Stats in the fourth quarter of the final two games of the 2026 NBA Finals:
Jalen Brunson:
24 points
7-of-12 from the floor (58%)
9-of-10 from the FT line (90%)
+32 +/- (best among all players on either team)
Victor Wembanyama
8 points
3-of-14 from the field (21%)
2-of-6 from the FT line (33%)
-25 plus/minus (worst among all players)
Victor Wembanyama walked barefoot through the hallways of MSG after winning game 3 because he wanted to feel the floors of his first Finals win on his bare feet, per @ramonashelburne
Wemby is up to 37% to win Finals MVP on Kalshi
News: The NCAA men’s and women’s basketball oversight committees have voted to approve the expansion of the NCAA tournaments to 76 teams, sources tell @NBCSports. The selection committees already did the same.
A couple more committees to go, but it’s happening.
There should be at least one 1pm ET MLB game every weekday on MLB Network.
We live in a time where 1) so many people work remotely and 2) people in an office watch stuff on their phone or computer.
Sonny Gray said he is looking forward to the Red Sox/Yankees rivalry.
"It feels good to me to go to a place where it’s easy to hate the Yankees," he said.
Prompted by the death of Dallas' Marshawn Kneeland, Nebraska coach Matt Rhule's last answer during his press conference today turned into a long and thoughtful several minutes on mental health and connecting with one another.
"Seeing the tragic news out of Dallas today, understand that none of us know what people are going through. That's why I think we all should be careful about what we say to people. I think we should be careful what we tweet about people. I think we should be cognizant of what everyone's going through.
"I told our players they should take their headphones off in the cafeteria and sit down with someone and be like, 'How you doin', man? What's going on with you?'
"... It's just awful, awful, awful news. I've given the eulogy for players of mine who've had the same thing happen. You just never know what people are going through.
"I will forever, for the rest of my life, think about the time that I saw Adrian Robinson right before he took his own life. I saw him on campus and ... I was like, 'I need to catch up with Adrian.' And a week later, he left this world and a month later I was giving the eulogy. I wish in my life, I could go back and just stop and say, 'Hey, how you doing?'
"I know it's not what you asked, but it's on my heart. I just shared with the team like, it's a time in this world for us to be kind to people."
IKF taking far too much heat for a team that blew a 3-2 series lead, at home, and blew a 3-run lead in Game 7, at home, by allowing a homer to the 9th guy in the lineup