NBA Playoff Shocker, Justin Tucker's Career in Jeopardy, and more

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00:00but some big finals last night in the nba i want to get right to these and of course talk about all

00:05of the things that are happening in sports too but before we get to the national basketball

00:08association this was really the top story in all of sports yesterday because it looks like

00:13not only has justin tucker his career as far as his ravens career comes to an end but some are

00:20saying that maybe his nfl career comes to an end too it's a very very difficult situation here that

00:26is going on right now in baltimore with tucker who of course has been the best kicker on the field in

00:31the history of the nfl and he was released yesterday now the ravens did draft a kicker named tyler loop

00:37and the organization is saying that this is a football decision but for those of you who have

00:42not been following he has been accused of misconduct by 16 massage therapists from eight high-end spas

00:49and wellness centers in the baltimore maryland area according to the baltimore banner and this

00:55misconduct was alleged back in 2012 and 2016 in between those years and those were tucker's first

01:03five seasons in the national football league now needless to say there's a lot of layers to go

01:09through here with this story and it remains to be seen if tucker will be signed with another nfl team

01:14after he struggled last year but certainly before all of these allegations by the way we want to be

01:19clear on that this guy was destined to be a first ballot hall of famer as a kicker which is pretty rare

01:24all right now in the national basketball association wow what an upset last night

01:28the denver nuggets who played like less than 72 hours ago go into oklahoma city thunder best team

01:34in the nba and win on a late shot from aaron gordon a three-pointer 121 to 119 they take a 1-0 series lead

01:43huge game also from nikola yokich who i mean i can't talk about at this point yokich's numbers i mean

01:50have there ever been any better in the in the history of the nba playoffs 42 points 22 rebounds

01:56and six assists it is one player it's incredible uh thunder were up by 10 in the fourth quarter

02:01they committed a very questionable foul at the end to kind of keep denver hanging around and not take

02:06a three sga had 33 points in this game but the story of course was the big shot from gordon

02:11at the end who said that he's been working throughout the season and all offseason to shoot better and it

02:17paid off i've worked on my jumper a lot a lot you know throughout the years you guys have seen

02:24maturation of it so it's nice to um have it all culminating on a game winner um but it really

02:33comes down to my teammates like russ making a great play and finding me in in uh in transitioning

02:38and in rhythm you know on time on target so um it helps when you have a hall of fame passer passing to

02:45you um but you know we just didn't want to miss the moment we didn't want to miss the opportunity

02:51you know if we waited it may be too late so um i'm glad we showed our uh you know uh metal

03:01but um our grit but we're not satisfied i mean just overall execution on both ends of the floor i

03:10thought um defensive execution we you know had a lot of possessions that we can clean up and learn from

03:16uh the rebounding um we can definitely learn from they had a lot of offensive rebounds tonight gave

03:21them a lot of second life um and then our execution down the stretch offensively so you know it's it's

03:28lousy that we lost game one we'd rather be one up 1-0 and with stuff to clean up but that's not how

03:33this works so now we gotta go get to work and execute better next game the eastern conference

03:39also proved to go right down to the wire and despite being eight and a half or nine point underdogs

03:44boy the new york knicks stormed back in this one and ended up beating the celtics on the road 108 to 105

03:51boston was up 30 points in the third quarter the knicks went on a 31 to 11 run to tie it brunson

03:57had 29 points 11 points in the fourth quarter and the celtics were just chucking up the ball

04:04constantly in this one didn't try and slow it down and sort of preserve the lead that may have ended up

04:08costing them because they missed 45 three-pointers which was an nba record that's right they missed

04:1645 threes in this game so clearly that was a difference in this one tom thibodeau talked about

04:21the defense they played on those threes and some of those missed shots yeah you know and they still

04:28you know they got a number of threes up and some of them you know we have to do a better job the

04:33rebounding we have to make sure that we we fix that so some were good some have to be a lot better you

04:40know so it and the important thing for us to to understand what it is it's it's one win and then

04:47understand that we have to reset and get ready for game two yeah you know and it's it's been

04:55this team has fought all year you know it's been a pretty good road team uh we've had to endure some

05:02things with guys being out and i think over time that helps you you know you build up you know your mental

05:09toughness and understanding how important that is uh and it's like i said it's one game there's a lot of

05:16you know emotional highs and lows in a playoff but no matter what happens you have to keep moving forward

05:22and so after you guys go up 20 what what changed in in you know what they were doing to to walk that

05:30lead down yeah i mean i think we uh we left some of their you know some of their good shit open i think

05:36and nobody went on a small run by himself uh so some personnel stuff uh they were able to get out

05:41and transition off of some of our misses and then i think they had a 5-0 run off of offensive rebounds

05:46just so you know detailed stuff that we have to be able uh to be better at and i thought we missed

05:50you know if you look at that run i thought we missed some good ones and i thought there was

05:53obviously a few that we could you know fight to get better on meanwhile in the national hockey league

05:58wild finish last night between toronto and florida in their series going on which potentially could

06:04lead to the eastern conference championship toronto goes up early and has to really hang on to win

06:10the maple leafs beat the panthers five to four but yes they were up for one going into the third

06:16period and then all of a sudden the cats came roaring back they scored three third period goals

06:22maple leafs goaltender anthony stallers got hit hard in the head it looked like he may have had a

06:27concussion who knows he was throwing up during the game he had to come out his status for the next game

06:31is in doubt but in the end the maple leafs do hang on to win game one here's head coach craig

06:37berube on hanging on to win the craig what'd you say to the group after the cancer score two well

06:43i'll just settle down i mean i thought that we're you know backing off too much and not being

06:48aggressive anymore especially through the neutral zone you know we kind of sag back a little bit too

06:54much and let them get to their game too much you know so it was just get on our toes again let's get

06:59get up get our gaps up get our angles up you know and you know i thought we um we did a great job

07:06in the first period of that and a lot in the second too but but that we just kind of sag back

07:12too much you find uh you were commenting the other night about the way the bench was in ottawa

07:16the center is tied did you find the guys the same way in the third tonight i think yeah very good you

07:21know um even with the goalie switch and all everything going on i thought you know i know we

07:28had a pp at the time but i thought our bench was good tonight meanwhile in baseball a big injury

07:36potentially to one of the very best players in the national league to oscar hernandez is off to

07:40an incredible start left the game early last night in the dodgers win in miami he's undergoing an mri

07:45today felt some tightness in his hamstring and a doctor he was hitting 315 with nine home runs before

07:53that result coming later today there the padres come back to beat the yankees yesterday they're now 23 and

08:0011 on the season they beat up devin williams in the eighth inning his era is over 10 jacob wilson comes

08:06up big again for the sacramento athletics seven to six the final in 11 innings he walked off the game

08:14and wilson's been great since he's been called up from the minor leagues meanwhile francisco lindor and

08:19pete alonzo go deep the mets hold on for a five to four win over the arizona diamondbacks arizona

08:25back with three in the eighth but not enough to win and boy the cubs are playing great baseball as

08:30well they win yesterday against the giants final score nine to two chicago 22 up and 14 down this season

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