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Thompsons liven up Jeff Rodgers camp BAHAMAS

By RENALDO DORSETT Tribune Sports Reporter rdorsett@tribunemedia.net

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he Thompson family have been mainstays of the Jeff Rodgers Summer Basketball Camp and once again they made their usual appearance at the 31st edition of the event.

Bahamian basketball legend Mychal Thompson, along with his sons – Mychel “MJ” Thompson and Klay Thompson of the Golden State Warriors – attended yesterday’s camp at the Kendal Isaacs Gymnasium, much to the approval of the many campers and instructors.

In addition to the Thompsons, Bahamian Olympic hero Leevan “Superman” Sands also made an appearance at yesterday’s camp.

Klay recently won his third NBA Championship in four years with the Golden State Warriors last month and averaged 19.2 points per game en route to his fourth All-Star appearance.

“This is always on my calendar every summer to be at the Jeff Rodgers camp,” he said. “I just love hanging out with the kids, talking to them, it doesn’t even have to be about basketball it can

LIKE FATHER LIKE SONS: Bahamian basketball legend Mychal Thompson (centre) with his sons - Mychel “MJ” Thompson and Klay Thompson, of the NBA champions Golden State Warriors at the Jeff Rodgers Summer Basketball Camp yesterday. just be about life and it gives me a lot of joy to just show them that I’m one of them.”

A former participant at the camp himself, Klay said he hopes to have the same impact on today’s

campers that Rick Fox had on him years ago.

“This is why we work so hard to want to be an NBA player one day. I was at the Jeff Rodgers camp when I was 11 years old

and I remember Rick Fox came back and I was so excited to see him. Now I see Rick and I’m like ‘what’s up Rick?’ and it’s not that big of a deal, but when I was a kid it was everything to me,” he said.

“To be able to have that impact, teach a few fundamentals and have them to know that I have Bahamian roots means everything to me and I look forward to coming back the rest of my career. Even the gym looks great, I remember being on a concrete floor back in the day so to see where the camp has gone now, it’s amazing.”

He also noted the impact of the Warriors’ popularity and the cultural shift it has created in the Bahamas.

“It’s amazing and it makes me want to work that much harder.

When I came here as a rookie it was ‘Lakerland’ down here. Everybody was a Kobe fan, there were Kobe jerseys everywhere,” he said.

“But now to see all of these kids wearing Warriors stuff, asking me to shoot three-pointers, not going out there to do a windmill, it shows the popularity our team has gained and I wear the Bahamas with pride. It’s my second home – if not home for me – so anytime I get to

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Gibson wins 400m hurdles

OFF TO A POSITIVE START IN FED CUP

By RENALDO DORSETT Tribune Sports Reporter rdorsett@tribunemedia.net TEAM Bahamas got off to a positive start with a successful first tie in Zone B of the Americas Group II of the Fed Cup. The team of Kerrie Cartwright, Danielle Thompson, Simone Pratt and Sierra Donaldson opened play at the Centro National de Tenis de la FET, Guayaquil, Ecuador with a 2-1 win over Bolivia yesterday.

Thompson took to the court first with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Daniela La Fuente Strassburger and Cartwright followed to clinch the tie when she defeated Noelia Zeballos 6-0, 6-3.

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AYTON NAMED TO SUMMER LEAGUE 2ND TEAM

By RENALDO DORSETT Tribune Sports Reporter rdorsett@tribunemedia.net

DEANDRE Ayton’s first impression on the NBA landscape produced his first league-wide award.

The Phoenix Suns centre was named to the 2018 All-NBA Summer League Second Team.

Ayton led the team with 14.5 points, 10.5 rebounds and one blocked shot per game while shooting 59.5 per cent from the field as he was one of just seven players in Las Vegas to average a double-double.

In his summer league debut on July 6, Ayton finished with 10 points (4-6 field goals) and eight rebounds in 22 minutes in an 92-85 win over the Dallas Mavericks.

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JEFFERY GIBSON, of the Bahamas, wins the 400m hurdles event at the Liege Province International Athletics Meeting in Liege yesterday.

(AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

Bahamas suffers 4-3 loss to Aruba, advances to playoffs

By RENALDO DORSETT Tribune Sports Reporter rdorsett@tribunemedia.net

FREEDOM Farm Baseball League lost its third consecutive game at the Caribbean Regional Qualifying Tournament for the Little League World Series but maintains the fourth position in the standings and advanced to the playoff round.

The Farmers suffered a 4-3 loss on a walk-off hit from Aruba’s Daniel Werlenman yesterday in Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico.

The Bahamas took an early 3-1 lead, but left runners in scoring position on second and third in the third inning.

Aruba had runners on second and third in their half, but Brian Johnson struck out two batters.

What looked like a sure out turned into a throwing

error and Aruba scored two runs to tie the game.

Participating teams in the event include defending Caribbean champions Los Bravos de Pontezuela (Santiago, Dominican Republic), Aruba Center (Santa Cruz, Aruba), Pabao (Willemstad, Curacao), Radames Lopez (Guayama, Puerto Rico A), Gino Vega (Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico B) and District 1 (St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands).

The winner of the tournament will advance to play in the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

Freedom Farm finished the preliminary round with a 3-3 record and will face the tournament’s top team Radames Lopez (6-0) today at 1pm.

