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Get ready for the Draymond Green Game
Good morning. We have that and more in Thursday’s NBA newsletter.
BOGEY DOWN: Andrew Bogut will miss the rest of the Finals due to a knee injury suffered in Game 5. (He’s also at risk of missing the Olympics.) This seems like a big deal until you recall Bogut didn’t play in either Game 5 or 6 of last year’s Finals, games the Warriors won by a combined 21. It was a problem on Tuesday because Draymond Green was suspended; one presumes the Death Lineup will start Game 6.
That means this is all setting up perfectly for a full-on Draymond Green Game.
Game 6! Thursday, 9 p.m. ET, ABC.
IT’S ALL ON DRAYMOND: Dan Devine with an excellent piece on what lies ahead for Draymond Green in Game 6.
A SPECIAL GUEST: ABC and Turner worked out a deal so that Craig Sager can work his first ever Finals game. Kudos to everyone involved. This is gonna be great.
METAMORPHOSIS: Ty Lue is finding his voice as a motivator.
YEAH: Ken Berger acknowledges how absurd it is that we judge LeBron’s legacy while he’s still playing.
PROPHETIC: Wolves franchisee Glen Taylor predicted things might not go well for Kevin Love in Cleveland back when the trade happened two years ago. However, he still shouldn’t have said it. In a position like his, being graceful is far more important than being publicly right.
SURE: Seven seconds of Klay Thompson’s grunting like an old man when standing up from the podium. Thank you, Tas Melas.
THE SHADOW HISTORY: I loved reading Jason Concepcion on NBA conspiracy theories and the whole RIGGED! thing, though I deeply fear the people who really, really believe the most recent entry in the cuckoo canon are too dense to catch his debunking. (I got an email this morning claiming that only fools don’t acknowledge it’s rigged.)
CHEW ON THIS: You can own Steph Curry’s mouthguard for $5,000.
NEW KINGS UNIFORMS! Pretty cool.
MOST INTERESTING MAN IN THE NBA: I find it fascinating that Metta World Peace speaks daily with the name who threw the beer in Detroit.
Happy Thursday. Enjoy the game. We’ll be right here waiting for you.
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