The Los Angeles Lakers have extended qualifying offers to guard Austin Reaves and forward Rui Hachimura, the team announced Tuesday. As a result of the offers, Hachimura and Reaves become restricted free agents. .acf-block-preview .instagram-twitter-container width: 340px; margin: 0 auto; In the 2022-23 campaign, Reaves appeared in 64 games for the Lakers, averaging 13 points, three rebounds and 3.4 assists in 28.8 minutes. Reaves joined Kevin Durant and Kawhi Leonard as the only players in the league to shoot at least 50 per cent from the field, 39 per cent from three-point range and 85 per cent from the free-throw…
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The New Jersey Devils have granted pending unrestricted free agent Miles Wood permission to speak with other teams, Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman reports. .acf-block-preview .instagram-twitter-container width: 340px; margin: 0 auto; The gritty forward has provided the Devils with some secondary scoring punch and tenacity throughout his time with the club, with whom he has spent his entire eight-year career with. Missing nearly the entirety of the 2021-22 season after undergoing hip surgery, the Buffalo, NY native returned to form this past season, accumulating 13 goals and 27 points, while also racking up a team-high 76 PIMs in 76 games. Over the…
Frankie Dettori and Oisin Murphy will miss the July Cup at Newmarket next month after each receiving eight-day whip bans during Royal Ascot.The ban will be a particularly emotional blow for Dettori as the 52-year-old Italian needed to win the Newmarket contest in his final season in the saddle to complete a clean-sweep of British Group One victories. He was hoping to have a final crack at it aboard Ralph Beckett’s dual Group One winner Kinross, but was found by the British Horseracing Authority’s whip review committee to have used his whip seven times in the Queen Anne Stakes on…
TORONTO – The National Bank Open will award an equal amount of prize money to men’s and women’s tennis players starting in 2027. The tournament will also be expanding from seven-day main draw competitions to 12 days starting in 2025, with the exception of Olympic years. The WTA lists a purse of just under US$2.8 million for this year’s women’s event in Montreal. The ATP men’s event in Toronto has a purse of over $7.6 million. Tennis Canada projects WTA prize money to rise from about 32 per cent of the ATP prize money to nearly 60 per cent by…
San Jose Sharks defenceman Erik Karlsson was named the 2022-23 Norris Trophy winner at Monday night’s NHL Awards ceremony. .acf-block-preview .instagram-twitter-container width: 340px; margin: 0 auto; This is the third time that the 33-year-old has taken home the honour, previously winning as a member of the Ottawa Senators in 2011-12 and 2014-15. Adam Fox of the New York Rangers and Cale Makar of the Colorado Avalanche were the other finalists for the award, each looking to take home a second career Norris Trophy. Karlsson finished with 123 first-place votes, while Fox and Makar took home 41 and 12 votes, respectively.…
Canada’s Bianca Andreescu advanced to the Round of 16 at the Bad Homburg Open on Monday with a 6-2, 3-6, 7-5 victory over Great Britain’s Sonay Kartal. Fifth-seeded Andreescu battled in her first-round match in Homburg, Germany, being pushed to three sets. Andreescu will next face Spain’s Rebeka Masarova, a 6-3, 6-2 winner over Aliaksandra Sasnovich of Belarus. The Bad Homburg Open serves as a tune-up for next week’s Grand Slam event at Wimbledon, where Andreescu, the top-ranked Canadian female, attempts to claim her first title at the the All England Club, and her first major since her U.S. Open…
Asadna, who disappointed when well supported for last week’s Coventry Stakes at Royal Ascot, has been switched to the care of Alice Haynes.Previously trained by George Boughey, Asadna made quite a splash when winning by 12 lengths in a Ripon novice heat in May but could not follow that up when only ninth in the Coventry, beaten six lengths by River Tiber. Owner Sheikh Abdullah Almalek Alsabah has subsequently decided to send the Mehmas colt to Haynes, who enjoyed notable juvenile success with Lady Hollywood last term and has sent out 26 winners so far in 2023. She said: “I’m…
The Atlanta Hawks are finalizing a trade that will send starting forward John Collins to the Utah Jazz for veteran Rudy Gay and a future second-round pick, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski was first to report on Monday. The trade allows the Hawks to create roster flexibility by moving Collins and the $78 million left on his contract over the next three seasons. .acf-block-preview .instagram-twitter-container width: 340px; margin: 0 auto; Wojnarowski reported that Gay exercised a $6.4-million player option for next season. The trade can’t be formalized until free agency officially opens on July 6. Collins, 25, has been the subject of…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman got his 2,000th hit, reaching the milestone with a double in the eighth inning of a 6-5 loss to the Houston Astros in 11 innings Sunday night. Freeman’s sharp line drive to right field was his second double of the game and drove in Mookie Betts, making him the 295th player in major league history to reach the mark. Freeman played in his 1,801th game, becoming the seventh player to reach 2,000 hits as a member of the Dodgers. Of those hits, 441 are doubles — including his league-leading…
Calgary Stampeders wide receiver Malik Henry announced Sunday on Twitter that he ruptured his Achilles during Saturday’s loss to the Saskatchewan Roughriders. .acf-block-preview .instagram-twitter-container width: 340px; margin: 0 auto; The recovery time for a ruptured Achilles can take from four to six months, ruling him out for at least the rest of the regular season. Henry had four catches for 92 yards on Saturday before he was carted off due to a non-contact injury in the fourth quarter. The 26-year-old from Tifton, Ga., had 62 receptions for 1,023 yards and eight touchdowns in 13 games last season, earning West Division…