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Joel Embiid is back on the floor for Philadelphia in Game three against New York, and the timing could not be more significant. The Sixers desperately needed their franchise center, and now they get him while the Knicks absorb a brutal blow of their own — OG Anunoby sitting out, leaving New York shorthanded on the wing. This series just shifted.
Meanwhile up in Toronto, the Maple Leafs won the draft lottery but apparently that's not enough to keep Auston Matthews around. An NHL source tells ESPN that Matthews' future with the Leafs remains genuinely unclear, and that uncertainty isn't going away quietly. One of the best pure goal scorers on the planet, and Toronto cannot get comfortable. That's a franchise-defining situation playing out in real time.
And in baseball, Chicago's rookie slugger is making every team that passed on him look foolish with every swing. The Kyle Schwarber comparisons are already flying, and honestly the production backs it up — a torrid home run pace from a player nobody wanted badly enough. That's the kind of story that gets louder as the summer rolls on.
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