We’re bouncing around on today’s episode of The Dunker Spot!
Nekias Duncan and Steve Jones discuss the surging Boston Celtics, who recently climbed to the East’s second seed. They discuss their current standing and the non-Jaylen Brown standouts, as well as appreciate the level of buy-in Joe Mazzulla has gotten from this group.
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From there, they bounce around. From the Pistons’ consistent winning, to the Nuggets finding offense without Nikola Jokic, playoff-level questions for the Rockets and Thunder (what’s going on there?), a Rudy Gobert check-in and more.
Finally, the guys close the show with reactions to the first day of the Unrivaled season.
(2:08) — Boston Celtics (9:45)— A quick Pistons salute (15:19) — Back to the Celtics (24:13) — Portland Trail Blazers (31:46) — Denver Nuggets (41:20) — Atlanta Hawks (45:36) — Houston Rockets (51:21) — Oklahoma City Thunder (56:36) — Rudy Gobert (01:03:27) — Unrivaled takeaways
Trae Young #11 of the Atlanta Hawks looks on in a break in play against the Toronto Raptors during the first half of their basketball game at the Scotiabank Arena on January 5, 2026 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Photo by Mark Blinch/Getty Images)
Colandrea spent his junior season with the Rebels and had a breakout year. He was 275-of-417 for 3,459 yards and 23 TDs with 9 interceptions across 14 games in coach Dan Mullen’s first season in Vegas. Colandrea also rushed 127 times for 649 yards and 10 scores.
Before arriving at UNLV, Colandrea spent two seasons at Virginia, appearing in 19 games with the Cavaliers. Over those 19 games, he was 352-of-566 passing for 4,083 yards and 26 TDs with 20 interceptions.
As Colandrea led a UNLV offense that averaged 6.8 yards per play, the Rebels went 10-4 and made their second straight Mountain West title game appearance.
Colandrea will become the presumptive starter in Lincoln after Dylan Raiola entered the transfer portal at the end of the season. The former five-star recruit suffered a season-ending leg injury nine games into the season. Raiola was completing over 72% of his passes before he was injured and had thrown for 18 touchdowns.
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He did not provide the rushing threat that Colandrea does, however. Nebraska is looking for a more dynamic offense, as the Huskers are still working toward the team’s first eight-win season since 2016. Nebraska went 7-6 for the second consecutive season under coach Matt Rhule but lost the Las Vegas Bowl to Utah.
Minchey spent the 2025 season as CJ Carr’s backup for the Fighting Irish. He took an early visit to Lincoln and briefly committed to the Huskers before he was lured away by Kentucky and new coach Will Stein.
The NFL playoff field is set. The Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks are the No. 1 seeds who earned first-round byes, while the New England Patriots and Chicago Bears look dangerous as No. 2 seeds. Plus there are plenty of contenders in the other wild-card weekend slots.
Who will advance in each round? Who will raise the Lombardi Trophy after Super Bowl LX on Feb. 8 in Santa Clara, California? And what will the score and MVP be?
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Yahoo Sports’ NFL experts make their picks right here.
Nate Tice
(Taylor Wilhelm/Yahoo Sports)
AFC Wild Card Jaguars over Bills Patriots over Chargers Texans over Steelers
NFC Wild Card Rams over Panthers Bears over Packers Eagles over 49ers
AFC Divisional Texans over Broncos Jaguars over Patriots
NFC Divisional Rams over Seahawks Eagles over Bears
AFC Championship Jaguars over Texans
NFC Championship Rams over Eagles
Super Bowl Rams 24, Jaguars 20
MVP Matthew Stafford
Charles Robinson
(Taylor Wilhelm/Yahoo Sports)
AFC Wild Card Bills over Jaguars Patriots over Chargers Texans over Steelers
NFC Wild Card Rams over Panthers Packers over Bears Eagles over 49ers
AFC Divisional Broncos over Bills Texans over Patriots
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NFC Divisional Seahawks over Packers Rams over Eagles
AFC Championship Broncos over Texans
NFC Championship Rams over Seahawks
Super Bowl Rams 28, Broncos 21
MVP Matthew Stafford
Jori Epstein
(Taylor Wilhelm/Yahoo Sports)
AFC Wild Card Bills over Jaguars Patriots over Chargers Texans over Steelers
NFC Wild Card Rams over Panthers Bears over Packers Eagles over 49ers
AFC Divisional Bills over Broncos Texans over Patriots
NFC Divisional Seahawks over Rams Bears over Eagles
AFC Championship Bills over Texans
NFC Championship Seahawks over Bears
Super Bowl Seahawks 24, Bills 21
