For the third year in a row it’ll be the Cleveland Cavaliers against the Golden State Warriors in the NBA Finals. It has taken us seven months to get to this point but, to be honest, we all coulda picked it from the very start.
If there’s a more quotable player in the NBA than Steven Adams then they don’t also have a classic kiwi accent. Or that yeah-nah, sweet-as, no-worries humour either.
James Harden didn’t play very well the other day, you might have heard. Game Six, Harden’s Houston Rockets facing elimination on their homecourt against the San Antonio Spurs...
When people realised that Steven Adams was an underrated NBA player, the echo chamber of people exhorting that idea then turned him into an overrated one. And now that he’s dismissed as overrated, he’s actually resumed his role as an underrated player.
You won’t find too many people disappointed that the LA Clippers got dumped from the NBA Playoffs in the first round. They’ve been a fun team these last few years but they haven’t exactly been a popular team.
The Chicago Bears did something risky the other day. They gave up a bunch of picks to trade up from third place to second in the first round of the 2017 NFL Draft, dealing with San Francisco, in order to then draft quarterback Mitch Trubisky out of UNC.