Quick timeline of the takes surrounding Lakers-Rockets, with a prediction on tomorrow’s.
April 17th: “The Lakers have NO chance. They’ll be lucky not to be swept.”
April 20th: “If LeBron pulls this off I’ll call him the GOAT.”
April 22nd: “The Rockets are frauds!”
April 25th: “The Rockets are the dumbest team I’ve ever seen! Anyone would beat them!”
April 30th: “The Lakers are cooked & LeBron is exhausted. Rockets in 7.”
May 1st: “LeBron is going to blow a 3-0 lead & his GOAT case is over!”
May 2nd: “Yeah, the Lakers won, but it’s actually not that impressive, the Rockets were pretenders.”
Checking in on the NBA’s old timers…
Durant’s flirting with 10 turnovers in his first playoff game as a Rocket.
Steph’s at Coachella.
Kawhi’s planting trees.
LeBron is averaging 39 MPG & 24-8-10 to go up 2-0 without his team’s 2 leading scorers.
🐐🐐🐐
LeBron has (I think justifiably) a massive ego, and it seems to cause plenty of drama behind the scenes at times, but I admire his willingness to make a commercial where the premise is: "I am trash at this new sport I'm deep into." Jordan would never. Also, shout out to carrying!
Scottie Scheffler's win at the Memorial Tournament caps off a historic month:
Byron Nelson (1st): $1,782,000
PGA Championship (1st): $3,420,000
Charles Schwab (T4): $427,500
Memorial Tournament (1st): $4,000,000
That's nearly $10 million in earnings in 30 days.