Nikola Jokić can’t play defense. Jamal Murray can’t do it outside of The Bubble. They can’t win on the road. They were terrible down the stretch. The West wasn’t that good this year. They’ll be exposed in the playoffs.
For nearly an entire season, it’s seemed like the discourse around the Nuggets—the No. 1 seed in their conference—centered on why this team couldn’t win an NBA championship. Whether it has to do with the skepticism around Jokić’s two MVPs or faith in bigger names elsewhere, Denver hasn’t exactly been a sexy Finals pick for the last few months.
Author: Michael
Women’s wrestling continues to climb to new peaks in the United States.
Mercedes Varnado is wrestling for New Japan Pro-Wrestling and Stardom. Trinity Fatu just appeared in Impact. AEW has a superb world champion in Jamie Hayter, as well as a secondary champ in Jade Cargill, and WWE is powered on a weekly basis by superstars like Becky Lynch, Bianca Belair, Rhea Ripley and Bayley. Yet there is still exponential room for growth. Considering that independent wrestling is the heartbeat of the industry, it is only fitting that the next cutting-edge card is Queen of Indies.
Following the Suns’ season-ending blowout loss to the Nuggets in Game 6 on Thursday night, newly-minted Taiwan basketball star Dwight Howard trolled Phoenix point guard Chris Paul, trying to convince the point guard to come play with him overseas.
Howard posted an Instagram reel of a meme that said “If I don’t win the ring with KD, I’m going to Taiwan with Dwight Howard,” which was a fake quote attributed to Paul. Despite the quote being fake, Howard took full advantage of the opportunity to make a half-hearted pitch to the Suns point guard.
These were SO GOOD.
NFL Schedule Release day has become a hilariously weird tradition in its own right, and it’s more or less the Super Bowl of creativity for a lot of people inside the organizations. Social media teams invest tons of energy thinking up new, creative ways to unveil their team’s schedules — and goodness, did 2023 deliver.
There really wasn’t a bad video in the bunch, but some teams went above and beyond to create something iconic.
ESPN’s Adam Schefter and Seth Wickersham reported on Friday morning that Tom Brady is deep in discussions with Raiders owner Mark Davis for a minority stake in the team.
Brady already made his post-football plans known prior to the start of last football season, when he inked a 10-year deal with Fox to become the network’s lead color analyst.
So how would Brady’s potential ownership stake in the Raiders impact his television contract? Per Wickersham, it wouldn’t.
Fox has reportedly “blessed” the arrangement, Wickersham reports.
Good morning, I’m Dan Gartland. We’ll have at least one Game 7 on Sunday. Can the Warriors win tonight to make it two? (A Heat-Knicks Game 7 would be Monday.)
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The Suns were eliminated from the playoffs Thursday with a 125-100 loss to the Nuggets in Game 6 of their conference semifinals series.
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Plus: Suns get blown out in a home elimination game for the second-straight year
Tatum, Celtics hang on for 95-86 win over Sixers to force game 7
With their backs against the wall, Boston came out hungry, blazing out to a 15-3 start. Malcolm Brogdon’s 11 first quarter points and Marcus Smart’s nine second quarter points both contributed to getting the Celtics as large as a 16-point lead in the first half. And that was all despite Jayson Tatum starting 0-11 from the floor.
NFL legend Tom Brady is in deep discussions to become a limited partner of the Las Vegas Raiders, sources told ESPN’s Seth Wickersham and Adam Schefter.
Kevin Durant and the Suns had their season come to a crushing end Thursday night with a 125-100 loss to the Nuggets in game that was never close.
The Nuggets won the series, 4–2, and will play the winner of the Lakers-Warriors series in the Western Conference Finals.
Durant joined the Suns in a trade midway through the season and the team seemed to have all the pieces in place to make a run to the NBA Finals.
Instead, the Suns are now on vacation.