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HAIR BALL February 26, 2018 • New Orleans, Louisiana How imposing is New Orleans Pelicans center Anthony Davis? His mere presence made Elfrid Payton’s hair stand on end. The Brow swatted Payton’s shot in the first quarter of the Pelicans’ 125–116 win over the Phoenix Suns. Payton shouldn’t feel bad: Davis had four other blocks in the contest. SOMETHING FISHY IS GOING ON March 29, 2018 • Oakland, California Talk about swimming against the current. These three Angels fans weren’t afraid to show their loyalty in enemy territory, as they wore their jerseys to Oakland Coliseum on Opening Day. They didn’t leave happy; the Athletics won 6–5 in 11 innings on Marcus Semien’s walk-off single.…

Team USA earned two other gold medals in skiing at the 2018 Games. Who won them? Answer: Mikaela Shiffrin (giant slalom) and David Wise (ski halfpipe) JESSIE DIGGINS Cross-country skier⋆ United States HEIGHT: 5'4" BORN: 8/26/1991 AFTON, MN ▪ Diggins and Kikkan Randall won the women’s team sprint freestyle race at the 2018 Olympics, earning America’s first-ever cross-country skiing gold medal. ▪Members of Team USA chose Diggins to carry the American flag at the closing ceremony. ▪ At the 2017 world championships, Diggins earned silver in the sprint and bronze in the team sprint (with Sadie Bjornsen). She also won silver in the 10K in ’15 and gold in the team sprint in ’13 (with Randall). Which team traded Irving to the Celtics? Answer: The Cleveland Cavaliers KYRIE IRVING Point guard ⋆ Celtics HEIGHT: 6'3" WEIGHT: 193 LBS. BORN: 3/23/1992 MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA ▪ Through March 13…

DO YOU HAVE TO PLAY A SPORT IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND IT?

WHEN NFL LEGEND Deion Sanders declared Houston’s Tyrann Mathieu to be the league’s best safety in March, the TV analyst heard about it. One Twitter user asked, “How do you make this statement and not include the two first team AP All-Pro safeties??” Sanders snapped back with a reply, “You’re looking at who writers tell u who’s the best I know who players and former players feel is the best. I rest my case. You continue to be a fan and i will continue being the man.” Maybe Sanders should have clicked on the profile of the person he called a “fan.” It was Tennessee’s Kevin Byard, one of the All-Pro safeties he had snubbed. Whoops. What if Byard had just been a fan, though? Sanders’ slight was embarrassing, but his retort was…

DO YOU HAVE TO PLAY A SPORT IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND IT?

46 Points for Charlotte’s Kemba Walker in a 140–79 win over the Grizzlies on March 22. He set an NBA record for having the highest point total that is smaller than his team’s margin of victory. 2 Consecutive Opening Days that Houston’s George Springer started with a leadoff home run. He became the first player to begin back-to-back years with a bang. 1.000 Career NHL save percentage for Scott Foster. The 36-year-old accountant and emergency goalie came in for the Blackhawks with 14 minutes left against the Jets on March 29 and made seven saves. 3.4 Percent of the 17.3 million ESPN.com March Madness brackets that picked UMBC to beat Virginia. The Retrievers were the first 16 seed to win a game in tournament history. BRUCE BENNETT/GETTY IMAGES (GRETZKY); NED DISHMAN/NBAE/GETTY IMAGES (WALKER); DANIEL…

NBA DRAFT LOTTERY

(May 15, 7:30 p.m. ET; ESPN) Which of the 14 teams that didn’t make the playoffs will get the first pick in June’s NBA draft? It all comes down to Ping-Pong balls. Well, odds and math and records and Ping-Pong balls. Fourteen balls are each assigned a number from one to 14. The balls are mixed up, and four are selected. That number combination corresponds to a specific team. (The worse a team’s record, the more combos that team will be assigned, and the better the odds are that it will receive a top pick. In 2019 the three worst teams will all have the same odds.) The team assigned that four-number sequence gets the No. 1 position in the draft! The process repeats twice, and the rest of the picks…

