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This is not a ranking of the 23 best players in the draft. That’s too simple. These players have, what Terez Paylor would have called, “the goods.

Good morning, I’m Dan Gartland. The NHL playoffs got off to a great start last night with two overtime games.
In today’s SI:AM:
Draymond gets ejected
What will the Panthers do at No. 1?
Jalen Hurts gets paid
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More of the same from Draymond
The Kings have the Warriors right where they want them.

After nearly three decades as a college head coach, Mike Brey is embracing a new challenge at the next level.
Brey is set to join the Hawks staff as an assistant coach in 2023–24, according to a Monday evening report from Tom Noie of The South Bend Tribune. The move comes just over two months after it was reported that Brey would not retire after leaving Notre Dame, where he previously coached.
Atlanta is currently playing—and trailing—the Celtics in the first round of the playoffs after losing Game 1 on Saturday, 112–99.

Draymond Green got ejected from another playoff game Monday night and while that decision was being worked out by the refs, the Warriors star had some fun yelling at Kings fans in what was just a wild scene midway through the fourth quarter of Golden State’s Game 2 loss in Sacramento. 
Green got a flagrant two foul and was run from the game as a result of him stomping on Domantas Sabonis.
While fans on Twitter ripped Green for his excuse for the stomp, fans in the Golden 1 Center let him hear it while the refs reviewed the play. Green gave it right back to them.

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The Kings and the Wild deliver overtime stunners as the NHL playoffs begin
There is really only one true way to describe playoff hockey.
With perhaps the most accurate tweet of all time:

why watch overtime playoff hockey when you can simply snort cocaine and ride a motorcycle out of a helicopter
— Jon Bois (@jon_bois) April 17, 2014

Playoffs are always fantastic theater, but there is something different about the NHL playoffs.
The first round of the NHL playoffs got underway Monday night. Here’s what went down.

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Ferrari’s brutal Australian Grand Prix will remain so after FIA denies their appeal of Carlos Sainz Jr.’s penalty
Just when it looked like there was a glimmer of hope that Ferrari would be able to salvage something from a brutal Australian Grand Prix, the FIA stepped in and closed the door on that idea.
Ferrari appealed a five-second penalty handed down by race officials to driver Carlos Sainz Jr. after a collision between Sainz and Fernando Alonso late in the race.

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Plus: Nets start strong again and can’t finish again
Sixers pull away late for second straight game, take 2-0 lead with 96-84 win
The first 30 minutes were extremely back-and-forth; a six-point Brooklyn lead turned into a four-point Philly lead which turned into a 10-point Brooklyn lead which turned into an eight-point Philly lead. So to recap, that makes a 10-point swing, 14-point swing, and 18-point swing all in the first two-and-a-half quarters.

The latest NFL mock draft from FanNation has running back Bijan Robinson heading to Detroit. With two first-round picks, the Lions certainly could have the luxury.
At first glance, I hated this. I wanted to see the NFL draft’s top-ranked RB prospect land with the Bengals, Cowboys or Bills, places in which he could immediately make a fantasy impact. Most drafts now have him going to the Los Angeles Chargers, where there are questions as to the future of Austin Ekeler.
But, after some further reflection, maybe I do like Robinson to the Lions.

I’m on spring break with the family, sunburned and overrun by elementary schoolers (and preschools). But there’s no time to take a break from the NFL, so let’s go …
• The first thing I thought looking at the numbers of the Jalen Hurts deal—it was smart of the Eagles to get it done now, expensive as it might’ve been, and smart of Hurts to take the life-changing windfall that Philadelphia offered him.
Will Joe Burrow and Justin Herbert outpace this deal within a few months? Probably.
Are the Eagles assuming risk, after extending Carson Wentz after his third year? Sure.

A transgender female basketball player – born a biological male – has been ruled ineligible to compete in the WNBL1 South women’s semi-professional league in Australia. The ruling comes just a month after former NBA player Andrew Bogut brought the proposal from the trans player to the forefront.
Basketball Australia, the governing body for basketball in the country, ruled Lexi Rodgers ineligible to compete for the Kilsyth Cobras.