ST. LOUIS -- It was Game 2 of the Western Conference semifinals against the Colorado Avalanche, and San Jose Sharks defenseman Brenden Dillon was avoiding social media at all costs. Not because the Avalanche defeated his team at the Shark Tank, which no doubt perturbed him. But because the living army was scheduled to battle the Army of the Dead outside of Winterfell that evening, and the last thing he wanted to do on that last Sunday in April was accidentally stumble upon the fate of the Night King.

Like millions of others -- 18.4 million people watched the penultimate episode on various HBO platforms last Sunday, in fact -- Dillon is a "Game of Thrones" fanatic, one of more than a dozen in the Sharks' dressing room.

"It's not something I was necessarily into, with dragons and make-believe stuff. It's not really my thing. But it was so well-written," said Dillon, who began watching "Thrones" during his days in the American Hockey League, streaming it on the plane or bus.

But he's a die-hard now. On the road, Dillon and a few of his teammates -- Tomas Hertl and Martin Jones among them -- would crowd into a hotel room, plug in their streaming device to the flat screen and watch the "Thrones" together.

Then, the next morning, they have to be respectful of the viewing habits of others.

"Some guys don't watch it in the night [it premieres], so you have to be careful with what you say in the room the next day, so you're not giving away too much information," he said. "We have a pretty good setup in the hotel. We can plug in and stream it. If you wait too long, you've already heard this or seen a picture of that. In this culture, nothing stays secret for too long."

Down the hall at the arena hosting the Western Conference finals, St. Louis Blues forward Zach Sanford is also dutifully avoiding spoilers.

"I don't wait. It's definitely better at home, but I watched it on the laptop the other day," he said. "I've been trying to watch it before bed, but I keep falling asleep. So I'm more of a Monday afternoon guy. After the skate."

Like many players, he said his "Thrones" fandom was born out of peer pressure from teammates who were already into it. "All my buddies on the team watched it, and they were giving me grief for not watching it. I told them it looked dumb, and that I didn't want to watch it. But then I buzzed through the first season in a couple of days. I was hooked," he said.

Blues forward Ryan O'Reilly tells a similar story. "I started around Season 2. I did the whole first season in a couple of days. I was like, 'This is unbelievable,'" he said.

O'Reilly is another kind of "Thrones" fan, the kind who appreciates the spectacle as much as the storytelling. So while Sanford is staying caught up on his laptop, O'Reilly is willing to wait it out until he can properly experience it.

"I don't want watch it when I'm on the road, in the hotel. It's not a good enough TV. I want to watch it at home, in the dark, in my home theater, volume cranked. You need the best picture quality as possible," he said.

So what are their predictions for the series finale, which airs this Sunday?

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First of all, the players polled weren't all that thrilled with Daenerys going all Mad Queen and having her dragon Drogon torch a bunch of civilians at King's Landing.

"I was pretty shocked. She was so great up until then, and now she's turned," O'Reilly said.

"You could see it coming. But I thought there might be something with her dying and Jon Snow wouldn't even have to tell everyone that he's a Targaryen. I thought he'd get the easy way out," Sanford said.

"I wasn't a huge fan of it, to be honest. I thought once the bell started ringing last episode, she would have a little mercy. She basically burnt down the throne she's going to sit on," Dillon said.

All three expect Jon Snow will be the one to ultimately sit on the Iron Throne.

"It's tough to say. I'm hoping Jon Snow, but that's the thing with 'Game of Thrones' -- it's never what you expect," O'Reilly said.

"I think he's the one that has to take down Daenerys if that happens," Dillon said.

As for the players' favorite character on "Game of Thrones" ... well, it should come as no surprise that a bunch of hockey players appreciate someone who's tenacious, efficient and frequently punches above her weight class.

"I like Arya [Stark]. She's a badass. She always gets the job done," Sanford said.

"She always just seems to be standing up for good. She had her list there. Had a good head on her shoulders. And the best kill of the season," Dillon said.

Game 5 of the Western Conference finals between the Sharks and Blues is Sunday in San Jose, the same day as the series finale. Luckily for these "Thrones" fans, it's a 3 p.m. ET start. No need to avoid Twitter, and plenty of time to gather teammates 'round the hotel television to see how it ends.

Real Madrid manager Zinedine Zidane has said Gareth Bale's attitude "day-to-day" meant he did not get on the pitch in what could have been his final match with the club during the 2-0 defeat to Real Betis.