In the first matchup against Radames Lopez, the Bahamas suffered a 7-4 loss in the first game of

FREEDOM Farm Baseball League, representing the Bahamas at the Caribbean Regional Qualifying Tournament for the Little League World Series in Puerto Rico, lost its third straight game but maintains the fourth position in the standings, advancing to the playoff round.

Tuesday’s double header.

Pabao (4-2) and Aruba Center (4-2) will face each other in the other semifinal at 10am.

Freedom Farm earned the rights to represent the Bahamas after they were declared the winner of the Bahamas Baseball

Association’s National Championships that was played recently at the Emera Baseball Stadium in Grand Bahama.

DODGERS LAND ALL-STAR SHORTSTOP MACHADO

By BEN WALKER AND DAVID GINSBURG AP Sports Writers THE Los Angeles Dodgers have won the Manny Machado sweepstakes, getting the prized All-Star shortstop from the Baltimore Orioles in a trade last night.

The Orioles received five prospects in the deal: outfielder Yusniel Diaz, right-hander Dean Kremer, third baseman Rylan Bannon, righty Zach Pop and third baseman Breyvic Valera.

Machado, a 26-year-old power hitter with extraordinary fielding skills, greatly improves the Dodgers’ chances of reaching the World Series for a second consecutive year. He led Baltimore in batting average (.315), home runs (24) and RBIs (65).

Machado is expected to be introduced in Milwaukee on Friday before the Dodgers open a series against the Brewers.

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‘SPLASH BROTHER’ KLAY VISITS BAMBOO SHACK KLAY Thompson, one of the architects of the Golden State Warriors’ repeat National Basketball Association (NBA) championship title, is in town.

Thompson, the son of Bahamian legendary centre Mychal ‘Sweet Bells’ Thompson, made his usual stop at the annual Jeff Rodgers Summer Basketball Camp at the Kendal Isaacs Gymnasium where he interacted with the many campers.

The camp is being conducted by Jeff Rodgers, a local Bahamian basketball player.

Thompson was also spotted around town taking in some of the sites, including Bamboo Shack on Carmichael Road where he got a snack.

Thompsons liven up Jeff Rodgers camp Bahamas FROM PAGE 1 see my entire family and put a smile on these kids’ faces I appreciate it because that’s something you can’t buy.” Mychal recounted his story from being a young teenager in the Bahamas to become the first foreignborn player selected No. 1 overall in the NBA Draft.

“We didn’t have these opportunities when I was a kid growing up in the Bahamas trying to learn the game so I want you guys to truly appreciate this platform and the opportunity that this provides,” he said. “It’s really a blessing that Jeff continues to do this every year so even if it’s just a month, with you guys, for that month you get to be taught the game at a high level and to learn life lessons.”

He eventually won two titles with the Los Angeles Lakers in 1987 and ‘88, before he retired in 1991.

His sons have all reached the level of elite professional sports with Trayce – an outfielder for the Chicago White Sox organisation, Mychel – a member of the Santa Cruz Warriors in the NBA’s G League and Klay.

“Basketball is an amazing tool, I didn’t play when I was as young as many of you here but there were people that identified my potential, that they thought I could do with the game and I was able to change my life and impact the lives of many others. To get to that point it takes focus, it takes the drive, it takes discipline and dedication to your craft. I was one of the first but my story isn’t unique.”

Klay also gave his take on a busy summer for NBA free agency and said the Lakers signing LeBron James could create a tough decision for his father on where he places his rooting interests.

“When the Lakers are good, it’s good for the entire NBA. I know that California rivalry might be revived between us and them,” he said. “My pops is going to be torn, there is going to be some friction in the family because I don’t know if he will go Lakers or Warriors but I’m just excited there will be some juice in the Staples Center.”

Sands told the campers his story of perseverance from the sport’s pinnacle in 2008 when he won triple jump bronze in Beijing in 2008 and at the low point when a knee injury denied him a shot at greatness in London 2012.

The veteran triple jumper’s return to the sport following the injury has been well documented and he shared his experience to inspire the group.

“You can do anything you set your mind to with heart, determination, work ethic and trust in God,” Sands said. “After the injury there were so many people around who I thought were in my corner but they lost faith in me, I had no agent, no trainer, not much support other than close friends and family, but I worked my way back to the top of the sport and back to the Olympics in 2016.”

The Thompsons offered t-shirt and backpack giveaways courtesy of Anta while Sands shared products from his Bounce Back clothing line.

The camp will host its final work day today and the fun night will be hosted tonight at the Kendal Isaacs Gymnasium. Fun Night will be highlighted by an exhibition game between camp instructors and the visiting NBA icons.

Camp director Jeff Rodgers underscored the importance of the event.

“We thank God for continuing to allow us to host the camp. These guys have

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KLAY THOMPSON, of the NBA champions Golden State Warriors, plays with the young campers at the Jeff Rodgers Summer Basketball Camp yesterday.

always supported me and they understand what I am trying to accomplish.

So to have a living legend like Mychal Thompson and these current stars take time out of their busy schedule it is a blessing and this is a commitment that they have made and they continue to honour that commitment. To us, this is the most important event in the camp because it gives the kids an opportunity to showcase all the skills they have learned over the past few weeks for their parents, friends and other interested basketball enthusiasts. But

again, more than anything else, we want to ensure that the campers understand the importance of developing healthy bodies with a positive outlook on life.”

