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In a passionate nine-minute monologue, Spurs coach Gregg Popovich ripped politicians for not taking action to stop school shootings Sunday ahead of his team’s regular-season finale in Dallas. The soon-to-be Hall of Fame coach started his commentary by asking reporters if any of them were carrying a firearm.
“I just wondered because we have a governor [Greg Abbott] and lieutenant governor [Dan Patrick] and an attorney general [Ken Paxton] that made it easier to have more guns,” Popovich said in reference to three prominent Texas politicians, per ESPN.

A group of 40 professional, Olympic and Paralympic athletes signed a letter regarding recent anti-trans sports bans sent to House of Representatives legislative directors on Monday.
The athletes include USWNT star Megan Rapinoe, recently retired WNBA star Sue Bird and USWNT star Becky Sauerbrunn. The remaining athletes who signed the letter, organized by the LGBTQ advocacy group Athlete Ally, compete in various sports, such as soccer, hockey and rugby.

Teams are going into their last sets of draft meetings this week, there’s a week and a half left for all of them to host prospects on in-house 30 visits, and offseason programs are getting underway (for teams with new coaches) this week and (for everyone else) next.
Seventeen days left until the draft. We’re in the home stretch.
So I figured with my calls around set to ramp up in the coming days, now would be a good time to start setting the table for what’s brewing at the top of the draft order.

We started our NASCAR Easter Sunday with a dirty bunny picture, ended it with a dirty middle finger and then wreck, and mixed in a Tim Tebow sermon along the way.
I dare you to find a sport that covered that much ground yesterday! Ain’t happening.
Judging by the stands at Bristol, not that many folks saw what was a pretty compelling automobile race Sunday night.

Good morning, I’m Dan Gartland. I’m excited to be going to Madison Square Garden tonight for the first time since the start of the pandemic as the Rangers gear up for the playoffs.
In today’s SI:AM:
Jon Rahm’s statement win
Why Aliyah Boston is the perfect No. 1 pick
Two ugly NBA altercations
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Jets running back Breece Hall only was able to play in seven games in his rookie season last year due to the torn ACL he suffered in October.
New York coach Robert Saleh recently spoke with ESPN about Hall’s rehabilitation on the injured knee, and his progress sounds promising.
“Breece looks fantastic,” Saleh said.
It’s likely Hall will miss the entirety of training camp while he continues his recovery. However, the Jets are aiming to have the running back ready for Week 1 of the regular season on Sept. 10.
It’s likely Hall could return to an entirely new offense in 2023.

Want to learn how the NBA play-in tournament works? Check out this 2023 guide.

SI’s MMA Notes, Quotes, and Anecdotes runs every Monday.
Israel Adesanya first fought Alex Pereira in a kickboxing bout in 2016. Though it was competitive, Pereira won by decision.
Their rematch took place the following year, when Pereira knocked out Adesanya—marking the first and only time that occurred in his kickboxing career.
Pereira defeated Adesanya again last November, this time in the Octagon, taking the middleweight championship and severely denting Adesanya’s aura of invincibility in his first TKO loss.

The Cardinals–Terry McDonough situation is another workplace black eye for the NFL, in an increasingly long string of such cases. And you do have to start here—the jumping-off point for the case is, of course, a dispute between a single employee and his employer, and the damage the employer did to the employee’s career. To that end, when an arbitrator decides on the complaint, they will decide to what extent Arizona damaged McDonough.

The NBA postseason begins Tuesday! Here’s everything you need to know about the 20 teams still fighting for the title.