Nets’ Dariq Whitehead finally healthy at summer league after lengthy injury battle
NY Post
LAS VEGAS — Wins and losses in summer league don’t count for much.
But don’t try to tell Brooklyn’s Dariq Whitehead that summer league doesn’t matter.
Not after it’s taken him 1 ½ years, three surgeries and countless hours of rehab to get to this point.
Not after all the work he’s put in to finally be healthy for the first time since high school, when he was the top scholastic prospect in the country.
For Whitehead — plagued by injury in his lone year at Duke and a rookie campaign with the Nets that saw him limited to just two NBA cameos — being fit for the Las Vegas Summer League opener Friday against Indiana is everything.
“For me, I’d say it’s exciting. Not being able to go out there and play how I needed to play in the year-and-a-half and finally being able to do so, it’s exciting for me,” Whitehead said. “I’m excited for [Friday], to go out there and be able to just play hard. I feel like in the past year-and-a-half, any time I played, I was coasting.
With the Yankees on an impressive run of mostly correct decisions, there’s some reason to leave them alone and just let the best team in the American League continue to roll. But they did raise serious doubt and leave room for suggestions (and even ridicule) following maybe the most inexplicable decision of this season, or any season.
The Giants have never been 0-2 under Brian Daboll, until now. They were 2-0 and flying high in 2022 and 1-1 after a rousing comeback in Arizona in 2023. So, this represents a low point as far as early-season difficulties for Daboll and the Giants. They had no business beating the Vikings in the opener and no business losing to the Commanders in Week 2. But here they are.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Harrison Butker kept making a lonely walk to midfield after each quarter Sunday to check on the direction of the wind, which tends to swirl inside Arrowhead Stadium. He did it one last time during the 2-minute warning, when his Chiefs were trailing the Bengals by two and trying to give him a winning field-goal attempt.