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A spot in the NBA Finals is on the line as the Lakers challenge the top-seeded Nuggets. These are three keys that could unlock the series.

We’ve made it to another major championship week with the opening round of the PGA Championship just days away. Before we turn our focus to Oak Hill, there are plenty of other storylines from the world of golf worth our time.
Jason Day finally picked up win No. 13 on the PGA Tour with a memorable Mother’s Day in Texas while Dustin Johnson jumped back into the winner’s circle with yet another win in LIV Golf. Both players are carrying some serious momentum into the year’s second major, but one of the former World No. 1’s may be a bigger threat than the other.

Ronald Acuña Jr. is a three-time All-Star, the only player in history with 120 homers and 120 steals in his first 550 games, and one of only two players in the game with power, speed and arm strength at elite levels. The Braves’ right fielder is as super as superstars get in MLB. And yet, we have never seen Acuña this good.
The 2023 season began with its identifiers preset: the year of the new rules, the platform season into free agency of Shohei Ohtani and the encore year of Aaron Judge after his 62 home runs.

Former NBA player Kwame Brown unloaded in unbelievably blunt fashion on Ja Morant.
The Grizzlies superstar was suspended from all team activities after he flashed a handgun in a car during an Instagram Live being filmed by someone else.
It’s Morant’s latest issue off the court, and it’s even worse given the fact he was previously suspended for flashing a gun in a Colorado strip club.
It seems like the Memphis Grizzlies star might not have been as apologetic as he wanted people to believe after the strip club incident.

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Introducing the “C.R.A.P” rating of owner horribleness.
Like a lingering fart freed from a tent, Dan Snyder’s rein of horror is over. The Washington Commanders’ sale is in the works, with the Josh Harris-led consortium poised to take over the team and return normalcy to the franchise. Snyder will be resigned to a footnote in history, recalled only in conversations at the bar 20 years from now as fans remember “the bad old days.

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Next week, the spring league meeting and OTAs kick off. Until then, we have some takeaways after last week’s NFL schedule release …
The NFL people I talked to last week uniformly said the biggest change this year in the scheduling challenge was working off the blank slate that dropping conference network affiliations created.

The Nation was the target of the internet’s scorn after posting an all-time bad tweet about Lia Thomas.
The former Penn athlete, a biological male, became the dominant force in women’s swimming after deciding they were transgender and switched to competing against women.
The backlash has been intense since 2021, and for good reason. People find a biological man competing against and dominating women to be a bad thing.
However, The Nation seriously asked what the “frenzy” was all about with a recent tweet.
Many people do not support Lia Thomas competing against women.

Matt Ryan was released by the Colts this offseason and instead of signing with another team or announcing his retirement, the veteran quarterback is embarking on a career change. 
Ryan announced Monday that he is joining CBS Sports as an NFL analyst, and he added a specific addendum to his announcement. 
“Excited to join the NFL on CBS Family! Looking forward to breaking down the game this season,” Ryan said on Twitter. “P.S. – this is not a retirement post.

More from Albert Breer: Dan Campbell Shares How the Lions Feel About Playing the Chiefs in Week 1 | Why Andrew Whitworth Said Yes to Micah Parsons’s ‘Genius Idea’ | Takeaways: Chiefs, Cowboys on Their Own Tier When It Comes to NFL Schedule
The Commanders sale to Josh Harris is going to happen, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t some interesting twists and turns to come.

More from Albert Breer: Dan Campbell Shares How the Lions Feel About Playing the Chiefs in Week 1 | Commanders Sale Could Impact Future NFL Team Purchases | Takeaways: Chiefs, Cowboys on Their Own Tier When It Comes to NFL Schedule
If I were a Cowboys fan, I’d be really, really excited about Micah Parsons’s future. And I’ll first credit my buddy and old colleague Rich Eisen for getting this story out of former Rams tackle Andrew Whitworth on the Dallas phenom.
Last week, Whitworth traveled to Collective Gym in Austin to get three days of work in with Parsons.