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.
Three things are guaranteed in life: death, taxes, and Devin Booker being a walking bucket. Since his rookie season, the Phoenix Suns guard has never averaged fewer than 22 points per game. The tenth-year pro should have a golden opportunity to score in bunches on Thursday, as the Suns travel to New Orleans to take […]
December 5, 2024
NBA fans generally expected there to be at least one young Southwestern Division team hovering near the top of the Western Conference standings. The Oklahoma City Thunder, unsurprisingly, top the conference so far. But just a game and a half behind them are the breakout Houston Rockets, who are humming on all cylinders. Part of […]
December 5, 2024
LA Clippers shooting guard Norman Powell has been one of the positive surprises of the 2024-25 season so far, stepping seamlessly into the vacancy left in the Clippers starting lineup by the departure of forward Paul George, who joined the Philadelphia 76ers in free agency. The ten-year veteran has enjoyed the best season of his […]
December 4, 2024
Wednesday night’s matchup between the Indiana Pacers and Brooklyn Nets marks two teams desperately trying to stop a slide. Each team has lost three consecutive games and both sit in the play-in picture a quarter of the way through the season. Each team’s fans might be equally unhappy, but for different reasons; after the Nets […]
December 4, 2024
On Wednesday night, two of the hottest teams in basketball will meet. The Milwaukee Bucks’ seven consecutive wins mark the longest active streak in the league, while the Atlanta Hawks’ four-game streak is the third-longest. Atlanta’s point guard, Trae Young, has been icy to start the season, and not in a good way. Young’s scoring […]
December 4, 2024
When Los Angeles Lakers head coach JJ Redick stepped to the podium to question whether LeBron James benefits the team by playing in every game, it must’ve marked a first. Indeed, these are unprecedented times; James is in the middle of the worst shooting slump of his career, having missed 19 consecutive three-pointers. The Lakers […]
December 4, 2024
Don’t look now, but the Milwaukee Bucks are back. After a nightmare start to their 2024-25 campaign, the 2020-21 champions have won nine of their last ten games and have climbed to fifth place in the Eastern Conference. Head coach Doc Rivers has the Bucks firing on all cylinders, and they are looking like the […]
December 4, 2024
Griffin Wong shares his top picks on DraftKings Sportsbook for Wednesday's six-game Premier League slate.
December 3, 2024
Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokić has won three of the last four Most Valuable Player awards and is currently the favorite to win his fourth, which would put him in elite company with LeBron James and Bill Russell as the only players to win four MVPs in a five-year span. But first, Jokić must contend […]
December 3, 2024
Steelers country, let’s ride? When the Denver Broncos unceremoniously dumped quarterback Russell Wilson ($5,900 Play-Action) in March just two years into a five-year, $245 million mega-deal, the 2014 Super Bowl champion’s days as an effective passer appeared to be numbered. That the nine-time Pro Bowler has experienced somewhat of a career renaissance since controversially being […]
December 3, 2024
Coming off a nail-biting loss to the Houston Rockets on Sunday, which allowed the Rockets to pull within half a game for the top seed in the Western Conference, the Oklahoma City Thunder could hardly ask for a better opponent against whom to bounce back. The Thunder will host the hapless Utah Jazz at 8 […]
December 3, 2024