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.
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
The Western Conference once again takes center stage as the NBA’s Rivals Week tips off. Tonight’s two nationally-televised games will both take place in the West, as the San Antonio Spurs travel to face the Houston Rockets at 8 p.m. ET and the Denver Nuggets host the Los Angeles Lakers at 10 p.m. ET. The […]
January 20, 2026
Perhaps more than any of the other major sports in the United States, the NBA is defined by rivalries. Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell defined the 1960s, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird the 1980s, and LeBron James and Stephen Curry the 2010s, with several other sets of nemeses making their mark — to varying degrees […]
January 20, 2026
On April 29, 2024, Jamal Murray pulled up for a soft floater over the outstretched arms of Austin Reaves, his second game-winner of the Denver Nuggets’ first-round series against the Los Angeles Lakers. The shot won the Nuggets the game and the series, cemented Murray’s legacy as a playoff riser, and wrote another scintillating chapter […]
January 20, 2026
D’Andre Swift and Kyle Monangai aren’t quite Jahmyr Gibbs and David Montgomery, but in Ben Johnson’s first season as the Chicago Bears’ head coach, he’s made sure that Swift and Monangai do their best impressions of the Detroit Lions duo. It’s worked: Swift and Monangai combined for 2,333 all-purpose yards during the regular season, helping […]
January 18, 2026
The Los Angeles Rams certainly didn’t make it look easy in the Wild Card Round against the 8-9 Carolina Panthers, but in the end, Matthew Stafford, Puka Nacua, and Co. pulled out a tremendous comeback win and punched the Rams’ ticket to Chicago for the Divisional Round. They’ll face the Bears at 4:30 p.m. ET […]
January 18, 2026
