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The Morning Brew for May 31: Memorial Day Weekend Edition

Nick Piccone|

The NBA Finals are set after last night’s exciting Game 7 of the Western Conference Finals, and it will be a rematch of last year’s Finals as the Golden State Warriors defend their crown against the championship-starved Cleveland Cavaliers.

Should be a good one.

The Pittsburgh Penguins also edged the San Jose Sharks, 3-2, in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final. Gross. Oh, and AJ Styles turned heel on John Cena. Big weekend. Let’s go.

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And now, the brew:

Important dates to know for the Eagles’ training camp.

 

The Phillies are kind of on a slide now, but that was to be expected. They’re now 26-25 and 4.5 games behind the Washington Nationals. They need to get rid of Ryan Howard and call up Nick Williams, but you probably already knew that. They were fun when the month started. Now, with the last day of May upon us, it’s becoming a chore again to watch this team.

But, hey, it’s still more fun than last year.

 

Chase Utley is still the man.

 

Here’s what happens when Utley visits the Mets:

H/T to Jimmy Donofrio for that one

 

Speaking of Utley, PhillyVoice’s Ryan Lawrence had an absolutely great Q&A piece with him. I suggest you read it in its entirety.

 

Six years ago Sunday was Roy Halladay’s perfect game in Florida.

 

There’s a “very high likelihood” either Jahlil Okafor or Nerlens Noel gets traded this offseason, according to this report.

 

Mike D’Antoni left the Sixers to become the head coach of the Houston Rockets late last week.

 

P.J. Carlesimo, who was a candidate to replace D’Antoni on Brett Browns’s coaching staff, will remain at ESPN.

 

Our Eagles writer Adrian Fedkiw gets you caught up on all things Eagles right here.

 

Adrian also graded Doug Pederson’s play calling during Week 12 against the Bills last season.

 

Here’s Howie Roseman talking about pretty much his entire career and the ups and downs he’s faced during his time with the Eagles. It’s actually a pretty damn good interview. You can listen to the audio below.

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Doug Pederson isn’t ranked very high in USA Today’s head coach rankings.

 

The Kansas City Royals overcame three deficits, including a 7-1 deficit, to win three games against the Chicago White Sox this past weekend.

 

That’s a big beer can wall at a baseball game.

 

Chris Berman is reportedly leaving ESPN after this upcoming football season.

 

LeBron James talking smack to Drake on the court is my everything.

 

The guys over at The Big Lead ranked Philadelphia the 18th American city to visit.

 

I want to do this:

And this:

 

Terrell Owens is trying to win $2 million in a basketball tournament.

 

Here’s the end of the Indianapolis 500, where rookie racer Alexander Rossi won out of nowhere.

 

Jordan Spieth made a spectacular run to win the Dean and DeLuca Invitational.

 

The Pelicans’ Bryce Dejean-Jones was shot to death after entering an apartment that he thought was his girlfriend’s.

The commotion startled the man sleeping inside, who police say grabbed his handgun and “called out,” but got no answer. Police say Dejean-Jones then kicked the door to the bedroom — and the man fired.
 
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The Dallas County medical examiner’s office confirmed his death Saturday, saying an autopsy had not yet been performed. His agent, Scott Nichols, told ESPN that Dejean-Jones died from a gunshot wound to his abdomen.
 
Management at Camden Belmont sent an email to residents that said Dejean-Jones had been trying to get into the apartment of an “estranged acquaintance” and “inadvertently broke into the wrong apartment.”
 
ESPN reported that the acquaintance was the mother of Dejean-Jones’ child.
 
Nichols told CNN in a statement that the NBA player was in Dallas to visit his girlfriend for his daughter’s first birthday. He said Dejean-Jones was visiting her new apartment for the first time and, when he came back to the apartment later that night, he went to the unit directly below hers.
 
Dejean-Jones, his agent said, was “in the wrong place at the wrong time.”

 

MLB umpire Mike DiMuro had to leave the game after taking a foul ball right to the kisser.

 

Mexican soccer player Alan Pulido escaped a kidnapping by shooting one of his captors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4grIwIQoNH8

 

A pro cyclist Stig Broeckx is reportedly in a coma after crashing into another motorbike.

 

Donald Trump on fixing California’s water problem: “Start opening up the water.”

 

Interesting details on what could happen if Great Britain chooses to leave the European union.

 

An ex-Inglewood employee claims books were cooked to lure the St. Louis Rams to town:

Regardless of its ultimate merit, a federal lawsuit filed by Inglewood’s former budget and accounting manager could result in the public disclosure of plenty of documents and information and testimony and other stuff that Inglewood, the Rams, and/or the NFL would prefer the public not see.
 
Via Angel Jennings of the Los Angeles Times, Barbara Ohno alleges that Inglewood Mayor James T. Butts (pictured) instructed employees to “create a faςade of financial responsibility and well-being” for Inglewood during the competition with Carson for the privilege of putting a football stadium within city limits. Ohio claim that Inglewood regularly used money from a federal Asset Forfeiture Fund to pay for expenses that could not be covered by the Inglewood General Fund.
 
Butts strongly denied the allegations, claiming that “[t]he city undergoes rigorous and thorough audits by an outside audit firm.” Butts also pointed out that Ohno was simply a probationary employee who was let go before her probationary period ended.
 
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Ohno alleges that Butts labeled her a “troublemaker,” which is one of the ingredients for proving improper retaliation.
 
“I was told to stand down, look the other way and be a team player because when Inglewood got the Rams, there would be so much money coming in, no one would care how the city ran its finances,” Ohno said in a statement, via the Times.

Not surprising, but still unbelievably corrupt.

 

Johnny Manziel went missing in New York.

In a short blurb posted at the Page Six microsite, Manziel was supposed to take a helicopter to the Hamptons on Saturday, where he would be hosting a small party for friends and family. He reportedly didn’t show for the flight.
 
The night before, Manziel reportedly was confronted in Manhattan by the owner of the Mercedes in which Manziel was a passenger when it crashed into a pole and sustain serious damage last month. Manziel supposedly promised to reimburse the owner for the vehicle, but Manziel reneged.
 
“Straight punk. Straight punk. Straight bitch,” Wayne Schneider told TMZ after blocking a vehicle in which Manziel was riding outside the Trump Soho.

 

Check out the latest edition of The Straight Shooters, where we’re joined by Nick Kayal and talk about the upcoming WWE brand extension version 2.0.

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Also, check out the 68th installment of the Philly Influencer Live Podcast as Sean Brace discusses the Eagles, Howie Roseman, the NBA Playoffs, Ben Simmons and more.

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