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Nets forward Mikal Bridges was named Eastern Conference Player of the Week on Monday after leading Brooklyn to three straight wins.
Bridges averaged 33.0 points on 50 percent shooting from the field and 45.5 percent from three with 5.7 rebounds and 3.7 assists per game in the three victories, including a 42-point performance against the Atlanta Hawks on March 31.
It was Bridges' second 40-point game of the month, after scoring 44 points on March 26 against the Orlando Magic, and his third since being acquired from the Phoenix Suns in the Kevin Durant trade.
Over the last six games, Bridges has been a scoring machine with games of 32, 27, 44, 27, 42 and 30 points. The Nets are 4-2 in those games and have turned things around after suffering a five-game losing streak from March 14 through March 23.
Brooklyn is now 43-35 on the season (10-13 since trading for Bridges) and currently the No. 6 seed in the Eastern Conference standings with just four games remaining in the regular season. They are up two games on the No. 7 seed Miami Heat and have a strong chance of avoiding the NBA Play-In Tournament, which includes teams that finish the season seventh to tenth in the standings.
Additionally, Los Angeles Lakers star big man Anthony Davis was named Western Conference Player of the Week after leading LA to three wins and averaging monster numbers of 38.7 points on 65.2 percent shooting and 11.7 rebounds per game.
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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