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“I don’t understand what’s going on in the replay center, to be honest,” James said following Lakers’ Game 2 loss.

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J.P. Acosta’s favorite NFL Draft prospects at every position in 2024.
The 2024 NFL Draft is this week, and with it comes the first installation of something I’ve wanted to do for a very long time: the 2024 All-JP team! The All-JP team is a group of players that I loved watching on tape, with a good majority of them more than likely not hearing their name called on Day 1 of the draft. However, these are guys that I would pound the table for, and think they’ll be good pros at the next level.

LeBron James sure didn’t look like a 39-year-old against the Nuggets.
LeBron James is 39 years old. Have you heard? He was drafted way back in 2003. This is his 21st season in the NBA. James has outlasted multiple generations of his rivals at this point in his career, and he’s still performing at an All-NBA level.
James isn’t the best player in the NBA anymore (that guy is on Denver), and hasn’t been in about five years. But even in his basketball golden years, James is still incredible, and he just proved it again in the 2024 NBA Playoffs.

LeBron James wants the world to know the refs – not the Lakers – are responsible for his team losing Monday night to the Nuggets.
The Lakers are now down 2-0 in the playoffs series against the Nuggets after blowing a 20-point lead and losing 101-99 Monday.
Instead of focusing on blowing a massive lead, everyone is talking about an overturned foul by Michael Porter Jr. on D’Angelo Russell. It appeared like Porter hit Russell on the face late in the third quarter, and it was originally called a foul.
Ultimately, it was overturned by the replay center after being challenged.

NFL scouts were working overtime and personnel departments across the league were burning the proverbial midnight oil prior to the draft three years ago, because there was simply so much talent to evaluate.
A record number of underclassmen – 130 in all – declared for that 2021 draft. And that unusually high number bloating what was already a solid draft class had NFL teams overloaded with work.
The 2024 draft that begins Thursday night is different.
And by different we mean worse, based on what NFL teams are saying.

When Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay was found unresponsive in his home in December 2023, authorities pointed to a suspected overdose as the culprit. Now, months later, Irsay is attempting to shut down any speculation tying him to an possible overdose.
“It wasn’t an overdose,’’ Irsay told Fox 59. “I don’t know why when you have your name in the paper in the past, people throw that out there quickly. I don’t pay attention to it all that much, but I don’t think it’s fair.’’
Irsay stating he did not suffer an overdose contradicts the official police report.

Jamal Murray sinks a jumper at the buzzer and the Nuggets wipe out a 20-point deficit to stun the Lakers.

Joel Embiid declared Philadelphia is going to win its first-round playoff series despite a stunning rally by the Knicks on Monday night and amid complaints about the officiating.

Edit via Dwight Howard (@DwightHoward) on Twitter
Dwight Howard is taking to the internet to remind the Lakers about who their starting center was the last time they beat Nikola Jokic and the Nuggets in a series.
The Los Angeles Lakers keep getting their hearts ripped out by the Denver Nuggets, but fans who want to remember a happier time, when their favorite team was capable of slowing down Nikola Jokic and (more importantly) beating him in a series don’t have to look far.

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The Lakers collapsed, and Jamal Murray buried them.
The Los Angeles Lakers led the Denver Nuggets by 20 points in the second half of Game 2 of their first round series in the 2024 NBA Playoffs. After nine straight losses to the Nuggets, it finally seemed like the Lakers would get the win they were due for, and in the process tie the series.
Instead, the Lakers collapsed, the Nuggets stormed back into the game, and Jamal Murray ended it with a dagger for the ages.