A bad day for superstars, and a draft prankster gets revealed |

28/04/2025 12:30 - The Pulse Newsletter 📣 | This is The Athletic’s daily sports newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Pulse directly in your inbox. Good morning! Don't fight a gorilla today. The first rounds of the NBA and NHL playoffs are waning. Only one series is over, but yesterday's scoreboard was most consequential. It was also brutal on some of both sports' biggest names. Quickly: In Milwaukee, Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Bucks went down 3-1 to the Pacers, but that wasn't the worst news of their night: Damian Lillard — just days after a miraculous recovery from blood clots...

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