Steve DykesOn Monday night, the Golden State Warriors completed the sweep of the Portland Trail Blazers, winning on the road in overtime, 119-117. Despite being without Kevin Durant all series, despite being without Andre Iguadola in Game 4 in Portland and despite having to listen to endless rumors about Durant potentially leaving in free agency this summer, this team just keeps getting it done. With Monday's win, they punched their ticket to a fifth straight finals, and will easily win look to win a fourth ring against the winner of the Toronto Raptors-Milwaukee Bucks series.
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This Warriors team is quite literally the definition of a dynasty, even if they were to stunningly fall to the Raptors or Bucks. Even before they signed Durant they were already on the dynasty path, having won a title and winning 73 games the following regular season. Durant certainly helped, and if he comes back he'll likely help them three-peat..

Welcome to another edition of The Grind, where we suggest there being a sign on the first tee at every men’s major.
WARNING: Brooks Koepka is a highly skilled golfer.
That’s it. Seriously, this is getting out of hand. With a win at the 2019 PGA Championship, Koepka became the first golfer to simultaneously be the two-time defending champ in two different majors. He also joins Jack Nicklaus, Ben Hogan, and Tiger Woods as the only golfers to ever win four times in an eight-major stretch. Quite a foursome. But here’s an overlooked fact from Koepka’s latest triumph: On May 10, 2017, Brooks had zero majors when he witnessed me make a “hole-in-one” on a replica of TPC Sawgrass’ 17th hole:
FacebookPinterestKent HornerAnd on May 19th, 2019, he now has FOUR major titles. Coincidence? Yes. I think. But Brooks has improved his short game a lot since then, so maybe, maybe he was inspired that day. In any event, the guy has developed into a major monster.
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David DowJeff Van Gundy—celebrated American peacemaker and Honda Civic enthusiast—is a national treasure. At some point, Nicolas Cage is going to have kidnap to him from the Lincoln Memorial in the family-friendly blockbuster of the summer, but for now we will have to settle for the latest and perhaps greatest Gundy-ism, delivered late in the second quarter in Monday night's Western Conference Finals-deciding Game 4. Headphones in, folks.
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Mr. Archer, please do the honors…
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As you may or may not have pieced together through peals of juvenile cackling, Van Gundy was campaigning for Mike Breen's signature catchphrase. When Breen didn't deliver, Van Gundy did instead, saying, “If you're not going to give him a bang now, when are you going to bang him?” The other half of the completely unintentional double entendre needs no explanation…exce..

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God bless you if you've been watching the NCAA Softball Tournament. The NBA and NHL Playoffs are raging, Brooks Koepka is turning major fields into in-memoriams, and even tennis is about to get crazy. But if you've been tuning into ESPN 2 for some of that edge-of-your-seat collegiate softball action, you were rewarded on Monday afternoon when announcers Mark Neely and Danielle Lawrie embarked on one of the year's most painfully awkward in-booth interchanges. Gotta love live TV, folks.
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Rustle up a pair of headphones and settle in. If you can't find those, dime your phone's volume on the subway and if anyone complains just say, “You're welcome.” The whole debacle begins with Neely and Lawrie—a former College World Series-winning pitcher with the Washington Huskies—discussing the psychological challenges of being up there on the mound all by yourself.
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Don't look now, but Father's Day will be here before you know it, and with it the crushing anxiety that comes up with buying the grumpier future version of yourself the perfect gift—that special something that says “thanks for bringing me into this dark, god-forsaken world entirely without consent.” Lucky for you, however, if your father happens to be Jeff Bezos, the rightful heir to the Prussian throne, or a Georgian arms dealer with a soft spot for pub games, Louis Vuitton has just what you're looking for: A $2,210-dollar ping pong set, which contrary to the price tag and most working definitions of “set,” doesn't even come with a table. Will you be paying in blood diamonds, laundered cash, or credit?
FacebookPinterestFacebookPinterestThe can't-miss token of parental appreciation includes two professionally designed paddles with LV crests on the hilt, a monogrammed canvas cover, and four regulation balls that the cat will end up knocking under the fridge anyw..

Stuart FranklinThe dust has finally settled on the 2019 PGA Championship. Brook Koepka won his fourth major, Dustin Johnson came up just short yet again, and we at The Loop are still very, very full. Hang on, let us explain. On Thursday, we trekked to Bethpage Black, but not for the love of golf, like so many around us, but instead to meet up with Andy Lansing, CEO of Levy Restaurants, the company behind every burger and beer at May's new major. Our mission? To join Lansing on one of his patented food pilgrimages, attempting to consume every single concession we possibly could in the span of two glorious hours. Sorry Koepka, but you have nothing on this wire-to-wire performance.
At nearly every event Levy organizes—from the Kentucky Derby to the Grammys—Lansing can be found doing precisely what we saw on Thursday: Consuming up to 5,000 calories worth of food and drink under the banner of quality assurance, and more importantly, hunger. We didn't hit that mythical 5,000-calori..