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NBA veteran Wesley Matthews is leaving one contender for another. The 34-year-old sent a picture of a Los Angeles Lakers jersey to Yahoo Sports’ Chris Haynes as soon as free agency opened on Friday evening. Matthews intends to join the defending champion Lakers on a one-year, $3.6 million deal, per The Athletic’s Shams Charania. The 6-foot-4 wing played for the Milwaukee Bucks on a veteran’s minimum contract last season, starting 67 games and averaging 7.2 points on 36.4% shooting from… Source link

The Associated Press Lindy McDaniel, MLB reliever for 21 seasons, dies at 84 Lindy McDaniel, an All-Star reliever who appeared in nearly 1,000 major league games over 21 seasons, has died. Bill Chambers, longtime friend and fellow elder at the Lavon Church of Christ in Lavon, Texas, said McDaniel died of COVID-19 on Saturday night at an acute care facility in Carrollton, a Dallas suburb. Steady as a long man and closer, McDaniel pitched in 987 big league games, trailing only Hall of Famer… Source link

The Lakers will be handing out rings and hoisting a banner at Staples Center on Dec. 22, but don’t expect them just to run it back and expect to win again. They have their own free agents to deal with — Rajon Rondo, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Dwight Howard, Anthony Davis (although he will re-sign and stay in LA) — and they want to make some additions as well. Serge Ibaka might be one of those, reports Sean Deveney of Heavy.com. “From a personnel standpoint, he is exactly the kind of… Source link

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON: The top lawyer at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said Wednesday the telecommunications regulator has legal authority to redefine the immunity shield protecting social media companies that could make it easier for users to file lawsuits challenging content removal decisions. In July, President Donald Trump’s administration asked the agency to limit protections for social media companies under Section 230, a provision of the 1996 Communications… Source link