Los Blancos finished the campaign in disappointing fashion but Bale was not called upon, despite being named a substitute and walked straight down the tunnel at full-time.

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Although Bale's agent Jonathan Barnett told ESPN FC this week that his client was determined to see out a contract which runs until 2022, Zidane said the Wales international's daily work at training meant he did not deserve a chance to play.

"It is true, I did not [give Bale a chance to say goodbye]," Zidane said. "If I had another substitute to make, I would not have done anything different.

"But I have to look at the day-to-day, and make decisions. And when there is something I do not like, or does not fit for me, I must do what I think best. It might be difficult for the player.

"We cannot forget all he has done here, but I must live in the present, think of the future. We will see [if Bale continues]. I don't know what will happen, truthfully."

Goalkeeper Keylor Navas did get a chance to bid farewell to the Bernabeu before he likely leaves this summer, saluting all four corners of the stadium after making a string of saves to keep the score down.

"I don't know what will happen," Zidane said when asked if Navas would now leave. "I am repeating myself, sorry, but I don't know.

"Keylor played well today, the fans were happy, that's all. Next year, we will see when we come back here."

Madrid finish the season with 68 points -- their lowest total since 2001-02 -- and further behind champions Barcelona than any time in La Liga history. Their 18 defeats in all competitions was their highest total since the 1995-96 campaign.

"We must accept when things go badly," the Frenchman said. "I am responsible for this.

"We had 11 games, we won five, lost four, and in the end that is what it is. At a club like Madrid motivation is difficult when there is nothing to play for. This is not the first bad year in the history of this club.

"And after the bad, comes the good. But we must not forget this season, we must have it very present to prepare the next one."

There is a new goal-scoring king in MLS. Chris Wondolowski's second goal against Chicago on May 18, pouncing on a David Ousted fumble for an easy tap-in, gave him 146 career MLS goals, breaking Landon Donovan's mark of 145.

The juxtaposition of the two players couldn't be more striking. Big things were predicted for Donovan starting in his teenage years and he went on to excel for both club and country. Wondolowski? In pure soccer terms, he came out of nowhere. He grew up in Danville, Calif., went to nearby Chico State University. He was the 41st player taken in the 2005 MLS Supplemental Draft, this after 48 players had been selected in the MLS SuperDraft, making Wondolowski the 89th player taken overall.

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Wondolowski didn't become a full-time starter until 2010 at the age of 27 yet Donovan has long been an admirer of the San Jose star, having been teammates at international level. With his record now broken, Donovan spoke to ESPN FC, offering his reaction to Wondolowski's accomplishment.

ESPN: What do you make of Wondolowski breaking your record?

Donovan: I think if you take a step back, and I don't have the stats on it, but the remarkable efficiency with which he's done it, in the years where he's actually played, is pretty incredible. And then to break a record like this you obviously have to be consistent, which he's been. So, I think that speaks to it as much as anything. If Josef Martinez stays in the league for another 10 years, you would expect that he's going to break it. But Wondo started really late, and was a guy that nobody had ever heard of, or nobody would have ever expected would get to this place.

I was talking to some of the guys on my indoor team [the San Diego Sockers], and they said Wondo played indoor at one point. I had no idea. That's where his career was at the time. He figured, "I'm not doing anything, I couldn't make a team anywhere. Can I try out and play indoor?" And he played indoor for a while. Actually some of the guys told me too that he went an entire year without scoring a goal. Which is really hard to do in indoor. So somewhere along the way, it clicked for him, and once it clicked, he was consistently the most prolific scorer in our league for probably over a decade.

ESPN: In your eyes, what makes a goal scorer, and how is that Wondolowski was able to put the ball in the net with such consistency? What are some of the attributes you need?

Donovan: There are a few different ways that I've seen for someone to become that kind of goalscorer. One is you're just incredibly efficient with your chances. Two is you take so many shots -- almost the opposite -- that eventually you're going to score; someone like Ante Razov comes to mind, where he led the league in shots by a mile every year and he always finished near the top of the leader board.