NBA DRAFT LOTTERY

1 Cincinnati Reds second baseman Scooter Gennett turns 28. 4 PGA Tour golfer Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland is 29. 6 Tight end Jason Witten of the Dallas Cowboys celebrates his 36th birthday. 10 Denver Nuggets forward Wilson Chandler turns 31. 11 Connecticut Sun guard Courtney Williams celebrates her 24th birthday. 14 Green Bay Packers linebacker Clay Matthews is 32. 15 Minnesota Twins second baseman Brian Dozier turns 31. 20 New Orleans Saints cornerback Marshon Lattimore is 22. 22 New England Patriots receiver Julian Edelman celebrates his 32nd birthday. 29 Forward Carmelo Anthony of the Oklahoma City Thunder is 34. 30 Charlotte Hornets guard Jeremy Lamb turns 26. 31 Ottawa Senators defenseman Erik Karlsson is 28. MICHAEL J. LE BRECHT I I/NBAE/GETTY IMAGES (LOTTERY BALLS); JESSE D. GARRABRANT/NBAE/GETTY IMAGES (FULTZ); MIKE HEWITT/GETTY IMAGES (ARSENAL FANS); THOMAS SAMSON/AFP/GETTY IMAGES (NADAL); GREG NELSON (WITTEN,…

SPENCER SANDERS

HEIGHT: 6'2" HOMETOWN: DENTON, TX BIRTH DATE: DECEMBER 15, 1999 SPORT: FOOTBALL ▪ As a senior at Denton Ryan High outside Dallas, Spencer led the Raiders to a 14–1 record and a berth in the 2017 Texas Class 5A semifinals for the second consecutive year. He completed 244 passes for 3,877 yards and 54 touchdowns (and threw only seven interceptions). He also rushed for 1,380 yards and 16 scores. ▪ Spencer earned state player of the year awards from Gatorade, the Associated Press, and Dave Campbell’s Texas Football magazine. He also earned first-team all-state honors for the second straight season. ▪ His junior year, he threw for 3,291 yards and 38 TDs (with five picks) and rushed for 1,099 yards and 18 TDs. He was the District 5-5A MVP. ▪ Sanders, who is headed to Oklahoma State…

SPENCER SANDERS

SPORTSKIDS OF THE MONTH

JULIA FLESCH, 7 New York, NY HOCKEY Julia, a forward and the youngest skater on the Central Park U8 Lady Hawks, scored twice in three games to help her team to the final of the Riverbank U8 Lightning Tournament in March. The Lady Hawks beat St. Bernard’s, an all-boys team, to take the title. HENRY MITCHELL, 14 Albuquerque, NM BASEBALL Henry, a righty, pitched a five-inning perfect game, with 12 strikeouts, to lead Albuquerque Academy to an 11–0 win in March. The switch-hitter went 4 for 4 and hit a home run as a lefty. ALANIS HAMILTON, 10 Bentonville, AR TABLE TENNIS Alanis, a three-time Arkansas U18 girls’ champion in table tennis, won mixed doubles with Jason Piech, 11, in the open adult division at the 2018 state tournament. She also won two singles matches against higher-ranked adult…

SPORTSKIDS OF THE MONTH

BRAINS AND BRAWN

WHEN KIDS INVOLVED with 4-H—an organization devoted to youth mentorship and development—joined Nets rookie Jarrett Allen at the team’s training facility in New York, the first thing they noticed was the obvious. “Look how tall you are!” they exclaimed, staring at the 6'11" center, who sports a hairdo that makes him look even taller. Then, after a few minutes spent watching and helping him build an “incredible wearable”—a fitness monitor to track stats such as heart rate, temperature, and steps taken—they had another observation: “You can do that?! You’re a genius!” Allen has been tinkering with computers since he was in high school in Austin, Texas. His father, Leonard, worked at Dell as an operations manager, so computers were always around the house. By the end of his freshman year, Allen…

BRAINS AND BRAWN

JAY AJAYI’S FAVORITE THINGS

FOOD Haribo Sour Gold-Bears ICE CREAM FLAVOR Cookies and cream SPORT OTHER THAN FOOTBALL Soccer (Arsenal!) MUSICAL ARTIST Kanye West EMOJI #JayTrain emoji (It’s Ajayi! He got his own Twitter hashtag emoji last season.) SUBJECT IN MIDDLE SCHOOL History ATHLETE GROWING UP Thierry Henry BOOKS AS A KID A Series of Unfortunate Events ACTOR Shia LaBeouf NATIONAL 4-H COUNCIL (ALLEN WITH STUDENTS); PAUL BERESWILL/GETTY IMAGES (ALLEN ACTION); ROGER GOODGROVES/SHUTTERSTOCK (AJAYI); ISTOCKPHOTO/GETTY IMAGES (ICE CREAM); JONATHAN BRADY/PA IMAGES/GETTY IMAGES (ARSENAL); ANDREW D. BERNSTEIN/NBAE/GETTY IMAGES (WEST); TWITTER (EMOJI); BRANDON WADE/GETTY IMAGES (HENRY); HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS (BOOK); INVISION/AP/SHUTTERSTOCK (LABEOUF)…

