Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic is a man of very few actual basketball interests. After winning the NBA Finals, Jokic looked like it was just another Monday night at the office. He sounded like a man who really just wanted to get home from work.
Jokic just wants to go back home and watch his horses race, but now he has to stay in Denver for a work celebration and that’s just all a pain honestly.
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The NBA Finals may now be over, but the 2023 NBA draft’s projected No. 1 pick Victor Wembanyama is still competing for a French League title in the finals series between his Boulogne-Levallois Metropolitans 92 and Monaco.
Even though Mets 92 lost 95–88 in Game 2 of the finals on Monday, the 7’4” Frenchman shined in his performance, finishing with 19 points, seven rebounds, four assists, three blocks and two steals. This stat line was quite different from Wembanyama’s Game 1 performance when he only scored eight points on eight shots.
In the spring of 2018 when the Miami Dolphins signed Josh Sitton as a free agent, there were some questions about whether the offensive lineman would play left or right guard.
Sitton had played left guard his entire career and likened a possible move to the other side thusly: “It’s like trying to wipe your [butt] with the other hand.”
Illustrator of words, Sitton didn’t use the word “butt.”
Josh Sitton just said playing RG instead of familiar LG is like “trying to wipe your ass with the other hand.
Peyton Hillis spent two weeks in the hospital after saving two children from drowning while visiting a beach in Florida on January 4. On Tuesday morning, five months after the incident, the former NFL running back spoke about his near-death experience for the first time.
Hillis jumped into the Gulf of Mexico to save both his nine-year-old son and his young niece.
The 37-year-old joined ‘Good Morning America‘ on Tuesday and described the horrifying experience in which he had to swim past his drowning son to save his niece first.
Nikola Jokić is thrilled to have led the Denver Nuggets to the franchise’s first NBA Championship. He is not as excited about his post-NBA Championship obligations. He wants to go home.
Jokić, the NBA Finals MVP, put up big numbers to defeat the Heat in Game 5 and clinch the title. His performance throughout the entire postseason was remarkable, and Monday night was the icing on top of the proverbial cake.
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The boats will always burn: remembering the 2022 Miami Heat playoff run
They ran out of gas at the end.
Despite making the NBA Finals for the second time in four years, the Miami Heat couldn’t get it done in the 2023 NBA Finals. The Nuggets were too much—too big, too smart, too athletic for a Heat team that gave everything they had to get to that point.
However, this run by the Heat will be remembered, both within the walls of the Kaseya Center and on the outside.
It’s a scenario relatable for everyone: you win your first NBA title and NBA Finals MVP award, averaging an astounding 30.2 points, 14 rebounds and 7.2 assists per game in the process, firmly entrenching your country on the basketball map.
Because of your success, your family and friends are inundating your phone with congratulatory texts. How will you react?
If you’re Nuggets center Nikola Jokić, the answer lands somewhere between irritation and outright disgust.
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Bill Belichick may be many things, but he is not these things
Bill Belichick is many things.
He is the head coach of the New England Patriots, and in that role he has won six Super Bowl titles. In a prior life he was one of the NFL’s best defensive coordinators, and was a part of two Super Bowl-winning teams while with the New York Giants. That gives Belichick the NFL record for the most Super Bowl wins as an individual, with eight.
It’s been a tough couple of years for Nuggets star point guard Jamal Murray, but Monday night’s NBA title makes it all worth it.
Murray tore his ACL at the end of the 2020–21 season and missed all of last season due to the recovery from the injury. Back and better than ever this season, Murray was key in guiding the Nuggets to their first-ever NBA title. He scored 14 points and added eight rebounds and eight assists in Game 5 on Monday.
The term “breakout” has different meanings for different people in the world of fantasy football. Some folks believe it’s simply a player who will outperform his draft position. Others think it’s an established player who emerges into a regular fantasy starter after never having reached that sort of status in the past.
In my opinion, both definitions are true but with a caveat. I don’t see a player as a breakout candidate if he’s already reached his “statistical ceiling” during his career. For example, Justin Herbert or Najee Harris aren’t “breakouts” to me.