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The GIST: For the seventh straight season, there wasn’t a repeat NBA champ — and this year, the confetti fell on the Oklahoma City Thunder, who pummeled the Indiana Pacers 103–91 in last night’s Game 7, capping off a storybook postseason. Clear proof that it pays to be prepared.

⛈️ Thunder cement legacy after historic season: The league’s most dominant team won the franchise’s second title (and first in OKC) in convincing fashion, using a 19–2 second-half run to pull away from the resilient Pacers. The Thunder’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander put up a 29-point, 12-assist masterclass, earning him Finals MVP honors and putting him in elite company.

• With four seven-game sets these playoffs (one shy of the NBA record), hoops fans were treated to countless heart-stopping moments, but Indy’s Tyrese Haliburton, who left the game with an Achilles injury in the first quarter, authored many of them. Wishing him the best.

🤪 An offseason of chaos has already begun: Nothing could overshadow OKC’s championship win — but the newest Houston Rocket sure tried. A blockbuster deal went down hours before tipoff, with 15-time All-Star Kevin Durant swapping his Phoenix Suns threads for Rocket red in exchange for Jalen Green, Dillon Brooks, and a plethora of draft picks.

• And there’s more pandemonium on the docket: Longtime Milwaukee Buck Giannis Antetokounmpo (pronounced ah-det-oh-KOON-boh) is reportedly on the hunt for a new team alongside an absolutely stacked free agent class.

• In addition to the impending free agent frenzy, there’s also Wednesday’s entry draft, where generational talent Cooper Flagg is expected to go first overall to the Dallas Mavericks. The season may be over, but the high-stakes hoopla is only just beginning…

The GIST: Putters were broken, and patience was tested at this weekend’s KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, the third major of five on the LPGA calendar — but none of that fazed World No. 24 Minjee Lee: The Australian cruised through the competition to win her third career major.

🏌️‍♀️ Lee’s third-round excellence was the difference maker: The entire weekend proved grueling for the world’s best, but Saturday was particularly challenging as wind gusts, rising temps, and diabolical hole locations wreaked havoc on the leaderboard. In fact, rounds took a mind-boggling six hours that day, far surpassing the LPGA season average of 4 hours and 40 minutes.

• But that was when Lee made her money: She posted a 69, aka three under par, in the third round, beating the day’s average score by an incredible seven strokes to open a massive lead she wouldn’t relinquish. Pressure? What pressure?

⚖️ Did somebody say parity?: While 2024 was the (world No. 1 American) Nelly Korda show, 2025 has been all about the ensemble. Each of the 16 events so far this season has featured a different winner, a stark contrast to last year, when Korda hoisted six of her seven trophies before June, and another six players took home multiple event titles before season’s end.

• It’s the first time the LPGA’s gone this far into a season without a repeat winner — and Korda hasn’t even won an event yet. With 17 tournaments still to play, will this parity par-tee continue? Watch this space.

Whether it’s a movie, book, or a boxing match, there’s nothing like the final piece of a highly-anticipated trilogy. And on July 11th, you can catch women’s boxing’s two GOATs, Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano, face off for a third and final time at Madison Square Garden, headlining a historic all-women’s card. HYFR.

❓ Ahead of the match, we have a few questions:

👀 Taylor won the first two bouts between these foes. Will she make it a clean sweep?

👊 Or will Serrano finally get her revenge?

🫵 Most importantly, will you be there?

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The GIST: The PWHL stays busy, with the entry draft set for tomorrow at 7 p.m. ET in Ottawa. Not to be confused with the expansion draft, where PWHL Vancouver and Seattle started filling out their rosters with current PWHL players earlier this month, the entry draft is a chance for all eight teams to add to their roster. Here’s what you need to know before the first pick is in.

⚙️ How it works: The league released its draft eligibility list in May, featuring 199 players from 15 countries. However, only 48 hopefuls will be selected tomorrow, with six rounds on deck and each team choosing one player per round.

• As determined by the league’s “Gold Plan,” the order is as follows: The NY Sirens will choose first, followed by the Boston Fleet, Toronto Sceptres, Montréal Victoire, Ottawa Charge, reigning champion Minnesota Frost, PWHL Vancouver, and PWHL Seattle.

👀 Players to know: The majority of incoming PWHL players come through the NCAA pipeline, like Colgate’s Kristýna Kaltounková, an elite goal scorer whose game has been compared to the legendary Marie-Philip Poulin’s.

• And then there’s Wisconsin forward Casey O’Brien, who just won the Patty Kazmaier Award, given to the best college women’s hockey player. Sirens, you’re on the clock.

Feeling helpless is hard — you can’t help your mediocre pro football team, but there is something you can do when it comes to the Republican tax bill in Congress.

🌳 ICYMI, the proposed bill will take a sledgehammer to the country’s clean energy investments, destroying jobs and costing American families more than $400 every year in energy bills.

Unlike your football fandom, you don’t have to sit quietly and cringe on the sidelines — you have a say: Contact your senator and make your voice heard.