Wondo falls in the first category and he also falls into a third category, which is he seems to always be in the right place at the right time. Two players that immediately come to mind who best personify that are Clint Dempsey and [Javier "Chicharito" Hernandez]. Every time the ball bounces around in the box, it seems like it's hitting their head or their foot or their knee or their chest and going in. Wondo always winds up in the right spot at the right time to find the ball. And when he gets there, he scores. The combination of those two things gives you a pretty good chance to score a lot of goals.

ESPN: Every striker goes through their droughts, they go through their spells where things just aren't happening for them. What's the key to getting through a spell like that?

Donovan: Keep shooting. The confidence factor is the biggest problem, and Wondo has never lacked confidence. The biggest hit to him from a confidence standpoint was the 2014 Belgium game [at the World Cup]. He came back and he could have easily gone into a hole, and scored three goals a year for the next five years and fizzled out.

That's not the path he chose. He said, "It is what it is, we all miss, every forward has missed chances easier than that." He just kept shooting, and you keep making the same runs, and finding the same way. Percentage wise, it's going to even out. If you keep doing the right things like that, you're going to score goals, and he just kept going. I give him a ton of credit for that.

ESPN: Everyone talks about Wondolowski's movement. Is that something that is coached? How is that skill honed and developed?

Donovan: It's an awareness thing, and having the mental capacity to understand where to be, and when to be there. Mike Magee had an incredible knack for being a few steps ahead of a play, and a guy would get sprung down the right side of the field and you would look up and Mike Magee would be standing in front of the goal because he had anticipated the play happening 30 seconds before anybody else and he would have a tap-in at the back post.

Wondo is constantly waiting for someone to put the ball in the spot where he wants it. He might make a run six times in a row, and the person just didn't happen to see him to put it there, but the seventh time they do happen to see him there, he's waiting for it and he scores.

It's a different type of movement than "Chicharito" or Dempsey movement. That kind of movement is more of a gambling and putting yourself in a position in hopes that something will fall. But Wondo is playing the percentages and making the run where he thinks the ball is most often going to. You're inclined to say it's a little luckier with "Chicharito" and "Deuce." They just take a wild chance and a guess at where it's going to go. Wondo sort of knows that when a certain guy gets the ball here, most of the time, the next ball is going here. I'm going to be in that spot in case the ball goes there.

ESPN: Wondolowski, I would think by his own admission isn't the most athletic guy, but he's got to be athletic enough to get around on the field. Do you think he's underrated in terms of his athleticism?

Donovan: I think he is very underrated in his athleticism. I think he has underrated speed, he has underrated jumping ability, and the reason that all comes out is because of his fearlessness and his aggression.

When [Lionel] Messi gets the ball, it always looks like he's fast than when he doesn't have the ball. When Wondo is defending or running around the field or checking to the ball, he's at one speed. But when he sees there's a chance to score, he goes to a whole different speed and a whole different level. You're not aware of it, but all of a sudden that excitement in him pushes him up 10 or 15 or 20 percent in speed and jumping ability and athleticism and he then ends up scoring because of it, or getting in the right spot because of it.

ESPN: Sporting Kansas City defender Matt Besler said that Wondolowski is the only player he's played against who follows up shots 100 percent of the time. Is that something you've noticed as well?

Donovan: Yep. Wondo has a mindset that is 100 percent goal scorer, 100 percent of the time. I don't know how many assists he has (just 39 in 15 pro seasons). I think every year he has like three or five assists, right? It's not in his DNA. It's not what he's thinking about or focusing on. "What is the best way to get the ball in the net, and how can I get the ball in the net?" One way to do that, to score 15 to 20 goals a year throughout his career is to follow up every shot. It's something that all of us wish we were better at, because it just means you are mentally tuned in and aware and alert in every moment. He always is. That's why if you take a one-second break as a defender, Wondo will punish you.

ESPN: Just looking at his numbers, you guys never played together at club level, but just in watching him over the years, has he always been the same player, or were there aspects of his game that he really kicked up a notch at a certain point?

Donovan: I'm not privy to what he did or didn't do in practice or in training, but guys have told me consistently that he stays after training and shoots for 15 or 20 or 30 minutes every day, in all situations and in all types of ways. That pays off. There's no substitute for just practicing and working hard. I think he's gotten more clever over the years with his running. I think the league has gotten better so he's had better players around him who can facilitate the ability to score goals.

