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Stephen A. Smith did not hold back when discussing the Brooklyn Nets and would be star player Ben Simmons.
Simmons is in his first healthy season in Brooklyn, and it has not gone particularly well.
During ESPN’s NBA Countdown show, Smith said that with his poor performance, Simmons is essentially ”stealing money” from his current team.
“Ben Simmons, it’s a sad situation,” Smith explained. “And I don’t mean this literally, because obviously, he’s not doing it, but one would say, he is stealing money.

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Trevor Lawrence knows what it is like to lose, but know he knows what it is like to lose on a Saturday. That is new to him.
Jacksonville’s loss to Kansas City marked his first loss on the seventh day of the week since at least middle school. That goes back eight years.
Trevor Lawrence had not lost on a Saturday, dating back to 2014.
Lawrence was the top-ranked prospect in the college football recruiting Class of 2018 after lighting up the stat sheet at Cartersville High School in Georgia.

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What we saw from Patrick Mahomes on Saturday was a picture of courage that people who witnessed will talk about in the years to come.
It was Willis Reed coming out of that locker room unexpectedly.
It was Kerri Strug vaulting for gold in the Olympics.
Or Jim Abbott throwing no-hit baseball off his only hand.
Patrick Mahomes played three quarters of this NFL divisional round playoff game against the Jacksonville Jaguars with what is known to be an ankle sprain and believed to be a high-ankle sprain at that.
Most people need crutches to walk with a high ankle sprain.

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The Chiefs quarterback only missed one drive during Saturday’s 27–20 win over the Jaguars.
Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes missed just one drive (and a kneel to end the quarter) with an ankle injury in the team’s 27–20 win over the Jaguars in the divisional round on Saturday.
Despite the injury, Mahomes still thinks he will be ready to go for next weekend’s AFC Championship game.
Mahomes’s X-Rays came back negative, he said, but a diagnosis on his ankle has yet to be revealed. It is believed he suffered a high ankle sprain, per NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport.

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Mahomes is one win shy of a third Super Bowl appearance in the last four years
In the NFL, historical measurements of greatness start with Super Bowls. After coming back into the game following a painful ankle injury to lead the Kansas City Chiefs to a win over the Jacksonville Jaguars on Saturday, quarterback Patrick Mahomes is one win away from reaching the Super Bowl for the third time in the last four years.

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