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.
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
2024-25 was a season of change for the Minnesota Timberwolves, and despite losing to the Oklahoma City Thunder in five games in the Western Conference Finals, it was a rather successful one. Minnesota’s decision to trade four-time All-Star center Karl-Anthony Towns in the dying moments of the offseason surely came as a shock to many, […]
May 30, 2025
The Oklahoma City Thunder’s quick win in the Western Conference Finals means that there’s no NBA on the docket for tonight. Basketball fans’ attention can turn to the WNBA, which has a five-game slate of action-packed hoops as its expanded season gets underway. I went to my first-ever WNBA game last night at Barclays Center, […]
May 30, 2025
Griffin Wong gives his best bets at DraftKings Sportsbook for Saturday's Champions League final between Paris Saint-Germain and Inter Milan.
May 30, 2025
The Los Angeles Dodgers forged a comeback for the ages in Game 5 of last October’s World Series, sending the New York Yankees back to the Bronx ringless with a 7-6 defeat. New York has waited exactly seven months to get redemption; the World Series rematch begins tonight. It’s a star-studded affair, and you could […]
May 30, 2025
If the Indiana Pacers close out the New York Knicks tonight in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals, Aaron Nesmith will have been a major part of the Pacers’ first NBA Finals appearance since 2000. If not for Nesmith’s late flurry of threes in Indiana’s epic Game 1 comeback victory, the series would be […]
May 29, 2025
You’ve gotta love when two hot teams face each other, giving a playoff-like atmosphere to a weeknight game in late May. That’s what’ll happen tonight in Houston, when the Astros begin a series against the Tampa Bay Rays. Both teams have been on fire as of late, with Houston having won each of its last […]
May 29, 2025
