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After another Lakers loss to the Nuggets, all eyes turn toward the Lakers' stressful offseason.

Count out Miami at your own risk, and tune in tomorrow to watch them keep the dream alive or scratch and claw to the very end.

This is the digital version of The Pulse. If you want it earlier, start every morning with The Pulse delivered to your inbox. Sign up here. Good morning! Watch out for Matthew Tkachuk crossing the ice today. Give Matthew Tkachuk his flowers for a wonderful postseason. But as of now, with the Golden Knights up 2-0 after last night’s 7-2 win, the player of these playoffs is Jack Eichel, and it isn’t close. First, look at the massive hit he took from Tkachuk in the second period: Matthew Tkachu...

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This is the digital version of The Pulse. If you want it earlier, start every morning with The Pulse delivered to your inbox. Sign up here. Good morning! I hope you get first pick today. The 2024 Stanley Cup winner will either be a team from the South or a team from the desert, just as the hockey founders intended when they invented the ice-based game in the 1800s. Dallas assured the reality last night with a thrilling 2-1 Game 7 win in front of a raucous crowd, thanks to a game-winning shot fr...

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This is the digital version of The Pulse. If you want it earlier, start every morning with The Pulse delivered to your inbox. Sign up here. Good morning! Flop for your team today. It was a high-scoring day in the NHL yesterday, with no result more jarring than Seattle’s 7-2 win over Dallas, giving the Kraken a 2-1 lead in what has been a solid series. Funnily enough, this game was 0-0 entering the second period, which saw five Seattle goals to Dallas’ one. That’ll do it. Seven different K...

This is the digital version of The Pulse. If you want it earlier, start every morning with The Pulse delivered to your inbox. Sign up here. Good morning! You’re my MVP. As the regular season wound down, the shine surrounding the surging Lakers felt a little phony. The team had just overhauled the roster and played some nice games against mediocre competition. They were talking title runs despite having to worry about a Play-In game. Turns out, they were right. The champion candidacy o...

This is the digital version of The Pulse. If you want it earlier, start every morning with The Pulse delivered to your inbox. Sign up here. Good morning! What’d you wear to the Met Gala last night? For three quarters, everything was going right for Phoenix. Devin Booker was on fire. Two things put the Suns in a 2-0 hole: Chris Paul got hurt, again. It feels like a terrible rite of passage each postseason. Paul left late in the third with what the Suns called “groin tightness,” bu...

This is the digital version of The Pulse. If you want it earlier, start every morning with The Pulse delivered to your inbox. Sign up here. Good morning! Don’t choke in a big spot today. There are upsets, and then there is what happened last night in the NHL: Two Game 7s, both on home ice for the higher-seeded teams. Both lower-seeded teams pulled out gutsy wins. Exciting, but normal, right? Nope! Those higher seeds were the best regular season team the NHL has ever seen — the Boston...