Scott Brooks did everything but win a championship. The Oklahoma City Thunder fired their coach on Wednesday, parting ways with a former NBA coach of the year who led the team to three conference finals in four years, only to falter this season as his players were hit hard by injuries. Oklahoma City failed to make the playoffs this past season, as injuries limited them to a 45-37 finish. Brooks
Scott Brooks did everything but win a championship. The Oklahoma City Thunder fired their coach on Wednesday, parting ways with a former NBA coach of the year who led the team to three conference finals in four years, only to falter this season as his players were hit hard by injuries. Oklahoma City failed to make the playoffs this past season, as injuries limited them to a 45-37 finish. Brooks
Rajon Rondo is out in Dallas. Rick Carlisle made that clear when asked if he thought the free agent-to-be would wear a Mavericks uniform again. The Mavericks announced Wednesday that Rondo injured his back before the last of several times the point guard was benched in four months under Carlisle – almost all of the second half of a 111-99 loss to Houston on Tuesday night that gave the Rockets
Rajon Rondo is out in Dallas. Rick Carlisle made that clear when asked if he thought the free agent-to-be would wear a Mavericks uniform again. The Mavericks announced Wednesday that Rondo injured his back before the last of several times the point guard was benched in four months under Carlisle – almost all of the second half of a 111-99 loss to Houston on Tuesday night that gave the Rockets
Rajon Rondo is out in Dallas. Rick Carlisle made that clear when asked if he thought the free agent-to-be would wear a Mavericks uniform again. The Mavericks announced Wednesday that Rondo injured his back before the last of several times the point guard was benched in four months under Carlisle – almost all of the second half of a 111-99 loss to Houston on Tuesday night that gave the Rockets
U.S. women’s basketball star Brittney Griner and her fiance, fellow WNBA player Glory Johnson, have been arrested in Arizona on charges of assault with intent to injure and disorderly conduct, jail records showed on Thursday. Griner, who has played with the Phoenix Mercury WNBA team since 2013, and Johnson, who plays for the WNBA’s Tulsa Shock, were booked into the Maricopa County Jail in downtown Phoenix on Wednesday and released
U.S. women’s basketball star Brittney Griner and her fiance, fellow WNBA player Glory Johnson, have been arrested in Arizona on charges of assault with intent to injure and disorderly conduct, jail records showed on Thursday. Griner, who has played with the Phoenix Mercury WNBA team since 2013, and Johnson, who plays for the WNBA’s Tulsa Shock, were booked into the Maricopa County Jail in downtown Phoenix on Wednesday and released
Mike Woods laughed out loud the first time he saw a FootGolf video. “Yet that’s the absolute target market for soccer.” FootGolf, played by kicking a soccer ball over fairways and bunkers and into oversized holes by the rough, has been embraced by a U.S. golf industry that has seen hundreds of courses shuttered in recent years. “FootGolf is to the golf industry what snowboarding was to the ski industry,”
Defending champion Alexander Levy made a battling three under par at the Volvo China Open Thursday to put him within striking distance of the lead at the $3.2 million tournament. The Frenchman was in a group of three one shot behind leaders Bradley Dredge of Wales, Michael Hendry of New Zealand and England’s David Howell at the par 72 Tomson Shanghai Pudong Golf Club. Levy was joined by compatriot Julien
European Tour Players Committee chairman Thomas Bjorn, who shunned his own circuit this week to play on the Asian Tour, shook off the jet lag to grab a share of the first round lead at the Indonesia Masters on Thursday. The Dane, 44, racked up seven birdies in his six-under-par 66 after some pin-point iron play at the Royal Jakarta Golf Club to join early pacesetter, Taiwan’s Chan Shih-chang, at