MVP Jaxon Smith-Njigba
Charles McDonald
(Taylor Wilhelm/Yahoo Sports)
AFC Wild Card Bills over Jaguars Patriots over Chargers Texans over Steelers
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NFC Wild Card Rams over Panthers Bears over Packers 49ers over Eagles
AFC Divisional Bills over Broncos Texans over Patriots
NFC Divisional Seahawks over 49ers Rams over Bears
AFC Championship Bills over Texans
NFC Championship Rams over Seahawks
Super Bowl Rams 34, Bills 23
MVP Matthew Stafford
Frank Schwab
(Taylor Wilhelm/Yahoo Sports)
AFC Wild Card Jaguars over Bills Patriots over Chargers Texans over Steelers
NFC Wild Card Rams over Panthers Bears over Packers Eagles over 49ers
AFC Divisional Texans over Broncos Jaguars over Patriots
NFC Divisional Seahawks over Rams Bears over Eagles
AFC Championship Texans over Jaguars
NFC Championship Seahawks over Bears
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Super Bowl Seahawks 17, Texans 10
MVP Jaxon Smith-Njigba
Andrew Siciliano
(Taylor Wilhelm/Yahoo Sports)
AFC Wild Card Bills over Jaguars Patriots over Chargers Texans over Steelers
NFC Wild Card Rams over Panthers Bears over Packers 49ers over Eagles
AFC Divisional Broncos over Bills Texans over Patriots
NFC Divisional Seahawks over 49ers Rams over Bears
AFC Championship Broncos over Texans
NFC Championship Rams over Seahawks
Super Bowl Rams 24, Broncos 20
MVP Matthew Stafford
Matt Harmon
(Taylor Wilhelm/Yahoo Sports)
AFC Wild Card Jaguars over Bills Patriots over Chargers Texans over Steelers
NFC Wild Card Rams over Panthers Bears over Packers 49ers over Eagles
AFC Divisional Broncos over Texans Patriots over Jaguars
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NFC Divisional Seahawks over 49ers Bears over Rams
AFC Championship Patriots over Broncos
NFC Championship Seahawks over Bears
Super Bowl Seahawks 24, Patriots 20
MVP Jaxon Smith-Njigba
Jay Busbee
(Taylor Wilhelm/Yahoo Sports)
AFC Wild Card Bills over Jaguars Patriots over Chargers Texans over Steelers
NFC Wild Card Rams over Panthers Bears over Packers 49ers over Eagles
AFC Divisional Broncos over Bills Patriots over Texans
NFC Divisional Seahawks over 49ers Bears over Rams
Where do the Baltimore Ravens go from here after firing head coach of 18 years John Harbaugh? Yahoo Sports’ Andrew Siciliano, Jori Epstein and Frank Schwab discuss the Ravens’ future along with other coaching vacancies across the league at the coordinator level. Closing things out, the crew looks at how coaching situations could affect certain QBs before discussing their “One More Thing.”
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(0:30) – Ravens fire John Harbaugh
(25:18) – Cowboys fire DC Matt Eberflus
(34:05) – Commanders part ways with OC Kliff Kingsbury & DC Joe Whitt Jr.
(43:05) – Lions part ways with OC John Morton
(46:49) – Could Tua Tagovailoa play elsewhere in 2026?
(50:50) – How will head coaching openings affect QBs?
(1:02:30) – One More Thing
Who will the Baltimore Ravens hire as their next head coach? (Photo by Michael Owens/Getty Images)
Tate has length and excellent hand-eye coordination which gives him a large catching radius, especially near the sideline and in the red zone. His strides eat up ground and his route-running has added real polish this season, opening up his ability to attack at all three levels.
Jeremiah Smith, the player nearly guaranteed to become the seventh player on the above list in the 2027 Draft, has overshadowed Tate in their shared time together in Columbus, but Tate has been highly productive in his own right.
In 2025, Tate posted 875 receiving yards and nine touchdowns in 11 games for the Buckeyes, with both numbers ranking sixth in the Big Ten. He was also the No. 3 receiver on Ohio State’s College Football Playoff championship team last year, behind Smith and Egbuka.
Tate’s exit is hardly a surprise, though it does leave some questions about how the Ohio State passing attack is going to look next year with offensive coordinator Brian Hartline leaving for South Florida. Smith and quarterback Julian Sayin aren’t going anywhere, but Tate and Smith were the only wide receivers with more than 300 receiving yards this season.
No. 5 Oregon will be without a major piece of its offense on Friday night in the Peach Bowl against No. 1 Indiana.
Freshman RB Jordon Davison is listed as out on the Ducks’ Tuesday night injury report. According to the Oregonian, Davison suffered a fractured clavicle in the Ducks’ Orange Bowl win over Texas Tech. Davison rushed 15 times for 42 yards and two scores in the 23-0 victory as Oregon dominated the No. 4 Red Raiders.
