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Happy November 7th, everybody! Great day! In case you haven’t seen it, the SGS Instagram is TRENDING right now! 2 million views in the last week. We are SO BACK! You know what Friday means, we’re ripping another Friday Fifteen. Lots to discuss. Baseball may be over, but we are knee deep in some NFL and NBA news, so we’ve got a lot of that today!

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1️⃣5️⃣ Friday Fifteen - Lots of NBA News to Debrief

Friday 15 Time…

1.  🏈 Let’s start with Thursday Night Football from last night. I always try to keep it real with you all. Been a little ill these last 48. Right around kickoff, I shut my eyes for a few. No joke I woke up with a minute left in the fourth and saw that the score was 10-7. I think it’s safe to say I missed an absolute SNOOZER! Broncos move to 8-2! 🟠 

2. Do you know who the best team is in the East right now? The CHICAGO BULLS 🔴! At 6-1, these guys are firing on all cylinders behind the flash and dash of Josh Giddey. Role players such as Isaac Okoro, Kevin Huerter, and Jalen Smith are FLYING under the radar, but are a big reason why they are succeeding. Billy Donovan will be a sneaky COTY candidate again this year!

3. 🏀 Everybody stay calm….but College Basketball is all the way back! Here’s a full schedule from this weekend on all the college hoops to keep track of!

4. 🏒 Alex Ovechkin becomes 1st player in NHL history to score 900 goals! Every season, Ovi is smashing a new milestone, and this season it was goal number 900! Unbelievably impressive from the Washington Capitals captain.

5. 🔵 The Indianapolis Colts have acquired Sauce Gardner from the New York Jets in exchange for two first-round picks. The Colts now have one of the premier secondaries in the league, while if you couldn’t already guess, the New York Jets are officially in ‘sell the farm’ mode. The Colts are 7-2 and still have a lot of promising season in front of them.

6. 🔴 The Portland Trail Blazers were the first team to hand the OKC Thunder a loss this season. It was an unbelievable fourth quarter from Deni Avdija and Jrue Holiday, who put the team on their back. The Blazers were down 20 in the first quarter, and the game looked over, but the now 5-3 Blazers fought hard to turn that into a game. The fourth quarter is worth watching the highlights of here.

7. 👑 Without LeBron so far, the Lakers have become the third-seed in the West in the early parts of the season. As he continues to recover from his sciatica injury, he will not be joining the team for their upcoming 5-game road trip. It was in mid-October when he was announced with a 3-4 week injury. After this upcoming road trip, we could be seeing LeBron back on the court soon.

8. 📺️ Game 7 of the World Series was the most-watched baseball game since 1991. It truly was one of the all-time classics, and the viewership matched that narrative. It was the most-watched game since Game 7 of the 1991 World Series between the Twins and the Braves.

9. ⚾️ Don Mattingly has announced that he will not return to the Blue Jays this upcoming season. This was one of the underrated storylines of the World Series. Mattingly was trying to win his first ring after nearly 40 years in baseball.

10. 🔴 After their STUMPSET win over the Cowboys on MNF this past Monday, the Arizona Cardinals may really have a QB conversation that needs to be had. Jacoby Brissett has had the troops buzzing these last few weeks. Even in their losses, they have been falling to very good teams by one score. A loss is still a loss, but they somehow look better under Brissett compared to Kyler. An interesting thing to look out for as this season continues. With that in mind, Kyler has been placed on the IR as of yesterday.

11. 🏈 CJ Stroud is set to miss an important divisional game this week against the Jaguars with a concussion.

12. ⛳️ The LIV Tour has announced that they will switch their events from a 3-day 54-hole tournament format to a standard 4-day 72-hole format. This has raised some eyebrows in the golf community.

13. 🏆️ The first CFP Rankings were announced, and it goes Ohio State, Indiana, Texas A&M, and Alabama. OSU does seem like the best team in the country, but the CFP will still be ELECTRIC!

14. 🏀 After a great start to the year, Zion Williamson is out for 7-10 days with a strained hamstring. Man, he really has slimmed down and has been looking good this year. The Pels have looked pretty Ugly as a team, but he looked good. Hopefully, this doesn’t grow into anything too serious.

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