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Top 3 players from Saturday playoff tipoff

This list is only based off of the four NBA games played on Saturday night.

  1. Karl-Anthony Towns

With Minnesota being the underdog in this series, Kat came up big in game 1 against the Grizzlies. Despite not being the leading scorer last night im still putting Kat in the #1 spot because of the overall impact he had on the floor last night, with 29 points and 13 rebounds Kat made a big impact on both ends of the floor offensively and defensively. Towns had the second highest plus-minus and 9 defensive rebounds alone with high shooting percentages. 

  1. Tyrese Maxey

With the Sixers blowing out the Toronto Raptors to start the series it’s already not looking good for Raptors fans as Tyrese Maxey torched Toronto last night scoring a game-high 38 points on super efficient shooting. Maxey also had a game-high plus minus of +20. Some would Say James Harden was the player of the game instead of Maxey because of Hardens 22 points with 14 assists but I would disagree as Tyrese had more points and better plus-minus than James. 

  1. Jordan Poole

Jordan Poole had to be on this list for just the fact that he’s having a breakout season and this was his playoffs debut and he was in the starting lineup ahead of Steph Curry. Poole also was the leading scorer in this game carrying the Golden State Warriors to a game 1 win and scoring 30 points and having very efficient shooting percentages all around. Curry coming off the bench as a sixth man meant that Poole was in the starting lineup with Klay Thompson as the two guard.

Friday’s NBA play-in games

Atlanta Hawks vs Cleveland Cavaliers 

    The Trae Young led Hawks cruise past the Cleveland Cavaliers with a 107-101 win with Trae Young leading the way with a cool 38 points. With Atlanta having a big second half the bench came up big scoring 25 points against Clevelands 9 points. Five different Hawks players scored double digits helping out Ice Trae. Even with Jarrett Allen returning to give the Cavs more help it still wasn’t enough, both teams struggled from the 3 point line but the Hawks managed to find the edge. 

    New Orleans Pelicans vs Los Angeles Clippers

The starless Clippers fall to the Brandon Ingram led Pelicans advance to the #8 seed in the western conference to play the Phoenix Suns in the first round. With Paul George entering health and safety protocols Thursday night, the favor swung to the Pelicans’ side and New Orleans took advantage of that. With massive concern with Zion and the Pelicans front office the players still took to the court and performed, the Pelicans also won in a different way by keeping their first pick this year that was lottery protected from the C.J Mccollum trade. Brandon Ingram had a big game scoring 30 points on efficient shooting. For the Clippers Marcus Morris Sr and Reggie Jackson led the Clippers in scoring with 27 points each but it just wasnt enough without the Clippers two big stars in Paul George and Kawhi Leonard.

NFL news this week

With the work week winding down we’ll be looking at some of the biggest stories this week. 

    Derek Carr Signs Extension With Raiders

    With this being the craziest offseason in NFL history the Las Vegas Raiders just sent a message out to the league about Derek Carr. With the two sides agreeing to a massive extension Derek Carr will now be a top 5 paid QB in the league signing a 3 year $121.5 million dollar extension that runs through the 2025 season, Carr will now be making an average of $40.5 million a year. 

Some might disagree with Carr being the fifth highest paid QB but the numbers say otherwise finishing with a top eight completion percentage {64.8}, passing yards per game {282.6} and passing yards per attempt {7.7}, Carr also finished the season with a total of 4,804 passing yards which is a new franchise record. 

Sammy Watkins Signs With The Packers

  With having a quite free agency Sammy Watkins will now be a cheesehead, signing a one year $4 million dollar deal with the Green Bay Packers on Thursday afternoon. The Former Baltimore Ravens wideout will now be a deep threat for the reigning back to back MVP. Watkins was once seen as a number one receiver but hasn’t lived up to the hype in his early career but he’s been a good number two option for the Kansas City Chiefs and Baltimore Ravens. With Green Bay’s wide receiver room being bare, hopefully this won’t be the last move the Packers make this offseason. 

A.J Green Returning to Cardinals On A One Year Deal 

The 33 year old veteran wide receiver will be returning to the Arizona Cardinals on a one year deal, the team announced. With A.J being part of a stacked receiver room last year in Arizona he still had a great year considering the terms he was under, with just nine starts Green racked up 54 catches for 848 yards and three touchdowns, which was his most productive season since 2017. 

After losing key pieces in free agency like Chandler Jones, Chase Edmonds and Kristian Kurk at least A.J Green will be returning to the team. 

