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Ron Holland, the No. 2 recruit for 2023 who decommitted for Texas in April, is joining the G League Ignite. He is No. 6 in ESPN’s 2024 NBA draft rankings.
The Nuggets and Heat will meet for Game 1 of the NBA Finals in Denver on Thursday. The Nuggets, a 53-win team during the regular season, have mowed down the opposition en route to the first Finals appearance in franchise history. Miami, the No. 8 seed that survived an elimination game in the play-in tournament to advance, will play in its second Finals in the last four years.
Sports Illustrated asked a veteran NBA coach to weigh in on some of the key questions in this series.
Denver took the regular season series against Miami, 2–0.
The Nuggets are in the NBA Finals for the first time in franchise history and they’ve been installed as sizable favorites over the Heat, who have played on this stage before, most recently in 2020.
This is the sixth time coach Erik Spoelstra has led Miami to the Finals. Bringing a No. 8 seed this far is no small feat — the 1999 Knicks are the only other team to do so and they ended up losing in five games. Denver winning in five games is the most likely outcome, according to the betting odds.
The Nuggets were the No.
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One collegiate golf trophy wasn’t enough for Texas Tech golfer Ludvig Aberg as he completed the trifecta winning all three.
Texas Tech golfer Ludvig Aberg has had a big week having been named the 2023 Hogan Award winner. It got even better on Tuesday as he completed the sweep of college golf awards, winning the 2023 Jack Nicklaus and Fred Haskins Awards.
Before the NCAA tournament, he won the Ben Hogan Award, becoming the second golfer ever to take home back-to-back titles. Jon Rahm is the only other player to have achieved this feat.
The Vegas Golden Knights and San Jose Sharks aren’t super fond of each other, and the latest chapter in their rivalry played out following the Golden Knights’ Western Conference victory over the Dallas Stars.
The two teams are division rivals with a heated rivalry that reached a boiling point during the 2019 Stanley Cup Playoffs. In Game 7 of their first-round meeting, a controversial (and excessive) major penalty led to four Sharks powerplay goals and a series win.
Not to mention, Pete DeBoer was the coach of the Sharks back then. He was fired by San Jose and hired by Vegas.
The Heat will attempt to solve what the Wolves, Suns and Lakers couldn’t: the thin air of the Mile High City, where the Nuggets haven’t lost since March.
We’re almost to June, and veteran minicamps are next week. Ahead of all that, here’s what you wanted answers to from me this week …
From Nick Cosellian (@nick_cosellian): Are people sleeping on the Browns? Watson’s last full year …
• 4,823 passing yards
• 33 passing TDs
• 7 INTs
• 112.4 rating
• 70.2 completion %
• 444 rushing yards
• 3 rushing TDs
It feels like a full offseason, and no suspension will be much easier for the Browns to compete.
Nick, I agree.
As it is written, Wednesday is Mailbag day. So here goes …
• We’ll have midterm grades over the weekend. And, as an acknowledgement of those who chided me for taking this event off, we promise to do Seed Reports before Wimbledon.
• The majority of the Roland Garros chatter this week was about the global affairs that have entered (infected?) the chat and the various geopolitical angles that have surfaced so far. Ukrainian players declining to shake the hands of Russian and Belarussian opponents. Aryna Sabalenka being used as a political pawn by Ukrainian strongman Viktor Lukashenko.
Tom Dwan took home the largest pot in televised poker history on Tuesday after collecting $3.1 million during Hustler Casino Live’s Million Dollar Game.
Dwan squared off in his final hand against Wesley “Wes Side” Fei for a chance at the record pot. Dwan’s pocket queens (spade and club) ultimately won him the sizable hand.
The final hand came with plenty of drama. Fellow player Doug Polk folded but declared he saw Fei’s hand, which consisted of the ace of diamonds and king of hearts. Fei decided to go all in with ace-king high, and Dwan was puzzled.
“For sure?” he asked.