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.
In their first game of 2025, the Houston Rockets will face the Dallas Mavericks in a top-of-the-West clash that would’ve had a lot more intrigue if not for the calf strain that Mavericks star Luka Dončić suffered on Christmas Day. Still, Dallas has been fairly competitive when Kyrie Irving plays without his co-star, so tonight’s […]
January 1, 2025
It was a pretty good 2024 for Nikola Jokić. The Denver Nuggets center won his third MVP in four seasons, took home a bronze medal for Serbia at the Olympic Games, and welcomed his second child into the world. Jokić surely hopes that 2025 brings more good fortune, including a run at his fourth MVP […]
January 1, 2025
The 2024-25 PGA TOUR season is about to enter overdrive with The Sentry, the first of its eight signature events with elevated purses, set to take place at The Plantation Course at Kapalua in Hawaii from January 2-5. Since the golf season is year-round and the back half of the season is stacked with important […]
December 31, 2024
The early part of the PGA TOUR season generally represents a fall break for the world’s top players, who tend to decrease their competitive reps after the President’s Cup and keep their bodies fresh for the important spring and summer tournaments. The calendar’s turn to 2025 represents the start of that ramp-up, with The Sentry […]
December 31, 2024
Happy New Year, NBA fans! Will 2025 see the seventh consecutive new champion, or will the Boston Celtics become the first repeat winners since the 2016-18 Golden State Warriors? As the calendar flips to 2025, we all have a lot to look forward to in the new year and plenty of fresh goals to work […]
December 31, 2024
The Miami Heat are about to get their best player back. After missing the team’s last five games after battling an illness and working through some conditioning concerns, five-time All-NBA forward Jimmy Butler looks set to make his return in tomorrow’s 7:30 p.m. ET clash against the New Orleans Pelicans. Although Butler has found himself […]
December 31, 2024
As the clock turns to 2025, the Philadelphia 76ers will hope to start the new year on the same hot form in which they have ended 2024. After a brutal first quarter of the season, Philadelphia has finally gotten healthy, with 2022-23 MVP Joel Embiid finally in the lineup and back to form. The 76ers […]
December 30, 2024
Going into the season, it appeared that Monday Night Football’s matchup between the San Francisco 49ers and Detroit Lions would be one of the season’s most anticipated. With the 49ers and Lions having faced off in a tightly-contested NFC Championship Game in January, it seemed to be an important battle for playoff positioning and, potentially, […]
December 30, 2024
Next week, the Detroit Lions will have, in essence, an early playoff game against the Minnesota Vikings, where the winner will claim the NFC North and the No. 1 seed in the conference and the loser will start its playoff campaign on the road in Tampa, Los Angeles, or Atlanta. But first, a Monday Night […]
December 30, 2024
To put it mildly, the 2024 season has not gone according to plan for the New York Jets. Jets fans started off the season optimistic with a healthy Aaron Rodgers and both Garrett Wilson and Breece Hall coming off of solid seasons. However, the Jets have slumped to 4-11, Rodgers has seemed dejected at times, […]
December 29, 2024
In what has been a rough season for everyone except Joe Burrow and Ja’Marr Chase, the Cincinnati Bengals’ playoff hopes are hanging by a thread. Heading into Week 17, the Bengals are two games behind the Denver Broncos, with both the Indianapolis Colts and the Miami Dolphins also at 7-8. Cincinnati can take the first […]
December 28, 2024