Hometown Broadcasting Sports Tuesday 6/30/20
30 June 2020 Sports
The NBA G League today recognized the Wisconsin Herd and Salt Lake City Stars for finishing the 2019-20 season with the best records in the Eastern Conference and Western Conference, respectively.
In honor of their achievement, the NBA G League will donate $10,000 to a community
organization of each team’s choosing. Wisconsin has selected the National Urban
League and Salt Lake City has selected Represent Justice to receive the donation.
The Herd finished with the NBA G League’s best record at 33-10 under head coach
Chase Buford. Wisconsin, the NBA G League affiliate of the Milwaukee Bucks, led the league in net rating and ranked third in defensive rating. The Herd produced one GATORADE Call-Up – Rayjon Tucker to the Utah Jazz.
Led by head coach Martin Schiller, the Stars finished with a 30-12 record. Salt
Lake City, the NBA G League affiliate of the Jazz, won the 2019 MGM Resorts NBA G
League Winter Showcase at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas. Salt
Lake City produced two GATORADE Call-Ups – Juwan Morgan to the Jazz and William
Howard to the Houston Rockets.
The NBA G League canceled the remainder of its 2019-20 season on June 4. The
regular season was suspended on March 12 and had been scheduled to conclude on March 28th.
About the NBA G League The NBA’s official minor league, the NBA G League prepares players, coaches, officials, trainers and front-office staff for the NBA while acting as the league’s research and development laboratory. Featuring 28 teams with direct affiliations with NBA franchises for the 2019-20 season, the league offers elite professional basketball at an affordable price in a fun, family-friendly atmosphere. A record 42 percent of all NBA players at the start of the 2019-20 season boasted NBA G League experience. In fostering the league’s connection to the community, its teams, players and staff promote health and wellness, support local needs and interests, and assist in educational development through NBA Cares programs.
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The U.S. Open is returning to NBC starting this year at Winged Foot after Fox Sports has asked to end its 12-year contract with the USGA, multiple people told The Associated Press on Sunday night. Three people with direct knowledge of the change say it came together in the last two weeks. They spoke on condition of anonymity because the deal has not been announced. An announcement was expected Monday.
The U.S. Open, originally scheduled to be played last week, was postponed to Sept. 17-20 at Winged Foot in New York when the COVID-19 pandemic let no golf tournaments for three months. NBC televised the U.S. Open from 1995 until the USGA signed a 12-year deal with Fox Sports that began in 2015. One person said Comcast-owned NBC would pick up the final seven years of the contract through 2026. The change means NBC will have the U.S. Open and the British Open, along with three World Golf Championships, the Ryder Cup, the Presidents Cup and the FedEx Cup playoffs every other year.
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The Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame reopened Monday after being closed because of the Coronavirus Pandemic. New guidelines and safety measures were put in place based on CDC and local health official recommendations. To control capacity, visitors now select a time to come in advance online. Each guest can spend up to an hour and a half in the space. All guests are required to wear masks and are given free styluses to use with interactive displays. The Packers Fan Shop and atrium are also open. But for now stadium tours, field events, and 1919 Kitchen and Tap are closed.
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The NBA and National Basketball Players Association are planning to paint “Black Lives Matter” on the court inside both sidelines in all three arenas the league will use at the Walt Disney World Resort when it resumes the 2019-20 season late next month in Orlando, Florida, league sources told ESPN.
The WNBA is also discussing painting “Black Lives Matter” on the court when it begins its ab breviated 2020 season at the IMG Academy in Bradenton. Sources also said some WNBA players have suggested in talks with league higher-ups that players wear warm-up shirts with “Say Her Name” on them in an attempt to keep attention on female victims of police brutality, including Breonna Taylor, who was shot and killed by police in March in her home in Louisville, Kentucky. Players have insisted that the fight for racial equality and social justice be a central part of the NBA’s return to play and the WNBA’s new season. Several NBA players considered skipping the NBA’s resumption to focus on social justice issues. Several WNBA players, including Renee Montgomery of the Atlanta Dream and Natasha Cloud of the Washington Mystics, are sitting out the upcoming WNBA season to focus on social justice.
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Colorado Rockies outfielder Ian Desmond announced that he will not play this season on Monday night in a deep, lengthy social media post. Desmond, in a nine-slide carousel on Instagram, explained that due to both the COVID-19 pandemic and the massive Black Lives Matter movement happening across the country, he isn’t needed out on a baseball field. He said he’s needed at home with his family. Desmond’s announcement was part of a long story about his time playing youth baseball in Sarasota, Florida — something he’s vowed to help fix — and the intense racism he’s faced as a biracial man growing up in the United States. He also touched on the lack of diversity in Major League Baseball, as well as cheating, sexism, homophobia and labor disputes surrounding the sport.
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Brooklyn Nets guard Spencer Dinwiddie tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday, according to The Athletic’s Shams Charania, and has been experiencing symptoms. With the NBA season set to resume next month at Walt Disney World in Florida, Dinwiddie’s plans for the restart are now up in the air. Dinwiddie is now in self-isolation, and will re-evaluate his status in two weeks.The 27-year-old was averaging 20.6 points and 6.8 assists per game with the Nets this season, his sixth in the league, when play was suspended in March. Brooklyn will enter Orlando — where the NBA will resume its season starting on July 30 — with a 30-34 record, the seventh-best in the Eastern Conference. It’s unclear now if Dinwiddie will participate. Nets forward Wilson Chandler announced on Sunday that he will opt-out of the restart, something players can do without penalty.
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