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Clippers point guard Russell Westbrook was a key factor in the Game 1 win against the Suns on Sunday, despite a 3-for-19 shooting performance.
While he wasn’t getting his shot to fall, Westbrook impacted the game on various other levels, doing plenty of the dirty work for Los Angeles on the road in Phoenix.
The 34-year-old provided 10 rebounds in Sunday’s Game 1, five of which came on the offensive end. 
After the game, Westbrook dropped a bold take about where he ranks among guards in terms of his rebounding ability, via Joey Linn.

Charles Barkley dropped an intriguing take about the Clippers ahead of their first-round playoff matchup against the Suns on Sunday. During a segment of TNT’s halftime show, Barkley claimed that he believed Los Angeles “wanted” to face Phoenix in the playoffs.
Barkley claimed that, this year, the play-in tournament would have been the easiest path for the Clippers to the Western Conference finals, since they could have avoided the Suns, who were undefeated with Kevin Durant until Sunday’s Game 1 defeat.

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Austin Reaves and Rui Hachimura both eclipsed 20 points, the majority of which came at a crucial time in the Lakers’ Game 1 win over the Grizzlies on Sunday.

Miami Heat guard Tyler Herro broke his right hand while diving for a loose ball late in the second quarter of Sunday’s Game 1 against the Milwaukee Bucks.

Grizzlies superstar Ja Morant ran off the court holding his right hand during Sunday’s Game 1 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers, and though Memphis coach Taylor Jenkins said X-rays came back negative, the guard indicated his Game 2 status is “in jeopardy.

Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo was ruled out for the remainder of Game 1 against the Heat with a lower back contusion, the team announced.

Florida baseball star Jac Caglianone had a brilliant response to what he deemed to be an unfair ejection of his teammate during the Gators’ game on Sunday. 
During the series finale against Georgia, Florida pitcher Brandon Neely was ejected by the home plate umpire after he was seen flexing after an inning-ending strikeout. The controversial ejection didn’t sit well with the Gators, who let their play on the field do the talking. 
The following inning after Neely’s ejection, Caglianone unloaded a massive grand slam.

Before the first weekend of the NBA playoffs even concluded, we had a clear winner: Injuries.
Two-time league MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo and Grizzlies superstar Ja Morant both were forced to exit their playoff-opening contests Sunday after taking nasty falls when opposing players sought to draw charging calls against them. With Antetokounmpo’s back ailing, and Morant’s right hand in so much pain that he couldn’t untether a balled-up pair of socks, the entire postseason outlook potentially shifts. Case in point: The Bucks and Grizzlies dropped their respective Game 1s to No. 8 and No.

Kawhi Leonard turned back the clock with 38-point night, and Russell Westbrook blocked Devin Booker at the rim in the final seconds to secure the victory.