But then his natural instincts and aggressiveness are what have kept him consistent. There are times every goal scorer goes through where you take a shot and you think it's in and it hits the post, or you can't quite get your technique right, or you're just not feeling great on that day. But all of the little intangible things that he does kept him in front of the goal and kept giving him chances to score goals time and time again. That's what you have to do if you're going to score 10 or 15 or 20 goals a year.

ESPN: You mentioned the Belgium game earlier, it's easy to say that you have to have a short memory, but the reality of coaching your mind to put that aside, how hard is that? How difficult is it to put those moments in the past and look forward?

Donovan: In some ways it's really difficult and in some ways it's really easy. If you allow it to sit in your mind, it can really weigh on you. I don't have a direct analogy, but it was a little like me getting left off the 2014 World Cup team. You either sit and you sulk in it, or you say, "Okay, good, I have another game. I can just get on with my life." Wondo had soccer games to play. His Earthquake teammates and coaches were sad for him. The fans felt badly for him. But in the soccer world and life in general, it goes on. You've got to get on with it.

He made that decision very quickly. I'm not saying it was easy. I'm sure he had some moments that were very difficult. But it was a little bit of a blessing to just keep playing. If that happens to be the last game of your career, you'd never be able to forget about it. He had the chance of playing and getting to flush that out of his system.

ESPN: When you look at Wondolowski, and having played with him on the national team, if you could single out one trait about him, what would it be?

Donovan: His competitiveness and his passion. I've rarely seen a guy who has scored that many goals, that many important goals, celebrate the way he does when he scores the fifth goal in a 5-0 win in a preseason game against a college team. He just loves to score goals, he absolutely loves it. We would often make fun of him because he goes absolutely crazy when he scores. He gets in this mindset where he's almost going to kill someone after he scores a goal. We make fun of him, but it's his best attribute. He has this burning desire to score goals, and it comes out when he scores. You see that in his celebrations and I love that about him.

Phil Simmons will step down as Afghanistan coach after the World Cup. The former West Indies opener, who was appointed to the position in December 2017, said the time is right for him to move on as the target he was given - of helping Afghanistan reach the World Cup - has been achieved.

Simmons is understood to have communicated his decision to the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) on Saturday. His contract, which runs until the end of the World Cup, would likely have been extended given Afghanistan's results during his tenure, including their tournament win in the crucial World Cup Qualifier last March.

"I have thought about it and I have actually given the ACB my notice that I will not be renewing my contract," Simmons told ESPNcricinfo. "I will move on to something different once my contract expires on July 15.

"I signed up originally for 18 months and I think I have done a lot in this period. It is time for me to move on to something else now. To want to get to the World Cup - that was ACB's goal at the time they appointed me. My goal is always to leave things better than when I joined: the way we practice, the way we think about the game, the way we assess other teams. I've tried to help the players in all those areas."

Simmons' decision to not extend his contract comes close on the heels of the ACB's controversial change in the side's leadership, which brought an end to Asghar Afghan's four-year captaincy stint across formats. Gulbadin Naib was appointed ODI captain, while Rahmat Shah and Rashid Khan were put in charge of the Test and T20I teams respectively. Rashid and Mohammad Nabi, the two global superstars of Afghanistan cricket, strongly criticised the move, tweeting in support of Afghan. Nabi said it wasn't "the right time" to change the captain, and credited Afghan for helping the team "gel" well. Rashid, who is the ODI vice-captain, called the move "irresponsible and biased".

Simmons revealed that neither the ACB nor the national selection committee had consulted or alerted him to the changes, catching him off guard.

"No, I was not aware of it. I was not given any reasons. It was the decision of the Afghanistan Cricket Board and the selectors," Simmons said. "How can I take it? I can't change it. So I have to just get on with what I have to do and make sure the squad is preparing in the same way I wanted them to prepare barring the [captaincy] change."

The full interview with Phil Simmons will be published on Monday, May 20

Pakistan 139 for 6 (Javed 55, Ismail 2-12) beat South Africa 138 for 3 (Brits 70*, Shamim 1-20) by four wickets

On Saturday, South Africa completed a tight chase with only a ball to spare to draw level in the series, but Pakistan pulled off their own last-over finish in the third T20I to make it 2-1.

Having slipped to 3 for 3 in pursuit of South Africa's 138 for 3, Pakistan were revitalised by a 77-run stand between Nida Dar and Iram Javed, who struck her maiden T20I fifty.

