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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 […]

The Cleveland Cavaliers should only have one thing on their collective mind heading into the 2025-26 campaign — revenge. They were so good for the entirety of last year’s regular season, and yet they couldn’t get past the second round. In fact, they won exactly the same number of playoff games in 2025 as they […]

Wednesday night will mark the first time since 2017 that the Dallas Mavericks will be starting the season without Luka Doncic on the roster after the controversial trade that sent him to the Los Angeles Lakers. Thankfully for the Mavericks, they received a mulligan in the form of Cooper Flagg, with the first overall pick […]

Jimmy Butler is the epitome of a winning player, and thanks to him, the Golden State Warriors could have made it further into the 2025 NBA playoffs had it not been for an untimely hamstring injury to Stephen Curry. But a new season is upon us, and Butler now has even more time to integrate […]

Opening night of the 2025-26 NBA season was supposed to pit two of the greatest superstars the league has ever seen in Stephen Curry and LeBron James against each other for, one would assume, one of the final times. Alas, James could not be present on the court for the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday […]

The Los Angeles Lakers had one pressing roster need to fill heading into the 2025 offseason, and with limited resources, they managed to sign double-double machine Deandre Ayton. Ayton’s stock has been dipping through the years, but the Lakers could not afford to be choosy considering how dire their frontcourt situation was in the wake […]

The Los Angeles Lakers were always going to need to be eased into the 2025-26 season considering how many new pieces they were going to have to integrate around Luka Doncic. Making matters worse is the fact that LeBron James is out indefinitely with a back injury — making it very difficult for the Lakers […]

The Golden State Warriors, after a summer filled with contentious negotiations between them and Jonathan Kuminga, appear to be putting all that in the rearview mirror. Head coach Steve Kerr clearly trusts Kuminga more, at least to begin the season, if his decision to start the 23-year-old in their season-opener against the Los Angeles Lakers […]

Even the best players suffer from frayed nerves at the end of close games, and this was certainly the case for Houston Rockets star and two-time NBA Finals MVP Kevin Durant. With the score tied at 115 with around two seconds left after Tari Eason blocked a potential game-winning attempt from Oklahoma City Thunder star […]

There may have been some nervous moments towards the end, but the Oklahoma City Thunder had the best player on the floor all night long for their opening night tussle against the Houston Rockets in Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. Gilgeous-Alexander played uncharacteristically lethargic basketball for the first few quarters, but he came alive in the dying moments […]

With the score tied at 115 in overtime, the Houston Rockets faced the herculean task of forcing a miss from the Oklahoma City Thunder in the dying seconds of the game. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, after all, was still on the court and was coming off an incredible fourth quarter in which he made the game-tying basket […]

Luka Doncic is going to be out for revenge as he enters his first full season as a member of the Los Angeles Lakers. They will be opening the season at home, welcoming the Golden State Warriors in a battle between two division rivals. At this point, there are many questions surrounding the Lakers roster […]

The Minnesota Timberwolves are set to open their account in the 2025-26 campaign on Wednesday, when they visit the Portland Trail Blazers at Moda Center. They will be looking to build off of last season’s Western Conference Finals appearance, establishing themselves as one of the best teams in the Western Conference behind yet another leap […]

Kevin Durant remains one of the most reviled figures in Oklahoma City for the way he left the Thunder in free agency back in 2016. Now, the Thunder’s championship triumph has softened some of the heartbreak that has lingered from Durant’s departure. But whenever Durant visits Paycom Center, like he did for his official debut […]

Opening night of the 2025-26 season marks the banner-raising and ring unveiling ceremony for the reigning champion Oklahoma City Thunder, a team that finally broke through in the NBA Finals after triumphing over the Indiana Pacers in seven games. Cores of teams may not last forever, especially in today’s NBA where tax penalties are as […]

The 2025-26 NBA season is about to begin, and the Sacramento Kings are once again looking to join the postseason party in the Western Conference. Alas, not too many are bullish on the Kings’ chances of making the playoffs once more. Domantas Sabonis will miss the start of the season due to an injury and […]

