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The NBA Finals are underway and Karl-Anthony Towns wasted no time making a statement. The Knicks forward went right at Victor Wembanyama in Game one, driving past the Spurs' phenom for buckets that had New York feeling good heading into Game two. Towns held his ground against arguably the most physically imposing defender in the league, and the Knicks are now looking to press that advantage and go up two games to none in San Antonio.
Meanwhile on the ice, the Stanley Cup Finals shift to Raleigh for Game two as the Vegas Golden Knights and Carolina Hurricanes get ready to battle in front of a hostile PNC Arena crowd. Carolina needs the home ice to mean something here. Vegas came in with momentum, and this one could swing the entire series depending on which team controls the pace through sixty minutes.
And in college hoops, Illinois head coach Brad Underwood is staying put in Champaign, but he's not sugarcoating what's ahead. After a Final Four run that ended at the hands of UConn, Underwood knows the bar has been raised permanently. Replicating that kind of postseason magic is the new standard, and he's fully aware the margin for disappointment just got a whole lot thinner.
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