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.
Thursday, June 5 will go down as a great sports day. Not only do the NBA Finals tip off, there are two WNBA games and 13 MLB games. Because they’re spread out throughout the day, only five baseball games will be on tonight’s featured DFS slate, but there’s another early DFS slate that will go […]
June 5, 2025
According to Basketball Reference, Indiana Pacers forward Pascal Siakam has just a 2.1% chance of eventually being inducted into the Hall of Fame, the 36th-highest among active players and below Domantas Sabonis, Isaiah Thomas, and just ahead of Khris Middleton. But depending on what happens in these NBA Finals against the Oklahoma City Thunder, the […]
June 4, 2025
One of the best things about being a baseball fan is that there’s nonstop action; with the exception of a thinner Thursday slate, almost every team is in action every single day. That gives slumping players more opportunities to break out of their malaise and teams more games to make up ground on the division […]
June 4, 2025
The Club World Cup has undergone a cataclysmic shift starting with this summer’s edition, expanding from seven teams to 32 while using the previous World Cup format. Games will be played over the course of a month The new tournament has brought intrigue — although ticket sales have been slower than expected, some games are […]
June 4, 2025
The ultra-competitive NL West is about to write a new chapter as we enter the summer and the MLB settles in for the long backstretch. The the reigning champion Los Angeles Dodgers sit atop the division, but the San Diego Padres and San Francisco Giants are in close pursuit. Right now, Los Angeles is 37-24, […]
June 4, 2025
With two days prior to the start of the 2025 NBA Finals between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Indiana Pacers, trade rumor season is swirling. The main subject of those rumors — Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo — certainly hasn’t done anything to avoid stoking the flames, as the Toronto Star reported that Antetokounmpo […]
June 3, 2025
With a 12-game featured slate of offerings for tonight’s DFS contest on DraftKings, fantasy baseball players should have no shortage of high-quality options as they fill out their lineups. That’s doubly true given that tonight’s slate features some not-so-great pitchers. But which team’s lineups should you be targeting? Here are my three favorite stacks for […]
June 3, 2025
The fireworks show has been going on all spring as Cal Raleigh ($5,500), Shohei Ohtani ($6,400), and Aaron Judge ($6,500) have jostled for the MLB lead in home runs. The brash display that has brought eyeballs back to baseball, as television ratings are rising for the first time in half a decade. All of those […]
June 3, 2025
The confetti may have just settled on Paris Saint-Germain’s thrilling, history-making Champions League triumph on Saturday afternoon, but the football world is already moving ahead to the next event on the calendar: the first-ever revamped FIFA Club World Cup. 32 teams will participate in the monthlong tournament, which will be held between 11 cities across […]
June 2, 2025
28 teams have been eliminated from contention for the NBA title. Two teams remain. The Oklahoma City Thunder, after finishing the regular season with the best point differential in NBA history, were expected to be here. That wasn’t so much the case of the Indiana Pacers, who haven’t made the Finals since 2000 and are […]
June 2, 2025
The era of dynastic runs in American professional sports may well be over. The NBA — whose finals tip off between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Indiana Pacers — will crown its seventh champion in seven seasons. The NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs saw their dynasty take a hit with a 40-22 throttling at the […]
June 2, 2025