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Victor Wembanyama, surging Spurs set sights on Nuggets
Mar 10, 2026; San Antonio, Texas, USA; San Antonio Spurs forward Victor Wembanyama (1) walks off the court in the second half against the Boston Celtics at Frost Bank Center. Mandatory Credit: Daniel Dunn-Imagn Images The San Antonio Spurs have been the hottest team in the league since Jan. 1.
They will look to continue their run of success on Thursday when they host the Denver Nuggets.
The Spurs boast MVP candidate Victor Wembanyama and a supporting cast that seems to showcase a different player every game, They have won five straight games and 16 of their past 17 games.
San Antonio is 24-8 since the calendar turned to 2026 and undefeated during an 11-game stretch in February.
The Spurs kept rolling on Tuesday, as Wembanyama scored 39 points while hitting a career-high-tying eight 3-pointers in a 125-116 win over the Boston Celtics.
“I’m adapting to what the defense gives me,” Wembanyama said. “I think that’s something that defines me. It’s something I don’t want to lose, ever. Someday, the goal is to be kind of unguardable.”
The Spurs led by seven entering the fourth quarter but were only up 106-105 before Wembanyama delivered a powerful dunk followed by a 3-pointer on back-to-back possessions.
“He did a good job with his mechanics of being disciplined, and he’s shown he can obviously get out and make shots, and it really can put defenses in a tough place in terms of how they want to play,” Spurs coach Mitch Johnson said. “Because if you take the gravity away from him, obviously he can open up the rest of the floor.”
De’Aaron Fox added 25 points and nine assists for the Spurs in Tuesday’s win.
Wembanyama was listed as questionable for Thursday’s game because of a gimpy ankle.
The Nuggets will play the second game of a back-to-back set on the heels of a 129-93 win over visiting Houston on Wednesday.
Jamal Murray led Denver with 30 points in the victory while Christian Braun had 19, Cameron Johnson added 17 and three-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic collected 16 points, 13 assists and 12 rebounds.
Denver shot 55.2% from the floor and forced 15 turnovers while outscoring the Rockets by 30 points after halftime.
Wednesday’s victory snapped a two-game losing streak for the Nuggets, who had their preferred starting lineup intact for just the 11th time this season. Denver is now 9-2 with that group starting a game.
“When the group was whole, we were 8-2 with a top-five defense and top-five offense.” Denver coach David Adelman said before Wednesday’s game. “We lost two fourth-quarter leads. We could’ve easily been 10-0 to start the season.
“But since then, it has been different, just different lineups every week, every day. If we can get enough games under our belt and lucky enough to get in (the playoffs), we’ll be an issue. We’ll be a problem.”
Denver has 16 games left in the regular season to climb up the Western Conference standings and get back into sync.
“There’s going to be some growing pains,” Adelman said. “Patience is the key. We had (a full rotation) for 10 games to start the season which went really well. Just get them back into the fold, get the flow back in. When you go into the playoffs or play-in (tournament), you want to be going up. You want to feel you’ve hit your mark. So we do need time.”
–Field Level Media
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Sirens, Victoire to play in PWHL's first game televised nationally in US
Dec 3, 2017; Chicago, IL, USA; A general view of a hockey net with pucks during warm ups prior to a game between the Los Angeles Kings and the Chicago Blackhawks at the United Center. Mandatory Credit: Patrick Gorski-Imagn Images The Professional Women’s Hockey League will make its debut on national television in the United States on March 28 when the New York Sirens play the Montreal Victoire.
The game will be at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit at 1 p.m., part of the PWHL Takeover Tour that introduces the league to fans in communities that potentially could be targeted for an expansion team.
“We are continuing to fuel this rocket ship that is the PWHL as we expand the reach and exposure of our league to new fans,” said Amy Scheer, the league’s executive vice president of business operations. “This first ever national broadcast is a truly historic moment for our league.”
The game will be televised by ION, which is available in more than 126 million U.S. households.
