Summer Sports Limbo Action Plan

By Garrett Pelto

Similar to what I wrote about this time last year: we have entered the sports limbo for 2019.

This year we had more exciting endings to both the NHL and NBA seasons.

The Washington Capitals passed off their first Stanley Cup to the St. Louis Blues for their first championship after beating the Boston Bruins in a dominate Game 7 victory.

Besides not having to endure yet another Boston championship (thank God), we got the benefit of seeing this young fan, Laila Anderson, hoist the Stanley Cup. Read more on her story here.

In the NBA world, the Golden State Warriors didn’t win the championship! That’s right, it wasn’t a dream. The Warriors really lost to Kawhi Leonard and the Toronto Raptors 4-2 in the NBA Championship.

While the Raptors deserve all the credit, the Warriors were down some big players: The 2017 and 2018 Finals MVP, Kevin Durant, and one of the Splash Brothers, Klay Thompson.

Klay Thompson (left) Game 6 ACL injury.

Kevin Durant (right) Game 5 Achilles injury.

Now Durant is a Brooklyn Net and we wait to see if Kawhi will stay with the Raptors. Also we have to wait 60 some days until the NFL season… So what sports can fill our time?

UFC:

• July 6: UFC 239: Jon Jones vs Thiago Santos
• July 13: Fight Night 155: Germaine de Randamie vs Aspen Ladd
• July 20: UFC on ESPN: Rafael dos Anjos vs Leon Edwards
• July 27: UFC 240: Max Holloway vs Frankie Edgar
• August 3: Fight Night 156: Colby Covington vs Robbie Lawler
• August 10: Fight Night 157: Valentina Schevchenko vs Liz Carmouche
• August 27: UFC 241: Daniel Cormier vs Stipe Miocic
• August 31: Fight Night 158: Jessica Andrade vs Weili Zhang

Baseball:

• July 7-9: All-Star Futures Game, Celebrity Softball, Home Run Derby, and All-Star Game in Cleveland
• July 19-22: Hall of Fame Weekend

Basketball:

• June 30: Free agency begins
• July 5-15: Summer League

Football (kind of):

• July 14: Finals bracket for American Flag Football League
• August 1: Hall of Fame Game: Atlanta vs. Denver in Canton, Ohio.
• August 8: First NFL preseason game

Miscellaneous:

• July 1: NHL Free Agency begins
• July 2: Women’s World Cup 2019 Semifinals: USA vs England

Thanks for reading and enduring this sad, sad time of year with CheapSeatFans.

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