data-mm-id=”_8yklj1oaf”>The Los Angeles Lakers will face off against the Miami Heat in the strangest NBA Finals in history. Similar to the Eastern Conference Finals, it will be a tale of two teams: one loaded with lottery-caliber talent in Los Angeles and one greater than the sum of its parts in Miami. Jimmy Butler will take on LeBron James. Bam Adebayo will face his biggest test to date against Anthony Davis. The biggest contrast between the two squads comes in the form of their preferred method of offense. The Heat love to shoot three-pointers. They averaged 35.4 attempts from deep per game during the regular season and made 37.9 percent of them, good for second in the league behind the Utah Jazz. The Lakers, meanwhile, are… not of the same mindset. They attempted only 31 per game…

data-mm-id=”_4zp6b5idv”>The pieces are falling into place for the NBA to hit their target date of July 31 to resume play. Adrian Wojnarowski has been reporting all week that the league is expected to pass a proposed plan to have 22 teams travel to Orlando. This plan would include a play-in tournament for the last seed in each conference. Wednesday is when the details of the plan started to leak. Shams Charania reported the exact format of the play-in, and Wojnarowski reported how many games will be played before the playoffs start. Here's how it will go down: The 16 playoff teams, along with the next six best teams by record (the Pelicans, Spurs, Trail Blazers, Kings, Suns, and Wizards) will play eight regular-season games that will serve to both determine seeding and give everyon…

data-mm-id=”_mqn8xd68i”>Marcus Morris went after Luka Doncic again. A few days after the Los Angeles Clippers forward appeared to intentionally step on Doncic's injured ankle during Game 5 of their playoff series, Morris hammered the Dallas Maverick star on a drive. He was assessed a Flagrant 2 and ejected from the game. Here are a few angles of it:Marcus Morris Sr. has been ejected following excess contact on Luka Doncic. pic.twitter.com/jP7LaSAzn4— FOX Sports West (@FoxSportsWest) August 30, 2020Morris vs Doncic, Morris ejected pic.twitter.com/gL1MrX4xnT— CJ Fogler #BlackLivesMatter (@cjzero) August 30, 2020Marcus Morris has been ejected for this foul on Luka Doncic pic.twitter.com/uY1R0DomW8— The Undefeated (@TheUndefeated) August 30, 2020Here's a still:Clippers&#039…

data-mm-id=”_spx7j44ea”>As we documented earlier today, Jalen Ramsey and Golden Tate really don't like each other. They have deep family history and an ongoing feud and it got worse on Sunday. After Ramsey's Los Angeles Rams beat Tate's New York Giants 17-9, the two met at midfield and threw punches at each other. Ramsey and Tate walked toward each other after the final whistle. They both took swings almost simultaneously and then went down in a heap. Their teammates pulled them apart.— Greg Beacham (@gregbeacham) October 4, 2020Jalen Ramsey and Golden Tate, real life beef playing out of the football field where it can pic.twitter.com/LGlWcxCUh5— Keith McPherson (@Keith_McPherson) October 4, 2020There’s a fight on the field after the game clock hits zero, press box…

data-mm-id=”_y29x56b4d”>The honeymoon phase of Sean McVay and Jared Goff's relationship is long past. The Los Angeles Rams' head coach did all he could to elevate his middling quarterback's career. If nothing else, he helped Goff cash in on an undeserved contract extension that at one point made him the highest-paid player in NFL history in terms of guaranteed money. That's history now. The future seems bleak. NFL Network insider Steve Wyche reported Monday that the relationship between McVay and Goff is, "not great" and added, "they need marriage counseling" this offseason. Regardless of how that turns out, they're not getting divorced until 2022 at the earliest. “The people I’ve spoken to said basically at this moment the relationship with…

data-mm-id=”_e2ttiteiu”>Baseball is a unique sport for many reasons, one of which is that every player gets to choose introduction music that plays every time they enter the game. Walk-up songs, as they are known, are an art form. If a great player chooses a great walk-up song, they become synonymous. Even casual baseball fans know that Mariano Rivera always came out to "Enter Sandman" by Metallica. Or that Charlie Sheen's character in Major League always came out to "Wild Thing" by The Troggs. Thus, we present to you a list of the best walkup songs for the 2022 MLB season, as per MLB dotcom's walkup song database. Table Of ContentsXander Bogaerts — "X Gon Give It To Ya" by DMX Mike Mayers — "Halloween Theme" by John Carpenter, Cody …