Stephon Gilmore Signs with the Indianapolis Colts

    The Former defensive player of the year is headed to the Colts on a team friendly deal, two years worth around $23 million {11.5 million per year}. The Colts have landed yet another big fish this offseason, and have loaded up on this already stacked defense with DeForest Buckner, Darius Leonard, Bobby Okereke, Kenny Moore and many other big impact players. 

Gilmore visited the Colts on wednesday and well i guess you could say it went well. With Gilmore having his DPOY in New England the Patriots and Gilmore were still far apart on contract talks especially with Gilmore coming off a significant quad injury back in 2020, Gilmore was then shipped out to the Carolina Panthers in 2021 for a sixth round pick.

Kyler Murray not expected to play until new contract

Arizona Cardinals star quarterback Kyler Murray is said to not hit the field until he gets a new contract, after a offseason of drama so far Murray has scrubbed all his social medias of Cardinals pictures and Kyler’s agent reported to the team that the star QB won’t be playing until he gets a new contract. The Cardinals have yet to make Murray a contract offer. 

    The 24 year old QB is set to make 5.5 million for the 2022-2023 season and will be on the final year of his contract, after being a MVP leader up until injuries last season that’s been the story of Murray’s career so far, he cant stay healthy for a full season and that’s starting to become a problem, Murray missed 3 games last season but when returning to the field for his first playoff game Kyler refused to play his usual playstyle of being one of the most elusive quarterbacks in the league. 

The Cardinals aren’t looking to trade the former #1 overall pick so this could get messy this offseason.

Wednesday 7th and 8th seed play in games

Hawks vs Hornets

    The Atlanta Hawks and Charlotte Hornets game was not particularly close with Atlanta blowing out the Hornets 132-103 with Trae Young leading the way once again. With six Hawks players scoring in double digits, Young did have his fair share of help last night, the Hornets really struggled with shooting just 37.8% and 31.7% from 3 point land, the Hornets will be going home in the play-in tournament for the second straight year with blowout losses in both years. Atlanta will now be playing the Cleveland Cavaliers for the 8th seed on friday. 

    New Orleans Pelicans vs San Antonio Spurs

The New Orleans Pelicans will now be playing the Los Angeles Clippers on friday for the final play-in spot on friday. With a big win the Pelicans beat the Spurs 113-103 with C.J Mccollum leading the way with 32 points on 52% shooting and Brandon Ingram being a big contributor with 27 points. The Pelicans are continuing to look better and better everyday without star player Zion Williamson. The San Antonio Spurs once again are missing the playoffs and are now looking forward to this offseason, with All-Star point guard Dejonte Murray having a rough game only scoring 16 points on 26% shooting it wasn’t a shock that the Spurs were going to lose this game.

Tuesdays 7th and 8th seed play in games

Nets vs Cavaliers 

       With the Brooklyn Nets securing the 7th seed in the playoffs, it looks like the Boston Celtics will be getting their first round playoff matchup again. Last year Brooklyn blew the doors of the Celtics in route of a 4-1 series win but Boston will be getting another crack at Brooklyn this year. The Brooklyn Nets beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 115-108 thanks to Kyrie Irving’s 34 point double double and Kevin Durant 25 point double double, Cleveland will have another shot at making the playoffs by playing the winner of the Hawks and Hornets game on Friday. Despite the loss Cavs point guard Darius Garland had a phenomenal game with 34 points on 54% shooting.

Clippers vs Timberwolves  

The Minnesota Timberwolves beat the Los Angeles Clippers 109-104 to secure the 7th seed and will be playing the Memphis Grizzlies in the first round thanks to a terrific game by Anthony Edwards and D’Angelo Russell, combining for 59 points. Karl Anthony Towns may not have had a great game by only scoring 11 points but his team did get the win and will be playing in the playoffs for the first time in four years since Jimmy Butler left back in 2018. The Clippers will have another chance to make the 8th seed by beating the winner of the Pelicans, Spurs game, Paul George did have a good game by scoring 34 points on decent shooting percentages (41.7%FG, 50%3PT) but it wasn’t enough to lift the Clippers over the Timberwolves.

Lakers fire Frank Vogel

After having a dreadful and disappointing season the Los Angeles Lakers are officially firing head coach Frank Vogel, Vogel who won a championship with the Lakers 2 seasons ago will now be looking for his next head coaching job, Finishing with a 33-49 record this season, finishing 11th in the western conference and missing the playoffs it’s not a shocker that Vogel was going to be gone after this season, but is it all Vogel’s fault?        

