👋 Good Morning Stump Nation!

We wake up today to the fulfillment of something 8 years in the making! The Boston Celtics are NBA Champions with their core of Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum! For all the hate they get, good for them on going out there and doing exactly what they were supposed to do this postseason! That being said just because the NBA is over does not mean basketball is over! The WNBA is in full swing and we’re TUNED IN!

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THE DAILY STUMPED🔮

UCLA is tied with WHICH university for the school that has the most NBA Championship rings? (every ring counts, if a player has won two, the university he attended gets two in this)

• A. Duke

• B. Kentucky

• C. North Carolina

• D. San Francisco

• E. Ohio State

Answer at the bottom of The Stump!

ON THIS DAY🗓️ 

On this day in 2000…

Tiger Woods wins the 100th US Open by a record 15-strokes ahead of Ernie Els and Miguel Angel Jimenez.

It was his first US Open victory, Tiger shot a -12, Els and Jimenez shot a +3 and tied for second. Good lord Tiger…

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YESTERDAY IN SPORTS📰 

Breaking News…

• 🏀 The Boston Celtics are BACK ON TOP! Win their 18th NBA Championship with another rout of the Dallas Mavericks

  • STUMP STAR Jaylen Brown wins Finals MVP!

• ⚽️ French star Mbappe won’t require surgery on broken nose suffered in 1-0 win over Austria

• ⛳️ Rory heads to X after declining interview yesterday

  • Says “Yesterday was a tough day. Probably the toughest I’ve had in my nearly 17 years as a professional golfer”

  • Cannot wait for him to win another Major, it will happen!

• ⚾️ Dodgers stud and MVP candidate Mookie Betts to miss 6-8 weeks with a fractured hand

Top Final Scores💯 

• 🏀 Celtics demolish Mavs 106-88 to WIN NBA FINALS

• ⚾️ Phillies best the Padres, 9-2, behind 7 solid innings from Christopher Sanchez

• ⚾️ What the hell is going on in NY! Mets THROTTLE Rangers, 14-2!

  • Win their 6th straight!

• 🏀 Lynx def. Wings, 90-78, with a near triple-double for Monique Billings! 15 points, 10 rebounds, 9 assists

• ⚽️ Belgium has THE YIPS! Lose to Slovakia, 1-0

  • More from the EUROs: France def. Austria, 1-0; Romania def. Ukraine, 3-0

What Caught Our Eye👀 

• 🏀 Joe Mazzulla was coaching with a TORN MENISCUS! Grit!

• ⛳️ Bryson is having fun! As he should!

• ⚾️ The Boys are on a HEATER!

STUMP STORY OF THE DAY✍️ 

“They Can’t Win With Both”

The Boston Celtics have believed in their two stars, and though it took time, it finally has paid off!

The Brooklyn Nets and the Boston Celtics, basically like peanut butter and jelly! When the Nets traded for Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce and in exchange gave the Celtics what seemed to be an endless amount of draft picks, all that was thought of it was that it was a bad trade.

Those picks turned into Jaylen Brown (No. 3 Overall) in 2016 and then Jayson Tatum (No. 3 Overall) in 2017. In year one it was apparent how good they could really become, but there were flashes. After countless bouts with LeBron, Giannis, other East teams on the comeup, and the Miami Heat, people wondered if they could win with their two drafted stars.

The narrative was also forced onto us that they couldn’t do it, they wouldn’t be able to close. They got their first taste of the finals just a couple of years ago against the Golden State Warriors. They even went up 2 games to 1. They ended up losing the series and Tatum and Brown were hit with hundreds of ‘they can’t win a title’ proclamations.

Well, just a few years later they have finally won their first NBA Title.

Are people going to try and take this title away from them? Absolutely, they are going to say that they ran through a very weak Eastern Conference flooded with injuries, and then beat an overachieving Mavericks team in the Finals!

The NBA community always seems to share negative opinions before positive, and that’s just how the cookie crumbles sometimes. But no matter what they say, Brown, Tatum, and the Boston Celtics are NBA Champions!

Shoutout to Al Horford who was able to get his first title in his 17-year career.

And another shoutout to Joe Mazzulla who at just 35 years of age was able to get his team focused and on track ready for the postseason.

“They can’t win together” is what they said! Well, they did! Congrats Boston! You are once again a city of Champions!

JUICE STATION🧃 

Quote of the Day

Song of the Day

Glue Guy of the Day

Defined: Glue Guy (Noun, Verb, Adj., etc.) - a person, thing, idea, or thought that holds together the larger group. Not the star, not the main character, but a hard hat and lunch pale type who knows its role. The GLUE of the group.

WHAT TO WATCH📺️ 

NHL🏒: Stanley Cup Finals Game 5, Panthers currently up 3-1! Oilers @ Panthers (8:00 PM ET)

Soccer⚽️: EURO 2024 - Turkey vs Georgia (12:00 PM ET), Portugal vs Czechia (3:00 PM ET)

MLB⚾️: Mariners @ Guardians (6:40 PM ET), Orioles @ Yankees (7:05 PM ET), Red Sox @ Blue Jays (7:07 PM ET), Mets @ Rangers (8:05 PM ET)

NCAA Baseball⚾️: (8) Florida State vs (4) UNC (2:00 PM ET), (2) Kentucky vs Florida (7:00 PM ET)

WNBA🏀: Sparks @ Sun (7:00 PM ET), Liberty @ Mercury (10:00 PM ET)