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Victor Wembanyama looked like a man from another dimension in Game One of the Conference Finals, but Alex Caruso and the Oklahoma City Thunder bench had a very different message in Game Two. The Thunder answered Wemby's historic performance with the kind of gritty, physical defense that reminded everyone this series is far from settled.
Meanwhile in Detroit, the Tigers are sitting at twenty and thirty-two, second-to-last in the American League, and the question surrounding Tarik Skubal is growing louder by the day. The Sporting News reports the organization may have no choice but to explore trading their ace, which would be a gut punch to a fanbase that was riding high just one season ago.
And over at Roland Garros, twenty-one-year-old Arthur Géa made his French Open debut on Court Suzanne-Lenglen Sunday, and things got uncomfortable fast. The young Frenchman reportedly pleaded with the chair umpire for a bathroom break during the first set, and whether nerves or circumstance were to blame, it did not get better from there. Khachanov rolled him six-three, seven-six, six-love.
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