Each of the visiting NBA icons conducted sessions with the campers aimed at instilling the values and ideals necessary for success on and off the court.

“We are so thankful to be able to reach this far and to still have the impact we have at 30 years. I really appreciate the time these guys take out to talk to the different groups, talk about their life experiences and the messages they deliver - staying in school, staying out of trouble, staying off drugs. Some of the same things I have been telling the past four weeks and 31 years,” Rodgers said. “This year has probably been our greatest challenge by far kids were so excited and it

is always a great experience for them to have the guys.”

In addition to the impact of the visiting NBA personalities, Rodgers said it is always important for the campers to be tutored by local players that have excelled in the game. “We had the instructors and the guys from the national team interact with the kids so they see it’s not just the NBA stars, they get it from our very own talent just to show that there’s one message - there are rules on the court and there are rules in life,” Rodgers said. “We put a lot of focus in talking and teaching them as much as possible about life off the basketball court. One of the most important things for them to understand, and to teach them about Bahamian society and the challenges they will face off the basketball court on integrity and character building,” he said.

Ayton named to All-NBA Summer League 2nd Team FROM PAGE 1 He followed with 21 points (8-11 field goals) and 12 rebounds in a 71-63 win over the Sacramento Kings, matched up against second overall pick Marvin Bagley.

In game three, Ayton got a morale booster against one of his high school and another new NBA rival as he helped the Phoenix

Suns blow out the Orlando Magic 71-53. He exploded for a game high 17 points, 13 rebounds and a block shot in 25 minutes over Orlando’s Mohammed Bomba, who was limited to four points, five rebounds, five blocks and two steals in 22 minutes in the much anticipated match-up of two of the top big men in the recent draft. Joining Ayton on the Second Team are

Portland’s Wade Baldwin IV, Memphis’ Jaren Jackson Jr, the Los Angeles Lakers’ Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk and Atlanta’s Trae Young. The All-NBA Summer League First Team consists of Chicago’s Wendell Carter Jr, the Lakers’ Josh Hart, New York’s Kevin Knox, Cleveland’s Collin Sexton and Milwaukee’s Christian Wood. With Ayton’s selection in last month’s NBA

Draft, the Bahamas now joins the United States, Canada, Nigeria and Australia as the only countries with multiple No.1 overall NBA draft picks. It also represented the first No.1 pick made by the Suns in franchise history and the first No.1 pick from the University of Arizona.

At mini-camp, Ayton spoke to Scott Bordow of The Arizona Republic

on his progress. “It’s cool.

I’ve just got to live up to the hype. Now I’m playing against some competition.

We’re scratching each other, fighting each other. Now I know how the NBA works.

It’s a grown man’s game, for sure. It fits me because I’m throwing it right back at them,” Ayton said. “Two practices a day, I’ve never had that. The body gets fatigued. Recovery is very

Strassburger and Zeballos rebounded to win doubles with a 7-5, 6-2 over Pratt and Donaldson.

Zone B includes the Bahamas, Bermuda, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras and Trinidad & Tobago. The seven teams will be placed in two different pools with the winners of each pool advancing to the playoffs to determine which team will advance to the Americas Zone Group I in 2019.

Zone A includes Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Panama, Peru and Uruguay.

Host Mexico already clinched the other spot by beating Peru 2-0 in Zone A that was completed in Metepec, Mexico, on June 23.

The team is captained by Marvin Rolle, who recently served in that capacity when he led the men’s Davis Cup team in Costa Rica to a 2-1 win over the host nation to advance out of the Americas Zone III and back into Zone II for 2019 along with Honduras on June 2.

Following the Fed Cup, the team will head to the Central American and Caribbean Games.

In 2017, the Bahamas won just one of its four ties at the Americas Zone Group II event in Panama City, defeating hosts Panama 2-1 in their tie.

They fell 3-0 to both Costa Rica and Peru and was tied 1-1 with Barbados when their tie was abandoned due to rain.

“Even though the dynamics have changed, our expectations is for them to go over there and do their best,” BLTA President Darnett Weir said prior to the tournament. “We’re missing Larikah [Russell], but I’m quite sure that this group will get the job done.” important. I know that. You have to take care of yourself because you go hard every day.”

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Done deal: Leonard goes to the Raptors, DeRozan goes to Spurs

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer THE Kawhi Leonard saga in San Antonio is over. So is DeMar DeRozan’s time in Toronto.

An NBA summer blockbuster got pulled off yesterday, with the Spurs sending Leonard to the Raptors as part of a four-player deal that has DeRozan heading to San Antonio. The Spurs also got centre Jakob Poeltl and a 2019 protected first-round draft pick, while the Raptors acquired sharpshooter Danny Green.

For Leonard and the Spurs, there’s finally closure to a relationship that seemed fractured beyond repair and played out like a soap opera as the season went along.

But in the end, Spurs coach Gregg Popovich — insisting that looking back at what happened would not be worth his time, and that Leonard was a good teammate throughout his tenure in San Antonio — simply said he hopes the move works out for everyone involved.

“Kawhi, obviously, worked very hard to become the player he is,” Popovich said in San Antonio, a couple of hours after the trade became official when the teams got approval on the terms from the NBA. “Our staff worked very hard to help him get there. We wish him all the best as he moves on to Toronto. I think he’s going to be great.”