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Given the type of injury, it’s hard to see how Davison would be available if Oregon beats Indiana and advances to the Jan. 19 national championship game.
Davison is the team’s second-leading rusher with 113 carries for 667 yards. Only Noah Whittington (829 yards) has rushed for more yardage, but no one comes close to Davison’s touchdown total. Davison leads the team with 15 rushing touchdowns. No other Oregon player has more than six.
Davison had the most carries and yards of any Oregon running back against Tech. Whittington rushed 13 times for 31 yards and Dierre Hill Jr. had five carries for 13 yards. He’s not the only running back who Oregon won’t have against Indiana, either. Jayden Limar is entering the transfer portal. Limar, who has rushed 46 times for 262 yards and three TDs, had three carries against the Red Raiders.
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Limar had returned for the College Football Playoff after missing most of October and all of November.
Oregon’s offense has dealt with injuries for much of the season. Leading returning receiver Evan Stewart suffered a knee injury in spring practice and top WR Dakorien Moore returned for the postseason along with Gary Bryant Jr. Moore had three catches in the Orange Bowl while Bryant had one grab.
Cameron Boozer and the Blue Devils didn’t make it easy on Tuesday night, but they are headed home still perfect in ACC play.
No. 6 Duke rallied out of a 12-point deficit in the first half, the team’s largest of the season so far, to beat No. 20 Louisville 84-73 on Tuesday at the KFC Yum! Center. That got the Blue Devils to 14-1 and maintained their early lead in the conference standings.
Boozer was incredibly efficient to lead the Blue Devils to the win, too. He dropped 27 points and shot 10-of-12 from the field, which matched his season-high field goal percentage, while adding eight rebounds and four assists. He missed just a single 3-point attempt and a short bucket from the center in the lane the entire game. It marked the fourth time in the last five games in which Boozer has scored at least 23 points.
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Louisville led the whole way in the first half, and even jumped out to a 12-point lead at one point early on. That was Duke’s largest deficit of the season so far, two points more than what they faced against Lipscomb last month before rallying for that win. The Blue Devils led nearly the entire way in their loss to Texas Tech before slipping at the end in a one-point defeat — their only loss of the year.
The Cardinals took a nine-point lead into the break on Tuesday night thanks to 16 first-half points from Ryan Conwell and 10 made 3-pointers in the first 20 minutes as a group. It was Boozer who kept Duke in it early. He missed just one shot in the first half and matched the six made field goals that the rest of the Blue Devils made from the field combined.
But Duke finally took off after halftime. The Blue Devils opened the period on a long 14-6 run to get within a single point, and then finally took their first lead of the night after a pair of Boozer free throws.
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Louisville largely shut down after that, and couldn’t make a bucket from behind the arc. Louisville made just one of its first 14 attempts from deep in the second half, which allowed Duke to finally surge ahead for good. The Blue Devils just held on down the stretch, their double-digit deficit long behind them. In total, the Blue Devils outscored the Cardinals by 20 points in the second half.
Isaiah Evans finished with 23 points to go with Boozer’s night for Duke in the win. Caleb Foster finished with 20 points after he went 9-of-13 from the field. The Blue Devils shot 51% from the field despite making just seven 3-pointers as a group. Duke entered the game after narrow wins against both Georgia Tech and Florida State to open conference play. That came after its loss to the Red Raiders, too.
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Conwell led Louisville with 24 points and seven rebounds. Aly Khalifa added 14 points off the bench, and Adrian Wooley finished with 11 points. The Cardinals were without star guard Mikel Brown Jr. He has now missed five straight games with a lower back injury, and was ruled out of the contest ahead of time. Brown has averaged 16.6 points and 5.1 assists in 10 games this season. The Cardinals now sit at 11-4, and just 1-2 in conference play after last week’s loss to Stanford.
While they may have gotten out to another slow start, the Blue Devils who showed up in the second half on Tuesday night easily erased any doubts about their status as one of the top teams in the country.
Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Cam Taylor-Britt will be spending the next five days in jail.
Taylor-Britt was sentenced to five days of jail time over a driving incident in September, an Ohio judge ruled on Tuesday, according to ESPN’s Ben Baby. Taylor-Britt was charged with reckless driving, which is a misdemeanor punishable by up to 30 days in jail, a $250 fine or both, and driving without a license. The judge in the case declined to grant Taylor-Britt community service, and insisted that his jail time be served immediately.
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“That’s a gift,” Hamilton County judge Bernie Bouchard told Taylor-Britt, via ESPN. “Five days instead of 30. He’s got to do them now. It’ll be over soon enough.”
