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The New York Knicks have benefited much from the passage of time. The squad is 39-28, seventh in the Eastern Conference, and had won nine straight games before to Tuesday night's loss to the Hornets. Its core, led by Julius Randle and Jalen Brunson, was working as well as could be expected. They just ripped the Boston Celtics' heart out. The situation was dramatically different from three months before, when the club had started the season with a 10-13 record and looked like a Tom Thibodeau squad when the franchise had stalled. Thibodeau was apparently aware that things weren't going well enough, as Fox Sports reported Tuesday that the head coach was aware that executive vice president William Wesley had been pushing for his firing for about a year and even told a friend in early December that the team was on the verge of firing him: This isn't the first time we've heard that Thibodeau's days at Madison Square Garden may be short; SNY claimed last month that Wesley had criticized Thibodeau's coaching for the club's pre-All Star break difficulties in meetings with team owner James Dolan. The argument has undoubtedly gotten much less credible over time. None of this is to imply that Thibodeau is solely responsible for New York's recent success, or that the Knicks will live happily ever after; it only goes to demonstrate how quickly an NBA team's fortunes can shift. For example, only hours after Thibodeau's fear of being fired was published, the Bulls lost a 16-point lead in a 112-105 defeat to the Charlotte Hornets.
Daniel Weinman was crowned winner of the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on Monday, taking home a record breaking $12.1 million in winnings. Weinman had to outlast the other 10,043 entrants to take home the prize and get his hands on his share of live poker’s largest ever prize pool – a staggering $93,399,900. As well as taking home the prize money, 35-year-old Weinman also got his hands on the WSOP Main Event bracelet. The huge bracelet contains 500 grams of 10-karat yellow gold, as well as 2,352 various precious gemstones.
Daniel Weinman won the World Series of Poker's main event world championship on Monday in Las Vegas, earning $12.1 million along the way. Playing in the tournament for a 16th year, Weinman was tops in a deep pool of 10,043 players vying for $93.39 million. His victory came after just 164 hands at the final table. "I was honestly on the fence about even coming back and playing this tournament," the 35-year-old Atlanta native told reporters afterward. Weinman's final table featured Jan-Peter Jachtmann, who landed in fourth place and took home $3 million, as well as Toby Lewis, who finished seventh and secured $1.42 million. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the main event's entry pool far outpaced the previous record of 8,773 set in 2006. "I've always kind of felt that poker was kind of going in a dying direction, but to see the numbers at the World Series this year has been incredible," Weinman said. "And to win this main event, it doesn't feel real. I mean, [there's] so much luck in a poker tournament. I thought I played very well." Steven Jones finished second, securing $6.5 million. And Adam Walton settled for third and a $4 million prize.
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