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For years, Zach LaVine toiled away on a Chicago Bulls team that wasn’t quite sure where it was going. The Bulls then made the playoffs during the 2021-22 season, which was an encouraging sign, but they proceeded to miss the playoffs for the next few years, necessitating some major changes to the roster. Last season, […]

Shohei Ohtani may not have dealt the decisive blow in the Los Angeles Dodgers’ 18-inning win in Game 3 of the World Series, but he sure was the star of the show. He went 4-4 on the night, and with the Toronto Blue Jays fearing what he’s capable of from the plate in a sudden […]

It takes some special character for any team to bounce back from a loss that was as heartbreaking as the one the Toronto Blue Jays took on Monday night when they lost Game 3 of the World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers in 18 innings. But the Blue Jays have made it this far […]

The Toronto Blue Jays must have been very demoralized in the wake of losing an 18-inning marathon on a Freddie Freeman walk-off home run in Game 3 of their World Series clash against the Los Angeles Dodgers. Nonetheless, in MLB, there is no time for anyone to lick any of their wounds. There is always […]

After a walk-off marathon victory after 18 innings in Game 3 of the World Series, it looked like the Los Angeles Dodgers were going to seize the momentum like they did during last year’s Fall Classic. Alas, the Toronto Blue Jays are putting up a bigger fight than the 2024 New York Yankees did. They […]

This past Friday, Jaylen Brown made waves on social media when he rocked up to the Boston Celtics’ game against the New York Knicks with a spray-on hairline. Brown, on one play in which he was being guarded by OG Anunoby, managed to rub off that spray on the Knicks forward’s jersey, leaving a prominent […]

Austin Reaves was coming off a 51-point outing in an impressive 127-120 win for the Los Angeles Lakers over the Sacramento Kings. But he and the Lakers did not have much time to celebrate that incredible, career-best outing. The Lakers had to lock in less than 24 hours later, as they had to face the […]

Both the Los Angeles Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays have to be absolutely exhausted after requiring 18 innings to decide the winner of Game 3 of the World Series. But both teams would much rather be happy while exhausted instead of playing the blame game, and for the Dodgers, they’ll at least be sleeping soundly […]

It’s difficult to imagine now, but there was once a time when it looked like Jonathan Kuminga had already played his final game for the Golden State Warriors. For him to go from expendable piece to someone who’s fully bought into the Warriors system is simply phenomenal. On Monday night, Kuminga had another incredible outing, […]

After 18 long innings, the Los Angeles Dodgers took Game 3 of the 2025 World Series over the Toronto Blue Jays, with Freddie Freeman tapping into some October magic yet again as he hit a walk-off home run off of Brendon Little to give LA a 6-5 win and a 2-1 lead in the series. […]

It may have taken the Los Angeles Dodgers nearly two full games’ worth of innings, but they finally did it. They outlasted the Toronto Blue Jays in an 18-inning marathon, with Freddie Freeman dealing the decisive blow — a walk-off home run on a full-count sinker in the middle of the zone from Brendon Little […]

Stephen Curry has been one of the best basketball players in the world ever since he broke out for the Golden State Warriors in a huge way during the 2012-13 season. That was 13 years ago. But still, even though Curry is in the 17th year of his professional career, he remains a legitimate superstar […]

Everything is shaping up for the Indiana Pacers to have a nightmare 2025-26 season. Things were already looking difficult heading into the year, what with Tyrese Haliburton set to miss the entirety of the campaign after rupturing his Achilles tendon in Game 7 of the 2025 NBA Finals. But everything that’s happened since has just […]

Draymond Green’s life mission is to make life for his opponents a living hell. On Monday night, with the Golden State Warriors hosting the Memphis Grizzlies, Green certainly had it out for Santi Aldama. With 3:48 left in the third quarter, Green was whistled for a flagrant foul penalty one after he rode on Aldama’s […]

The expectations for the Utah Jazz heading into the 2025-26 season were in the gutter. After all, they were coming off a season in which they won the fewest games in the NBA last season with 17. They have always seemed to throw the season around March and April, with the likes of Lauri Markkanen […]

The Portland Trail Blazers might be at the center of the biggest gambling scandal the NBA has ever seen, but make no mistake about it, their young core is improving at a rapid rate. One of the most prominent members of that aforementioned core is Shaedon Sharpe, the seventh overall pick of the 2022 NBA […]

The Philadelphia 76ers entered the 2025-26 season with so much uncertainty. But one thing’s for sure: this 76ers team won’t be anything like they were last year, injury problems notwithstanding. On Monday night, the 76ers scored their third consecutive win to begin the year, defeating the Orlando Magic, 136-124, despite being without Joel Embiid and […]

The Los Angeles Dodgers just won’t go away, and the Toronto Blue Jays are being tested to their limits in the 2025 World Series. But the Blue Jays aren’t just about to let the league’s richest and deepest team sleepwalk their way into another championship. After the Blue Jays took the lead in the fourth […]

No one is doubting the idea of Cooper Flagg being one of the best players in the NBA someday. But as a rookie for a Dallas Mavericks team in transition, he is bound to have plenty of growing pains. On Monday night, he was given a major welcome to the NBA moment by Oklahoma City […]

In the World Series, every plate appearance matters. For the Toronto Blue Jays, catcher Alejandro Kirk certainly made his count in the top of the fourth inning. After Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Bo Bichette reached base to begin the inning, Kirk hit paydirt after he demolished a first pitch curveball from Tyler Glasnow all the […]

