🏀 A Flashback to 1978!

The NBA Finals between the Bullets and the Supersonics!

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June 07, 2025

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Good Morning, Stumpers!

We’ve got a Queen Song, a Oilers-Panthers Game 2 breakdown, a Championship showdown set at the French Open, and then MOVING DAY at the RBC Heritage. A decent amount to break down today! Let’s boogie!

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The Rundown

🚌 Bus Drivers. GLUE.

đŸŽŸ French Open Championship is now Set! (1) vs (2)!

🏀 A flashback to the 1978 NBA Championship! Bullets vs Supersonics!

đŸŽŒ Queen! A good one!

On This Day

🏀 The 32nd NBA Championship (1978)

As we still digest what happened in Game 1 of this years NBA Finals, let’s take a look back 47 years ago when a series went the distance!

On this day in 1978, the Washington Bullets defeated the Seattle Supersonics in Game 7 of the Finals, 105-99, to capture their only NBA Championship. They went to this series 4 times in the 70s, but only got this one. Wes Unsled was named Finals MVP despite scoring 6 and then 15 points in the final two games.

In this series, 6 out of the 7 games were within 8 points! It was back-and-forth the entire time. Could we be in for a similar 7 Game slugfest this year as well?

Today’s Trivia

Which do you find most entertaining?

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Yesterday’s Trivia Answer: C. 3! Novak Djokovic has won the French open 3 times! Unfortunately he ran into the buzzsaw that was (1) Jannik Sinner, he lost in straight sets.

Glue Guy of the Day

🚌 Bus Driver. GLUE.

6/5/25 Glue OTD: Bus Driver

Going to keep this one nice and short for you on this Saturday. I’m not one to make grand statements, well, actually I do tend to do that sometimes. But anyways, took a late night bus ride home and I’ll tell you what. Bus drivers may be on the Mount Rushmore of Glue Guys.

They aren’t in it for them, they do it for the passengers, and they don’t take b.s. from anybody. That’s glue.

Bus Drivers. GLUE.

Yesterday’s Moments

🏒 Panthers Even Series at 1 in Another OT Game!

The Stump Short Story: Man, this one just gets better and better. Last year the 7 game series did not have a single OT game. This year, the rematch has had 2 of them in the first 2 games! The Oilers got the game-tying goal with 17 seconds in the 3rd period, and then it took 30 minutes of additional time to figure out a winner. Who else but Bad Marchand to score the winner in 2OT

Why it Matters: I don’t want to use the words “must-win” lightly, but this was a very important game for the Panthers. To lose two back-to-back OT games would have been brutal for morale before making the long journey back to Florida. Now they have life!

đŸŽŸ Championship Matchup is Set at the French Open!

The Stump Short Story: The next two up has been solidfied these last 24 months. It is World No. 1 Jannik Sinner (23 years old) and World No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz (22 years old). These two have been dominating, and they will face off as hopefully they will many times in Grand Slam Finals. This truly is an unstoppable force vs an immovable object. This will be must-watch Tennis!

Why it Matters: With (6) Djokovic losing to Sinner in the semifinals, it will be a battle of the young guns! Have we officially reached the new era? Yeah, we have.

🔗 Quick Links

Today’s Top Three

đŸŽŸ We’re down to two in the Women’s Draw! This is the French Open Championship Match - (1) Aryna Sabalenka vs (2) Coco Gauff (9:00 AM ET). These two superstars of Tennis have each only dropped one set all tournament! What’s going to give?

â›łïž It’s MOVING DAY at the RBC Canadian Open! Here’s where we stand at the top of the leaderboard:

  • (1) Cameron Champ → -12

  • (2) Andrew Putnam → -10

  • (T3) Victor Perez → -9

  • (T3) Nick Taylor → -9

  • (T3) Richard Lee → -9

🏀 WNBA Slate: Aces @ Valkyries (3:00 PM ET), Fever @ Sky (8:00 PM ET), Storm @ Mercury (10:00 PM ET)

Inject These in Your Veins

Song of the Day

I Want To Break Free

Queen

Was playing in a burger joint. Need I say more?

Quote of the Day

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”

Teddy Roosevelt

Thanks Teedy.

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