of big moves before Friday’s deadline.
Good morning, I’m Dan Gartland, back from a few days on the beach just in time for the New York area’s first snowstorm of the season.
In today’s SI:AM:
💰 Big spenders in San Diego
🏆 Ranking the NBA’s contenders
🏈 Aaron Rodgers’s first comments since his darkness retreat
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The Rangers made a big splash
The NHL trade deadline isn’t until Friday at 3 p.m.

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Deion Sanders is confident he can turn things around at Colorado in Year 1, mainly because – in his words – he has some “dogs” at several key positions.
By the looks of it, one of those dogs benches 400 bills for breakfast, too.
In a now-viral YouTube video – don’t ask me which son made this one, because I can’t keep up – Sanders is seen talking to Ryan Clark, Fred Taylor and Channing Crowder of The Pivot podcast.

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When you gotta go…
A frisbee-catching dog brought in for the halftime entertainment of Tuesday’s Louisville vs. Virginia Tech men’s basketball game seemed to display a rather crude sense of humor in the middle of the show. 
As the pup ran around the floor, delighting fans with its talent, nature called. The dog popped a squat just inside the three-point arc and did its business right on the hardwood.
Fans quickly realized what was about to happen as the pooch assumed the position and let out a loud gasp that was picked up on video of the unfortunate incident.

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AD must step up in LeBron’s absence, or else L.A. has no shot at the playoffs.
The Lakers need you, Anthony Davis. They need you to be the All-NBA big man you have been in four of your 11 seasons. To be the MVP candidate you have played like in each of them. To score. To rebound. To dominate.
To be, well, Anthony Davis.
The Lakers are in trouble. LeBron James is out with a foot injury, and it could be weeks before he returns. Any post trade-deadline momentum L.A. has built was dashed when cellphone cameras caught James limping out of American Airlines Center in Dallas on Sunday.

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Photo by Alex Slitz/Getty Images
More off-ball movement and exquisite spacing will help the Hawks point guard maximize his impact.
Quin Snyder’s teams in Utah were known for their defense (mostly thanks to Rudy Gobert) but were also some of the most potent offensive groups in the league. They had star players like Donovan Mitchell, but their success really came through ball movement. Under Snyder, the Jazz played a selfless brand of basketball that was unlocked by their pristine spacing and the willingness of each player to move the ball.

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Milwaukee has continued its surge without Giannis Antetokounmpo. Plus, the Mavericks and Heat slide.
The first- and last-place teams in this week’s power rankings put together the longest winning and losing streaks of the season.
The Bucks made it 15 in a row with a pair of wins over the weekend that allowed them to overtake the Celtics for the best record in basketball, and another W in Brooklyn Tuesday. Further down the standings, the Spurs had lost their last 16, a franchise record, before Tuesday’s victory in Utah.

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