Connor Groel

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Olivia Miles is the 1st player in WNBA history to average 15+ PPG and 6+ APG over the 1st 10 games of a season while shooting 50% or better from the field.

She's a rookie, folks.

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Shohei Ohtani, how is this even possible?

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Any newsroom could use someone as talented a writer and as good of a person as Madison ⬇️

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Along with so many talented writers, I was unfortunately among the writers laid off at Sports Illustrated today. Over 4 years later and I’m so proud of the stories and work I’ve done there.

My DMs and email ([email protected]) are open. Looking forward to the next thing.

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Veronica Burton joins Diana Taurasi (2x) as the only guards in WNBA history with 25+ points and 5+ blocks in a game.

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The new NBA lottery system is comically bad, hard to imagine how all the necessary parties thought this was a remotely good idea.

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The Hurricanes keep it rolling for another OT win

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Some of our best FS from the Knicks advancing to the NBA Finals

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Dylan Harper in his 1st career playoff start:

The 1st player with 20+ pts, 10+ reb, 5+ ast, 5+ stl in the conference finals since Larry Bird in 1981.

The 1st player with 20 pts, 10+ reb, 5+ ast, 7+ stl in a playoff game since Patrick Ewing in 1990.

Unfathomable.

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May 18, 2026. The day Victor Wembanyama took over as the best player in the world. I think he might stay there for a little while.

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A bit of a surprise with Nikola Jokic taking 2nd place in MVP voting over Victor Wembanyama.

Jokic ties Larry Bird and Bill Russell for most consecutive top-2 MVP finishes (6).

Wembanyama is the 7th player to finish top-3 in MVP voting at age 22-or-younger.

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Marine Johannes with the most Marine Johannes three of all-time good lord haha

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Victor Wembanyama this postseason if you exclude the games he left early due to injury/ejection...

PPG 25.0
FG Pct 55.0%
RPG 13.3
BPG 5.3
+/- +109

The Spurs are 6-1 in these games and Wembanyama has a +/- of at least +4 in each game.

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Can't spell Dwyane Wade without Dean Wade

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Watched 5 minutes of Skip and Stephen A and wanted to jump off a bridge

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Victor Wembanyama recorded the most blocks (12) by any player in a playoff game since blocks began being tracked. It's the 1st playoff triple-double with blocks since Andrew Bynum in 2012.

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Ausar Thompson is the 1st player since LeBron James in the 2016 NBA Finals vs the Warriors with 15+ steals and 15+ blocks in a playoff series. Wow.

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Cade Cunningham joins Walt Frazier in the 1970 NBA Finals as the only players with 30+ points and 12+ assists in a Game 7 win

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About sums it up.

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We're done, and it's all about SCORIGAMI! Super pleased with how this turned out!

https://t.co/Ukz4ZdSK4t

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Welcome back to my Pro Football Reference experiment, "The Connector!"

The rules are simple!

1. I will use Pro Football Reference’s random page tool to generate four random pages

2. These must include one player page, one team page, and one box score

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Page 4:
https://t.co/GFZ1L0HNdN

[Connor Groel @ConnorGroel]

Welcome back to my Pro Football Reference experiment, "The Connector!"

The rules are simple!

1. I will use Pro Football Reference’s random page tool to generate four random pages

2. These must include one player page, one team page, and one box score

[Connor Groel @ConnorGroel]

Welcome to "The Connector!"

Can anything on Pro Football Reference be turned into a story? Over the next 4 hours, we're about to find out.

Here are the rules:

1. I will use Pro Football Reference’s random page tool to generate four random pages

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Page 3:
https://t.co/rB5Fs1WRKQ