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After finishing runner-up the last two years in the NBA’s MVP voting, Joel Embiid has finally won the award. The Philadelphia 76ers big man spoke to TNT’s Inside the NBA shortly after being crowned the league’s 2023 Most Valuable Player. “It’s been a long time coming,” Embiid shared. “A lot of hard work. I’ve been through a lot. … […]
Charles Barkley is calling out Kendrick Perkins for suggesting NBA MVP voters are racially biased. In an interview with 92.5 FM Altitude Sports Radio, Barkley ripped Perkins for tainting this year’s MVP race, which sees Serbian reigning two-time MVP Nikola Jokić looking to win his third straight award. “That’s asinine and silly. Asinine, silly, and stupid. Pick one of the […]
A jersey worn by Kobe Bryant during the 2007-08 season, the year he won the NBA’s MVP award, is set to be auctioned off by Sotheby’s. According to early estimates, it could fetch as much as $7 million. According to the listing, the golden Lakers jersey was worn in a total of 25 games, including the […]
Toronto Maple Leafs alternate captain Auston Matthews has become the third Leaf ever to win the Hart Trophy. Receiving 119 first-place votes in voting by the Professional Hockey Writers Association, the 24-year-old surpassed other contenders like Edmonton’s Connor McDavid and the New York Rangers’ Igor Shesterkin by a landslide. “I can’t lie, it feels really good… […]
The Warriors have beat the Boston Celtics to become the 2022 NBA Champions. Game 6 took place on Thursday night at TD Garden in Boston. The final score was 103-90. The win marks the Warriors’ fourth championship in eight years, the last time being back in 2018 when they defeated LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers in just four games. Following the […]
Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokić has reportedly been voted the NBA’s MVP for his second consecutive season, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, and some think Joel Embiid was robbed. The award is set to be formally announced this week. Jokić, 27, was voted most valuable player last year but his stats were even higher this time around. He […]
NFL MVP voter and sportswriter Hub Arkush went off on Green Bay Packers player Aaron Rodgers during a chat on Chicago’s 670 The Score, calling the 38-year-old quarterback a “jerk” and “bad guy.” “I don’t think you can be the biggest jerk in the league and punish your team, and your organization and your fan base the way he did and be the […]
Griselda Records founder Westside Gunn is one of the biggest pro wrestling fans to touch the mic. Many of his songs are named after some of the biggest legends to touch the squared circle, and a number of them feature superstars of decades past. Back in January, Gunn dropped “The Hurt Business,” a posse cut […]
Aaron Rodgers is this season’s Associated Press NFL Most Valuable Player. This is the third time Rodgers’ career that he’s been named MVP, putting him in the rarefied air of only five other players in the history of the award. “The guys on that list are guys I grew up watching, idolizing,” Rodgers said if […]
Social media has been having its way with Fox Sports analyst Doug Gottlieb after he made insensitive and sexist comments on Saturday questioning why ESPN analyst and former player Maria Taylor has a vote in the All-NBA polling. “Why does Maria Taylor have a vote? Real question,” Gottlieb wrote in a response to a since-deleted tweet. “She is […]
