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A little over a year ago, Onyeka Okongwu was an 18-year-old freshman at USC gearing up for his first college season. He spent the entire summer in the gym working on his game after being snubbed as a McDonald’s All-American as a senior in high school. “Not getting a McDonald’s nod probably benefited me in the long run,” Okongwu told Yahoo Sports. “It definitely hurt at the time but when I got to USC, there were no expectations for me and I just played my style of basketball and got… Source link

Trevor Ariza is headed back to Houston. The Houston Rockets are finalizing a deal that will send Robert Covington to the Portland Trail Blazers in exchange for Ariza and two future first-round draft picks, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. The Rockets will get a first-round pick in Wednesday’s draft and a future first-round pick. The deal will be finalized after Wednesday’s draft. The Rockets are finalizing a trade to send Robert Covington to Portland for Trevor Ariza and 2020… Source link

10 biggest NBA draft steals in the last decade originally appeared on NBC Sports Washington Every year, we spend so much time and energy focusing on the perceived top players in a given NBA Draft class, but quite often the best players are drafted later on and sometimes even in the second round. Every single year, All-Stars are available outside of the top-10 and often future Hall of Famers can be found. With that in mind, here are the 10 biggest steals in the NBA Draft from the last… Source link

Google, Facebook and other digital platforms could be forced to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in fines if they fail to comply with a news media bargaining code released by Australia’s competition regulator on Friday. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission was asked to develop the mandatory code in April by the treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, after negotiations between the digital platforms, the ACCC and media companies stalled, and media companies experienced a sharp fall in… Source link

Subscribe to The Yahoo Fantasy Football Podcast Welcome to the Yahoo Sports Fantasy Football Podcast! Liz Loza is joined by Mauricio Gutierrez, the founder of Estadio Fantasy, which is the No.1 site for Fantasy Football analysis in Spanish, to talk all things football and fantasy on this latest episode. [Create or join a 2020 Yahoo Fantasy Football League for free today]  Recently, Mauricio wrote about where the first pick fantasy drafts usually ends up at the end of the season — and the… Source link

Special to Yahoo Sports In Yahoo Best Ball, simply picking the right players is not a realistic strategy. We also need to consider the implications of the no-transaction format. A big part of that is roster construction. In other words, how many players at each position should we draft? It’s a simple question with a complicated answer for a couple of reasons. First, our decisions should be dynamic to our positional strength — which is a function of draft capital. If our QB1 is Patrick… Source link