Leonard was the 2014 NBA Finals MVP and had been with the Spurs for seven seasons, averaging 16.3 points, though was limited to just nine games last season because of a leg injury. DeRozan has been in the league for nine years, all of them with Toronto, and is a career 19.7 point-per-game scorer.

DeRozan has led the Raptors in scoring in each of the last five seasons. He was key to Toronto winning 59 games and securing the No. 1 seed for the Eastern Conference playoffs last season.

But after getting swept in the

FORWARD Kawhi Leonard handles a ball before a game against the Phoenix Suns in San Antonio. Two people familiar with the situation say San Antonio and Toronto have reached an agreement in principle on a trade that will send Kawhi Leonard to the Raptors and DeMar DeRozan to the Spurs. One of the people says the Spurs also are sending Danny Green to the Raptors as part of the deal. Both people spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity yesterday because the deal has not been finalised.

(AP Photo/Eric Gay) second round by Cleveland, the Raptors decided massive changes were necessary — first the firing of coach of the year Dwane Casey, and now the trading of a perennial All-Star who once famously declared “I am Toronto.”

DeRozan’s initial reaction seemed to be one of anger and frustration.

“Ain’t no loyalty in this game,” DeRozan wrote in an Instagram story that appeared in the wee hours of Wednesday, around the time that ESPN and Yahoo Sports reported that the trade was approaching the imminent stage, several hours before it was finalised. “Sell you out quick for a little bit of nothing ... .”

DeRozan did not specifically reference the trade in that

post, but his message didn’t exactly need translation. Raptors president Masai Ujiri has been travelling in Africa and was not immediately available for comment.

Not only is the trade huge, it’s potentially risky for both teams.

Leonard hasn’t played since January because of the somewhat mysterious right quadriceps injury — and the level of severity was something that even some of his nowformer teammates reportedly questioned last season while San Antonio was trying to qualify for the Western Conference playoffs.

The Raptors clearly aren’t worried about Leonard’s status, and Popovich indicated Wednesday that Leonard has recovered sufficiently enough to

ON BASKETBALL: TORONTO WILL NEED TO WORK SOME MAGIC NOW

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer RAPTORS boss Masai Ujiri better have some magic plan.

Because if he doesn’t, Lakers boss Magic Johnson certainly will.

Before Kawhi Leonard and DeMar DeRozan — the headline pieces in a four-player trade between San Antonio and Toronto yestersday — play a single game for their new teams, this much is clear: The Spurs got better, the Raptors are taking a gargantuan risk and the Los Angeles Lakers are going to sit back and see what happens.

San Antonio essentially swapped one All-Star for another, ridded itself of a headache — the Leonardwants-out saga — and got a first-round draft pick as well. Hard to argue.

In DeRozan, Toronto traded away a guard who led the Raptors in scoring in each of the last five seasons for a player who, without hardly ever saying a word, has made clear that he wants to be in Los Angeles.

A bold strategy, but if Ujiri can win over Leonard in a year just like Sam Presti and Oklahoma City did with Paul George, it could work out like gangbusters for the Raptors.

And if Leonard doesn’t see the virtue in making Toronto home for the long term, the Lakers will be waiting.

Remember what Johnson said earlier this offseason about the Lakers’ strategy: that it will be a two-year mission. Getting LeBron James to sign with LA earlier this month was a big part of the plan, but it wasn’t the whole plan.

Phase 2 is surrounding James with superstar talent, and it’s hard to see any reason why Leonard doesn’t end up in purple and gold at some point in 2019 — whether through a trade or free agency.

DEMAR DeRozan looks up at the scoreboard late in the second against the Washington Wizards in Game 5 of an NBA first-round playoff series in Toronto. (AP) Leonard probably isn’t happy, but he almost certainly can’t run the risk of sitting out another year.

DeRozan clearly isn’t happy. That’s no disrespect to San Antonio — the Spurs are a model franchise and Gregg Popovich is a coach almost anyone would want to play for — but DeRozan rather would have stayed in Toronto.

DeRozan got plenty of support from his NBA peers, including Dwyane Wade, who told The Associated Press that he hopes this trade reminds fans that teams will do what they want when they feel it’s time to move a player — so players shouldn’t be derided when they exercise their options to move on through free agency, either.

“DeRozan gave everything to Toronto, everything they asked him to do from the standpoint of loyalty,” Wade said. “That’s why I hate loyalty and sports, those two words, they shouldn’t go together.

You just feel for guys and their family. He committed to them. It’s a business and you understand the

business, but from a player standpoint, it just sucks.”

The Spurs were never going to trade Leonard to the Lakers. It made no sense. Why would San Antonio help a fellow Western Conference team get better, especially when the best team in basketball — Golden State — seems to have a chokehold on the Larry O’Brien Trophy with no plans of letting go anytime soon?

Plus, the Lakers didn’t have the sort of assets the Spurs would have wanted for an elite player like Leonard. He played in nine games for the Spurs last season and was barely a factor. DeRozan will almost certainly give San Antonio more next year than Leonard gave the Spurs last year.

Hence, they just got a lot better.

Boston had the required assets but apparently wasn’t willing to part with them.

Philadelphia did, too. But Toronto, to its credit, saw no reason why it shouldn’t be bold this summer.

Dwane Casey was the coach of the year who won 59 games and led the Raptors to the No. 1 seed in the East last season. He got fired because the Raptors never figured out how to beat James in the playoffs.

The Raptors are really good. Second-best record in the regular season a year ago, behind only Houston.