The Toronto Blue Jays, for the first time in 31 years, are back in the World Series thanks to a 4-3 triumph in Game 7 of the ALCS over the Seattle Mariners. George Springer is the hero for what feels like the gazillionth time in October, as he was the one who hit the go-ahead […]

The 2025 World Series is about to be a very exciting one, as the reigning World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers will be facing the upstart Toronto Blue Jays. There is plenty of talent across both locker rooms in what is shaping up to be a very even matchup that will be decided by the […]

The Toronto Blue Jays have punched their ticket to the 2025 World Series, thanks in large part to George Springer’s heroic three-run dinger that gave Toronto a 4-3 lead over the Seattle Mariners in Game 7 of the ALCS. Alas, the team that’s waiting on the other side might be the most stacked in MLB […]

In the Toronto Blue Jays’ dramatic 4-3 win over the Seattle Mariners in Game 7 of their ALCS clash, it was George Springer who stepped up to the plate and drove in what ended up being the game-winning runs with one swing of the bat after he hit a three-run dinger in the bottom of […]

The Seattle Mariners’ worst nightmares have come true; they have come this far and yet they have failed to make it to the World Series for the 49th consecutive season. They blew a 3-2 ALCS lead over the Toronto Blue Jays, with the Mariners relinquishing a 3-1 lead in the bottom of the seventh inning […]

The Toronto Blue Jays are heading back to the World Series for the first time in 32 years after George Springer’s three-run home run in the bottom of the seventh inning proved to be the difference in a 4-3 victory over the Seattle Mariners. Toronto was playing from behind all night long, but with one […]

George Springer has done it again. The 36-year-old slugger already has plenty of legendary moments in his illustrious postseason career, but he added one more for good measure. On Monday night, in Game 7 of the Toronto Blue Jays’ ALCS clash against the Seattle Mariners, Springer launched a three-run home run off of Eduard Bazardo […]

Game 7 is where legends are made of and Julio Rodriguez is not someone who typically lets moments to cement himself in history go to waste. On Monday night, with a World Series trip on the line for the Seattle Mariners, Rodriguez had himself yet another October moment to remember, as he drilled a hanging […]

Coming off an incredibly heroic 2025 playoff run, Aaron Nesmith has cashed in. On Monday night, on the eve of the start of the 2025-26 season, the Indiana Pacers reportedly came to terms on a two-year, $40.4 million contract extension with their starting small forward, as per Shams Charania of ESPN. Nesmith still had two […]

George Springer is a natural-born winner who will do whatever it takes to be on the field on the games that truly matter. He’s a former World Series champion who brought experience and some battle-tested leadership to a Toronto Blue Jays squad that has been looking to get over the hump for years. And there […]

There are no two greater words in North American professional sports than “Game 7”. But for both the Toronto Blue Jays and Seattle Mariners, the anxiety levels are just about to go through the roof, with the former forcing a decisive seventh game after taking a 6-2 win on Sunday night in Game 6 of […]

The Toronto Blue Jays entered Game 6 of their ALCS clash against the Seattle Mariners with their backs against the wall, and the fate of their season rested on the arm of Trey Yesavage, who, despite showing that he’s up for the moment, endured a rough start against the Mariners in Game 2. Nonetheless, the […]

The Los Angeles Lakers are in this sort of weird transition phase. They know that time is running out on LeBron James’ career. James dealing with a sciatica issue is a telltale sign of his age, and at this point, with the NBA’s all-time leading scorer taking up a huge percentage of the team’s salary […]

The Boston Celtics, suffice to say, are unlikely to compete for an NBA championship for the upcoming campaign. Their roster experienced so much turnover this past offseason, losing four valuable contributors to their title-winning squad in Jrue Holiday, Kristaps Porzingis, Al Horford, and Luke Kornet, and Jayson Tatum, at best, will miss most of the […]

The Los Angeles Dodgers are up 2-0 on the Milwaukee Brewers, and yet the Dodgers fanbase is very unhappy. Many feel as though they haven’t been able to fulfill their potential this season quite yet, especially with Shohei Ohtani, the reigning NL MVP, in the middle of a brutal slump. Ohtani has been, for the […]