The enormous backlash from the Portland Trail Blazers‘ process to hire a new coach and his concerns on whether a championship contender can be built have become factors that may push the franchise player — Damian Lillard — out the door, league sources told Yahoo Sports. Lillard has remained loyal to Portland in large part due to the tremendous fan base. But over the last few days, he’s seen some of those same fans attacking him on social media for a pending coaching hire he played no… Source link

Nate McMillan was hesitant. The then-Atlanta Hawks assistant coach was months into his new position but facing an offer to take over for the recently fired Lloyd Pierce, the man who brought him to Atlanta after McMillan was dismissed by the Indiana Pacers. The Hawks were in Miami at the time, a young team that underachieved by the organization’s standards but not by many around the league. Pierce was a young coach with a sterling reputation, endorsed and supported around the NBA. Something… Source link

Héctor Santiago ejected, glove taken in ‘sticky stuff’ check originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston The first instance of a pitcher being ejected following a “sticky stuff” check came Sunday, less than a week after MLB announced it would enforce its foreign-substance policy. Héctor Santiago of the Seattle Mariners left Sunday’s game against the Chicago White Sox and underwent the now league-mandated inspection of his hat and glove by umpires as he came off the field. The inspection ended… Source link

CHICAGO — Seattle reliever Hector Santiago was ejected after he was checked by the umpires as part of baseball’s new sticky substance protocols, and the Mariners beat the Chicago White Sox 3-2 on Sunday in the resumption of a suspended game. Santiago was stopped as he exited in the fifth inning. His glove was confiscated, and it was later announced that Santiago had been thrown out. The 33-year-old left-hander became the first player to be ejected as part of Major League Baseball’s new… Source link

It was only a matter of time until a pitcher failed a spot check in MLB’s new foreign substances crackdown, and that time has come.  Seattle Mariners pitcher Hector Santiago was ejected on Sunday afternoon after umpires checked his glove in the fifth inning and presumably found something that shouldn’t have been there.  While Santiago’s frowny face reaction is pretty great, the best part of that video is the bagging of the suspicious glove. If they plan on sending that glove to a lab so it… Source link

An Arkansas police officer was pronounced dead on Saturday after he was run over and dragged by a fleeing vehicle. Around noon, Officer Kevin Apple approached a driver in Benton County when a suspect rammed a police cruiser and drove over the law enforcement veteran in Benton County, according to Arkansas Online. Two suspects have since been arrested, Shawna Rhae Cash, 22, and Elijah Anadoloza Sr., 18, one of whom faces capital murder charges, while the other faces attempted capital murder… Source link

Reuters Macron rolls out red carpet to JPMorgan, global CEOs in post-Brexit push President Emmanuel Macron will declare that Paris is back on the map of global finance on Tuesday when he inaugurates JPMorgan’s new trading hub in the French capital which he hopes will attract more bankers leaving post-Brexit Britain. The U.S. bank’s chief executive, Jamie Dimon, will be one of almost 120 international CEOs travelling to Versailles on Monday for Macron’s now traditional “Choose France” summit… Source link

LOS ANGELES — Not many players walked away from Game 4 of the Western Conference finals with an efficient scoring night. It was an ugly, brick-shooting affair the Los Angeles Clippers and Phoenix Suns were embroiled in on Saturday night at Staples Center. But the difference-maker was one of the rare players who had a dominant evening as it was big man Deandre Ayton who led the Suns to an 84-80 win to give his team a commanding 3-1 series lead. Ayton recorded 19 points on 8-for-14 shooting, a… Source link

Kelly Danielpour, founder of the website VaxTeen.org, in Los Angeles, June 16, 2021. (Jessica Pons/The New York Times) Teenagers keep all sorts of secrets from their parents. Drinking. Sex. Lousy grades. But the secret that Elizabeth, 17, a rising high school senior from New York City, keeps from hers is new to the buffet of adolescent misdeeds. She doesn’t want her parents to know that she is vaccinated against COVID-19. Her divorced parents have equal say over her health care. Although her… Source link

President Joe Biden discusses a proposed infrastructure bill, at the White House in Washington, Thursday, June 24, 2021. (Pete Marovich/The New York Times) WASHINGTON — It was all going according to President Joe Biden’s tightrope plan to pass the most ambitious economic agenda in generations. Right until the moment that Biden, a politician with a history of rogue comments, veered off script. After weeks of closed-door negotiations, Biden strode to the cameras on the White House driveway… Source link