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Headline Sports Jessica Kwong Wed May 21, 2025; Spurs Castle has got a future first in votes for NBA Rookie of the Year; Pacers fan gets invited by Haliburton after having garbage thrown at him in NYC streets; plus more NBA news

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San Antonio Spurs Stephen Castle (5) who is up for the NBA All Rookie team made first selection (AP News photo)

Headline Sports Jessica Kwong Wed May 21, 2025

#1 San Antonio guard Stephen Castle who was the NBA’s rookie of the year, what made him pretty good was he was the NBA’s All Rookie team first selection. Castle averaged 14.7 points, 3.7 rebounds and 4.1 assists. What was impressive he was the only player to get first team votes the entire 100 members of sportswriters and electronic media who voted on the NBA annual awards.

#2 Indiana Pacers fan Hans Perez who was wearing a Pacers jersey on the streets of New York had garbage thrown and was heckled by fans got invited by the Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton to come to game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals in Indianapolis. Perez a firefighter and has a Pacers tattoo on his wrist explained what happened on the Pat McAfee Show.

#3 The Oklahoma City Thunder All Star Jalen Williams was fined $25,000 for wearing clothing that had profane language after Sunday’s game the NBA Playoff game. The decision came after the Thunder’s win against the Denver Nuggets 125-93 in game 7 of the conference semifinals playoff series. Williams clothing read “F art lets dance.”

#4  The Cleveland Cavaliers basketball operations president Koby Altman knows next season there will be some different ideas in preparing. The Cavaliers were the top seeded team to get into the post season only to lose to the Indiana Pacers in the conference semifinals. Altman said the most important goals are to be mentally and physically ready to be one of the top teams in the NBA.

#5 The 2025 NBA Playoffs on ESPN and ABC have seen a rise in their TV ratings up 12% from last season. Through 22 Conference Semifinals ESPN is averaging 4,883,000 viewers. These playoffs are the second most watched NBA Playoffs since the 2011 NBA Playoffs.

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NHL podcast with Len Shapiro: Bettman says $1 mil cap increase considered due to league profits; Habs Dvorak out for rest of season; plus much more

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NHL top prospect Connor Bedard is top candidate for number one draft pick as the San Jose Sharks and the Columbus Blue Jackets could be the winner of the Bedard draft sweepstakes by season’s end. (photo from nhl.com)

On the NHL podcast with Len Shapiro:

#1 NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman says that the salary cap could increase by one million it may not sound like much but it could make a huge difference for club trying to make a trade, draft a player or just make it budget for that free agent. Bettman says revenues have exceeded expectations and an uptick just might be in the works.

#2 Gary Bettman said he’s not ready to reveal who will be the next owner of the Ottawa Senators. Bettman said there are multiple buyers vying for ownership of the Senators but Bettman did say there are bidders of magnitude of interest. Bettman said the sale is not tied to any future downtown arena as the Senators have played in the Canadian Tire Centre in Kanata Ottawa since 1996.

#3 Montreal Canadiens Christian Dvorak will miss the rest of the 2022-23 season. Dvorak had knee surgery Wednesday. When it rains it pours Dvorak has not played since Mar 7th when the Canadiens lost to the Carolina Hurricanes 4-3 suffered a lower body injury.

#4 While you don’t see too much NHL coverage on ESPN during daily programming and a lot of the talk shows and sports reports don’t discuss game recaps but one thing ESPN, ABC and TNT are acknowledging that viewership of NHL hockey is is averaging 1.1 million a 19 percent bump up. The networks are in their second year of their seven year deal with the NHL. That’s pretty good considering the league gets very little mention on ESPN’s daily schedule programming.

#5 Len, the race to the bottom might prove to be fruitful for either the San Jose Sharks 51 points and the Columbus Blue Jackets 49 points in their bid for NHL number one draft pick Conner Bedard. The Sharks just lost in overtime in San Jose to the visiting Blue Jackets on Tuesday night 6-5.

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