“Fan interest in women’s hockey is at an all-time high, buoyed by the amazing success of Team USA in this year’s Winter Olympics Games,” said Brian Lawlor, president of Scripps Sports, which owns ION. “We are thrilled to be teaming with the PWHL and Ally Financial on this milestone event and to bring the excitement of this league to a national audience for the first time.”
The PWHL, in its third season, is approaching two million fans through the turnstiles, with a 20% increase in year-over-year attendance this season. In all, 61 PWHL players were on rosters at the recent Milan Cortina Olympics.
–Field Level Media
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Max Verstappen not liking new F1 cars, enjoys 'positive distractions'
Nov 21, 2025; Las Vegas, NV, USA; Red Bull Racing driver Max Verstappen (1) celebrates his victory of the Las Vegas Grand Prix at Las Vegas Strip Circuit. Mandatory Credit: Gary A. Vasquez-Imagn Images Max Verstappen admitted that he is having more fun with his endurance racing projects as opposed to competing in Formula 1.
That’s a tricky spot given Verstappen is under contract until 2028.
“I don’t want to leave,” the four-time world champion said Thursday of competing with Red Bull. “I wish I had a bit more time and a bit more fun, for sure, but I’m also doing other stuff that is a lot of fun.
“I get to race the Nordschleife. I hope, in the coming years, I can do Spa, Le Mans, so I’m combining stuff to find other stuff that I find really fun as well. Of course, my team, so I have a lot of distractions at the same time.
“Positive distractions, I would call it. But at the same time, it’s a bit conflicting because I don’t really enjoy the car, but I do enjoy working with all the people in the team and from the engine department as well.”
Verstappen, 28, was voted the Formula 1 Driver of the Year for the fifth straight year in 2025. That said, he admitted to having other career ambitions.
“I don’t need to be only a Formula 1 driver, I can also do other things,” he said. “I’ve done this for a while and I’ve achieved everything that I wanted to achieve, so that’s why I want to explore other things, and I don’t want to do them when I’m 40 years old. So now I think this is the perfect age to do it.”
–Field Level Media
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Jim Boeheim blasts Syracuse's 'best players' for Adrian Autry's firing
Oct 14, 2022; Syracuse, New York, US; Syracuse Orange associate head coach Adrian Autry (left) and assistant coach Gerry McNamara (center) and head coach Jim Boeheim (right) watch the action at the Orange Tip Off at the JMA Wireless Dome. Mandatory Credit: Rich Barnes-Imagn Images Adrian Autry was unsuccessful as the successor to Jim Boeheim at Syracuse with 49 wins in three seasons before he was fired this week.
Boeheim believes Autry is a winning coach and suggested the Orange didn’t get enough from their best players this season.
“His two best players had horrible years,” Boeheim told ACC Network. “If you take any team in this league, and you take their two best players and they have really, really bad years — like Cam Boozer and Isaiah Evans have a bad year at Duke — they don’t win. That’s what happened this year at Syracuse. His two best players just didn’t play well.”
Syracuse brought back its top two scorers from 2024-25. But J.J. Starling and Donnie Freeman didn’t consistently perform at the same level in 2025-26. Starling dipped from 17.8 points per game last season to 10.9 in 2025-26. Freeman averaged 16.5 points per game but shot poorly in ACC play.
Syracuse elevated Autry, a former player and assistant coach for Boeheim, to head coach in 2023. But the Orange went 15-17 in Autry’s final season.
Boeheim said the Orange are nearing a crossroads and the program either must lower expectations or increase NIL commitments. He drew parallels between two other programs who fired coaches after the season.
“If you don’t have enough resources, that puts you behind,” he told ACC Network. “You look at the league — BC, Georgia Tech, now Syracuse — three of the (lowest for) NIL money in the league. You have to look at that.”
–Field Level Media
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Sirens, Victoire to play in PWHL's first game televised nationally in US
