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Damian Lillard has asked for a trade, and he’s made his preferred destination known.
Damian Lillard has told the Portland Trail Blazers he wants to be traded, according to multiple reports. The team is expected to accommodate Lillard in his trade request, per ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Lillard has specifically asked to be traded to the Miami Heat, according to NBA insider Shams Charania.
The Brooklyn Nets were mentioned as Lillard’s other “preferred destination,” according to Bleacher Report’s Chris Haynes.
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STERLING, Va. — Yasir al-Rumayyan, head of the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia, looks on from the 18th green during day two of the LIV Golf Invitational – DC at Trump National Golf Club on May 27, 2023. | Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images
The Saudi’s Yasir Al-Rumayyan met with LIV Golf leadership and appears to have showed his surprising cards toward the future of LIV.
LIV Golf may be here to stay after all.
Damian Lillard has reportedly requested a trade away from the Trail Blazers organization, according to The Athletic‘s Shams Charania.
The Heat and the Nets are two teams with the best chances to land Lillard, per Charania. Saturday’s news comes after Portland general manger Joe Cronin stated Monday that he hoped to keep Lillard in a Trail Blazers uniform.
“We had a great dialogue,” Cronin said in a statement following a meeting with Lillard, per The Oregonian‘s Bill Oram. “We remain committed to building a winner around Dame.”
This is a developing story.
Jeff Van Gundy, who was a lead color commentator for ESPN’s NBA coverage for 16 years, was one of the many on-air personalities laid off by the network on Friday.
Van Gundy was a mainstay for primetime NBA coverage for ESPN, and will certainly be difficult to replace. The trio of Hall-of-Fame broadcaster Mike Breen, along with NBA coach-turned-analyst Mark Jackson and Van Gundy keyed the coverage of the biggest games for a long time at the worldwide leader.
Internally, former players JJ Redick and Richard Jefferson are reportedly candidates to replace Van Gundy.
Lillard is owed $216.2 million over the next four seasons, including $63.2 million in the 2026-27 campaign.
David Pollack was one of nearly two-dozen ESPN on-air personalities laid off on Friday as part of the network’s downsizing and reorganization.
The longtime college football analyst spent 14 years on College GameDay, becoming a familiar face to fans on Saturdays during college football season. As the show transitions into a new phase, College GameDay host Rece Davis tweeted a heartfelt message to his former colleague.
“Class personified. I’ve joked for years that @davidpollack47 is the little brother I never wanted.
The Supreme Court of the United States declared that race can no longer be used as a criterion for college admissions, ending Affirmative Action on Thursday.
Auburn alum Charles Barkley wants to ensure that diversity is still a priority for admissions at his alma mater, and as such made a significant move amid the ruling on Friday.
After describing the ruling as “a shot across the bow,” Barkley said on Friday that he will be leaving Auburn $5 million in his will, to be used for scholarships for Black students.
“In my will, I am leaving Auburn $5 million,” he said, per AL.com.
STEVENS POINT, Wisc. — Steve Stricker walks to the green on the 16th hole during the second round of the U.S. Senior Open Championship at SentryWorld on June 30, 2023. | Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images
The U.S. Senior Open is at Sentry World in Wisconsin this week, and Wisconsin-native Steve Stricker is among the big names contending.
The U.S. Senior Open is in Wisconsin this week, and plenty of big names are at the top of the leaderboard.
Bernhard Langer of Germany leads at 3-under par, but Steve Stricker and Ernie Els are three strokes behind him at even par.
Aaron Rodgers clearly has some complicated feelings about how his Packers tenure came to an end, but the new Jets quarterback still loves the town of Green Bay and his teammates—and has a nice connection with one young player with whom he never suited up.
After trading Rodgers to the Jets, handing the reins to his former understudy Jordan Love, the Packers drafted Penn State quarterback Sean Clifford in the fifth round of the 2023 NFL draft.
Clifford isn’t expected to fill Rodgers’s shoes, but he is inheriting the locker that the four-time league MVP inhabited for 17 years.
As is always the case during NBA free agency, fans and analysts alike reacted as deals—and the high-dollar number of them in some cases—were reported in close to real-time.
Guard Fred VanVleet’s staggering three-year, $130-million contract with the Rockets seemed to generate the most discussion. But not far behind it in terms of buzz was Desmond Bane’s new max extension deal with the Grizzlies, which clocked in at five years for $207 million, making it the largest contract in team history.