Pakistan needed seven from the last over, and South Africa's decision to leave that over to Nadine de Klerk seemed to have been justified when Javed carved the first delivery out to wide long on, where Tazmin Brits held a stunning diving catch at the boundary's edge. But that was as good as it got for South Africa, Sana Mir slamming the first ball she faced to the square leg boundary and then swiping two more runs in the same area to secure victory with two balls to spare.

Pakistan's turnaround was all the more remarkable considering the trouble they were in at the start of their innings. Shabnim Ismail struck twice in consecutive overs, while left-arm pacer Moseline Daniels also made an early incision to help send Pakistan's top three back to the pavilion inside the first three overs.

Dar and Javed took a little time to get going, and it wasn't until the final over of the Powerplay that Pakistan finally found the boundary, but they picked the pace up thereafter. Javed took a particular liking to Tumi Sekhukhune's medium pace, while the pair also combined to plunder 19 runs from Sune Luus' second over.

Their efforts brought the required rate down to a manageable level, and after Dar was bowled by Daniels for 32 in the 12th over, Aliya Riaz helped Javed to keep the momentum going. Back to back boundaries off de Klerk took Javed to a 39-ball fifty, and although she and Riaz both fell before the job was done, Mir ensured there would be no further slip-ups.

While she was unable to defend South Africa's total in the final over, de Klerk had played a hand in the most significant stand of her team's innings, adding 80 for the second wicket with Brits. After a mix-up lead to the early dismissal of Lizelle Lee, run out for 2, Brits and de Klerk combined to take South Africa to a steady 31 for 1 at the end of the Powerplay.

Brits brought up her maiden T20I fifty off 47 balls in the 14th over before the dismissals of de Klerk and Chloe Tryon in quick succession dented South Africa's progress and their run rate dipped below a run a ball. Luus' adventurous innings helped to up the tempo as she dominated a 44-run stand with Brits, who ended the innings with a massive six over midwicket, but thanks to Javed's personal best with the bat, South Africa were unable to defend their total.

The series now moves to Benoni for the final two matches, with the next one taking place at Willowmoore Park on Wednesday.

Derbyshire 253 for 5 (Reece 111, Hughes 63*) v Glamorgan

Luis Reece scored his first County Championship century in more than a year as Derbyshire edged the first day of the Division Two match against Glamorgan at Derby.

Reece made 111 and Alex Hughes an unbeaten 63 to take Derbyshire to 253 for 5 before a combination of bad light and rain ended play early.

It was a mixed day for Glamorgan who summoned Andrew Salter from Wales in the morning to replace Kieran Bull after he was ruled out with a back spasm, although Michael Hogan impressed with figures of 2 for 45 from 16 overs.

Billy Godleman's decision to bat on a cloudy day might have backfired had Glamorgan been able to find a consistent line and length after an excellent opening spell from Hogan. The fast bowler beat the bat several times before a full-length ball trapped Godleman on the crease in the ninth over but Glamorgan's inability to apply any sustained pressure allowed Reece and Wayne Madsen to rebuild the innings.

Daniel Douthwaite, straining to impress on his Championship debut, leaked 31 runs from four overs, and it was only when Hogan returned that Glamorgan were able to exert some control.

He tempted Madsen in his 150th first-class match for Derbyshire into a loose drive at the final ball of the morning and Glamorgan were rewarded for a more disciplined approach when Tom Lace edged Lukas Carey to third slip.

But Reece and Hughes showed judgement and patience to regain the initiative, helped by a couple of wayward overs from David Lloyd and Hogan with Reece completing his first red-ball hundred since April 2018 from 159 balls.

It was a timely return to form for the opener whose previous four Championship innings this season had yielded only 49 runs, but his departure shortly before tea saw another shift in the balance of the day. Douthwaite tempted him into a top-edged pull that was taken at fine leg and Glamorgan had another success to celebrate in the penultimate over of the session.

The fourth-wicket stand with Hughes had put on 104 in 22 overs but only four more runs were added before Marnus Labuschagne yorked Harvey Hossain with the last ball of his first over.

The Australian all-rounder almost bowled Matt Critchley who was also surprised by a bouncer from the leg-spinner but when the weather closed in, Derbyshire had secured a second batting point with Hughes following his unbeaten century in the previous four-day game at Bristol by completing 3,000 first-class runs for the county.

Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany will leave the club this summer, after securing an historic domestic Treble, to become player-manager of Belgian club Anderlecht.