But they know they’re not good enough to win a title, and while they stopped short of blowing up the team they sure gave the foundation a couple of good thwacks with a wrecking ball in dumping Casey and trading DeRozan.

Can Leonard get them over the hump? Maybe. If he’s healthy, he could be the best player in the Eastern Conference, largely because of the way he can take a game over on the defensive end.

That’s a player worth the risk. So now we see if Ujiri can work some magic.

play. During the 2016-17 season, he averaged a career-best 25.5 points and was third in the MVP voting. When healthy, there may be no better two-way player in the game.

And that makes him worth the risk for Toronto.

Leonard can be a free agent next summer. When he asked the Spurs for a trade weeks ago, it was made clear that he wants to play for the Los Angeles Lakers — a team that landed LeBron James earlier this month to lead their planned rebuild back into a contender.

That means the Raptors are entering into this deal knowing that they could have given up a star like DeRozan for someone who might not be in Toronto for long.

Popovich and Leonard met last month, but nothing the Spurs could say apparently changed Leonard’s mind about wanting a trade.

“Attempts were made to see what would be best, and in the end this trade appeared,” Popovich said. “We felt that this was the way to go.”

DeRozan and Leonard are expected to be on the court together next week in Las Vegas when USA Basketball convenes a national team training camp.

That team’s coach? Gregg Popovich.

“I look forward to it,” Popovich said.

Green, a career 40 per cent shooter from 3-point range, said he wanted to thank Popovich and Spurs general manager R.C. Buford for what they’ve done for him over the years.

“I have many great memories that I will take with me,” Green said in an Instagram post.

“Through the ups and downs you’ve always made me feel SPECIAL. I want to personally thank Pop and RC for being the first to believe in me and give me the opportunity.”

Poeltl has been a backup for his two NBA seasons, though is a 64 per cent shooter so far in his young career.

PARKER LOOKS TO GET CAREER BACK ON TRACK WITH HOMETOWN BULLS

By ANDREW SELIGMAN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Jabari Parker recalled playing on the court with the Chicago Bulls’ logo as a young child.

It was at the James Jordan Boys and Girls Club where his dad was a supervisor and not the nearby United Center. But it sure felt big time to him. “It was like our United Center, that gym,” he said.

Now, the United Center is his home arena.

Parker agreed Saturday to a $40 million, two-year contract with the Bulls, hoping he can get his promising career back on track after tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee two times in four seasons with the Milwaukee Bucks.

“No better way to live a dream as a kid than playing down the street from where I grew up — the James Jordan Boys and Girls Club,” Parker said yesterday.

The son of a former NBA player, Parker seemed destined for big things. He led Simeon Career Academy on Chicago’s South Side to four state championships, graced the cover of Sports Illustrated, and when he committed to Duke, the announcement was televised nationally. A year later, the Bucks drafted him with the No. 2 overall pick, thinking he would help lead them to prominence in the Eastern Conference. But it didn’t quite work out that way.

Parker tore his ACL for the first time just 25 games into his rookie season. He was having his best year in 2016-17, averaging 20.1 point and 6.2 rebounds, when he tore the ACL again that February. Parker played in 31 games last year, averaging 12.6 points and 4.9 rebounds.

Now, instead of playing in a dynamic combo with Giannis Antetokounmpo and the rest of the Bucks, Parker will try to help a rebuilding team. The Bulls see a talented and versatile 23-year-old who could give them a big boost, assuming he stays healthy.

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British Open presents tough test with no clear answers

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer CARNOUSTIE, Scotland (AP) — The eve of the British Open felt like cramming for a final exam, a multiple choice one with no obvious answers.

The wind that blows off the North Sea across the exposed links of Carnoustie has not been the primary concern during practice rounds. Players have a reasonable idea how far the ball travels in the air. They just don’t know how far it goes on the ground.

“If you get it downwind and you hit that little flat draw and it gets running, it will go pretty much until it runs into something,” Justin Thomas said.

That’s not entirely true.

Thomas hit a tee shot on the third hole yesterday afternoon that rolled across the humps in the fairway and kept right on rolling. It looked as though it would run into a bunker, or maybe even the handle of a rake leaning on the left edge of the bunker. It missed both and eventually came to a stop 232 yards away.

His club off the tee was an 8-iron.

Tiger Woods doesn’t see many occasions to hit driver because of how far the ball is rolling across tight links grass that looks dead. It hasn’t been this dry since Hoylake in 2006, when Woods hit only one driver all week and captured the Open for the third time.

This might not be much different.

“It’s just hard to keep the ball in play,” he said.

“It’s going to be an interesting test to see which clubs we’re going to be using off

SERGIO GARCIA, of Spain, plays from the 2nd tee during a practice round ahead of the British Open Golf Championship in Carnoustie, Scotland,yesterday.

(AP Photo/Jon Super) the tees, and a lot of it is dependent on which way the wind blows. So the whole idea of these practice rounds is just to get a good feel for what I’m going to do, and then adjust accordingly.”

Others are coming to a different conclusion.

Because while the links are as fast as ever, the rough is too thin, too wispy to wreak havoc. Dustin Johnson, the No. 1 player in the world, figures he’ll hit driver about half the time on the 15 holes that are not par 3s.

Two-time U.S. Open champion Brooks Koepka also

is bullish on the big stick, saying the driver will come out on about eight or nine holes.

