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🏀The Thunder enters the NBA finals

The thunder is over The Western Conference was demolished Wednesday to defeat the Timberwolves 124-94 to secure a spot in the NBA finals.

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Vincent Boodwill from Yahoo Sports:

40 Minutes of Hell was supposed to be a college basketball spell, and it's gone forever - but the thunder has been remixed.

Sometimes it's five minutes, maybe 10 minutes. It's just that they turn their opponents into stumbling blocks, clumsy, powerless strangers. They can barely shoot, let alone enter the pass.

With the opportunity to franchise, there was a chance to take a seat in the NBA finals and dribbling became an obstacle course. The five-minute or 10-minute extension lasts exactly halfway.

Post-match reading:

Looking forward: The Thunder are overwhelming favorites (-625 in Betmgm), beating the Pacers or the Knicks. OKC wins the $10 bet in the final and will earn a profit of $1.60 if they win the championship.

🏒Black Panthers' third consecutive final

Defending champion Black Panther It was defeated by the Hurricanes 5-3 on Wednesday and reached the Stanley Cup final for the third time.

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Rare Feats: Florida is the ninth series that reached the Cup finals for three consecutive years, joining Montreal, Toronto, Detroit, Edmonton, New York (Islander), Philadelphia, St. Louis and Tampa Bay.

What are they talking about: “I remember a few years ago and it felt like an achievement,” he and his teammates said after bypassing the post-match celebration. “This year, it’s all business.”

Are we going to rematch? As the NHL expanded beyond the "Original Six" in 1967, the same two teams met in four games in the back-to-back finals. The Oilers (up 3-1) are a win from five games.

• 1968: Canadians over blue

• 1969: Canadians over blue

• 1977: Canadian on tan

• 1978: Canadian on tan

• 1983: Islanders on oil workers

• 1984: Oil people on the islander

• 2008: Penguin's red wings

• 2009: Red-winged penguin

• 2024: Leopard oiling worker

More in-depth: Why the Black Panther didn't touch the Prince of Wales Trophy

⚾️MLB's Weapons Competition

MLB Team For pitchers who usually only use about 20 pitchers to be done regularly throughout the season. Now, if they are ahead of June before crossing this threshold, they are lucky.

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By number: In 2010, 635 pitchers appeared in MLB. This year, this number is already 638, only one-third of the entire season.

• The league has been trending in this way for many years, eclipsing for the first time in 2015, at 800 in 2019 and at a high level of 909* in 2021, when players still lack time due to shared time.

• Major League Baseball implemented a triple minimum rule in 2020, which moderately reduced the number of pitchers used per game but had a considerable impact on the total number of seasons.

What driving is it? The sport has changed. Pitchers used to be proud of themselves in deeper play, but today’s type of pitcher cherished by teams – burners with high strikeout rates can’t eat a lot. More weapons are needed to increase math.

• Consider it: In 2005, 50 pitchers made at least 200 innings. In 2019, only 15 people crossed this threshold. last year? Four.

• This "death killed by the game" is not just endurance. Analytical managers tend to pull their starters before passing the order for the third or fourth time, instead turning to a series of reliefers.

Between two lines: Health also plays an important (and related) role, as it also causes a worrying increase in pitcher injuries despite the increased speed leading to more strikeouts. The more arms you have on the IL, the more you need to fill these spots.

What are they talking about: "If you miss more bats, you get more outs. If you get more wins, you get more wins. If you get more wins, you get more rewards," Cubs GM Carter Hawkins told The Athletic ($). “So the incentive structure is targeted at that, but at different times, this is a bigger tax on the pitcher, so (you need) more levels.”

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Bottom line: The “endurance” era of Major League Baseball (MLB) has created a new status quo: it’s no longer how many innings your starter can give you, but how many quality weapons are waiting on the wings.

*These figures include players’ pitches, with an average of about 60 per season per season in recent years.

📸Through the lens

Carlsbad, California - Oklahoma defeated Virginia to win the 12th men's golf national championship and put Princeton in third. Only Houston (16) and Yale (21) have more.

Bormio, Italy - Isaac del Toro was the first person to lead Giro d'Italia's Mexican cyclist, and he won Stage 17, adding precious seconds to his advantage. He leads 41 seconds and has four stages left.

Wroclaw, Poland - Chelsea finished the full set of European trophy (European Champions League) by defeating Real Betis 4-1 in the conference league final.

Paris - Top seed Aryna Sabalenka rolled at the French Open and the second round ended.

📺Surveillance List: Thursday, May 29

🏀 Pacers in the Knicks, Game 5 (8 PM ET, TNT)

If the Knicks will keep the season alive, they will need to grab Indiana’s weird but real winning streak: The Pacers lost only Game 3 playoffs (0-3), 11-0 in all other games.

🏒The Oilers in the Stars, Game 5 (8 pm, ESPN)

When they face elimination, the good news for the stars is that they are at home 7-2 in these playoffs. The bad news is that the Oilers won three games 13-2.

⛳️American woman opens

The second major T-shirt to be held this season at Erin Hills, Wisconsin, is the 16th session of the men's and women's U.S. Open. Defending champion Yuka Saso, 23, became the youngest U.S. Open champion last year but missed her last three.

🥎Women's University World Series (12 pm, ESPN/ESPN2)

Double Elimination Brackets Started Today in Oklahoma City, Florida No. 3 with Texas No. 6 (12 pm, ESPN)Oklahoma 2 vs. Tennessee No. 7 (2:30 pm, ESPN)No. 12 Texas Institute of Technology and Ole Miss (7 pm, ESPN2) and No. 9 UCLA to Oregon No. 16 (9:30 PM, ESPN2).

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add:

• 🎾 French Open: Round 2 (5 am, TNT/TRUTV/MAX) … Title of No. 1 Jannik Sinner, No. 6 Novak Djokovic and No. 2 Coco Gauff's action today.

• ⛳️ PGA: Memorial Competition (8 am, ESPN+; 2 pm, golf) …A piled up track and field T-shirts on Muirfield Village and bought a $20 million wallet.

• ⚾️ MLB: Sailors' national (9:40 pm, FS1) …Washington’s Mackenzie Gore leads MLB with 13.4 strikeouts per nine innings.

• 🚴 Cycling: giro d'Italia (7:50 am, maximum) …Stage 18, 21 stages in total.

Complete slate today.

🏈 Guess the game

Raiders just made AJ Cole The highest salary in the NFLsigned three professional bowlers for a historic four-year extension.

guess: How much money does Cole make every year?

Answer at the bottom.

🎓All schools

It has been a year for these six sports departments.

Trivia answer: $3.95 million (four years, $15.8 million contract)

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