Kompany, 33, is City's longest-serving player, having joined in August 2008, but his contract runs out at the end of the season -- and though ESPN FC had been told that there was a willingness from both the club and the player to agree a new deal, he revealed he would be leaving after City's FA Cup final win over Watford.

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Kompany has been blighted with injury problems in recent years but started five of City's last six Premier League matches to help them win the title, including scoring a stunning winner against Leicester in the penultimate game.

"As overwhelming as it is, the time has come for me to go," he said in a post on Facebook. "And what a season to bow out. I feel nothing but gratefulness. I am grateful to all those who supported me on a special journey, at a very special club. I remember the first day, as clear as I see the last. I remember the boundless kindness I received from the people of Manchester.

"I will never forget how all Man City supporters remained loyal to me in good times and especially bad times. Against the odds you have always backed me and inspired me to never give up.

"Sheikh Mansour changed my life and that of all the City fans around the world, for that I am forever grateful. A blue nation has arisen and challenged the established order of things, I find that awesome.

"I cherish the counsel and leadership of a good human being, Khaldoon Al Mubarak. Man City could not be in better hands."

In a second post later on Sunday, Kompany revealed his next move: "For the next 3 years, I will take up the role of Player-Manager of RSC Anderlecht ... I have decided to take up the challenge at RSC Anderlecht. Player-Manager. I want to share my knowledge with the next purple generations. With that, I will also put a bit of Manchester in the heart of Belgium."

Paying tribute to Kompany, chairman Al Mubarak said on the club website: "There have been many important contributors to Manchester City's renaissance, but arguably none are more important than Vincent Kompany. He defines the essence of the club. For a decade he has been the lifeblood, the soul, and beating heart of a supremely talented squad.

"A booming voice in the dressing room yet a quiet and measured ambassador off it, Vincent can be as proud of himself as we are of him. I am not sure he expected to lift the Premier League trophy on four occasions during his captaincy but he will be remembered and revered whenever this period of unprecedented City success is spoken about by future generations.

"His leadership, intelligence and determination have seen him adapt brilliantly to playing under four different managers and overcome some debilitating injuries. He is a special character who has answered every demand the club has made of him.

"We now look forward to celebrating his testimonial match in September so that we can properly celebrate his City contribution. He will always be part of the City family."

Kompany played in 360 games and scored 20 goals over 11 years at Man City. During that time he won four Premier League titles, two FA Cups, four League Cups and two Community Shields.

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. -- Brooks Koepka didn't widen his lead in the third round of the 101st PGA Championship at Bethpage Black on Saturday.

But the defending PGA Championship winner didn't give anything back to the rest of the field, either.

Koepka shot even-par 70, for a 54-hole total of 12 under, to maintain his 7-shot advantage heading into Sunday's final round, with his buddy Dustin Johnson, Harold Varner III, Luke List and Thailand's Jazz Janewattaanond chasing him as the closest competitors.

In the Masters era since 1934, there have been 24 instances of a golfer having a lead of five or more strokes through 54 holes at a major championship.

Only four times did a player fail to hold the lead -- Jean Van de Velde at the 1999 Open Championship (led by 5 strokes), Greg Norman at the 1996 Masters (5), Ed Sneed at 1979 Masters (5) and Tom Watson at 1978 PGA Championship (5).

Let's not kid ourselves: Koepka isn't pulling a Van de Velde.

"Well, I'm definitely not going to let up; I promise you that. ... I'd love to force it on the field and I can make it where it's as big as a lead as I possibly can get," Koepka said. "I mean, it would be nice to be able to make a 10 on the last hole and be OK. But I'm just playing to play good golf, and wherever that puts me, I'll be satisfied if I just go play one more good round."

While it might be too early to etch Koepka's name onto the Wanamaker Trophy for the second straight year, it seems inevitable through 54 holes.

"It is a weird thing," said Xander Schauffele, who is tied for eighth at 3 under. "This is a major championship, and everyone is here to win, but there's only one guy who's absolutely just destroying this place. So, I'm sure he's having a blast. But for the rest of us, he's making it awfully boring."

With that being said, here are four reasons you should watch the final round of the PGA Championship on Sunday:

Because we have to see what else Koepka does

Koepka has torched the field. He has set some milestones and has some others in sight.

