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Victor Wembanyama dropped a team-high twenty-six points Friday night, but it wasn't enough as the Oklahoma City Thunder dismantled San Antonio one hundred twenty-three to one hundred eight in Game three. Wemby himself admitted he needs to make his teammates better, and the tape backs him up — OKC is keeping the ball out of the paint and Isaiah Hartenstein is making his life miserable. The Spurs now trail two to one in the Western Conference Finals, and time is tightening fast.
Out in the East, Cleveland is down oh and two to New York but somehow the Cavaliers walked out of Game two projecting confidence — even after shooting twenty-five point seven percent from deep. The belief in their process is real, but belief doesn't close a two-game hole against a Knicks team that has looked locked in all postseason. Cleveland needs answers, and they need them now.
Crossing the Atlantic, Hull City and Middlesbrough meet Saturday in the EFL Championship playoff final with a Premier League spot hanging in the balance. One club's entire trajectory changes today. The stakes don't get much higher in English football than this — one match, one shot, one place among the elite.
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