JAY AJAYI’S FAVORITE THINGS

LAILAA WENT TO the gym in the first two weeks of her life. I tease that the sound of the basketball puts her to sleep. She can dribble, she can shoot; she doesn’t want to play the game herself quite yet, but she does support me, which is fun. She’s into soccer right now; that’s her passion. We met the U.S. women’s national team, and she started going out and practicing on her own after that. She goes to every WNBA game that she can, really. Most of the games are in the summer. She also goes on a couple of road trips a year. She loves traveling with us. We wake up and turn on the TV and order room service. She likes to order it herself. In some of…

Darrell WALLACE Jr.

TEAM Richard Petty Motorsports SPOTLIGHT This race car driver, known to all as Bubba, is breaking barriers and making the most of his rookie season in NASCAR’s top series. Darrell Wallace Jr. loves Fruit Roll-Ups and Gushers. He’s a self-taught drummer and photographer. He likes to golf. And, oh yeah, he also drives cars at 200 miles per hour on the weekends. The 24-year-old Wallace, who goes by Bubba, got his start in go-karts when he was nine. Now he is in his first full season of competition in NASCAR’s top tier, the Monster Energy Cup Series. This February, driving for Richard Petty Motorsports (RPM), he made his first start in the Daytona 500, the sport’s most famous and important race. “I was so out-of-focus with all the hype that was around that I…

Darrell WALLACE Jr.

WHO’S NEXT IN THE NASCAR SPOTLIGHT?

RYAN BLANEY Blaney pretty much rocked 2017: In addition to voicing Ryan (Inside) Laney in the animated movie Cars 3, he won his first Cup race (at Pocono) and had 14 top 10s. Over the first six races of 2018, the 24-year-old had four top 10s. AUSTIN DILLON The 2013 Xfinity Series champ drives for his grandfather Richard Childress’s team and is in his fifth full season of Cup racing. Dillon, 28, opened this season in grand fashion, winning the 2018 Daytona 500, his second win in NASCAR’s top series. CHASE ELLIOTT His dad, Bill Elliott, was named most popular driver a record 16 times! The younger Elliott is following in Dad’s footsteps: Chase earned the honor in the Xfinity Series in 2014, the year he was champ, and in ’15. A full-time Cup racer…

WHO’S NEXT IN THE NASCAR SPOTLIGHT?

He only has one hand, but linebacker SHAQUEM GRIFFIN is THE COMPLETE PACKAGE

Anyone who has seen Shaquem Griffin play football knows he has everything he needs to succeed. The linebacker flies all over the field, wrapping up ballcarriers, hounding quarterbacks, and blanketing receivers. He’s strong, fast, and dedicated. He’s what scouts might call “an amazing physical specimen.” But not a perfect one. Shaquem does not have a left hand. When he was in his mother’s womb, a membrane wrapped around the hand, which didn’t develop properly as a result. After Shaquem was born, he had a hand but no use of it. Any contact with it resulted in agonizing pain. Finally, when he was four, his parents decided that the only way to make the pain go away was to have Shaquem’s hand amputated. The day after he woke up from the surgery, Shaquem and…

He only has one hand, but linebacker SHAQUEM GRIFFIN is THE COMPLETE PACKAGE

POSTER FACE-OFF

MAX SCHERZER WASHINGTON NATIONALS PITCHER CAREER HIGHLIGHTS 2017 After going 16–6 with a 2.51 ERA, Scherzer won his third Cy Young Award and second in a row. (The first came with the Detroit Tigers in 2013.) The hard-throwing righty led the league with 268 strikeouts in 2002⁄3 innings. Scherzer was the starting pitcher for the National League in the All-Star Game, and he even had a good year at the plate: On August 1 he hit his first career home run. 2015 Scherzer signed with the Nationals as a free agent before the season, agreeing to a seven-year, $210 million deal. He threw a pair of no-hitters, becoming just the sixth pitcher in big league history to toss two no-nos in the same season. 2008 Two years after the Arizona Diamondbacks drafted him out of…

POSTER FACE-OFF

Generations are tough to define. If your parents were born in the 1970s, they’re part of what’s known as Generation X. People who came of age in the early 2000s are called Millennials. And kids who are now in high school or younger—in other words, you—are known as Generation Z. Maybe you didn’t know you were part of Gen Z. That’s O.K.—it’s not a formal designation. There won’t be a special “Z” on your license when you start driving. But this generation definitely has its own beliefs, cultural reference points, and motivations. One defining feature of Gen Z kids is their knowledge of and access to technology. Many Millennials didn’t use a personal computer until they were already in school. Today’s kids have more computing power in their pockets than their parents…

