SGA Finally Gets MVP 👑

PLUS Knicks Blow Game 1 At MSG, Seeding Change In College Football Playoff, And 1st Team All-Defense Revealed

May 23, 2025

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  • T-Wolves Down 2-0

  • Knicks Blow Game 1 At MSG

  • Seeding Change In College Football Playoff

  • 1st Team All-Defense Revealed

  • SGA Finally Gets MVP

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T-Wolves Down 2-0 👀

The Timberwolves are getting absolutely cooked by OKC right now. Down 2-0 in the Western Conference Finals after another brutal 118-103 loss, and honestly?

It's starting to feel like they're punching way above their weight class.

The story here is all about those third quarters - Minnesota keeps it close through two quarters, then completely falls apart after halftime. This time it was a 35-21 beatdown in the third that basically ended the game.

Anthony Edwards dropped 32 points on 26 shots, but went ice cold from three (1-9), while SGA was getting every call and cruising to 38 points. The Wolves are hinting the officiating is trash without wanting to get fined, but the real issue is they just can't match OKC's execution when it matters.

Thunder look unstoppable right now.

Knicks Blow Game 1 At MSG

The Knicks just lived through every basketball fan's worst nightmare.

They were up 14 points with under 3 minutes left in Game 1 against the Pacers and somehow found a way to blow it in regulation, then got absolutely torched in overtime for a soul-crushing loss.

Jalen Brunson dropped 43 points and Karl-Anthony Towns had 35 (first time two Knicks ever scored 35+ in a playoff game), they put up 135 points total, and it STILL wasn't enough. Aaron Nesmith turned into Steph Curry and hit six threes in the fourth quarter alone, picking apart New York's defense like it was Swiss cheese.

The Knicks basically let off the gas and the Pacers made them pay big time. Coach Thibs is probably forcing them to watch the painful film over and over.

When you blow a lead like that with two stars going off, it's the kind of loss that can haunt you all series.

Seeding Change In College Football Playoff

They're ditching the whole "conference champs get guaranteed top-4 seeds" thing and going with straight rankings instead.

In 2024, all four conference champions who got first-round byes proceeded to get absolutely wrecked in their first games back. Turns out sitting around for weeks while other teams are in playoff mode was basically the kiss of death.

Now the selection committee's actual top four teams get the byes, regardless of whether they won their conference or not. The decision was unanimous among all the big conference commissioners, which is pretty wild considering how much they usually fight about everything.

It's honestly a smart move - rewarding the best teams instead of just conference champs makes way more sense. Plus, those bye weeks were looking more like a curse than a blessing anyway.

1st Team All-Defense Revealed

The NBA just dropped its All-Defensive teams and it's basically a youth movement takeover. Evan Mobley (who won Defensive Player of the Year) and Draymond Green were no-brainers for first team, but 60% of the players named are first-timers. That's wild.

The first team has some interesting picks like Dyson Daniels from the Hawks and Amen Thompson from the Rockets making their debuts, while Lu Dort from OKC finally gets his flowers. Second team has some solid vets like Rudy Gobert, but also newcomers like Toumani Camara from Portland.

OG Anunoby from the Knicks was apparently right on the bubble, and Bam Adebayo getting left off feels harsh despite Miami's rough season. Thunder fans are probably salty their league-best defense only got two guys (Dort and Jalen Williams), but injuries to Chet Holmgren and limited minutes for Alex Caruso hurt their case.

It's crazy seeing Draymond make his ninth All-Defensive team while all these young guys are breaking through.

SGA Finally Gets MVP

SGA finally got his hardware!

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander just snagged his first MVP trophy after finishing runner-up last year, and honestly, it was about time. Dude was absolutely unreal this season.

32.7 points per game (scoring champ), shot over 50% from the field, nearly 90% from the free throw line, and became only the second player EVER alongside MJ to average 32+ points and 6+ assists while shooting 50% from the field. That's legendary company right there.

He scored 20+ points in his final 72 games of the season - that's the longest streak in a single season since the 1960s when Wilt and Oscar Robertson were doing video game numbers. His only sub-20 point game was literally the second game of the season.

He's the second Canadian to win MVP (Steve Nash being the other) and third Thunder player ever. Plus, OKC went 68-14 and had the best record in the league, so the team success was definitely there. Well deserved for one of the smoothest players in the game right now.

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