The Toronto Blue Jays’ momentum was derailed by the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 2 of the World Series. Yoshinobu Yamamoto threw a complete game and the Dodgers hit one home run after another, handing the Blue Jays a 5-1 loss to even up the series. The Blue Jays won’t be feeling a greater sense […]

Heading into the 2025 World Series, Bo Bichette was on the mend for the Toronto Blue Jays as he worked to recover from a knee sprain that has kept him out for over a month. But immediately after the Blue Jays dispatched of the Seattle Mariners in the ALCS, Bichette declared that he’d be returning […]

Austin Reaves has built quite a close friendship with Luka Doncic even though they’ve been teammates on the Los Angeles Lakers for a little less than nine months. The two always have quite a hilarious banter with one another, with Reaves clowning Doncic after he missed a free-throw on Friday night during their 127-110 win […]

Deandre Ayton is about as far as a fan favorite as one can get in his previous stops. The Phoenix Suns shipped him out for depth pieces. The Portland Trail Blazers decided that buying him out was worth it. And through his first game or so as a member of his newest team, the Los […]

On Sunday night, the Sacramento Kings had a golden opportunity to keep it going after they won their first game of the new campaign on Friday against the Utah Jazz. They were facing a shorthanded Los Angeles Lakers team that was without both Luka Doncic and LeBron James, after all, and they were at home. […]

The Los Angeles Lakers have been dealing with so many injury issues to begin the season. LeBron James is already out of action to begin the campaign as he deals with sciatica, and then after their win over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Friday night, Luka Doncic joined James on the mend after suffering multiple injuries […]

It’s hard to believe now considering how far he’s come, but Austin Reaves used to be a benchwarmer who got little-to-no minutes for the Los Angeles Lakers. Moreover, Reaves even started the 2024-25 season on the bench — with head coach JJ Redick inexplicably using him as the team’s sixth man behind D’Angelo Russell. But […]

The Los Angeles Lakers were coming off a huge win over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Friday night, with Luka Doncic continuing his stellar start to the season by following up his 43-point effort on opening night with a 49-point masterpiece in a 128-110 win over the Timberwolves. However, Doncic suffered multiple injuries during that contest […]

Aaron Gordon was a man on a mission for the entirety of the 2024-25 season, as he took his game to the next level and helped make up for the Denver Nuggets’ lack of depth. If it weren’t for a hamstring strain that slowed him down in Game 7 of their second-round playoff clash against […]

On Thursday night, Aaron Gordon was reaching flow state levels, looking like the best three-point shooter in the world all of a sudden. At one point during the Denver Nuggets’ eventual 137-131 loss to the Golden State Warriors in overtime, Gordon made eight straight three-pointers. He was proving that the incredible three-point shooting development that […]

The Golden State Warriors were playing from behind almost all night long during their Thursday night tussle against the Denver Nuggets. The Nuggets were getting seemingly everything they wanted on offense, with Aaron Gordon popping off for 50 points on the night. Gordon even made eight straight threes at one point. But in the end, […]

The first few days of the 2025-26 NBA season have been rather odd. The Oklahoma City Thunder have been involved in two double-overtime games to start the new campaign, and they’ve also been at the center of a timeout controversy in each of those contests. But on Thursday night, in an NBA Finals rematch against […]

It is common knowledge that the Indiana Pacers are missing Tyrese Haliburton badly, and their 141-135 loss in double overtime on Thursday night against the Oklahoma City Thunder showed as much. The Pacers’ fighting spirit remains alive and well, but without Haliburton to commandeer the offense in the clutch, Indiana simply did not have enough […]

It will be very unlikely for the Indiana Pacers to recapture the magic of last year as they are (most likely) going to be without their best player, Tyrese Haliburton, for the entirety of the 2025-26 campaign. While they have been putting up an incredible fight in their season-opener against the Oklahoma City Thunder, Haliburton […]

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has done nothing but show why he’s the reigning MVP and Finals MVP to start off the season for the reigning champion Oklahoma City Thunder. Gilgeous-Alexander is arguably the most unstoppable perimeter player in the league today, and he showed as much when he put the Indiana Pacers through the blender in their […]

To say that the Oklahoma City Thunder, the reigning champion, have a massive target on their back would be a major understatement. Every team is looking to snatch the Thunder’s chain, and there is not a team in the entire NBA that’s looking to get revenge on OKC more than the Indiana Pacers — the […]

Thursday night’s NBA action brought a rematch of the 2025 NBA Finals between the Oklahoma City Thunder and Indiana Pacers. Alas, the Pacers no longer have the team of yore; they don’t have Myles Turner on the roster anymore, and Tyrese Haliburton is likely to miss the entirety of the 2025-26 campaign after rupturing his […]

On Thursday morning, Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups, along with Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier, was arrested by the FBI in connection to their alleged involvement in illegal gambling. Billups, who’s been the Blazers’ head coach since 2021, is being investigated for his ties to an illegal poker operation involving the Mafia and […]

The Indiana Pacers, as magical as the 2024-25 season may have been for them even though they failed to win the NBA championship, are, more likely than not, about to hit a brick wall for the upcoming campaign. While they have enough talent to compete in the weaker conference, their chances of mounting a deep […]