Defending champion Jordan Spieth was considering his options on the final day of practice. On the 415-yard fourth hole, with a bunker on the right side of a dogleg left and another bunker farther out on the left side, he hit a fade over the right bunker. The other option is a long iron that splits the bunker.

And then Spieth had another idea.

“Aim for the 4?” he asked his caddie, Michael Greller.

He then motioned to the gallery about 60 yards off the tee to scoot back a bit, and Spieth blasted a shot over their heads toward a yellow patch of rough that separates the right side of the fourth green from the 15th tee. There’s not enough deep grass to get into trouble.

The answers will start arriving on Thursday when the 147th edition of the British Open — and the eighth edition at Carnoustie — gets started.

“I think there’s not going to be one player in this field that has a game plan

on Wednesday night and is going to stick to that game plan the whole way around for 72 holes,” Rory McIlroy said. “It’s just not going to happen with wind conditions, with pins. You start to feel a little bit more comfortable with a few shots, and you might start to take some on.

“Because the golf course is playing so firm and fast ... there’s some guys that will see it completely different than the way I see it, and vice versa,” he said. “It’s going to be really interesting to see how it all plays out.”

Sandy Lyle of Scotland, who won the Open in 1985, gets it start with the opening tee shot Thursday morning. Spieth, who will try to become the fifth player in the last 50 years to win back-to-back in the British Open, plays in the morning side of the draw.

Among those playing in the afternoon are Woods, back at the Open for the first time since 2015, and Koepka, who will try to become the first player since Woods in that momentous summer of 2000 to win golf’s two oldest championships.

Carnoustie is regarded as the toughest of the links in any conditions, though it rarely sees this kind of yellow-and-brown conditions.

The ball still rolls on brittle ground into the wind. Put the breeze at their backs, and some holes will have no more than a wedge into the greens.

Johnson hit a 3-iron and a wedge into the par-5 14th hole, which measures 513 yards, during one practice round. He hit driver into the burn — the one by the green — on the 499yard closing hole when he arrived Saturday. The next day, he scaled back and hit 3-wood and sand wedge.

Even so, there is respect for these links.

“If it blows, it’s going to be tough,” Johnson said.

“And with the ball running, it runs right into the bunkers. So you’re still going to have to hit good shots, and you’re still going to have to play well.

“The golf course is tough.

The par 3s are tough. Even with the ball running so far, the golf course is not playing easy.”

TIGER Woods plays out of a bunker on the 13th hole during a practice round ahead of the British Open Golf Championship.

KNOX FEELS LIKE GOLD WITH SPOT IN OPEN, PAIRING WITH TIGER

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer CARNOUSTIE, Scotland (AP) — Getting into the British Open was a reward in itself for Russell Knox. And then it got better.

The text messages kept his phone buzzing — from his wife, his nephew, his brother-in-law — as he drove back to his hotel. He looked over at the screen and kept seeing the same message.

“Tiger?”

“I was driving, so I just glanced at it,” Knox said.

“I got to where I was going, and my heart was pounding.”

Knox, the highest-ranked player from Scotland, qualified for Carnoustie only when he started his threeweek stint in Europe with a runner-up finish in the French Open. Then, he won the Irish Open by making a 40-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole to force a playoff, and then another 40-foot

birdie putt on the 18th to win.

To cap it all off, the R&A put Knox in the same group with Tiger Woods and Hideki Matsuyama for the opening two rounds of the British Open.

“A man on form playing with his idol,” Knox said Wednesday.

The 33-year-old from Inverness grew up watching Woods set a new standard in golf. He was in Florida on holiday when Woods won at Disney in 1996, his second PGA Tour victory in two months as a pro.

Knox became a huge fan, like most golfers his age.

“He’s like this mythical creature,” Knox said.

“Even when I see him today, it’s like he’s fake because I’ve seen him on TV my whole life. So if you had said to me when I was a 15-year-old watching Tiger dominate that I would get to play with him, I would have laughed. And then if you had said we would play in a major, in Scotland, with

TIGER WOODS, of the US, waits to play on the 12th green during a practice round ahead of the British Open Golf Championship yesterday.

(AP Photos/Jon Super) you being somewhat of a sneaky threat?

“Not everyone gets the opportunity to live their dream, and this is it,” he said.

“I’m going to try to enjoy every minute it.”

Woods, a three-time Open champion, is playing for the first time since St. Andrews in 2015 and remains the biggest attraction in golf by some margin.

Matsuyama has been

Japan’s biggest golf star for the last several years.

It figures to be pure chaos Thursday afternoon.

“There will be thousands of Tiger and Hideki fans, and millions of Scottish fans,” Knox said, showing off his self-deprecating style that has endeared him to so many players on the PGA Tour.

He knows his obscurity, even with a World Golf Championship among his

two victories at the highest level.

Knox, whose father is from San Diego, was barely good enough to compete for Scotland as a junior. He used a recruiting service to land a scholarship to Jacksonville University, and he stayed in Florida after he got out of college to play the mini-tours. It took him five years to reach the PGA Tour.

The first time he met Woods on tour was a few years ago at the AT&T National.

They were going to the bathroom.

“That was an interesting story,” Knox said. “I chatted to him. I thought: ‘This is weird. The first time I said anything to Tiger was while we were in the bathroom.’”

They finally had a proper conversation in the Bahamas two years ago at the Hero World Challenge.

