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Corey Day punched his ticket to Victory Lane at Talladega Superspeedway, taking the Ag-Pro three hundred for Hendrick Motorsports in the NASCAR O'Reilly Series. Stage winners Carson Kvapil and Justin Allgaier both got penalized for impeding traffic, clearing the path for Day to claim his first career NASCAR win in style.
Meanwhile in the NBA playoffs, the league came down hard after a late-game incident between Denver and Minnesota in Game four. Nikola Jokic was fined fifty thousand dollars and Julius Randle thirty-five thousand for their roles in an altercation triggered when Jaden McDaniels hit an uncontested layup with two point one seconds left. Both players are cleared for Game five in Denver on Monday.
And on the diamond, Mike Tomlin is officially stepping into a new role — wait, wrong story — Tyrese Maxey was brutally honest after Game four against Boston, saying he hated how he played in the first half. The Sixers star knows his level and made clear that performance was not it, with the series very much still on the line.
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