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The GIST: It’s a new soundtrack for the Unrivaled postseason — tonight’s semifinals will be played away from the 3v3 league’s home in Miami and hosted at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY. As for the stakes? They’ve never been higher with $600K up for grabs in Wednesday’s championship, which will take place back in Miami.

• Tonight’s first semifinal tips off at 7:30 p.m. ET, featuring No. 1 Phantom BC vs. No. 6 Vinyl BC, who stunned Laces BC in Saturday’s first round, while the 8:45 p.m. ET showdown should be a high-scoring affair between No. 2 Mist BC and No. 5 Breeze BC. Let’s hoop to it.

👻 Phantom superstar Aliyah Boston sidelined: The Ghost Gang will be shorthanded after the newly-named Defensive Player of the Year sustained a season-ending right lower extremity injury. And it’s an astronomical loss for Phantom: The 24-year-old is averaging 18.9 points, 9.7 rebounds, and 2.1 blocks per game this season. Talk about big sneakers to fill.

• Enter: a dynamic Kiki Iriafen, the perfect candidate to step up in Boston’s absence. Vinyl, meanwhile, will look to build on Saturday’s upset, carried by leading scorer Dearica Hamby and a blossoming Rae Burrell, who’s averaging 25.6 points per game in her last three starts.

🔥 Old dogs vs. new tricks in second semi: Turns out millennials and Gen Z have more in common than you might think. The veteran-laden Mist and youthful Breeze are first and second in the league in rebounds and can score in bunches. That’s a recipe for success, whether it’s Mist’s Breanna Stewart or Breeze’s Paige Bueckers doing the cooking.

• Plus, both squads have a trifecta of talent: Alongside Stewie, Mist boast two bona fide scorers in Allisha Gray and Arike Ogunbowale, while Bueckers is flanked by Rickea Jackson and Dominique “Dunk Queen” Malonga. Expect a generational battle for the ages.

The GIST: It’s hard to believe the Milano Cortina Olympics ended just over a week ago — unless you look at the PWHL and NHL injury reports. With the second half of both seasons underway, superstars from the hockey leagues find themselves sidelined by injuries sustained while competing for their countries in Milan.

🫂 PWHL standouts, Team USA and Canada captains miss time: Veteran women’s hockey legends Marie-Philip Poulin (Canada, Montréal Victoire) and the aforementioned Knight (USA, Seattle Torrent) were injured during the Games, along with Erin Ambrose (Canada, Montréal Victoire) and Kendall Coyne Schofield (USA, Minnesota Frost).

• Poulin missed one game but was back on the ice last night, while the other three landed on long-term injured reserve and will be out for at least three weeks. Not great.

☹️ Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby could return this month: Canada’s other veteran captain suffered a lower-body injury in the Olympic quarter-finals and missed the rest of the tourney, but there’s chatter that he could be back on the ice in the coming weeks. There’s also good news to report for Josh Morrissey (Canada, Winnipeg Jets) and Mikko Rantanen (Finland, Dallas Stars), who could return before the regular season ends on April 16th.

👉 Why it matters: NHL players were not permitted to play in the Olympics for the last 12 years, and the risk of injury was a major reason why. Now, some of the brightest women’s and men’s stars are sidelined as the real playoff push begins. With growth inevitably comes growing pains.

🙌 This GIST in: BMO is the official bank of Canada Soccer. Ahead of the 2026 men’s FIFA World Cup, BMO defined the relationship with the sport’s governing body. It’s just the latest extension of the bank’s footy fiesta — BMO has supported more than 1M youth soccer players since 2005.

• You’ll find Canada’s Bank of Soccer on CanMNT’s World Cup training kit this summer, but in the meantime…

📺 Tune in to CanWNT’s SheBelieves Cup match vs. archrival USWNT Wednesday at 6:45 p.m. ET on OneSoccer to see their BMO-sponsored training kits. BMO shoots, Canada Soccer scores.