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3 weeks ago | 
news4usonline.com | Benjamin Verbrugge
You hear the phrase “boom or bust” a lot in sports. It has a somewhat negative connotation, but when you break it down, these are the types of players who can single-handedly change the outcome of a game. In the NFL, they are gamebreakers. The home run hitters, who might do very little all game, and then burn the defense for an 80-yard touchdown. Think Tyreek Hill early in his career. In the NBA, they are the shooters who can get hot and take over by knocking down four three-pointers in a quarter.
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1 month ago | 
news4usonline.com | Benjamin Verbrugge
Los Angeles (News4usOnline) – With Blake Snell, Tyler Glasnow, Roki Sasaki, and Emmet Sheehan all on the injured list, the Dodgers have had to rely far too much on a bullpen that is also breaking down. It is time for some familiar faces who have made their way off the injured list to step up.
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1 month ago | 
news4usonline.com | Benjamin Verbrugge
Inglewood, CA (News4usOnline) – If the first round of the NBA playoffs was any indication, David Adelman‘s “interim” tag will be removed this offseason, and he will become the Denver Nuggets‘ full-time head coach. Two days after beating the Clippers in a seven-game series, Adelman and his team went into Oklahoma City and took a 1-0 series lead over the top seed in the West.
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1 month ago | 
news4usonline.com | Benjamin Verbrugge
This is the James Harden the Clippers need to survive. Kawhi Leonard is capable of being the motor late, but he is not the engine starter. If Harden is not in his bag again early in Game 7, playoff basketball in Los Angeles will be over this season. Luckily, Harden was deep in that bag in LA’s 111-105 win over the Nuggets in Game 6, leading the way with 28 points (21 in the first half) and eight assists.
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2 months ago | 
news4usonline.com | Benjamin Verbrugge
Inglewood, CA (News4usOnline) – Game 4 delivered on the promise of this being one of the best first-round series of the postseason. There was a massive fourth quarter comeback, countless runs, a buzzer beating dunk, and it got very chippy. The Nuggets miraculously escaped with a win, despite being outscored by the Clippers by 18 points in the fourth quarter, and now the series heads back to Denver tied at two games apiece.
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2 months ago | 
news4usonline.com | Benjamin Verbrugge
Inglewood, CA (News4usOnline) – The Intuit Dome played host to an NBA postseason game for the first time since opening at the beginning of the season, and the building was absolutely rocking as the Clippers trounced the Nuggets in Game 3, 117-83, to take a 2-1 lead in their Western Conference first-round playoff series. Denver started the game 8-9 from the field and 3-3 from three-point range, building a 20-14 lead four and a half minutes into the game.
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2 months ago | 
news4usonline.com | Benjamin Verbrugge
Los Angeles, CA – The Dodgers picked up their 13th win of the season, beating the Rockies 6-2 on Jackie Robinson Day. Both sides took part in an annual gathering at the Jackie Robinson statue beyond the centerfield wall before the game. The baseball icon’s granddaughter, Sonya Pankey, and one of his friends, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, met the teams there and shared some of the knowledge that Robinson had passed along to them.
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2 months ago | 
news4usonline.com | Benjamin Verbrugge
Los Angeles, CA – (News4usOnlline) – It has been 78 years since Jackie Robinson debuted for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the MLB color barrier, and it feels like the number of Black stars in baseball is headed in the wrong direction. Mookie Betts is one of the best players in the game and a shining example of what a superstar should look like. Still, after him, there are very few household-name African American players for the next generation to gravitate towards for inspiration.
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2 months ago | 
news4usonline.com | Benjamin Verbrugge
(News4usOnline) – The Rockets got some well-deserved rest over the final stretch of the regular season after clinching the second-best record in the Western Conference with three games left on their schedule. Houston has been the surprise of the league, increasing its win total from last year by 11 games.
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2 months ago | 
news4usonline.com | Benjamin Verbrugge
Inglewood, CA (News4usOnline) – The Clippers are looking to win 18 out of their last 21 games to secure a spot as high as the fourth seed in the Western Conference and guarantee home-court advantage in the first round of the NBA Playoffs. They moved to within two games of that mark on Wednesday, beating the second-place Rockets 134-117, going 16-3 over their last 19 outings. Houston was extremely undermanned, essentially sitting its top six players.
