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.
Once again, Luka Dončić and the Los Angeles Lakers have been caught in the cross-hairs of social media discourse. Clips have circulated surrounding Dončić’s sometimes lackadaisical defense (even though every composite metric has graded him as an above-average defender for the second straight season), and given the Lakers’ results, it’s hard to blame any skeptics. […]
January 2, 2026
This time last year, the Boston Celtics were 24-9 and seemingly had realistic hopes of going becoming the first repeat NBA champions since the 2016-18 Golden State Warriors. Fortunes can change fast in the NBA, though: Jayson Tatum tore his Achilles tendon in the second round of the summer’s playoffs, and the Celtics had to […]
January 1, 2026
As the calendar turns to 2026, the future looks bright for both the Philadelphia 76ers and the Dallas Mavericks. Each team still has work to do in re-setting its focus on a new young core (for Dallas, Cooper Flagg, and for Philadelphia, the Tyrese Maxey-VJ Edgecombe guard duo), but both at least have a direction. […]
January 1, 2026
On the opening day of the 2025-26 season, Philadelphia 76ers rookie VJ Edgecombe captivated NBA fans with a 34-point performance, the highest-scoring NBA debut since Wilt Chamberlain in 1959. The fact that, two and a half months later, Edgecombe arguably isn’t even playing like a top three rookie is a testament to the strength and […]
January 1, 2026
Clearly, at 12-19 with the league’s fourth-worst net rating, the Utah Jazz aren’t title contenders. However, the Jazz are coming off of back-to-back wins against teams who probably do fall into that category, in the East’s No. 1-seeded Detroit Pistons and the West’s No. 2-seeded San Antonio Spurs. Tonight, Utah will have its third consecutive […]
December 30, 2025
Only 11 players have ever appeared in an NBA game at the age of 41. Tonight, the Los Angeles Lakers’ LeBron James is set to become the fourth. More than 22 years ago, James made his debut as an 18-year-old and became the youngest player in league history to reach several scoring milestones. Now, he’s […]
December 30, 2025
Just when Nikola Jokić seemed like he couldn’t impress more, he one-upped himself on Christmas Night with the first 55-point, 15-rebound, 15-assist game in NBA history, and in the process, he set a new record for the most points in a single overtime period (18). It’s early in the season, but it’s looking increasingly impossible […]
December 29, 2025
The Atlanta Falcons have long been eliminated from the NFC playoff picture, but they can still play spoiler in each of their final two weeks: if they win out, they could push the Los Angeles Rams down to the sixth seed and gift the Carolina Panthers the NFC South, even if the Tampa Bay Buccaneers […]
December 29, 2025
Last night, when the San Francisco 49ers outlasted the Chicago Bears in a Sunday Night Football thriller, the Los Angeles Rams officially fell out of contention to win the NFC West, guaranteeing that they’ll be either the fifth or the sixth seed in the playoffs. There’s a huge difference between those two seeds, though, thanks […]
December 29, 2025