The issue stemmed from a driving incident when Taylor-Britt allegedly did a burnout on the wrong side of the road near Paycor Stadium. Court records indicated, according to ESPN, that it took place on Sept. 14, shortly after the team’s 31-27 win over the Jacksonville Jaguars in Week 2 of the season. But county attorneys testified that the incident actually occurred in June. Further specifics are not yet known.
Taylor-Britt’s attorneys said that he hasn’t driven since October, and that he’s selling the vehicle involved in the incident. He was at a Kentucky transportation office on Tuesday to receive his new license, too.
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“I just want to apologize, first and foremost for my actions that I’ve put everybody else through,” Taylor-Britt said. “Not intentional in [any] way.”
The hearing on Tuesday actually started without Taylor-Britt, who was available on standby while the plea deal was being finalized. The judge then instructed Taylor-Britt to show up before noon under the likelihood of serving jail time.
Taylor-Britt ended the season on injured reserve after he went down in the team’s loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers on Nov. 16. The 26-year-old underwent Lisfranc surgery on his left foot, and is still recovering.
Taylor-Britt had 21 total tackles in eight games this season, his fourth in the league after the Bengals selected him with the No. 60 overall pick in the 2022 NFL Draft out of Nebraska. He is set to become a free agent this summer after his initial rookie deal expires.
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The Bengals went just 6-11 this season and missed the playoffs for a third straight campaign.
“I’m not opposed to it,” Taylor-Britt said Monday about possibly playing elsewhere next season. “At the end of the day, I don’t think anybody would be mad at a new change of scenery.”
Aidan Chiles is heading from one Big Ten school to another.
The former Michigan State quarterback has committed to play at Northwestern in 2026, according to ESPN. Chiles entered the transfer portal after the 2025 season following Jonathan Smith’s firing at Michigan State. Chiles followed Smith to Michigan State from Oregon State after the 2023 season following his freshman season with the Beavers.
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Over nine games in 2025, Chiles was 128-of-203 passing for 1,392 yards and 10 touchdowns. He split time at quarterback with Alessio Milivojevic — the redshirt freshman also appeared in nine games and threw 173 passes.
In 2024, Chiles was 192-of-323 passing for 2,415 yards and 13 TDs with 11 interceptions across 12 games. Smith was fired after just two seasons as the Spartans went 9-15. Coincidentally, Michigan State hired former Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald to replace Smith.
Chiles will join Northwestern as coach David Braun attempts to rejuvenate the offense. Braun hired former Oregon and UCLA head coach Chip Kelly to be the team’s offensive coordinator in December. Kelly left Ohio State for the Las Vegas Raiders after the 2024 season but was fired before the end of the NFL season.
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Northwestern went 7-6 in 2025 and won the GameAbove Sports Bowl over Central Michigan. However, the Wildcats averaged just 5.4 yards per play and ranked 98th in the country with just 23.4 points per game.
There are things Victor Wembanyama can do that no one else in the NBA can do. Or maybe anyone else on Earth.
The San Antonio Spurs star made his return to the court on Tuesday after missing two games with a hyperextended left knee. As a precaution, he came off the bench and was reportedly on a minutes limit.
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However, any concerns that the Frenchman’s leg wasn’t 100% probably evaporated after the first quarter, when FanDuel Sports Network aired video showing Wembanyama kick a bunch of basketballs stuck in the net.
We will repeat: Victor Wembanyama kicked a bunch of basketballs stuck in a net. A basketball net. With his foot. Nearly 10 feet in the air. Think about how close you can reach a basketball rim with your hand, and then watch this:
Granted, Wembanyama did the kicking with his right leg, but that’s something you just don’t do unless you have 100% confidence in your entire lower body.
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Wembanyama is officially listed at 7-foot-4, the tallest player in the NBA, and there’s plenty of speculationthat he’s actually multiple inches taller than that. What’s more, he possesses an athleticism that is almost unheard of at his size, which helps explain how he can get his foot 12 inches above where his head usually is.
Here’s some perspective. The Guinness Book of World Records is hardly a comprehensive documentation of what every human has done, but it lists the highest unassisted martial arts kick (male) at 2.94 meters, or 9 feet, 8 inches. Watch that video again and judge for yourself if Wembanyama’s foot gets within four inches of the rim, then take a moment and ponder that he was only goofing off.
It’s a preposterous thing to be able to do, accomplished by a preposterous athlete. And in the actual Spurs game, he came off the bench and posted 30 points on 10-of-20 shooting, 5 rebounds and 3 assists in 21 minutes of a 106-105 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies.
There might not be a human better built to dominate a basketball game than Wembanyama. And that doesn’t even factor in the kicking.
