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How many club goals has Kylian Mbappé scored in his career?

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Kylian Mbappé netted a brace in Paris Saint-Germain’s 3-2 Ligue 1 win over Brest on Sunday. France U23 captain Warren Zaire-Emery put Les Parisiens ahead before Mbappé doubled the away team’s advantage. Brest managed to grab two goals without reply to draw level early in the second half but Mbappé popped up with the winner in the 89th minute of the Game as PSG move onto 21 points for the campaign, one behind leaders OGC Nice. FULL-TIME: Brest 2-3 Paris Saint-Germain. 3️⃣ goals secures the 3️⃣ points this afternoon ✅#SB29PSG pic.twitter.com/A29pSu0SUn — Paris Saint-Germain (@PSG_English) October 29, 2023 Goals 250 and 251 for Mbappé Mbappé's first of the Game was his 250th club goal despite only being 24. The winning strike late on moved him on 251 goals in his club career to date, a career that should have at least another decade at the top. The France international’s first ever strike came in February 2016 when playing for fellow Ligue 1 club AS Monaco, where he would go...

How Immanuel Quickley seized control of the Sixth Man of the Year Race with the best week of his career

As we've covered frequently this season, the NBA's Sixth Man of the Year award tends to be handed out fairly formulaically. Of the past 17 winners, 10 have simply been the season's highest-scoring reserve. This year's race appeared to be the rare exception, but in a similarly predictable way. Former MVP Russell Westbrook was the betting favorite for most of the season, and while he didn't lead all reserves in points, he did lead them in assists (7.7 per game in 49 bench outings) while leading all reserve guards with 6.1 rebounds per night. Sixth Man of the Year, more often than not, is a box score award. But once Westbrook was traded, a bit of a vacuum opened. The season's two leading bench scorers both had flawed candidacies. Bennedict Mathurin plays for a possible lottery team, and 19 of the past 20 winners have made the playoffs. Norman Powell plays for the team Westbrook joined, and We...