Colorado Avalanche forward Valeri Nichushkin left the team for personal reasons during their opening-round loss to the Seattle Kraken. However, it soon emerged that there may have been more to the story.
The Avalanche were staying at the Four Seasons Hotel in Seattle and just ahead of Game 3 on April 22, police arrived onsite in response to a crisis call.
This came after team personnel reportedly discovered an intoxicated woman in Nichushkin’s room.
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Being an NBA mascot is not a bad gig whatsoever. Not only are they practically beloved by every fan inside the arena, but they also get paid incredibly well, apparently.
A recent report from Sports Illustrated has laid out the details of the NBA’s highest-paid mascots and the money they pull in is quite staggering.
Rocky, the mascot of the Denver Nuggets, tops the list with an annual salary of $625,000. That’s not bad for a middle-of-the-pack market team that wasn’t exactly in the national spotlight until the playoffs began.
The Big 12 will look much different this time next year, but the conference is still raking in a junk of money for member schools. As Texas and Oklahoma prepare for its final season with the conference, the future continues to look bright for the conference. Will they add Deion Sanders and Colorado?
It was a bit strange seeing AD’s representing the Longhorns and Sooners at SEC meetings this week, but the Big 12 is still chugging along.
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Nine games would line the SEC’s pockets with more money while strengthening each teams’ cases for the new CFP. So why aren’t they doing it?
I never knew that the S and C in SEC stood for Scared Competition.
With powerhouses Texas and Oklahoma coming into the SEC next year, the annual coaches’ meeting in Destin was a chance to revise things such as the schedule and divisions for the season following this upcoming one. There were some small changes made, but otherwise, it was kind of slow. Except for this.
The Nuggets won — and covered — Game 1 of the NBA Finals against the Heat behind yet another Nikola Jokić triple double, his ninth of the postseason.
A fourth-quarter push by Miami made things interesting but Denver still prevailed, 103-94, to cover the 9-point spread in the series opener. The Nuggets are 8.5-point favorites for Sunday’s Game 2 at Ball Arena, where they are undefeated in the playoffs.
Nuggets star Nikola Jokić kicked off the NBA Finals with a smooth 27 point, 14 assist, 10 rebound triple-double as Denver beat Miami 104–93 to take a 1–0 series lead.
As he has done throughout the season and into the playoffs, Jokić was seen after the game pointing to his palm in a gesture to his young daughter Ognjena in the stands, a gesture that she gave back to him before he walked off the floor.
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Multitasking at 160 miles per hour…
We’ve talked a lot already this Formula 1 season about how Max Verstappen is, well, a little insane.
We’ve highlighted how he rarely blinks, something that Red Bull themselves have played up during the course of this early F1 season. We’ve also discussed his dominance on the track, something that Verstappen himself addressed at Thursday’s press conferences ahead of the 2023 Spanish Grand Prix.
But the next example, from Friday’s practice sessions in Barcelona, might be the best yet.
The Jazz are hiring Steve Wojciechowski to coach their G League team, the Salt Lake City Stars, the team announced on Friday. Wojciechowski replaces Scott Morrison, who was promoted to become an assistant for the Jazz’s coaching staff.
Wojciechowski is best known for being Duke’s point guard in the mid-1990s, before becoming a Blue Devils assistant after graduating. He spent 15 years on the bench with Mike Krzyzweski, as Duke won two national championships in that span.
In 2014, Marquette hired Wojciechowski as their head coach, where Wojciechowski would spend seven seasons.
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Thomas has yet to win on the PGA Tour this season. The 2022 PGA Champion has struggled to gain any momentum, and that will not change at Jack’s Place.
Justin Thomas cannot shake off his bad mojo.
He has yet to win during the 2022-23 PGA Tour season and has posted only two top-10’s. His victory drought extends back to the 2022 PGA Championship at Southern Hills, where he defeated Will Zalatoris in a playoff to claim his second Wanamaker Trophy.
The Suns plan to hire Frank Vogel, who helped the Lakers to the 2020 NBA title, to lead the team according to a report by ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
Vogel, who previously coached the Pacers (2011 to ’16), Magic (’16 to ’18) and Lakers (’19 to ’22) has an all-time record of 431–389, with a 49–39 postseason mark. He is best known for guiding Los Angeles to the NBA championship in the Orlando bubble, going 52–19 with a 16–5 postseason record in his first year coaching LeBron James, Anthony Davis & Co.
The news comes just minutes after Marc J.