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In just his 358th career game, Mavericks superstar Luka Doncic capped the NBA’s Christmas Day slate with a stunning 50-point performance, surpassing the 10,000-point milestone in Dallas’ 128-114 victory over the Phoenix Suns.

Quarterback Brock Purdy threw a career-high four interceptions, including three in the first half, and the San Francisco 49ers fell to the Baltimore Ravens 33-19 on “Monday Night Football” in a battle of teams with Super Bowl aspirations.

NFL Nation reporters react to all of the action, answering lingering questions coming out of each game. Here’s what we learned.

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy threw a career-high four interceptions in Monday night’s 33–19 loss to the Baltimore Ravens – an extremely poor performance for a quarterback who has not had many through his first 23 starts.
Purdy made no excuses in the postgame press conference, as he felt like he let the team down with his play against one of the best groups in football on Monday night.
“Our team came ready to play,” Purdy said. “And for me to make some decisions like that…it’s not fair to these guys.

Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson put Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio on blast after Monday night’s victory over the San Francisco 49ers.
The football pundit Florio had foolishly predicted that the Niners would absolutely smoke the Ravens ahead of last night’s matchup and was stunningly caught with his foot, or the football in his mouth.
Something that Lamar Jackson wanted him and the whole world to know after defeating the Ravens 33-19 and scoring touchdowns. Oh, and the Ravens defense forced picked off Brock Purdy and backup Sam Darnold five total times.

Mike Norvell hopped on X Monday to send an intriguing tweet.
The 13-0 Florida State Seminoles will play Georgia in the Orange Bowl after being iced out of the playoff. Since the committee opted for 12-1 Alabama, it’s been like the Titanic within the program when it comes to players opting out.
Instead of going into the matchup against the Bulldogs with a stacked roster minus Jordan Travis, the Seminoles have had multiple stars opt out.
The latest important player to hit the portal was backup QB Tate Rodemaker.

Mikaela Shiffrin claimed skiing’s all-time World Cup wins record for herself this year, but, being Mikaela Shiffrin, she is probably looking into ways she can share it. Shiffrin is the most accomplished of skiers and rarest of superstars: As incomparable as she is on the slopes, she seems to go out of her way to show she is like the rest of us.
When her father died, she grieved publicly and admitted it affected her ability to perform. At the 2022 Olympics in Beijing, she followed one disastrous run after another with a media therapy session.

For all the talk of money, celebrity, franchise relocation and off-field frustration, sports always come back to the games. And in 2023, fans were treated to some great ones.

Shohei. Messi. Travis & Taylor. Coach Prime. In the most unpredictable drama that exists, the arena of sports, these are a few of the many characters that kept fans locked in all year long.

Following a first half that saw the New York Giants muster just 101 yards of offense and three points in Monday’s loss to the Philadelphia Eagles, coach Brian Daboll benched starting QB Tommy DeVito in favor of Tyrod Taylor in an attempt to jumpstart the unit.
The Giants scored 22 points in the second half with Taylor under center. He finished with a 7-of-16 passing line for 133 yards with a touchdown and an interception.