Knox is not at Carnoustie to watch Woods.

He has been a regular at the majors since 2016,

though he has never fared particularly well.

He has made the cut only five times in 13 majors, though he tied for 12th last month in the U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills. He qualified only by making four birdies on the last five holes.

So his game is looking up, and that makes Knox as excited as playing with Woods for the first time.

The R&A has put Woods with a European all but three years in his 18 times playing as a pro, but it’s typically a European with credentials, such as Justin Rose or Lee Westwood, Henrik Stenson or Graeme McDowell.

“It’s been such a good summer for me already,” Knox said. “This is a nice way to get recognized. It’s nice to have been put in a group like that. You don’t get into the Tiger group playing average golf. It’s a nice pat on the back that you’ve earned this tee time.”

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STAGE winner Britain’s Geraint Thomas, centre left, and Britain’s Chris Froome, centre right, speed down Cormet de Roseland pass during the 11th stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 108.5 kilometeres (67.4 miles) with start in Albertville and finish in La Rosiere Espace San Bernardo, France.

(AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Constant action but the same result at Tour: Sky domination

By ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer LA ROSIERE, France (AP) — If the idea behind a short but almost entirely mountainous stage in the Tour de France was to create constant action, Stage 11 yesterday went according to plan.

The end result, however, was the same as most recent Tours — domination from Team Sky. British rider Geraint Thomas won the first summit finish of the race and claimed the yellow jersey yesterday while four-time champion Chris Froome moved up to second overall as Sky controlled numerous attacks.

“Amazing position for us,” said Froome, who trails Thomas, his teammate, by 1 minute, 25 seconds.

Thomas attacked on the last of four gruelling climbs, powered past longtime breakaway leader Mikel Nieve in the final kilometre, and finished 20 seconds ahead of Tom Dumoulin.

Froome crossed third, just behind Dumoulin, who moved up to third overall, 1:44 behind.

The major question now may concern the dynamics between Thomas and Froome within Sky. Thomas has been one of Froome’s most loyal lieutenants for years and Sky labelled him a co-leader with Froome entering this year’s Tour.

“Obviously, Froomey is the leader,” Thomas said.

“He has won six Grand Tours. For me it’s an unknown. Froomey knows how to win a three-week race. For me, whatever happens now it is a super successful Tour. Froomey still has our best chance now — there’s still more than half the race to go.

“It is an ideal scenario at the moment,” Thomas added.

Froome is attempting to match the record of five Tour victories shared by Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and Miguel Indurain.

So will Thomas, wearing the yellow jersey, sacrifice himself for Froome on today’s climb up legendary Alpe d’Huez?

“It depends on the situation and what is going on in the race. If I have to pull towards the end, then I will,” Thomas said. “We will see.”

The top five in the overall classification is rounded out by 2014 champion Vincenzo Nibali in fourth, 2:14 behind Thomas, and Primoz Roglic in fifth, 2:23 back.

Dumoulin, the time trial world champion, is Sky’s closest challenger.

“He’s someone who can time-trial at the end of the Tour, too. We’re going to have to keep a close eye on him,” Froome said, looking ahead to the race’s only individual time trial in the penultimate stage.

Greg Van Avermaet, who had worn the yellow jersey since his BMC squad won

BRITAIN’s Geraint Thomas celebrates as he crosses the finish line yesterday to win the 11th stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 108.5 kilometres (67.4 miles) with start in Albertville and finish in La Rosiere Espace San Bernardo, France.

(AP Photo/Peter Dejong) the team time trial in Stage 3, lost contact midway through the stage and finished far behind.

Sky calmly rode at its own pace and slowly caught a series of breakaway riders before Thomas kicked into action with 6 kilometres remaining. “We were expecting attacks,” Thomas said. “When they go, it is never nice to see them all riding away but we had confidence in each other and we rode really well.”

Thomas, who is from Wales, required slightly less

than 3 1/2 hours to complete the 108.5-kilometre (67-mile) route from 1992 Winter Olympics host city Albertville to La Rosiere Espace San Bernardo ski station.

It was his second career stage win at the Tour, having claimed the individual time trial that opened last year’s race.

He wore the yellow jersey for four days last year — before dropping to second behind Froome — then crashed out on a descent in Stage 9.

“To wear the yellow jersey is always a massive honor,” Thomas said.

“To do it two years in a row is really nice.”

After going up the beyond-category ascents to Montee de Bisanne and Col du Pre, plus the second-category Cormet de Roselend, the stage concluded with the unprecedented and lengthy 17.6-kilometre climb to La Rosiere — a ski resort linked to La Thuile in the Italian region of Valle d’Aosta. With views of Mont Blanc atop Montee

de Bisanne, there was also a technical and tricky descent from Cormet de Roselend.

The first overall contender to attack was Alejandro Valverde up the Col du Pre. Dumoulin then escaped from the peloton with a downhill attack from Cormet de Roselend and joined up with Valverde on the final climb.

While Alejandro Valverde quickly dropped back, Dumoulin kept up his pace and was only surpassed by Thomas.

KITTEL AND CAVENDISH OUT OF TOUR AFTER MISSING TIME CUT

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press LA ROSIERE, France (AP) — Record-chasing Mark Cavendish and Germany’s Marcel Kittel are out of the Tour de France.

Cavendish and Kittel, two of cycling’s top sprinters, were disqualified from the Tour yesterday after proving too slow on its gruelling Stage 11 in the Alps.

