Karma | NBA Playoffs | NHL Playoffs | Charles Schwab Challenge | YouTube Rabbithole
@YouTheReader a music video for this song came out at midnight with Ice Spice (check the YouTube Rabbithole if you want to check it out). Karma is the 4th song off of Taylor Swift’s Midnights used for the thematic music concept of a Week to Week Notes post. If you’re new here and that last sentence sounds nuts, good it should.
I mean I think Old Man Dave can take the paper-cut sideswipes here or there and we all know he doesn’t read anyway. Barstool Sports is worth $600 million so obviously Week to Week Notes is practicing guerrilla warfare where we gotta strike, bob, and weave. Let’s be real, I write puff pieces compared to what Barstool was churning out when Everybody’s Favorite Dave was typing.
Uhhh that’s not true, Week to Week Notes is irrelevant remember…
…ohh wait that was last fall. This time last year I was 4 posts into Week to Week Notes, a month into its creation. I had no idea what I was doing and I remember typing extremely timid. I also felt extremely overwhelmed at the time because there was too much stuff to cover, I had no basis or rules for how this should function, and I had a tough time thinking anybody would take anything I wrote with any credence. I didn’t even bother posting a Note last Memorial Day weekend because it felt like a failure to launch. There was no Week to Week Notes logo or heading that hopefully comes across like Newspaper. I don’t know if people get turned off by this stuff or if you find it interesting but from time to time I’ll let you in on it.
Damn, it feels like you’ve already got your mind made up about me. Well, I guess there is only one thing left to do…
…@YouTheReader that’s one way to start a weekend intro on sports… 🫶🏻
NBA Playoffs
Game 5: Boston Celtics 110 - Miami Heat 97
This game was over from the moment Jayson Tatum scored the first two points of the game. Tatum finished with 21 points and 11 assists. 4 Boston players scored over 20 points (Tatum 21, Brown 21, Smart 23, White 24). Marcus Smart had 5 steals. Tatum on Smart’s play, “That was contagious. Smart played his ass off tonight.” Jimmy Butler was held in check and the Heat just could not get anything going. We now officially have an NBA Conference Finals on our hands. No team in NBA history has ever come back down 3-0 and everyone from Boston is talking ‘04. The Miami Heat played Game 5 without their G Gabe Vincent who has an ankle. The Heat are 18-5 in the playoffs with Gabe Vincent as a starter. His ankle injury and status for Game 6 in Miami will be a massive talking point.
Game 6 | Saturday 8:30 PM ET | TNT
The Denver Nuggets will be awaiting the winner of Miami and Boston. Speaking of the Nuggets…
Carmelo Anthony Retirement
Carmelo Anthony was a prolific scorer who was famously drafted #3 overall after the Detroit Pistons took Darko Miličić. Anthony had previously won a National Championship at Syracuse University. While Detroit would ultimately win an NBA Championship in ‘04, they blew it in the draft by passing on Carmelo who would go on to win Rookie of the Year ahead of his friend LeBron James. Denver before Carmelo Anthony was a struggling franchise that had not made the playoffs the previous 8 seasons before Anthony. With Carmelo, Denver made the postseason every year until he was traded to the New York Knicks.
#StayMe7o’s introduction to New York as a Knick was the stuff of legends and brought a ton of hope to a franchise that was simply terrible. NBA Superstars did not want to come to the Knicks, so New York has to tip its cap in some way for Carmelo to even give it a go. Unfortunately, Anthony’s start to his Knicks’ tenure was in the midst of the Big 3 of Miami. There was really no realistic shot the Knicks were going to upset the Heat out of the East. Once the Big 3 split up in South Beach, Carmelo started to slip from his peak. He was a very good Knick and deserves to get his jersey retired by the team. After the Knicks, Carmelo really wasn’t the same player. Age may have been a factor, but it also could have been the fact that the NBA shifted as well. Carmelo was an elite volume mid-range shooter in his prime and by the time he hit his 30s, the NBA had become 3 point shooting contest which contributed to phasing Anthony out. Nonetheless, Carmelo Anthony retires as the 9th leading scorer in NBA history between Shaq & Moses Malone and he will be a first-ballot Hall of Famer.
NHL Playoffs
Game 4: Dallas Stars 3 - Vegas Golden Knights 2
Joe Pavelski’s overtime winner over Vegas was his 73rd playoff goal. Amongst active players in the NHL, Pavelski now holds the most - 1 above Alex Ovechkin’s 72 and 2 above Sidney Crosby’s 71. Unlike the other two players mentioned, Pavelski has never won a Stanley Cup. With Dallas still down 3-1 in this series, the Stars still have a ways to go.
The winner of Las Vegas and Dallas will play the Florida Panthers.
Charles Schwab Challenge
Fort Worth, TX | Colonial Country Club | $8,700,000 Purse | GOLF/CBS
The Charles Schwab Challenge is the longest-running event on the PGA TOUR still being held at the original site. Since 1946, Colonial Country Club has hosted. This means that golf greats like Ben Hogan, who won the tournament 5 times here, played on the same hallowed grounds as the golfers this weekend. The Colonial Country Club’s founder, Marvin Leonard, also sponsored a young Ben Hogan during his early struggles on the PGA Tour. Ben Hogan is from Fort Worth, Texas so his hometown course actually built Ben Hogan a statue overlooking the 18th green known as “Hogan’s Alley.”
Leaderboard After Round 1
Harry Hall
Harry Hall became the first player to shoot a 62 in their debut round of the Charles Schwab Challenge. (Source: @PGATOUR) With 8 birdies and no bogeys, Hall enters Friday with a 4 stroke lead.
Tom Hoge
Tom Hoge dunked a golf ball from 154 yards out. His is pronounced the like the hoagie sandwich if you’re wondering.
Scottie Scheffler
Scottie didn’t know if he was going to be able to take a drop when his ball ended up in a hole in a container. He was allowed to drop, confirmed.
Lee Hodges
Lee Hodges eagled on Hole #9. It was the 2nd consecutive round of golf in a row where his ball sat on the cusp of the pin before dropping in.
Michael Block
Golf is a Week to Week sport. After riding high after the tied-for 15th finish in the PGA Championship, Michael Block was back to hitting from car paths. Block shot 11 over par and will not be making the cut today so he’ll have plenty of time this weekend to drink some IPAs.
YouTube Rabbithole
Taylor Swift ft. Ice Spice - Karma (Official Visualizer)