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LeBron James, Anthony Davis
Zion Has Bruised
Shake Hands, Pay Respect To
Knee, No More
Jerry West After Kawhi Leonard
Summer League
And Paul George Signing
Zion Williamson, the No. 1 overall pick of the New Orleans Pelicans in this year's NBA draft, will not participate in the remainder of the Las Vegas Summer League after sustaining a bruised left knee in his debut, the team said Saturday.
Williamson didn't play in the second half of Friday's game against the New York Knicks because of a knee-to- knee hit, and Pelicans execu- tive vice president David Griffin said Saturday that he would be shut down.
"Zion will move forward from this incident without issue," Griffin said in a statement. "However, in an abundance of caution, we have made the determination
LeBron James and An- thony Davis respect game and respect NBA history.
Jerry West is living his- tory.
He’s also the guy who just helped convince SoCal kids Kawhi Leonard and Paul George to choose the Clip- pers, forcing LeBron and AD’s Lakers to scramble with Plan B. Leonard and George were guys the Lak- ers wanted and targeted, two guys the Lakers thought they had at different times, and they chose the Clippers. The seismic shift for what that means for the Los Angeles teams is hard to overstate.
Saturday at Summer League, LeBron and Davis paid respect to West, who
ANTHONY DAVIS AND LEBRON JAMES
ZION WILLIAMSON
that he will not appear in game action for the remain- der of the NBA summer league. He will continue to take part in training and con- ditioning with our perform- ance team."
Lakers Agree With Cousins, Bring Back Rondo
DEMARCUS COUSINS AND RAJON RONDO
Serena Williams
was sitting courtside. James stated he's look-
ing forward to the challenge. " I've been up against super teams with tthe Golden State Warriors and San Antonio Spurs."
There were never going to be fireworks. LeBron, AD, and West all get that the re- lationships and professional- ism around the game matter more than what chess pieces end up where.
Lakers Add Green, Re-sign Caldwell-Pope, McGee
DANNY GREEN
Free-agent guard Danny Green has signed a two-year deal with the Los Angeles Lakers, the team announced Saturday.
The deal is worth $30 mil- lion.
Green took to Instagram late Friday night to announce he was leaving the Toronto Raptors to join the Lakers.
The Lakers also an- nounced they have re-signed shooting guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope and center JaVale McGee.
Sources stated that Cald- well-Pope's deal is for two years, $8.2 million with a player option and that McGee's deal is for two years, $16 million.
Reminds Field That
She Is Still A Force
The Los Angeles Lakers have agreed to a one-year deal with free-agent center DeMarcus Cousins. They are also bringing back point guard Rajon Rondo on a two-year contract.
Cousins' deal is worth $3.5 million. Sources said Rondo will make $2.6 mil- lion and holds a player op- tion for the second year.
The Miami Heat had in- terest in Cousins, but sev- eral Lakers players -- including his former New Orleans Pelicans teammate Anthony Davis -- helped convince him to join the Lak-
ers, league sources said. Also on Saturday, free- agent guard Alex Caruso agreed to a 2-year, $5.5 mil- lion deal to return to the
Lakers.
Cousins surprised many
by signing a one-year, $5.3 million deal with the Golden State Warriors last July amid his recovery from a torn left Achilles. He made his season debut for Golden State in January -- close to a year after surgery on the Achilles -- and ended up playing 30 regular-season games, aver- aging 16.3 points and 8.2 re- bounds per game.
On edge in the first two rounds at Wimbledon, Ser- ena Williams was back on target Saturday in Round 3, beating Julia Görges, 6-3,
6-4W. illiams’ timing was ex- cellent, both from the base- line and in broader terms. Görges could have posed a serious threat if Williams had failed to raise her level. Saturday’s duel was a re- match of last year’s Wimble- don semifinal, also won by Williams in straight sets. Görges, with a potent first serve and big groundstrokes, has the power tools to excel on grass.
But no woman has ex- celled on grass in the last 20 years more frequently than Williams, who has won seven singles titles at the All England Club. Winning an eighth would rank as one of her more remarkable achieve- ments based on her age, 37, and her lack of match play in a season full of injuries and frustration.
She is a long way from reacquainting herself with the
SERENA WILLIAMS
Venus Rosewater Dish, which is presented to the women’s singles champion. She is a long way from winning her first title since returning from childbirth, which would also be her 24th Grand Slam sin- gles title, tying Margaret Court’s career record.
“It might be her last stand to get the record,” said Ren- nae Stubbs, an ESPN ana- lyst and former tour player and coach. “I think Wimble- don lends itself to her game more than any other place.”
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