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6.26.17
2017 | VOLUME 126 | NO. 18
LINEUP
Depar t men t s
SI Digital
Leading Off
Inbox
Scorecard
Faces in
The Crowd
64
Point After
Michael
Rosenberg:
Imagining draft
damage control
Photograph by
Robert Beck
2
4
10
12
20
Features
24
Brooks
Koepka
The 27-year-old
manhandled the
longest course in
major championship
history to roll to a
four-shot victory
By Alan Shipnuck
U.S. OPEN
30
De’Aaron
Fox
Does Kentucky’s
high-energy point
guard have the
biggest upside in
the draft, or is he
the biggest risk?
By Andrew Sharp
NBA DRAFT
36
Stand
Still
MLB: THE PACE PROBLEM
40
Craig
Kimbrel
46
Sting-Ray
Afternoons
The toys and totems
of childhood in
the 1970s had an
undeniable power to
shape a lifelong love
of sports
By Steve Rushin
BOOK EXCERPT
HISTORY LESSON
54
Sea of
Dreams
Baseball is being
eaten alive by
the two-headed
power monster
of strikeouts and
home runs
By Tom Verducci
Relievers have
never been more
dominant, and none
are more imposing
than the closer for
the Red Sox
By Tom Verducci
In 1927, Chicago
financier William
Wrigley Jr. staged a
20.2-mile marathon
swim that riveted
the nation
By L. Jon Wertheim
SI.COM
FOR JUNE 26, 2017
Shake-up
At the Top
Three days before the NBA draft, Bo
to
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os
ton
and Philadelphia reconfigured the t
op of
the order by swapping picks. The 76
rs
6
6e
are now on the clock for the No. 1 c
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ice
hoic
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on Thursday, and they’re widely expected
pected
e t
d
to take Washington freshman point guard
t guar
d
gua
a
ard
Markelle Fultz.
Meanwhile, the Celtics
ics
s
fall back to No. 3, and that selection is
n
i
s
completely up in the air. Will they go
with
o
t
Kansas’s
Josh Jackson
or fellow wi
n
g
Jayson Tatum,
from Duke? Will the
y even
v
keep the pick? And how will that de
cis
io
n
isio
s
ion
shape the rest of the evening? Our
experts at The Crossover will have p
le
nt
y
lent
l
e
t
to say on draft night; they’ll grade e
ach
c
selection, break down which picks fi b
es
t
fit
e
st
on their new teams and explain how
it al
l
w
all
affects free agency. Go to
SI.com/N
BA
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for the latest draft news and insigh
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G RE G O RY SH A M US /G E T T Y IM AG E S ( TAT U M); C H RIS T I A N PE T ERSEN /G E T T Y IM AG E S (F U LT Z);
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Do the
Time Warp
Can you feel it? We’ve
reached peak football off-
season. To get through these
slow summer months—and
to flex those nostalgia
muscles—the crew at
The MMQB is examining
what the NFL looked like
50 years ago. Robert Klemko
will shed some light on
the struggles of a former
first-round draft pick, Ray
McDonald, who played just
two seasons in Washington,
was unceremoniously cut
by Vince Lombardi and later
died of AIDS. And Ben Baskin
will explore the debut of the
expansion Saints
(left),
who
finished 3–11 but entertained
New Orleanians nonetheless.
Check out
TheMMQB.com
for those stories and for
more 1967 memories.
First off, you’ve got this. Use metaphors. Like, imagine your team suffers an epic
loss. You know that totally crushed feeling? Well, it’s worse than that. Way worse.
And you feel completely alone. Now, imagine feeling that way every day for
weeks and you don’t know why. That’s how depression feels. But slumps are
You can talk to anyone about mental health. Learn how at
bringchangetomind.org
let’s talk mental health
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