Month: June 2019

3:44 PM ET The Boston Celtics are hiring former WNBA and Olympic champion Kara Lawson as an assistant coach, league sources tell ESPN. Lawson, an ESPN analyst, also has been a television analyst for the Washington Wizards for the past three seasons and has contemplated several coaching opportunities in recent years before landing with Boston.
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3:27 PM ET Free agent Kawhi Leonard is expected to allow the Toronto Raptors to make the final presentation among the teams meeting with him in Los Angeles next week, league sources tell ESPN. The incumbent often prefers to go last in trying to convince a player to stay with the team. 2 Related Leonard
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Jun 27, 2019 The professional rematch between featherweights Michael Conlan and Vladimir Nikitin will have to wait. Top Rank vice president Carl Moretti told ESPN on Thursday that Nikitin suffered a torn biceps and has withdrawn from the much-anticipated bout. The amateur rivals were scheduled to meet in a 10-round fight on Aug. 3 in
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3:51 PM ET The Los Angeles Lakers have maneuvered to create a maximum salary slot of $32 million in free agency, league sources tell ESPN. Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka unloaded the contracts of Mo Wagner, Isaac Bonga and Jemerrio Jones to the Washington Wizards to make the Anthony Davis deal with New Orleans a
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2:23 PM ET Brady HendersonESPN Former Seattle Seahawks draft pick Malik McDowell is facing charges of assault, resisting arrest and operating while intoxicated stemming from a February incident in Michigan in which he allegedly fought with two police officers after being stopped on suspicion of drunken driving, according to a police report obtained by ESPN.
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1:58 PM ET Associated Press LONDON — The Fed Cup is following the Davis Cup with a new tournament format. Starting next year, the women’s tennis event will be a six-day final tournament in April with 12 teams playing for an $18 million prize on clay courts in Budapest, Hungary, the International Tennis Federation said
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12:56 PM ET Associated Press LONDON — New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman says slugger Giancarlo Stanton is more likely to return in August than July after straining his right knee. The often-injured outfielder went on the 10-day injured list with a strained posterior cruciate ligament Wednesday, barely a week after returning from a
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