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’s evening MLB slate is a small but mighty one, with five games scheduled for first pitch between 6:40 p.m. and 9:40 p.m. ET. The marquee game is the last game of the day, when the reigning World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers — who current lead the NL West at 25-12 — will host […]
May 8, 2025
Last night, the Oklahoma City Thunder finally broke a historic trend; prior to their 149-106 drubbing of the Denver Nuggets, road teams had won each of the first six games of the second round. The New York Knicks had opened their series as huge underdogs against the Boston Celtics and have cut it down to […]
May 8, 2025
Today’s featured MLB slate on DraftKings is split into an earlier and a late slate, with a four-game 1 p.m. slate and a four-game 7 p.m. slate. The 7 p.m. slate has a prize pool $25,000 larger, so I’m going to be focused on that one today, although you can find the early slate here: […]
May 8, 2025
376 matches in the 2024-25 UEFA Champions League have been played. Only one remains. The last two teams standing both wear blue, and they’ve never faced each other in a competitive setting before. Perhaps it’s fitting that, in a history-making 2024-25 Champions League that saw the tournament’s first-ever expansion to 36 teams, Inter Milan and […]
May 7, 2025
To say that Game 1 was a bit of a disappointment for the Boston Celtics would be an understatement. Jayson Tatum scored just 23 points on four-for-15 shooting from beyond the arc, and overall, the Celtics missed 45 three-point attempts, the most by any team in playoff history. Boston once led by 20 points, survived […]
May 7, 2025
The Denver Nuggets’ chances of making their second conference finals appearance in three years hinge on the shoulders of one man: Nikola Jokić. But when that man happens to be the best basketball player in the world, anything — including upsetting the 68-win Oklahoma City Thunder — is possible. In Denver’s 121-119 win on Monday […]
May 7, 2025
Griffin Wong offers his top picks on DraftKings Sportsbook for Thursday's two-game NBA Playoffs slate.
May 7, 2025
What in the world is going on in this second round of the NBA Playoffs? Home teams are 0-5 so far, with both the New York Knicks and the Indiana Pacers overcoming 20-point leads, with Indiana coming back from seven points down with under a minute and a half to play. Two more underdogs — […]
May 7, 2025
Griffin Wong offers a prediction and best bet for the Champions League semifinal second leg between Arsenal and Paris Saint-Germain.
May 6, 2025
The Golden State Warriors nearly blew another 3-1 lead. Nine years after the most infamous playoff collapse in NBA history, Golden State took three tries to close out the Houston Rockets, but its 103-89 triumph on Sunday night clinched its ticket to a second-round series against the Minnesota Timberwolves, who upset the Los Angeles Lakers […]
May 6, 2025
Tyrese Haliburton has garnered plenty of controversy these playoffs as his Indiana Pacers made quick work of the Milwaukee Bucks in the first round. First, he was named the league’s most overrated player by his peers, and his father, John, later got into an altercation with Giannis Antetokounmpo and was banned from the team’s games […]
May 6, 2025