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Luka Doncic is putting the NBA on notice in a way that's hard to ignore. Averaging thirty-eight point three points per game to open the season, shooting nearly fifty percent from the floor and over forty-two percent from three, the Lakers star is drawing praise from the highest places — including Giannis Antetokounmpo, who called Doncic one of the best scorers of all time. And the NBA quietly rescinded his second technical of the young season, so there's nothing slowing him down.
Shifting to college hoops, Kentucky's new era under Mark Pope opened with a statement. Milan Momcilovic, the Iowa State transfer, dropped twenty-four points on eight of twelve shooting, draining six threes in his Wildcats debut as Kentucky rolled past Manhattan eighty-five to fifty-seven. Pope now has three straight season-opening wins, and this roster looks like it has real teeth early.
And in the college football playoff picture, the committee's first rankings are already stirring controversy. The so-called SEC bias is back in the conversation, and Notre Dame and Ohio State are sitting in spots where one loss could be genuinely catastrophic. Neither program has much margin for error the rest of the way.
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