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🏀 Down goes Cleveland: The Celtics beat the Cavaliers, 120-117, in NBA Cup action to hand the Cavs their first loss and halt their historic 15-0 start. Only the 2015-16 Warriors (24-0) won more consecutive games to start a season.
👋 Coaching departures: The Bruins fired Jim Montgomery amid an underwhelming 8-9-3 start; Gerardo “Tata” Martino is leaving Inter Miami for personal reasons following the club’s record-breaking campaign.
🏀 Tuesday triple-doubles: Russell Westbrook (12-10-14) became the first NBA player with 200 triple-doubles; Marquette’s Kam Jones (17-13-10) did it all for the Golden Eagles in an upset win over No. 6 Purdue. Get to know the name.
⚾️ Managers of the Year: Cleveland’s Stephen Vogt (age 40) won AL Manager of the Year just two years after retiring as a player; Milwaukee’s Pat Murphy (age 65) won the NL award in his first season as an MLB skipper.
📺 Comcast spinoff: Comcast is expected to announce today that it will spin off its cable networks (MSNBC, USA, CNBC, etc) into a separate company. The NBC broadcast network and Peacock will remain with Comcast, as will Bravo.
🏀 NBA imbalance: West is best, again
(Grant Thomas/Yahoo Sports)
The NBA has two conferences. So far this century, one has been far superior to the other.
Decades of dominance: Western Conference teams are 37-18 against Eastern Conference teams this season, putting the West on pace to finish with the better head-to-head record — and thus the better overall record — for the 23rd time in the past 26 seasons.
Yes, you read that right: The East has had a better winning percentage than the West just three times this century: 2008-09 (.505), 2021-22 (.501) and 2022-23 (.509). During that time, Western Conference teams have also won nearly twice as many championships (16 of 25).
The disparity is on full display in the current NBA standings: The East has four teams with winning records (Cavaliers, Celtics, Magic, Knicks), while the West has 11 (Warriors, Thunder, Lakers,…
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Publish date : 2024-11-20 12:57:00
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