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In the immediate aftermath of the Nuggets’ title-clinching Game 5 victory over the Heat on Monday, Nikola Jokić was dismayed to learn that the celebratory championship parade would not be until three days later, delaying his plans to return home.
Come parade time on Thursday, though, the Finals MVP was singing a different tune.
Jokić and his Nuggets teammates received a heroes’ welcome, parading through the streets of Denver to hundreds of thousands of fans in an electric environment befitting of the team’s dominant run en route to the franchise’s first-ever championship.
The Nuggets were truly living in the moment during their championship parade.
The Denver Nuggets are your 2022-23 NBA Champions. And one of the many perks of being NBA Champions (other than basketball immortality) is that your team gets to participate in a championship parade. On Thursday, the Nuggets did just that. Here are some highlights from the celebration.
Let’s start with Christian Braun. The rookie only averaged under one assist per game on the season, but he was in the mood to drop some dimes on Thursday. However, he wasn’t passing a basketball.
Max Park, a 21-year-old speedcuber, broke the record for the fastest time to solve a 3x3x3 rotating Rubik’s cube.
Park solved the cube in 3.13 seconds to set the record on Sunday at California’s Pride in Long Beach 2023 event. The time of 3.13 seconds broke the existing record of 3.47 seconds, which was set by China’s Yusheng Du in ’18.
This is not the first time Park has set a record for solving a Rubik’s cube. Per Guinness World Records, Park holds the single solve and average solve for the 4x4x4 cube, 5x5x5 cube, 6x6x6 cube and 7x7x7 cube.
LOS ANGELES — Rickie Fowler reacts to his birdie putt on the tenth green during the first round of the 123rd U.S. Open Championship at The Los Angeles Country Club on June 15, 2023. | Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images
Fowler, a fan-favorite, has never won a major before. But his hot start in Los Angeles has the golf word excited on Day 1 at the U.S. Open.
Rickie Fowler rolled in eight birdies thru his first 12 holes to vault himself up the leaderboard in the early stages of the 123rd U.S. Open.
Hard Knocks — an NFL summer staple for the better part of two decades — can’t find any takers with training camp just over a month away.
The once-popular HBO show — I say once because, well, nobody wants to be on it anymore — apparently even asked the Detroit Lions to come back for a second straight season.
According to the Detroit News, the Fighting Dan Campbells said no way, José, leaving the show in limbo with time ticking away.
Someone get Liev Schreiber on the phone, STAT!
Give me the New York Jets on Hard Knocks all day
Chills. Every single time.
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Leclerc believed that Ferrari would find something wrong with his SF-23 following Spain, but did they?
Charles Leclerc is still searching for answers.
His 2023 Formula 1 season has gotten off to a rather uneven start. He currently sits seventh in the standings, 128 points behind leader Max Verstappen, and 16 points behind teammate Carlos Sainz Jr., who sits ahead of him in sixth place.
And it is Sainz who has been the more consistent driver this season.
Nuggets coach Michael Malone was sick of his team not getting the respect they deserved. After a Game 2 win to go up 2–0 in the Western Conference Finals against the Lakers, he called out the media for perpetuating storylines that made it about the LeBron James-led team rather than Denver.
“All everybody talked about was the Lakers,” Malone said. “Let’s be honest, that was a national narrative: The Lakers were fine.”
After those comments, Denver proceeded to sweep Los Angeles and beat the Heat in five games to win the franchise’s first-ever NBA title.
LOS ANGELES — Rory McIlroy plays a bunker shot during a practice round prior to the 123rd U.S. Open Championship at The Los Angeles Country Club on June 14, 2023. | Photo by David Cannon/Getty Images
The first round of the 2023 U.S. Open is barely underway, but players have had to hit some wild shots at the Los Angeles Country Club already.
The Los Angeles Country Club is hosting the U.S. Open for the first time.
The course has plenty of slope and undulations, five par-3s, and a drivable par-4 that will make the players think long and hard about how to best approach it.