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.
One of the biggest blockbuster trades in WNBA history happened during the offseason, when the Los Angeles Sparks dealt Jewell Loyd to the Las Vegas Aces and the second overall pick to the Seattle Storm in exchange for three-time All-Star guard Kelsey Plum. Los Angeles was coming off a miserable 8-32 season and desperately needed […]
May 21, 2025
New York Knicks and Indiana Pacers fans probably get déjà vu when they’re with each other. In 2000, the Pacers ousted the Knicks in six games on their way to the NBA Finals, and a quarter-century later, New York is trying to return the favor. The Eastern Conference Finals tips off tonight at 8 p.m. […]
May 21, 2025
Collectively, the streets of Manhattan turned into a party last Friday night when the New York Knicks finished off the Boston Celtics to advance to their first Eastern Conference Finals since 2000. It’s hard to imagine what New York will look like if the Knicks manage to do what they couldn’t in 2000 and oust […]
May 21, 2025
The Los Angeles Dodgers have floundered lately, shockingly getting swept by the somewhat hapless Los Angeles Angels during the MLB’s inaugural Rivalry Weekend and then dropping the opening game of the series to the Arizona Diamondbacks last night. Even with the four-game losing streak, the Dodgers still lead the NL West by half a game. […]
May 20, 2025
The NBA is down to four; only the Oklahoma City Thunder, Minnesota Timberwolves, Indiana Pacers, and New York Knicks stand a chance at claiming basketball supremacy this season. Excepting the Thunder, it wasn’t a final four that most basketball fans would’ve predicted, and as the conference finals tip off tonight with Game 1 between Oklahoma […]
May 20, 2025
What has happened to the Los Angeles Dodgers? The reigning champions got surprisingly swept over the weekend at the hands of the Los Angeles Angels during the MLB’s inaugural Rivalry Weekend and followed it up by losing on Monday to the Arizona Diamondbacks. It’s not all bad, of course — they still have the third-best […]
May 20, 2025
The MLB just completed its first-ever Rivalry weekend, where each team played a three-game series against one of its most geographically proximate rivals. There were a few surprising sweeps — the Los Angeles Angels swept the Los Angeles Dodgers — and several highlight-worthy plays, including Cody Bellinger’s Sunday grand slam in the bottom of the […]
May 19, 2025
From 30, four teams remain, vying to lift the Larry O’Brien Trophy. The champion will be the seventh consecutive new winner, an unprecedented run of parity in the league’s history. But which of the four will break its drought? Two of the remaining teams — the Indiana Pacers and Minnesota Timberwolves — have never won […]
May 19, 2025
The WNBA is back for its biggest season yet — in the offseason, a new expansion team, the Golden State Valkyries, joined the ranks, and all regular season schedules will be 44 games long instead of the previous 40. The Seattle Storm opened the season on Saturday with an 81-59 loss to the Phoenix Mercury […]
May 19, 2025
