USA secures draw with Brazil in final match before Copa America • Celtics land biggest punches again, top Mavs to move 1 win from NBA title
 Sentinel Sports Final Thursday, June 13, 2024 | | |
| | | | | If anyone dismisses the legacy of Jerry West, suggesting he couldn't play in today's NBA (see Lake Howell's Chandler Parsons who essentially robbed the Memphis Grizzlies without a gun for $94 million), discontinue the conversation immediately. Parsons routinely says disrespectful things about old-timers who made the game that made him a fortune when the truth is he couldn 't have made the rosters for those legendary Lakers or Celtics teams. ... The Celtics are one win away from their 18th NBA championship. That's 1.5 more than the Lakers, who don't get full credit for that "bubble" title in 2020 (won after a five-month layoff because of COVID, no fans, no travel and taking all the elements out of what makes winning a title so difficult after an 82-game season). There, I said it. ... The USMNT's draw with Brazil is something to build on. No way they could enter Copa America with another 5-1 loss on their heads by a South American team. ... With so many new players, Gus Malzahn isn't worried about X's and O's as much as chemistry. UCF has to get familiar with each other quickly. Second season in the Big 12 isn't far away. | | | | Jerry West is remembered here for orchestrating the recruitment of Shaq away from Orlando and to the Lakers. | | | | | This is only the second positive result for the Americans against their South American foes, bringing the all-time record to 1-18-1. | | | | | Luka Doncic fouled out with the Mavericks having gotten to 93-90; there was no miracle finish. Boston did enough to hang on, and now a championship could be in its hands as early as Friday night when the teams meet in Game 4. | | | | | The roster has changed tremendously in the last six months, adding more than 40 players heading into the Knights' second Big 12 season. "We're still working real hard on the team bonding part," coach Gus Malzahn told the Orlando Sentinel. | | | | | Jerry West, who was selected to the Basketball Hall of Fame three times in a storied career as a player and executive and whose silhouette is considered to be the basis of the NBA logo, died Wednesday morning, the Los Angeles Clippers announced. | | | | | Panthers captain Aleksander Barkov practiced with the team on Wednesday before the Panthers travel to Edmonton for Stanley Cup Final Game 3. | | | | | More than 117,000 athletes and coaches descend on the Orange County Convention Center for 25-day AAU Volleyball Junior Nationals. Almost 6,000 teams registered make it the largest sporting event ever held at the OCCC. Also this weekend scholastic basketball event tips off. | | | | | Cubs closer Héctor Neris allowed José Caballero's solo homer in the ninth before earning his 10th save in 13 chances. | | | | | If you're going to roll the dice on a first-time coach, you better do it with your whole chest. That ship has sailed for the Lakers, but there's still hope. | | | | | Taevion Swint: "FSU's my favorite team. That's been my favorite team since I was a little boy." | | | | | Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas failed in her challenge against rules that stop her from competing in elite women's races because judges ruled she did not have standing to bring the case. | | | |
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