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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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Former minor league pitcher Peter Bayer has spent his life loving the game of baseball.
And now all he wants is to be welcomed back into the sport.
Bayer finds himself in a frustrating situation that intertwines the growing world of sports betting and the gray area surrounding it.
For the second year in a row, Major League Baseball and Commissioner Rob Manfred have placed Bayer on the league’s Ineligible List. His crime? Placing online baseball bets when he was a Minor League Baseball player in 2020. However, that year there was no MiLB season; it was cancelled due to the pandemic.

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Eagles star C.J. Gardner-Johnson thinks Jonathan Gannon is to blame for Philly losing the Super Bowl.
The Eagles lost an absolute 38-35 dog fight to the Chiefs in the Super Bowl, and it was definitely a gut-wrenching loss for Philadelphia. Well, Gardner-Johnson thinks you can lay the blame right at Gannon’s feet.
In a now-deleted tweet, the talented DB called out the team’s former DC and current Cardinals head coach for not putting the defense “in position to make plays.” I guess Gannon is solely at fault for the team’s second half, according to the Philly star.

C.J.

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Warriors and Wolves pick up wins to boost their place in the standings
We’re in the home stretch of the regular season now with some teams having fewer than 20 games remaining, about a quarter of the way to go. The final playoff and play-in slots have been closely contested all season, but get some added intensity now.
Going into Wednesday, just 4.5 games separate No. 4 Phoenix and No. 13 Oklahoma City.

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The veteran RB would return to fantasy relevancy if he signs with one of these five teams.
The running back position doesn’t have a ton of superstars available on the free agent market, but there’s a few names of interest … including Kareem Hunt. A one-time fantasy superstar, he floundered behind Nick Chubb in Cleveland last season, averaging fewer than eight fantasy points per game. It’s the first time he’s averaged fewer than 12.7 points per game in a season during his career.

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He discussed the retreat at length, and what it means for his future, on a podcast released Wednesday.
Aaron Rodgers has emerged from the darkness, but he’s not quite ready to shine a light on what his future in football holds.
In his first public comments about his recent darkness retreat, and whether he’s come to a decision about playing football in 2023—and whether that will be with the Packers or another team—Rodgers says that he fully intends to make an announcement “sooner rather than later,” acknowledging that an early decision is best for all involved.

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