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.
Talk about peaking at the right time: the Houston Rockets are 9-1 in their last 10 games, with the league’s fourth-best net rating across that span. In the four-team race for the West’s second seed — i.e., the race to not face the Oklahoma City Thunder until the conference finals — the Rockets have opened […]
March 27, 2025
Last night, the Los Angeles Lakers snapped a three-game losing streak with a 120-119 win over the Indiana Pacers, who had been on a five-game winning streak of their own entering the contest. It wasn’t convincing; Los Angeles blew an 11-point halftime advantage and needed a LeBron James tip-in — the eighth game-winning buzzer beater […]
March 27, 2025
UPDATE: Cleveland Guardians starting pitcher Tanner Bibee (food poisoning) has been scratched for today’s game against the Kansas City Royals. Ben Lively will start instead. Spring is in the air. The flowers are blooming, the snow has turned to rain, and, most importantly, the gloves are popping. After a long offseason — full of celebration […]
March 27, 2025
The Texas Children’s Houston Open is often used by the PGA TOUR’s top players as a tune-up tournament prior to the first major of the 2025 season, The Masters Tournament in two weeks in Augusta, Georgia. Not many of the TOUR’s stars are expected to tee it up at next weekend’s Valero Texas Open, so […]
March 26, 2025
The Toronto Raptors, in the third season of a rebuild, are hanging onto a sliver of hope if they want to reassert themselves as a player in the Eastern Conference. The Raptors are coming off a win and, six games behind the Miami Heat in 10th, still have a slim chance of making the postseason. […]
March 26, 2025
The Philadelphia Eagles just won the Super Bowl with arguably their best player being Saquon Barkley — a shifty but powerful running back who finished in the top five of the Heisman Trophy voting in his junior season. One of the top overall prospects in the upcoming NFL Draft is Ashton Jeanty — a shifty […]
March 26, 2025
March basketball is always interesting, because for most teams, it doesn’t matter. Five teams in the East and four teams in the West are effectively condemned to miss the playoffs, and the Oklahoma City Thunder, Cleveland Cavaliers, and Boston Celtics are more or less locked into their seeds at the tops of their respective conferences. […]
March 26, 2025
2024 NBA Finals MVP Jaylen Brown has somewhat slid under the radar this season, but the Boston Celtics are going to need him to be at his peak if they want to become the first back-to-back champions since the Golden State Warriors in 2016-17 and 2017-18. Although he’s posted his worst efficiency since his rookie […]
March 26, 2025
UPDATE: Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo ($11,500) is out for tonight’s contest against the Denver Nuggets with a foot sprain. Tonight’s six-game slate of NBA action should help clear up the playoff picture. There are three major playoff battles that have yet to be decided — the fight for the second seed in the Western […]
March 26, 2025
From the Florida Swing to the other side of the Gulf of Mexico — now known within the United States as the Gulf of America — 156 of the PGA TOUR’s finest descend on Memorial Park Golf Course in Houston for the Texas Children’s Houston Open. Another Texas tournament — next weekend’s Valero Texas Open […]
March 25, 2025
