Quote of the day
“It may not be a rumor.” Floyd Mayweather when talking about the possibility of him fighting UFC star Conor McGregor. It would be a boxing match, which Floyd would win, but it’s still fun to think about.
About last night . . .
Cavs sweep Hawks
Cleveland became the ninth team in NBA history to start a postseason 8-0 or better after finishing off their sweep of the Hawks. There isn’t a ton to take away on the Hawks side of things, as this series was less competitive than Cleveland’s first round series with Detroit. Something noteworthy has happened with the Cavs and you may not have noticed it until a few days ago. And that is that they have become the Golden State Warriors. In the series against Atlanta they set single game threes, single half threes, threes in a four game series and a bunch of other absurd stats that you can read about here. The short version? They are shooting the absolute hell out of the ball from 3. We’ll ignore their high (bad) defensive efficiency numbers for as long as they keep setting records from deep.
Thunder and Spurs are playing basketball and boy, is it fun to watch
A day after we basically called the Thunder chokers, Kevin Durant scored 29 second-half points on his way to 41 and led the Thunder to a Game 4 win. The Thunder trailed by 10 after one quarter, and by eight at halftime, so good on them for finding another gear in the second half, where they out-scored the Spurs 66-44. The series shifts back to San Antonio for its crucial Game 5. While it still kind of feels like the Spurs will win that game and take a 3-2 series lead, putting pressure back on the Thunder, we’ve reached that point in the series where it’s not outside of the realm of possibility for Russell Westbrook and Durant to simply take over a couple games and lead their team to the upset. I’m just glad we have at least two more of these games.
Lightning advance to Eastern Conference Finals
Tampa Bay has been stellar thus far in the postseason, needing only 10 games to advance to the conference finals. They needed 13 at this point last season en route to the Stanley Cup Finals. They clinched their 2nd straight conference finals appearance with a 4-0 win over the New York Islanders. They are now 8-2 in the playoffs, outscoring opponents 3.0 goals per game to 1.9 goals per game.
St. Louis, San Jose and Pittsburgh looking for series wins
All three teams are holding on to 3-2 series leads and will have the chance to finish off their opponents in the coming hours and days. St. Louis and San Jose both won over the weekend and can advance to the Western Conference Finals with wins tonight. Pittsburgh lost game 5 to Washington but still hold a 3-2 series lead with game 6 in Pittsburgh tomorrow night. It’s about to be a couple of days off high stress playoff hockey, which is the best kind of hockey.
Things to read today
Eric LeGrand, always inspirational
Eric LeGrand was paralyzed while making a tackle for Rutgers in 2010. He’s been quite a source of inspiration since that day and the letter he wrote to his mom for mother’s day is an example of that. Granted, he wrote it last year, but it should be revisited every mother’s day.
Tim Layden writes the hell out of horse racing and his sum up of the Kentucky Derby will tell you everything you need to know about Saturday’s race and winner.
The best of the rest
Kawhi Leonard has giant suction cups for hands. Is it a wonder why he’s won two defensive player of the year awards?
Leonard doesn’t even have the most freakishly large hands on his team though. Not even close, really. Boban Marjanovic . . . if you don’t know, now you know.
Boban holds a basketball. Simple enough.
Boban’s hands compared to a normal person’s.
Boban stands next to 6’ tall Patty Mills.
Boban’s hand breaks Ray McCollum’s shoulder.
Boban palms gallon of tea.
Boban makes normal sized human look like a dwarf.
Boban.
“Kyrie is glitching again . . . somebody needs to take his batteries out and put him in a bowl of rice for an hour.”
Pete Weber is a professional bowler and crazy man who once aggressively shouted, “Who do you think you are? I am!” at the crowd after winning a tournament or something. Well, yesterday he was at some bowling thing that happened to be on TV and . . .
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