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[unable to retrieve full-text content]NBA playoffs: Predictions for Knicks-Sixers, Nuggets-Lakers and every first-round series  Yahoo Sports Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]2023 NBA Draft grades: First-round pick-by-pick analysis, trade updates  Yahoo Sports Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]NFL Draft: Bijan Robinson joins the fantasy football party as an immediate first-round pick  Yahoo Sports Source link

The draft media hated the Raiders’ selection of Alex Leatherwood. Sometimes the draft media is right. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri) The arrival of NFL roster cutdown day means hundreds of players getting cut loose from their teams. It’s not often that one of them was a first-round draft pick a year ago. [Set, hut, hike! Create or join a fantasy football league now!] The Las Vegas Raiders waived Alex Leatherwood, the No. 17 overall pick of the 2021 NFL draft, on Tuesday, according to ESPN’s Adam… Source link

With sparkles in her hair and glimmering flashes of what was — quite perfectly — as much cocktail dress as tennis outfit, Serena Williams was serving for the set but down at deuce. The US Open crowd was amped but nervous. Serena was a 23-time major champion. Her opponent, Danka Kovinic, was a 27-year-old who had never been past the third round in a major. Back in the day, this would have taken about 53 minutes. Serena is 40 now, though, mother to a 4-year-old daughter. She’s been… Source link

The Pittsburgh Steelers released their first official depth chart Friday and fans hoping to see rookie Kenny Pickett take over immediately might be disappointed. Pickett is listed as the team’s third quarterback, behind both current starter Mitchell Trubisky and backup Mason Rudolph. [Set, hut, hike! Create or join a fantasy football league now!] That probably shouldn’t come as a huge surprise. Trubisky, who the team signed to a two-year deal in the offseason, was expected to open the season… Source link

The New England Patriots are cutting ties with N’Keal Harry. Per NFL Network, the Patriots are trading the former first-round pick to the Chicago Bears. They’ll get a seventh-round pick from Chicago in return. The Patriots selected Harry with the 32nd pick of the 2019 draft, hoping the Arizona State wide receiver could boost a longstanding position of weakness. After three seasons in New England, it became clear that he wasn’t the right fit. During his time in New England, Harry tallied 57… Source link

The Boston Celtics got the point guard they were seeking Friday. Boston reportedly acquired Malcolm Brogdon in a trade with the Indiana Pacers, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN. The deal will cost the Celtics five players and a 2023 first-round pick. None of the players going back to the Pacers are considering part of Boston’s core. In exchange for Brogdon, the Pacers will receive Malik Fitts, Juwan Morgan, Aaron Nesmith, Nik Stauskas and Daniel Theis. Brogdon, 29, averaged 19.1 points… Source link

In the afterglow of the NFL draft, everyone thinks their team’s rookie class will work out great. If you have multiple first-round picks, the sky is the limit. Just wait until the optimistic draft grades for each of those teams that picked more than once in the first round on Thursday. It would be great if the NFL was that easy. The Las Vegas Raiders know it’s not. In 2019, the Raiders had just traded edge rusher Khalil Mack and receiver Amari Cooper, but they were awash in first-round picks…. Source link

The legendary chart that still governs the NFL draft was an inexact estimate of a 1980s market. Its creator, the Dallas Cowboys, never intended to guide hundreds of draft-day trades for decades to come, but here we are. When the 2022 bonanza begins Thursday in Las Vegas, general managers will answer phones, haggle over picks and reference this outdated rubric. Its purpose, ever since 1991, has been to quantify the relative value of draft picks. It posits, for example, that No. 1 overall is… Source link