Some select company he already has joined:

He could join some big names who have won more than one PGA Championship and U.S. Open:

New York is a big stage. Few have owned the marquee more than once in a major here:

It has been a long, long time since anyone has gone wire-to-wire, which Koepka is set to do:

Because we have to see who wins the non-Koepka division of the PGA

There are only 15 players with 54-hole totals under par, and one of them is more than likely going to finish second to Koepka.

DJ thinks he has a chance, but he likely is playing for second like everyone else.

"I'm going to need some help from him [on Sunday], and then I'm going to have to play very, very well," Johnson said.

Koepka leaked oil at times on Saturday -- he had consecutive bogeys, on Nos. 9 and 10, for the first time since The Players in March and also posted a bogey on No. 16 -- but no one else took advantage of his mistakes.

Along with the four players in second place at 5 under, Matt Wallace (4 under), Schauffele (3 under), Patrick Cantlay (3 under), Adam Scott (3 under), Jordan Spieth (3 under) and Rickie Fowler (1 under) are in the mix.

Will anyone apply some pressure to Koepka on Sunday? Johnson might have done it in a final pairing, but he posted a bogey on No. 18, which gave the spot to Varner. Seems unlikely.

"No one likes to play for second, but that's sort of what he's doing to us," Schauffele said.

Because there's more than one player trying to get into the Masters

The top four finishers in the PGA Championship, including ties, receive invitations to the 2020 Masters.

A handful of players currently ranked outside the top 50 of the Official World Golf Rankings are in contention to earn their first trip to Augusta National, including Varner, Janewattaanond and South Africa's Erik van Rooyen (tied for 12th at 2 under).

"It's awesome. It's a great opportunity," Varner said. "It's going to be a great day no matter what happens. This is what you practice for, and obviously I'm super excited."

Two other players -- List and Lucas Glover (tied for 16th, even) -- are in contention to return to Augusta for the first time in a while. List last played the Masters in 2005, Glover in 2014.

Because you have to see what the fans at Bethpage Black might do next

Here's what they did Saturday. You never know what they'll do Sunday.

One thing we know: They'll always love Phil.

Shattered the record. Not the round I wanted. Game is closer than my score. I'm putting all I have into tomorrow's round. Thank you NY for all your support. ❤️? pic.twitter.com/A0w9O6YXCs

— Phil Mickelson (@PhilMickelson) May 18, 2019

Tony Finau's dance is way better than his hole-in-one celebration.

My New York fans ask for an ? dance. I do an eagle dance ? https://t.co/CGPXpgwBZ6

— Tony Finau Golf (@tonyfinaugolf) May 18, 2019

You never know who'll get the Bronx cheers at Bethpage.

Why are they booing Luke List??

— Luke Donald (@LukeDonald) May 18, 2019

So who knows what comes next?

MILWAUKEE -- It took all of 51 seconds for Bucks superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo to declare to the world -- and, more importantly, to the Toronto Raptors -- how Game 2 was going to proceed.

A rim-rattling dunk off his own miss, between two defenders. A vicious rejection of what looked like a clear two points for Raptors center Marc Gasol. Another powerful slam after Giannis was left alone underneath the basket.

"I think it definitely set the tone," Antetokounmpo said. "That's what I tried to do."

In an instant, the Bucks were off and running, controlling the action and never looking back as they dismantled Toronto, winning 125-103 on Friday night to take a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven Eastern Conference finals.

It has been considered a fait accompli for most of this season that the Golden State Warriors, armed with their four All-NBA stars, will march to a third straight title and a fourth in five years. Once the Warriors managed to dispatch their most bitter rival, the Rockets, in Game 6 of the Western Conference semifinals in Houston without Kevin Durant and DeMarcus Cousins, that feeling only grew stronger.

It's about time, however, for that thinking to end.

"We got the MVP on our team, man," Bucks guard Malcolm Brogdon told ESPN as he walked off the court. "We got a bunch of good dudes on this team, a great coach ... we've been winning like this all year, man.

"I have high expectations for this squad."

The same now should be said for the rest of the basketball world.

Now, let's get a couple of things straight: This series is far from over. The Raptors did win 58 games this season, they do have Kawhi Leonard, and they still have the next two games happening in Toronto as they try to get back into this series. It was only 48 hours ago that Toronto was leading after three quarters and looking as if it could potentially steal the opening game of this series. And if Milwaukee does get to the NBA Finals, Durant is likely to make his return at some point, and Cousins might, too.

