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.
Just over a week ago, 16 teams began their NBA playoff journeys, as the marathon for the Larry O’Brien Trophy began with four series in each conference. Tonight, those 16 could be cut down to 14, as the Oklahoma City Thunder have a chance to close out the Phoenix Suns and the Minnesota Timberwolves can […]
April 27, 2026
At this point, it’s nearly assured that one of the Western Conference’s second round series will see the Oklahoma City Thunder face off against the Los Angeles Lakers, but now, it’s a question of when that series will begin. Had the Lakers completed their sweep over the Houston Rockets last night, they would’ve had the […]
April 27, 2026
A great individual player can swing a team’s fortunes in many sports, but baseball might be the ultimate team game. There may be no better examples of that than 2024 and 2025 Paul Skenes, when he was historically dominant but the Pittsburgh Pirates finished at the bottom of the NL Central. Now, though, the Pirates […]
April 24, 2026
Three weeks ago, the Los Angeles Lakers’ season looked dead in the water. In an April 2 game against the Oklahoma City Thunder — in which the Lakers got blown out — Austin Reaves sustained an oblique strain and Luka Dončić went down with a hamstring strain. Los Angeles seemed like potential first-round fodder for […]
April 24, 2026
Griffin Wong offers his top Same Game Parlay on DraftKings Sportsbook for tonight's Game 3 between the Denver Nuggets and the Minnesota Timberwolves.
April 23, 2026
For a sports rivalry to be truly great, it needs both volume and even competition, and few rivalries are as intense as that between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants. Combined between the regular season and the playoffs, San Francisco leads the series 1291-1290-17. The Dodgers had led the series on Tuesday […]
April 23, 2026
Last season, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ five-year streak of division titles came to an end in spectacular fashion on the final day of the season, as they lost seven of their final nine games of the season to lose a three-way tiebreaker to the Carolina Panthers at 8-9. Even beating Carolina in Week 18 wasn’t […]
April 23, 2026
The last time the Toronto Raptors made the postseason, their journey ended quickly, as they fell in the first round of the 2021-22 playoffs. In that instance, it was the final appearance in a run of eight postseason appearances in nine years, and it spelled the effective end of the Raptors’ core. The following season, […]
April 23, 2026
