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The NBA Finals begin on Thursday night and Nuggets star Nikola Jokić is still not garnering the respect he deserves.
Stephen A. Smith of ESPN’s First Take gave his top 5 list of players who deserve supermax contracts on Wednesday, and Jokić was not on the list.
Smith listed Stephen Curry, LeBron James, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Luka Dončić and Jayson Tatum as the five players he believed were worthy of being the league’s highest-paid stars.
It was likely an honest mistake by Smith, but it’s not the first time that Jokić has been snubbed.

Brandt Snedeker is making his first start on the PGA Tour since September of last year at this week’s Memorial. The former FedEx Cup champion was sidelined for nine months after undergoing surgery on his sternum and enduring a painstakingly long rehab process.
Snedeker had been dealing with a sternum injury for years, but after his T-59 finish in September’s Fortinet Championship, he realized something needed to be done.
What was done was an “experimental surgery” that sounds both horrifying and extraordinarily painful.

Jay Cutler successfully took down a massive bear.
The former NFL QB is known for being an avid outdoorsman. Cutler can’t seem to get enough of nature and hunting since stepping away from football a few years ago.
His latest adventure took him to Montana, and he’s coming home with a massive bear for his trophy room.
The former Chicago Bears gunslinger posted a photo of himself with the downed beast and noted he’s headed home to celebrate with some of his Gratis beer. Check out the awesome kill below.

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While the SEC wraps up conference meetings in Florida this week, the obvious question lingers about future scheduling. For commissioner Greg Sankey, he’s made it clear that he doesn’t care what other conferences think about a potential scenario of continuing an eight-game schedule for one more year.
Yes, the SEC would be the only power-five conference that would only play eight league games, but if it stays the same, it would likely be for one season. In the end, a nine-game schedule feels like it’s going to happen, but it might take another year to get there.

When NFL owners are reeling from a long stretch of substandard performance, one of the tried and true moves from an optical standpoint is the offseason visit to championship franchises in other sports. It is, essentially, a crash course in how to not be Dan Snyder, or Dan Snyder Lite. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn’t.
But for owners of miserable NFL franchises at the moment, we have a recommendation that will save them the plane fare and the public embarrassment of having to attend competency school: Watch the Miami Heat.
The Heat, which continue a quest to become the first No.

Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor found a funny way to complete a double play Wednesday night with a silly throw to first base that most fans loved to see. 
There was, however, one guy who didn’t like it and he shared his salty feelings about on live TV. 
Phillies announcer Ben Davis was not impressed at all with Lindor throwing a bouncing ball to first to get out a runner who had no chance of getting back to the bag in time. Davis spoke about the play with the tone of someone who had just seen something really awful happen. 
Nothing awful happened, though.

Fantasy fans now have a clear look at how all 32 NFL teams stack up as we head into the summer months, which makes average draft position (ADP) values closer to what they’ll be in actual fantasy drafts. After all, draft season is almost here! With that said, let’s look at ADPs at Underdog and check out which players’ values have risen lately. The best-ball drafts I’ve examined have occurred in the last week, so it’s the most up to date information available right now.
Here are 10 of the biggest best-ball risers, in order of the most recent ADP data.

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So is this the week someone finally catches Red Bull?
F1’s European stretch rolls on, as the grid heads to Barcelona for the 2023 Spanish Grand Prix.
While the circuit in Barcelona is a familiar one for teams, it will look a little different this year, more on that in a moment. This is also the home race for both Fernando Alonso and Carlos Sainz Jr., and is the site of Alonso’s last F1 victory, the 2013 Spanish Grand Prix.
Can he break through with a victory this weekend?
Here’s how to watch, and what to watch for, this weekend.

After a thrilling postseason, the NBA Finals are finally here. The playoffs have featured upsets, blowouts and compelling individual performances, but now the dust has settled, leaving the Heat and Nuggets as the last two teams standing. Miami and Denver have forged divergent paths through the Eastern and Western conferences, respectively, setting up for an exciting NBA Finals matchup.
Ahead of Thursday’s Game 1, we’re looking back on the Heat’s and Nuggets’ journeys to the Finals, using ticketing trends from SI Tickets’ reservations system.

The Minnesota Vikings have a choice now with Dalvin Cook. And it’s as simple as treading softly and seemingly capitulating to a player who has called their bluff.
Or acting like a salary cap assassin.
The Vikings now have the opportunity to use the NFL’s post June 1 salary cap rule that allows them to save some $9 million of cap room and carry only $5 million in dead money by simply cutting their dynamic but highly paid running back after Thursday.
Had they cut Cook before June 1, the Vikings would have saved only $5.