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 new-look All-Star Weekend — featuring a tournament between three stacked squads, plus the winner of the Rising Stars tournament on Friday — is coming up soon. But first, there are three days of action-packed regular season hoops before the league’s brightest stars head to the Bay Area. With a four-game featured slate at DraftKings […]
February 11, 2025
Griffin Wong shares his top picks on DraftKings Sportsbook for the Playoff Round Leg 1 fixtures in the UEFA Champions League.
February 10, 2025
Nine days after his shocking trade to the Los Angeles Lakers made ripples across the NBA, Luka Dončić is likely to suit up for the first time tonight in the purple and gold as the Lakers take on the Utah Jazz at 10:30 p.m. ET. Dončić and LeBron James recently got upgraded to probable, with […]
February 10, 2025
With the Super Bowl firmly in the past — at least there’s one Philadelphia team succeeding — sports’ fans attentions return squarely to the NBA, where Luka Dončić appears set to make his debut as a Los Angeles Laker tonight as part of a 10-game slate of hoops action. All of the games except for […]
February 10, 2025
For the third year in a row, there the Kansas City Chiefs are, just 60 minutes away from another Lombardi Trophy. And for the second time in three years, so are the Philadelphia Eagles, who narrowly dropped Super Bowl LVII to the Chiefs two seasons ago, 38-35. During that game, Eagles wide receiver A.J. Brown […]
February 9, 2025
Prior to the 2024-25 season, the NFL made a drastic change, introducing the Dynamic Kickoff, where kicking team and receiving team members — with the exception of the kicker and two returners — must line up within five yards of each other on the receiving team’s 35- and 40-yard line, respectively and can’t move until […]
February 7, 2025
Of all the strengths and weaknesses that Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts has, one of his best attributes is protecting the ball. In his eight-game postseason career, he has thrown just two total interceptions, both of which came in his playoff debut in 2022. Since then, he has thrown seven touchdowns and no picks, and […]
February 7, 2025
Two seasons ago, the Philadelphia Eagles made it all the way to Super Bowl LVII to face the Kansas City Chiefs behind star quarterback Jalen Hurts and one of the best one-two wide receiver punches in football, A.J. Brown and DeVonta Smith, but they fell short in a 38-35 thriller. Brown (six catches, 96 yards, […]
February 7, 2025
The dust has settled on the trade deadline, and we’ll get our first look at several of these new-look squads tonight, as part of DraftKings’ featured six-game slate. I’ll take you through the slate, one game and a time, analyzing the injury news, stats, and trends that you need to know as you fill out […]
February 7, 2025
Long gone are the days of the winning pocket passer. The last pure pocket passer remaining in the NFL Playoffs was eliminated in the Divisional Round, when Jalen Hurts and the Philadelphia Eagles sent Matthew Stafford and the Los Angeles Rams back to Southern California empty-handed. Hurts and his Super Bowl LIX opponent, the Kansas […]
February 7, 2025
With the whirlwind trade deadline finally in the rear-view mirror, the NBA looks a lot different than it did just a few days ago. Some of the top teams, like the Oklahoma City Thunder and Boston Celtics, stood pat. But others — the Los Angeles Lakers and Dallas Mavericks, especially — made significant moves to […]
February 7, 2025