So, no, this isn't a declaration that the Larry O'Brien Trophy is coming to Milwaukee. But it is a recognition that the idea of a 2019 Bucks title should no longer be seen as a fantasy.

For six months, all the Bucks did was run roughshod over the league, putting up a league-best 60-22 record while doing it by an average margin of victory that put them among the best teams in recent memory. While doing so, though, people wondered what the Bucks would look like when they went up against fellow elite competition in the playoffs.

After they dismantled the hopelessly overmatched Detroit Pistons in the first round, the wait was on to see what the Boston Celtics would do to them. After one blip in the opening game of that series, the Bucks rolled through the Celtics four straight times.

Now, after not only surviving a shaky showing in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals, but throttling the Raptors from start to finish in Game 2, it's time to stop repeatedly asking if these Bucks are for real, but to instead wonder why it has taken so long for everyone else to acknowledge it.

In some respects, the doubts about these Bucks were exceedingly normal. The last time this franchise won a playoff series, Antetokounmpo was 6 years old and living in Athens, Greece. The Bucks have exited the playoffs in first-round losses in three of the past four seasons, and only one player in their regular rotation -- reserve guard George Hill -- has any NBA Finals experience.

Teams don't typically skip steps in the NBA playoffs. They certainly don't normally leap over them. Yet that is precisely what the Bucks seem to be doing.

Much of that is down to the presence of Antetokounmpo, who has gone from one of the game's brightest young talents to arguably the best player in the world. It was fitting that, prior to the Bucks stampeding past the Raptors on Friday, the NBA announced its finalists for this year's awards show next month in Los Angeles, with Antetokounmpo finishing among them for both the league's Most Valuable Player and Defensive Player of the Year honors.

It is his singular ability to impact the game at both ends -- he finished with 30 points, 17 rebounds, five assists, two blocks and a steal in Game 2 -- that makes him a singular force, one around which the Bucks have constructed their entire team.

"I'm beyond fortunate to have Giannis," Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer said. "He's incredible, and then you're like, 'Wow, I think he can be even better.'

"The great part about Giannis is, he wants to be better. And we're coaching him and we're on him, and we think he can be doing more, and he just soaks it up. It's just so unique to have a player like that, that just wants to be great, and you feel like he has more."

Though Budenholzer was assessing his star, the same sentiment can be shared throughout Milwaukee's roster. It was equally fitting that Budenholzer was named a finalist for NBA Coach of the Year on Friday, as it is his system built around Antetokounmpo that has allowed this team to take off.

The same can be said for the team's general manager, Jon Horst, who signed Ersan Ilyasova, Brook Lopez and Pat Connaughton last summer for a combined $12 million, then executed a pair of excellent midseason trades to add Hill and Nikola Mirotic.

All five of those players have become key cogs in Milwaukee's playoff rotation -- one that has remained at a steady nine players throughout the playoffs and has held up even as other, supposedly deeper teams have gone up against it.

"It's amazing," Antetokounmpo said of Milwaukee's depth. "It's so nice seeing guys come into the game being mentally prepared, setting the tone for the whole team and just playing hard.

"On this team, any given night, guys can step up. ... This is the beauty of basketball. This is the beauty of our team, that we trust one another."

The Bucks have trusted one another throughout this magical season. What they have been waiting for -- at least until now -- is for the rest of the basketball world to catch up to them.

In the hallways of Fiserv Forum after Milwaukee's Game 2 victory, that feeling was beginning to spread. Yes, there is a long way to go. Yes, the Raptors remain a formidable threat, one good enough to still make this a more competitive series. Yes, the Warriors almost certainly loom on the horizon after that, with one of the greatest collections of star power the league has ever seen -- and with the championship know-how and experience Milwaukee lacks.

What the Bucks do have, though, is their résumé. The Bucks have been the NBA's dominant force all season, a wrecking ball that has smashed through virtually everything put in its way. Milwaukee has an incandescent star and a system that both perfectly fits that star and is manned by ideally suited supporting pieces. And if the Bucks do advance to the NBA Finals, they will have home-court advantage.

That is a formula that could produce this year's NBA champion. It's time to start acknowledging that as more than a fanciful proposition. Instead, it is a perfectly reasonable reality.