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 seven months ago, the Oklahoma City Thunder hosted the Indiana Pacers in the first winner-take-all game in the NBA Finals since 2016. The game started off hot: it was tied seven minutes into the game when Tyrese Haliburton stepped back and tore his Achilles tendon, changing the trajectory of the game — and […]
January 23, 2026
If the Super Bowl is the best week of the NFL season, Conference Championship Weekend has to be a close second. Of course, the stakes aren’t quite as high as lifting the Lombardi Trophy, but seeing the league’s four best teams battle it out in wars of attrition in front of tense home fans with […]
January 23, 2026
With three games left in the NFL season, 28 teams have been eliminated and four remain. The New England Patriots, Denver Broncos, Los Angeles Rams, and Seattle Seahawks are all here through a combination of dominant offenses capable of putting up points and sufficient defenses to match, and each would be a worthy Super Bowl […]
January 23, 2026
20 years ago today, NBA fans witnessed a performance that nobody will ever forget. That evening, Kobe Bryant treated the Toronto Raptors to an onslaught of jumpers, layups, dunks, and free throws for nearly 42 minutes, and by the time the game mercifully came to an end, he’d recorded 81 points, the second-most in NBA […]
January 22, 2026
There’s something about January 22 that’s synonymous with big scoring performances. 20 years ago today, Kobe Bryant set the post-merger single-game scoring record by dropping 81 points on the Toronto Raptors, and on this date in 2024, Joel Embiid had 70 points and Karl-Anthony Towns 62. Towns’ outburst was sufficient to set the Minnesota Timberwolves’ […]
January 22, 2026
Only two NBA markets are split between two teams, and unsurprisingly, they’re the two largest cities in the United States by population: New York and Los Angeles. Naturally, the NBA’s Rivals Week wouldn’t be complete without cross-town matchups. The Knicks and the Nets went yesterday, and it wasn’t much of a competition: the Manhattan team, […]
January 22, 2026
Earlier in January, the Atlanta Hawks officially put an end to the Trae Young era, shipping him to the Washington Wizards for C.J. McCollum and Corey Kispert. Since McCollum made his debut, they’ve won just once, as they’re on a four-game losing streak entering tonight’s 8 p.m. ET game against the Memphis Grizzlies, who have […]
January 21, 2026
In the moments immediately following the Denver Broncos’ overtime triumph over the Buffalo Bills to advance to the AFC Championship Game for the first time since 2016, the mood was jubilant. They had just hung 33 points on the Bills, just the second time that they’d scored that many points since the start of November, […]
January 21, 2026
For the third time in the span of two months, the NFL’s focus turns to the NFC West, where the Los Angeles Rams and Seattle Seahawks will once again battle for supremacy. This time, the stakes are higher than ever: the winner will claim the NFC title and advance to the Super Bowl, which is […]
January 21, 2026
