A TRAEmendous Finish

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Mike
April 26, 2023

Today’s Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes and 48 seconds

Happy Wednesday(I guess). This is the Daily Breakroom and we’re all about balance. Like taking us in with a warm bevvy while you hear about Trae Young’s ice cold finish in game 5.

Here’s what we got today:

🏀 NBA Scores and Matchups

🏀 Awards Szn

🏒 Stanley Cup Playoff

🏈 A Heartfelt Goodbye

🏈 New Crib

Here we go

NBA Scores and Matchups

Tuesday Night Scores

ATL 119

BOS 117

  • Jaylen Brown was the Celtics go to guy last night scoring 35 points, including four 3-pointers

  • Trae Young was the star of the show with 39 points for the Hawks, although Brown was much more efficient than Young

  • Atlanta extends the series as they grabbed a road win with a final second 3 pointer from Trae Young.

MIN 109

DEN 112

  • The Denver Nuggets held off the Minnesota Timberwolves to win the first round series 4-1.

  • Anthony Edwards had 29 points and Karl Anthony-Towns had 26 for the T-wolves, it just wasn’t enough

  • Jamal Murray and Nikola Jokic did it again. Jokic had a triple-double and Murray dropped 35.

LAC 130

PHX 136

  • This a story of what could have been for the Clippers, without Kawhi Leonard and Paul George the Clippers were outmanned by the Suns and fell short this series

  • The Suns took the series with Kevin Durant scoring 31 in game 5 and Devin Booker scoring 47

📆 The Denver Nuggets and Phoenix Suns will be facing off in the next round of playoffs, with game 1 starting on Saturday.

📰 This Just In: Kawhi Leonard missed the final 3 games of the series for the Clippers and just had an MRI. He has been diagnosed with a torn meniscus.

Tonight’s Matchups

New York Knicks at Cleveland Cavaliers, 7:00pm ET on NBA TV

  • Knicks lead series 3-1

LA Lakers at Memphis Grizzlies, 7:30pm ET on TNT

  • Lakers lead series 3-1

Miami Heat at Milwaukee Bucks, 9:30pm ET on NBA TV

  • Heat lead series 3-1

GS Warriors at Sacramento Kings, 10:00pm ET on TNT

  • Series tied 2-2

🏆️ NBA Award Season

The MVP award for the NBA is still a toss up. Will it be Giannis, Joel Embiid, or Nikola Jokic? While we wait to find out in June, we have been getting other awards coming in. Here they are.

Clutch Player of the Year: De’Aaron Fox (Sacramento)

Defensive Player of the Year: Jaren Jackson Jr. (Memphis)

Most Improved Player: Lauri Markkanen (Utah)

Sixth Man of the Year: Malcolm Brogdon (Boston)

Rookie of the Year: Paolo Banchero (Orlando)

Coach of the Year: Mike Brown (Sacramento)

NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs

Last Night’s Scores

New York Islanders 3

Carolina Hurricanes 2

  • Islanders live to see at least one more game after getting a road win to avoid elimination

Minnesota Wild 0

Dallas Stars 4

  • This was an absolute routing by the Stars

  • Dallas grabbed a 2 goal lead in the first scoring on two power plays just two minutes and ten minutes in to the game

  • Dallas now lead 3-2 in the series

Los Angeles Kings 3

Edmonton Oilers 6

  • Edmonton get their first advantage of the series and are now playing like you’d expect and they’re doing it without goals from Connor McDavid

  • Nick Bjugstad scored 2 for the Oilers, Evander Kane and Leon Draisaitl also each put a goal in the net along with 2 others

  • Game 6 goes back to LA

Tonight’s Matchups

Florida Panthers at Boston Bruins, 7pm ET on ESPN

  • Bruins lead series 3-1

Seattle Kraken at Colorado Avalanche, 9:30pm ET on ESPN

  • Series tied 2-2

Heartfelt Goodbye

Aaron Rodgers has already been seen wearing his different shade of green as a New York Jet. Before he gets fully engrained with his team, we made sure to post a heartful goodbye on his Instagram saying thanks to Green Bay. Give it a read if you’d like.

New Home For The Tennessee Titans

The Tennessee Titans just secured an approval from the Metro Nashville City Council to get roughly $1.2 billion in public funds to help build a new stadium. The stadium will be adjacent to the current Nissan Stadium and thhe total cost of the project is estimated at $2.1 billion. The team will cover the rest of the roughly $900 million after the help from the funds.

The stadium will feature a translucent roof with a seating capacity of 60,000. This stadium will allow Nashville to place Super Bowl bids, host final fours, and possibly a College Football Playoff game. The stadium is projected to be open in 2027.

Check out some of the renderings.

Thanks for reading. We’ll catch you again tomorrow.

-The Daily Breakroom Team