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The title-favorite Celtics open up the Eastern Conference Finals at home Wednesday night against the Heat.
This has been a common playoff matchup in the last few years as Boston and Miami met on this stage in 2022 and 2020. The two teams split those meetings, though neither went on to win the championship. The Celtics, who finished with the second-best regular-season record in the league, have faced quite a bit of resistance so far in the postseason from the Hawks and 76ers while the Heat, who entered the playoffs as the No.

Spurs fans quite literally won the lottery Tuesday night when they learned they’d get the top pick in June’s NBA draft—essentially locking up France’s Victor Wembanyama. And on Wednesday morning, former San Antonio champion and France native Tony Parker shared quite a throwback of the 19-year-old phenom. 
“Yesss he’s going to the Spurs!!! So proud of you,” Parker said in a tweet. 
Parker posted a picture of what appears to be a very young Wembanyama wearing Parker’s No. 9 Spurs jersey.

EA Sports plans to release a college football game for the first time in over a decade next summer, and the company now has big news that directly affects the playing experience of the game.
Virtual likenesses of actual players will be in the game, the company told ESPN on Wednesday. EA Sports has contracted with OneTeam Partners to “facilitate collegiate athletes’ names and likenesses” into the game, which was a key issue affecting the company’s ability to relaunch the franchise.
The partnership allows all eligible FBS players to opt in and have their likenesses in the video game.

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Will Spoelstra go zone? Do the C’s keep Butler out of the lane? We dive into some potential defensive strategies for each team
The NBA Playoffs are like a giant game of chess, with tactical strategies being levied both ways throughout the course of a best-of-seven battle. The final four teams standing all have a good amount of versatility on offense and defense; they can win a game in a variety of ways.

Talks continued Tuesday at ACC Spring Meetings on the direction in which the conference is heading in terms of a competitive revenue share. Florida State AD Michael Alford has been at the forefront of making sure his school is in the best spot moving forward in terms of financial success. But is this all a ploy for a future exit?
There has certainly been talks of whether or not the current agreement will be up to industry standards, which lasts until 2036.

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In the process, Nikola Jokic showed everyone why he’s still the best basketball player in the world.
Nuggets outlast Lakers in Game 1, 132-126
There has never been a player in the history of the game of basketball like Nikola Jokic. Plain and simple. The phrase “unicorn” is insanely tired and wildly overused, but if there actually is one unicorn in the NBA, it’s Jokic. The way he moves is not synonymous with the way a professional basketball should move, yet it disarms every opponent.

Now that the Golden State Warriors are sitting at home watching the Denver Nuggets and Los Angeles Lakers battle it out for the Western Conference, Draymond Green seems to have had an epiphany. The Warriors’ big man has come to the realization that punching teammate Jordan Poole, and knocking him out cold, prior to the season may have hurt his team.
Green joined Stephen A. Smith on ESPN’s alternate feed of Game 1 between the Nuggets and Lakers on Tuesday night.

Yankees star Aaron Judge has been the subject of social media scorn and suspicions of cheating after he was seen looking in the direction of the team dugout in Monday night’s game against the Blue Jays.
Judge subsequently homered, and the internet went crazy, assuming the Yankees had some way of knowing which pitches were coming, perhaps channeling the cheating ways of the 2017 Astros.
It turns out the Yankees weren’t cheating at all.

Either way, Alabama superstar Brandon Miller will be on a United States coast.
He got it narrowed down to either the southeast in North Carolina with the Charlotte Hornets or the northwest in Oregon with the Portland Trail Blazers after the NBA Draft Lottery Tuesday night in Chicago. The draft will be June 22 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
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Charlotte finished second in the lottery and will pick No. 2 after lottery winner San Antonio, which is expected to select 7-foot-4 center Victor Wembanyama of France.

Brittany Mahomes shared some intriguing messages on her Instagram before deleting them.
Patrick Mahomes’ brother, Jackson, currently faces years behind bars in prison if convicted in his sexual battery case.

Jackson Mahomes Accused Of Grabbing Woman By The Throat Multiple Times During Alleged Sexual Battery

He’s been charged with three counts of aggravated sexual battery and one count of misdemeanor battery after allegedly forcing himself on a restaurant owner. Jackson is accused of grabbing her throat multiple times during the alleged altercation.