BEYOND THE BOARDS WITH THE VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS

WHAT DOES A TYPICAL game day look like for an NHL franchise? We went behind the scenes with the Golden Knights on March 16. Vegas may have lost to the Minnesota Wild, but 10 days later, the Knights clinched a playoff berth, becoming the first NHL expansion team to make the postseason since 1979–80. 1. HEAD-TO-HEAD Left wing David Perron, one of 17 Golden Knights who hail from Canada, took a face-off against the Wild. Minnesota won 4–2 to sweep the regular-season series 3–0. 2. STRETCH IT OUT Morning skate takes place at City National Arena, a 20-minute drive from T-Mobile Arena, where the Knights play their home games. Practice at City National is open to the public and free! 3. SELFIE TIME! Players interact with fans when they come off the ice after morning skate,…

BEYOND THE BOARDS WITH THE VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS

THE LOS ANGELES KINGS hired artist Dave Kloc to design a collectible poster (below) for fans attending a January 15 game at the Staples Center, an assignment the hockey fan described as his “dream gig.” We asked him to dream up a few more, for three upcoming MLB games. As Kloc was putting the finishing touches on his work—he starts with a pencil, then goes over everything with ink, and finally adds color—he answered a few questions about illustrated sports, and what to know if you’re thinking of submitting a drawing for the SI KIDS Art Gallery page. Were you surprised that a team would think to use this style of art to promote a game? It wasn’t surprising because interesting is interesting; cool is cool. It’s a great thing to combine…

Every team wants to make a good trade. Getting the better end of a deal can push a franchise from being a contender to winning a championship—or it can set up a club for years to come with an exciting young nucleus. The very best trades, however, are the ones that lead to even more positive moves. The ability to convert previously acquired players and draft picks into even more assets can have a snowball effect on a team. Charting these chain reactions creates something that looks a lot like a family tree. FAMOUS EX-’SPOS Montreal went for it. Facing potential contraction or relocation in the offseason, the 41–36 Expos acquired Cleveland ace Bartolo Colon at the 2002 trade deadline. Colon pitched well, going 10–4 down the stretch, but the Expos missed…

THE DAME IS A FOOT

FROM DAMIAN LILLARD to Kyrie Irving, Steph Curry to Russell Westbrook, the virtuoso point guards who front the modern NBA wrestle with a common existential crisis. They are wired to score, yet their position demands that they share. When Portland drafted Lillard in 2012, coaches referred to him as “a scoring guard.” Lillard wasmore sniper than playmaker, but at 6' 3", he had the look—and the personality—of a point. In his first season with the Blazers, he overheard one of the veterans disparaging a rookie at practice. “Haven’t you seen my campaign?” asked Lillard, who had recently launched the antibullying program RESPECT. “You can’t talk about people like that.” Lillard pored over old videos of John Stockton and Karl Malone, hoping to replicate their pick-and-roll harmony with All-Star teammate LaMarcus Aldridge.…

THE DAME IS A FOOT

WHAT’S THE CALL?

1 A SCORE TO SETTLE The Riverdale Bulldogs are playing the Greendale Cats in baseball under MLB rules. You’re the official scorer. During the second inning, Riverdale shortstop Archie Letterman comes up to bat with a man on first base and no outs. Letterman hits a line drive that falls in front of Greendale rightfielder Reggie Green. The runner on first rounds second and tries to advance to third base. Letterman originally holds up at first, but when Green throws to third in an attempt to get the lead runner, Letterman successfully advances to second. The next day he reads the newspaper and notices you only awarded him a single, despite his reaching second base. He calls you to complain. Did you get it wrong? 2 ONE-MAN BAND In a basketball game between…

WHAT’S THE CALL?

BALLPARK LINGO Sometimes baseball fans seem to be speaking another language. How well do you know the vocab? Test your knowledge by matching the terms below with the definitions on the right. The first one has been done for you. A. The pitcher and catcher combination. B. When a runner is called out, even though a fielder didn’t touch him with the ball, either because of a good acting job by the defensive player or because the umpire had a bad angle. C. When a pitcher gets through an inning with three consecutive three-pitch strikeouts and only has to throw nine pitches. D. A pitch intentionally thrown at a batter. E. When a runner is caught between two bases in a rundown. The defensive players throw back and forth until they close in and tag the…

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