NBA Draft: NCAA forces players to decide on draft earlier
College basketball players will have to decide more quickly whether they plan to stay in the NBA draft.
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Jazz coach Sloan has knee replacement surgery
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Jazz coach Jerry Sloan has had right knee replacement surgery.
Jazz coach Sloan has right knee replaced (AP)
Utah Jazz coach Jerry Sloan has had right knee replacement surgery. The Jazz said Thursday the surgery went well and the 67-year-old coach was recovering. Utah’s 21st season under Sloan ended Monday night with a loss to the Los Angeles Lakers, who won the first-round series 4-1. Sloan signed a one-year extension in January that will keep him with the Jazz through the end of next season.
Knicks to host Tel Aviv in preseason exhibition
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Knicks will host Maccabi Tel Aviv in an exhibition game for the second time in three years.
Nuggets ponder domination of Mavericks (AP)
Now that the Denver Nuggets have won a playoff series for the first time in 15 years, the big question is what to make of their season sweep of their next opponent, the Dallas Mavericks. Does it foreshadow anything? Reveal something? Mean much at all? “A lot, it means a lot,” suggested Carmelo Anthony after experiencing success in the playoffs for the first time since leading Syracuse to the 2003…