Griffin Wong has been a content writer at DK Network since November 2024. Prior to that, he was the former sports editor for the Harvard Crimson, where he covered the football team for two years and earned four Story of the Year nominations from the Associated College Press. A lifelong Lakers and Dodgers fan, Griffin’s favorite athlete of all time is Kobe Bryant. When he’s not writing, Griffin is usually skiing, running, golfing, or playing basketball — badly.
Something must have happened in France around 20 years ago, because the number of lengthy defenders that have come out of that country in recent years — Victor Wembanyama, Zaccharie Risacher, Alex Sarr, and now Chicago Bulls rookie Noa Essengue — can’t be a coincidence (and should scare the United States in advance of the […]
July 18, 2025
At the All-Star break, some things are familiar. Despite a recent slump, the defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers are 58-39, with the best record in the National League and easily the best odds to go back-to-back at DraftKings Sportsbook. They’ll start the second half of the season with a home series against the […]
July 18, 2025
Both the Los Angeles Lakers and Denver Nuggets will play their final games of NBA Summer League action tonight when they face each other at 10 p.m. ET. As veteran-laden contending squads, neither side has a lot of young guys to invest in, and this clash is merely for consolation. Each team is 1-3 and […]
July 18, 2025
The Orlando Magic and the Dallas Mavericks have been two of the teams that have defined the 2025 NBA offseason. The Magic made the first flashy move of the summer, dealing for Desmond Bane from the Memphis Grizzlies, while the Mavericks lucked into the first overall pick in the draft and selected Cooper Flagg. Neither […]
July 18, 2025
This season has been an tumultuous one for the Tampa Bay Rays, who are playing in the New York Yankees’ spring training facility this season while Tropicana Field undergoes repairs following damage sustained during Hurricane Milton. But the Rays have had a successful season, sitting just five and a half games behind the Toronto Blue […]
July 17, 2025
Though offense has generally exploded in recent seasons, there’s one major area in which pitches have gained a further upper hand: hitters have been striking out far more. The analytics behind it make sense — a strikeout is worth the same as any other out and a more aggressive approach at the plate can produce […]
July 17, 2025
Some 16 months after being involved an offseason car accident in Texas, Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice has been sentenced to five years’ probation and 30 days in jail, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. He’s likely to serve an NFL-mandated suspension during the 2025 season, with Chiefs Digest writer Matt Derrick writing that […]
July 17, 2025
Two and a half months ago, the LA Clippers came up short in Game 7 of the first round against the Denver Nuggets, coming out flat in the mile-high altitude and crashing out of the playoffs. Tonight, they’ll get a shot at redemption in the NBA Summer League, hoping the young guys can do what […]
July 17, 2025
The summer of 1998 was known as the Long Gone Summer, when Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire went back and forth, tit-for-tat, bomb after bomb in a pursuit of Roger Maris’ single-season home run record so epic that it became the subject of a 2020 30 for 30 documentary. Maris, a two-time American League MVP, […]
July 16, 2025
While most of the teams in the league have either made moves to improve their championship or lottery odds, the Chicago Bulls remain stuck in the dreaded middle, tied to a core of Coby White, Josh Giddey, and Nikola Vučević. The Bulls have participated in the Play-In Tournament in each of the past three seasons. […]
July 16, 2025
Today, the WNBA will play its final set of games before resetting for the All-Star Weekend festivities set to take place this weekend in Indiana. 10 of the league’s 13 teams are in action tonight, with two of the five games on DraftKings’ featured DFS slate, which locks at 7:30 p.m. ET. The biggest question […]
July 16, 2025