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While Kevin Durant seeks to bring the Suns their first NBA title, the Slim Reaper also is taking his talents to Call of Duty Season 3 Reloaded.
Durant will serve as an official operator in the popular video game series. Call of Duty confirmed Durant is joining the game, stating “Arguably a G.O.A.T. at his own game, #35, KD — Kevin Durant — is dropping in to take over ours” on the game’s website.
The 13-time All-Star will be part of a limited-time store bundle that will be released May 10 with Season 3 Reloaded.

The Los Angeles Angels are apparently scared of the terrifying Orange County media market.
That’s the obvious implication from a new team policy, by which reporters can have interview requests denied for asking the wrong questions.
The Athletic reported on Angels star Anthony Rendon, who’s finally back playing regularly after years of shortened seasons.
Rendon has been hitting relatively well overall, but his power output has almost entirely evaporated.
His slugging percentage, .292, is nearly 200 points below his career average of .476.

Joel Embiid tweeted he’d be MVP as an injured rookie, and he spoke it into existence.
There was a time when it felt like we’d never get to see how good Joel Embiid could be in the NBA. The end of Embiid’s one-year college career at Kansas was cut short by a stress fracture in his back, and as he entered the 2014 NBA Draft he had to immediately have surgery on a broken navicular bone in his right foot.
Embiid probably would have went No. 1 overall if he was healthy. Instead, the Cavs picked Andrew Wiggins first, the Bucks took Jabari Parker at No.

Mercedes Formula 1 team principal Toto Wolff denied that he had spoken to Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc about replacing Lewis Hamilton. Instead, he insisted the team’s focus is on re-signing the 7-time champion.
Some kind of movement between Ferrari and Mercedes drivers has been a rumor mill fixture as of late. Hamilton had been rumored to be on the move to Ferrari, while Leclerc had reportedly spoken to Mercedes.
However, Leclerc denied the rumors of a Mercedes move over the weekend in Azerbaijan. Now, Wolff is denying it from the team’s side.

ESPN’s J.J. Redick is not thrilled with the media’s portrayal of Grizzlies wing Dillon Brooks as a “scapegoat” following Memphis’s first-round playoff exit at the hands of the Lakers.
Retired NBA player Stephen Jackson is one observer who ripped member of the Grizzlies front office and how they portrayed Brooks in the media following the wing’s comments about LeBron James during the first-round playoff series.
Brooks called James “old,” and added that he didn’t respect anybody who couldn’t score 40 points on him.

Erling Haaland’s dream debut season for Manchester City became etched in history as the forward broke the all-time Premier League record for goals in a season.
Last month, Haaland broke the league record for a 38-match season when he surpassed Mohamed Salah’s mark of 32 goals from the 2017-18, and on Sunday, the 22-year-old equalled the overall record of 34 goals set during 42-game seasons by Newcastle’s Andy Cole in 1993-94 and Blackburn Rovers’s Alan Shearer in ’94-95.

For the first time in a long time, the Washington Commanders have hope. Dan Snyder is potentially on his way out and there is new life amongst football fans in the DMV area.
The controversy-plagued owner is reportedly set to sell after purchasing the team back in 1999. News first broke about a possible transaction in November, which had a direct impact on the business side of the organization.
Dan Snyder is on his way out.

The 2023 version of “The Match” pits intra-sport teammates against one another. Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce of the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs are set to face Steph Curry and Klay Thompson from the Golden State Warriors.
Both Mahomes and Kelce have played in the event before. Kelce and Thompson will make their debuts.
Mahomes returns to the Match for the second consecutive year. Last summer, he and Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen lost to future Hall of Fame quarterbacks Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers.

Former NHL defenseman and current ESPN hockey analyst P.K. Subban is under fire after making a cruel on-air joke during the network’s breakdown of Toronto’s lackluster loss to Florida in Game 1 of the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs.
Fresh off beating the defending conference champion Lightning and advancing in the postseason for the first time since 2004, the Maple Leafs lost to the Panthers, 4-2, on home ice Tuesday night.

On March 13, OutKick published a column foreshadowing a scenario in which Nikola Jokic would lose the MVP award based on the color of his skin. Jokic was the prohibitive favorite at the time.
In April, ESPN commentator Kendrick Perkins accused white voters of favoring white players and diminishing black players.
He did so without any evidence. We say without evidence because all existing evidence proves the contrary.
Joel Embiid won the award on Tuesday, becoming the 29th black player to win MVP. By complaining, just five white players have won the award.