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.
For the Toronto Raptors, this has been several seasons in the making. The 2018-19 NBA champions haven’t been in the postseason since 2021-22, when they lost to the Philadelphia 76ers in six games. Now, they’ll open a first-round series on Saturday afternoon against the Cleveland Cavaliers, who lost in the second round last season despite […]
April 17, 2026
For the Golden State Warriors, basically everything that could’ve gone wrong this season has. Jimmy Butler III sustained a season-ending torn ACL and Stephen Curry missed more than two months with a knee injury of his own. To top it all off, Moses Moody tore his patellar tendon. But despite finishing the regular season just […]
April 17, 2026
For a moment, all the hard work that the Charlotte Hornets had done to climb their way from the cellars of the Eastern Conference into the playoff picture looked like it was about to come undone. But with the Hornets trailing by four and 28 seconds left, Brandon Miller rose up for a top-of-the-key three […]
April 17, 2026
When NBA commissioner Adam Silver initiated the Play-In Tournament prior to the 2020-21 season, he must’ve dreamed of an outcome like Tuesday night, when both games went down to the wire. That night, the Portland Trail Blazers earned the seventh seed in the Western Conference and the Charlotte Hornets kept their season alive, downing the […]
April 17, 2026
After sweeping the Houston Astros between April 6 and April 8, the Colorado Rockies improved to 6-6, the latest in the season they were at .500 or better since 2022. It looked like a sign of progress for a Rockies team that has been among the MLB’s worst for years, losing at least 100 games […]
April 16, 2026
UPDATE: Brent Suter has been named the starter for the Angels. He has not pitched more than 3.2 innings in any appearance this season. It’s too early to glean anything about how the rest of the MLB season might play out, but one trend that Los Angeles Angels fans — and baseball fans in general […]
April 16, 2026
Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors have been here before. In the five prior seasons that the NBA’s SoFi Play-In Tournament has existed in its current form, the Warriors have participated three times, losing twice in 2021 to fall out of the bracket despite finishing the regular season with the eighth-best record, crashing out […]
April 15, 2026
Despite playing in opposite leagues (and in different countries) the Toronto Blue Jays and Milwaukee Brewers have something to bond over. Each came close to winning a World Series title in 2025, advancing deep into the postseason, but each ultimately fell to the Los Angeles Dodgers. Still, both teams project to be contenders once again, […]
April 15, 2026
The Orlando Magic entered the regular season with high expectations after making aggressive moves in the offseason, dealing Kentavious Caldwell-Pope and four first round picks for Desmond Bane. It was a move of a team indicative of going all-in, but it hasn’t panned out so far, as the team finished just eighth in the East […]
April 15, 2026
Griffin Wong analyzes today’s popular NBA player props utilizing DraftKings Network’s Most Bet Player Prop tool to spotlight top trending picks.
April 15, 2026
Stephen Curry. Kawhi Leonard. NBA playoff setting. Basketball doesn’t get much better than this. The NBA’s SoFi Play-In Tournament will continue this evening with its second day of action, as the East’s No. 7 seed will be determined and two West teams will battle it out for the right to play the Phoenix Suns for […]
April 15, 2026