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OKC won Game 1 by eighteen with neither team's number-two on the floor; the bench outscored the Lakers' bench by 19, and that is the Western Conference power balance, not the Doncic injury.
Goaltending depth is the franchise question; the Wild are on netminder number three; Colorado is up 2-0 and 6-0 in this postseason.
Forty-eight hours from tip-off, Coca-Cola Coliseum is sold out, the Canadian broadcast architecture is locked, and the league's expansion math has its proof.
The first female Kentucky Derby trainer ships her colt to the track for light jogs Wednesday and gallops Friday — the Triple Crown question is still the horse's to answer.
The sovereign-wealth fund that wrote $5 billion of checks to the breakaway tour stopped writing them two weeks ago, and Aramco's first-quarter numbers arrive Sunday.
The Pulitzer Audio award is in the trophy case while the Wachtell Lipton investigation Adam Silver called 'enormously complex' keeps running, with both clocks now pointing at the Finals.