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 first major of the 2025 season is upon us, and it’s arguably the most iconic: The Masters Tournament. 95 of the world’s best players will take on Augusta National Golf Course, with the winner slipping on the coveted green jacket on the 18th green on Sunday evening. Here are the Thursday and Friday tee […]
April 8, 2025
Welcome to the wild, wild West, where six teams are separated by just two games. The Los Angeles Lakers are 48-30 with four games to go in the regular season and somehow still haven’t clinched a playoff spot at all. To make matters even more unfathomable, the Denver Nuggets — sitting in fourth at 47-32, […]
April 8, 2025
This time next week, the games won’t be part of the NBA regular season anymore. Instead, it’ll be the first round of the SoFi Play-In Tournament. The season is truly coming to an end. For this sixth-to-last day of the NBA season, there’s a fairly full slate of games, with 20 of the league’s 30 […]
April 8, 2025
Two weeks into the MLB season, some storylines are starting to shake out. There are divisions — such as the NL West, where the reigning champion Los Angeles Dodgers are 9-3 and somehow third in the division — that look extremely strong, while others, like the AL Central that look relatively weak. The season is […]
April 8, 2025
With just four games left in the Detroit Pistons’ remarkable 2024-25 season, they have already sewn up a spot in the playoffs, and they know they’ll be a road team in the first round. Only the Pistons’ first-round opponent is yet to be determined; they’re one game behind the Milwaukee Bucks for fifth in the […]
April 7, 2025
Griffin Wong shares his top picks on DraftKings Sportsbook for the Quarterfinals Leg 1 fixtures in the UEFA Champions League.
April 7, 2025
In 2021, the golf world was turned on its head when Australian legend Greg Norman, together with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, announced plans to create LIV Golf, a 54-hole, team-based golf league ostensibly formed to rival the PGA TOUR. The outrage among the highest levels of the PGA TOUR was immediate, and defections were […]
April 7, 2025
When 95 of the world’s best players descend on Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia, for the first major of the 2025 season, there will be one glaring omission. The Masters simply isn’t the same without Tiger Woods. It was here that, in 1997, Woods completed his rapid ascent to greatness, firing an 18-under-par […]
April 7, 2025
In the Western Conference, there are three teams still in contention for the final two Play-In Tournament places with just four games to play in the regular season. The Sacramento Kings and Dallas Mavericks hold the upper hand over the Phoenix Suns, who are two and a half games behind the Mavericks. Sacramento can all […]
April 7, 2025
With the Golden State Warriors and Denver Nuggets in a six-team battle for the Western Conference’s third seed, every game matters from here on out. Right now, Denver holds the No. 3 spot, but it’s just half a game ahead of the Los Angeles Lakers, 1.5 games ahead of the Warriors in fifth, and 2.5 […]
April 4, 2025
The Los Angeles Dodgers have newly-minted jewelry and, oh yeah, they’re just as good as they were last year, if not better. Los Angeles’ 8-0 start to the 2025 season marks the best start to the season by a reigning World Series champion. Scarily enough, there’s still room for improvement. The Dodgers’ marquee offseason acquisition, […]
April 4, 2025