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The NBA draft is finally here after a 146-day delay. Teams are still scrambling to pinpoint the best prospects to draft while coming off the shortest offseason in NBA history. With all the uncertainty at the top of the draft, there could be numerous trades. Yahoo Sports takes a look at the best pick if a team decides to keep it and trade options for all 14 teams in the lottery. [Create or join a 2020 Yahoo Fantasy Basketball League for free today] Here is the latest movement and Yahoo… Source link

Welcome to the Yahoo Sports 2020 NBA rumor tracker. In this post, we’ll break down all the draft, free agency and trade talk ahead of the 2020-21 season. Top free agents: Point guards | Shooting guards | Small forwards | Power forwards | Center Though it feels like just yesterday the bubble season wrapped up, the NBA draft is set to take place Nov. 18 at 7 p.m. and the season is scheduled to tip off Dec. 22. Suns acquire Chris Paul from Thunder The Phoenix Suns pulled off a blockbuster deal… Source link

TipRanks RBC Predicts Over 100% Rally for These 3 Stocks The news lately is focused on the advent of coronavirus vaccines. First Pfizer announced that it had a product in trials, which was showing a 90% efficacy rate, and now Moderna has joined the chorus, with a vaccine that is showing even higher effectiveness, on the order of 94.5%. Between the two news releases, investors are feeling confident; we may be out of the COVID woods sooner than has been anticipated.In a report on the new vaccine… Source link

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (AP) — A judge in Virginia dismissed charges on Monday that were filed against a prominent Black state senator after police said that she and others conspired to damage a Confederate monument in the city of Portsmouth. The Virginian-Pilot reports the charges against state Sen. Louise Lucas were dismissed at the request of the city’s top prosecutor, who said the elements of the charges were not properly met. Portsmouth’s police department charged Lucas and several others in… Source link

TipRanks 3 “Strong Buy” Stocks Insiders Are Snapping Up President John Kennedy famously said, once, “A rising tide lifts all boats,” and this is true in the stock markets, too. We’re in the midst, now, of just such a rising tide – at least for the short term. The main indexes, the Dow, the S&P, and the NASDAQ, are all up between 9% and 12.5% this month, and the trends are positive. The recent election, making clear the prospect of a divided government unlikely to pass radical… Source link

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Sunday threatened to sue the Trump administration if it does not change its coronavirus vaccine distribution plan to allow for more equitable delivery among “black and brown communities” hardest-hit by the virus. “The Trump administration is designing the distribution plan, and their plan basically has private health care companies administer the vaccines,” Cuomo said in a speech at Manhattan’s Riverside Church. “The president talks about CVS and… Source link

By Julie Steenhuysen and Michael Erman Nov 16 (Reuters) – Moderna Inc said on Monday its experimental vaccine was 94.5% effective in preventing COVID-19 based on interim data from a late-stage clinical trial, becoming the second U.S. company in a week to report results that far exceed expectations. Together with Pfizer Inc’s vaccine, also shown to be more than 90% effective, and pending more safety data and regulatory review, the United States could have two vaccines authorized for emergency… Source link

TipRanks Bank of America: 3 Strong Value Stocks to Buy Now The prospect of a COVID-19 vaccine hitting the market in coming months – rather than years – and chance it offers to control the novel virus, has investors in a mood to buy, and fueled the market gains. The S&P 500 is up more than 10% so far in November. So which stocks should you be looking at now?Bank of America analysts have tagged three tech-oriented stocks as likely gainers. All three fit a profile: they boast a Strong Buy… Source link

Hugh Freeze, Liberty, Head coach (Photo: James Gilbert / Contributor, Getty) Yahoo Sports: “Freeze has feasted on inferior competition at Liberty this season, revitalizing his career prospects after his program’s NCAA rules failings and his own personal demons ended his career at Ole Miss.” The word: Arguably the biggest name out there this cycle, Freeze recently signed a multi-year extension with the Flames through agent Jimmy Sexton, which was more of a security blanket for… Source link

Breaking down Pete Carroll’s baffling explanation for punting on 4th-and-inches originally appeared on NBC Sports Northwest Here we are again. Just one week after expressing surprise that the Bills completely ditched their running game in favor of passing it all over the yard against the Seahawks, we have more mind-bending quotes from Pete Carroll to break down. Amid Seattle’s 23-16 loss to the Rams in Week 10, Carroll chose to punt with the Seahawks facing 4th-and-inches from their own… Source link