The pair have a combined 44 career wins at the Tour but both riders finished well beyond the allowed time limit on the 108.5-kilometre (67-mile) leg from Albertville to La Rosiere near the Italian border.

Cavendish struggled across the finish line atop the summit more than 1 hour, 5 minutes after stage

winner Geraint Thomas.

That was more than double the 31 minutes allowed.

Cavendish entered the race hoping to add to his 30 stage wins at the Tour and close in on Eddy Merckx’s record of 34.

The 30-year-old Kittel, a rider for Katusha, also missed the cut after finishing 44 minutes behind Thomas. He has won 14 stages at the Tour, including five at the 2017 edition.

Cavendish’s teammate for Dimension Data, Mark Renshaw, also finished too late.

The 33-year-old Cavendish, who is from the Isle of Man, won four stages at the 2016 Tour.

But he had to pull out of the 2017 Tour on the fourth stage when he broke his

shoulder in a crash following a clash with Peter Sagan, who was then expelled for causing the injury.

Cavendish had not seriously contested any of the six sprint finishes already featured at this edition of the Tour.

With the race now in the southern mountains, there are only two flat stages left before the traditional finish in Paris.

Katusha said Kittel’s teammate, Rick Zabel, will be allowed to continue in the Tour after race organisers showed clemency since he only missed the cut by 3 seconds.

The time cut for a stage is calculated on a percentage of the stage winner’s time, and the length and difficulty of the leg.

GERMANY’s Marcel Kittel takes a new bike after he crashed Sunday during the second stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 182.5 kilometres (113.4 miles) with start in Mouilleron-SaintGermain and finish in La Roche Sur-Yon, France.

(Jeff Pachoud/Pool via AP)

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STAR CORNERBACK DARRELLE REVIS RETIRING AFTER 11 NFL SEASONS

By BARRY WILNER AP Pro Football Writer REVIS Island is closed for business.

Darrelle Revis, a star cornerback with the New York Jets and a Super Bowl winner with their archrivals, the New England Patriots, has retired.

Revis announced yesterday on social media that he was ending an 11-season career that included four All-Pro selections.

“Today, I am closing a chapter in my life that I once dreamed of as a kid,” Revis wrote.

“The game of football has opened doors for me I once thought were nearly impossible to get through. My passion to play the game at an elite level brought fun and excitement to the term ‘shutdown corner’ which was nearly on the verge of extinction.

“Covering some of the toughest assignments in league history was a challenge every Sunday, but also an honour ...

“Long Live Revis Island.”

The proprietor of that place was a first-round draft pick (14th overall) by the Jets in 2007 who made an instant impact as a coverage demon.

Usually charged with handling an opponent’s top receiver, Revis, now 33, often forced offences to change their game plan to avoid him.

His skills even allowed Rex Ryan, a renowned defensive coordinator before joining the Jets as head coach, to try new schemes that befuddled the opposition.

“When I had him, obviously Darrelle was in the prime of his career, and there wasn’t anybody close to him,” Ryan said yesterday. “Maybe Deion (Sanders) in his prime, but that would be the only guy.

“Darrelle could handle anybody. I don’t care if it’s Hall of Fame guys, he locked them down and covered them and it wasn’t even close.”

He had 29 career interceptions, returning three for touchdowns, including a 100-yarder against Miami.

In 2009, Revis was beaten out by Charles Woodson for Defensive Player of the Year honours. “That season, he was far and away the most dominant player in the NFL on defence; that he never got (defensive) MVP that year, people are crazy,” said Ryan, now an analyst for ESPN. “The impact this guy had, and on the best defence in the league, I thought he should have won that.”

Revis excelled against the best, taking the likes of Terrell Owens and Steve Smith out of the game with his coverage. After a particularly lopsided first-half matchup with Smith, who was with the Panthers, the receiver asked Ryan to “get this guy off me.”

“That ain’t going to happen,” Ryan told Smith.

“His confidence and the confidence he had in his own ability, and his preparation, they were

phenomenal,” Ryan said about Revis. “Physical as hell, strong, great recovery speed, and he would beat you up on the line of scrimmage.”

He also would beat you at the bargaining table.

Revis played his first six years with the Jets, the latter part of that stint filled with contentious contract negotiations.

Revis was dealt to Tampa Bay in 2013 for a first-round and fourth-round draft pick. He was a Buccaneer for one season, then headed to New England as a free agent, winning the championship in his lone year as a Patriot.

He returned to the Jets for two seasons, with injuries slowing Revis in 2016.

He made it into five games for Kansas City last season.

“Darrelle is one of the best technicians to ever play the cornerback position,” Jets coach Todd Bowles said. “As a defensive backs coach, you used his film as a teaching tape for young players. I spent

IN this August 11, 2015, file photo, New York Jets’ Darrelle Revis speaks to the media after a Jets practice in Florham Park, N.J. Revis, a star cornerback with the New York Jets and a Super Bowl winner with their archrivals, the Patriots, has retired. Revis announced yesterday on Twitter that he was ending an 11-season career that included four All-Pro selections.

(AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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“He dominated every matchup,” Ryan said. “He was simply the best,” Ryan added.

two seasons with Darrelle and he stands out as one of the smartest players I have ever coached.

“He walks away from the game leaving a stamp that everyone who knows the game will remember,” said Bowles.

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