    With many candidates names being thrown out into the mix some names have been Toronto Raptors head coach Nick Nurse, Utah Jazz head coach Quiin Schnieder, Philadelphia 76ers head coach Doc Rivers and many others, but who would want this job? If you were me i would stay far away from the Lakers head coaching position, take out the bubble championship this hasn’t been a close to well run organization in the last decade, the Lakers have missed the playoffs 7 out of the last 9 years and they don’t have many good pieces on this roster and little to no draft capital for the upcoming years. 

With owner Jeanie Buss and GM Rob Palinka making a mess of this roster, what coach would want to step into this? You have championship expectations every year, an aging star in LeBron who’s probably gone in a year from now, Anthony Davis who is a star and should be in his prime but can’t stay healthy, Russell Westbrook whose contract is egregious to say the least and the oldest roster in NBA history, the list goes on and on.

DK Metcalf best trade destinations

Seattle Seahawks star wideout DK Metcalf has been rumored to be on the trade block ever since Russell Wilson and Bobby Wagner departed. With Metcalf being on the last year of his rookie contract and Seattle being in a clear rebuild DK could be on the move, teams around the league speculate DK could be on the move for the right price. Here are my top 5 trade destinations according to fit and the teams need for a wide receiver.

  1. Green Bay Packers

With DeVante Adams traded at the start of free agency and Marquez Valdes-Scantling leaving to join the Chiefs the Packers have a big hole to fill at receiver, With Metcalf being in the lineup he would be the perfect player for Aaron Rodgers. 

  1. New York Jets

    With trade rumors already going around the Jets reportedly offered the #10 overall pick for Metcalf and the Seahawks turned it down, it is reported that it would take at least two first round picks to acquire DK. It would be a pretty good fit considering being similar age to 2nd year quarterback Zach Wilson and the other receivers on the team. 

  1. Indianapolis Colts

    The Colts would be much higher on the list if they had a stable QB situation, with Indianapolis having its sixth starting QB in the last six seasons DK will be a great fit with Matt Ryan but would be a greater fit if Ryan was a few years younger. 

  1. Baltimore Ravens

    The Ravens have been a great, stable organization since entering the league, with Baltimore missing that true number 1 receiver DK could totally be that and the Ravens would have elite Skill positions with J.K Dobbins, Mark Andrews, and Hollywood Brown. The only downside to this is Lamar Jackson hasn’t developed much of his passing game since entering the league in 2018.  

  1. Philadelphia Eagles

Same as the Ravens, Jalen Hurts hasn’t developed much of a deep ball and can be inaccurate at times that’s why the Eagles are much down on the list, the Eagles have had one of the worst receiving cores in the league for last couple years but that would change dramatically with Metcalf in the lineup. With Devonte Smith and DK Metcalf on the other side, that could end up being a top 5 receiving duo in the league one day.

Nets should drop to 9th seed

With the final day of the regular season NBA games the East play-in teams are all within a game apart, most should want to win to move up the standing but some could make a case for Brooklyn to rest KD and Kyrie to drop the final game. 

       Some would say Brooklyn losing tonight’s game and dropping down to the 9th spot in the East wouldn’t be a bad thing, with Milwaukee being the 2nd seed in the East Brooklyn would currently be playing the Bucks if they were to make it out of the play-in games, if I was in Brooklyn’s shoes I would drop to the 9th seed and possibly play either the Hawks or the Hornets in the play-in games and if they were to win play the Miami Heat in the first round. 

With the Miami Heat being one of the more vulnerable number seeds in the last couple years Brooklyn would have a good shot at winning that series versus the Heat.

LeBron out remainder season, Luka miss season finale

Last night had some interesting news and headlines from LeBron being out for the remainder of the season to Luka getting another technical foul.

       With the Los Angeles Lakers being out of the NBA play-in games the Lakers have officially shut down LeBron James for the remainder of the season. With James being out it will take him out of the NBA scoring title and winning his second. It was reported Friday afternoon LeBron suffered a ankle sprain on March 27th

Luka Doncic was assisted with his 16th technical foul of the season and will now be suspended for the Mavericks regular season finale. After Doncic was undercut by Trailblazers Elijah Hughes, after taking that shot Doncic was heated after no foul was called and Doncic was heard telling the Mavericks refs “How is that not a foul” and then that lead to Doncic’s 16th technical foul.