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Reuben Foster Believed To Have Torn ACL
Warriors Owner Confident They Will Re-Sign Durant, Thompson
WARRIORS OWNER, JOE LACOB, KEVIN DURANT AND KLAY THOMPSON
The future of the Golden State Warriors very much hinges upon what happens this offseason.
Klay Thompson will be a free agent after the season, while Kevin Durant is widely expected to decline his player option and become a free agent. Does either player leave or do they stay with the Warriors to continue the dy- nasty?
Warriors majority owner Joe Lacob told The Athletic’s Tim Kawakami on Tuesday that they are confident both players will re-sign with the team.
Thompson’s camp has been making noise about him considering other options if the Warriors don’t offer him a max contract. As long as Golden State is willing to pay him — and it sounds like they are — the likelihood of him re- turning seems very high. Du- rant is the much bigger question.
There has long been a line of thinking that Durant joined the Warriors to win championships for his legacy and that he would leave once he accomplished that goal. The Knicks have long been considered a potential desti- nation for him, but recently other teams have been men- tioned as possibilities.
Our guess is that despite the Warriors’ best efforts to retain him, Durant will probably leave.
Kevin Durant Will Be Back For Finals
The first day of OTAs has resulted in a significant injury for the Washington Redskins.
Linebacker Reuben Fos- ter is believed to have a torn ACL plus additional damage, and will see a specialist to fig- ure out the true severity of the injury.
This was the fear as soon as Foster was carted off the practice field. Such an injury would put his season in seri- ous jeopardy, but Washington will wait to get the full picture
REUBEN FOSTER
on the injury before making any pronouncements on re- covery time.
Kevin Durant still has no official timetable to return, but Golden State Warriors owner Joe Lacob seems to be spilling some tea on that front.
After the Warriors ad- vanced to their fifth straight NBA Finals with a 119-117 overtime victory over the Portland Trail Blazers on Monday, Lacob spoke on the injured forward with Sam Amick of The Athletic.
“I don’t know if you forgot so quickly how in the first round, and the second round, and how everyone was saying Kevin was the greatest player in the world and he was dom-
KEVIN DURANT
inant,” said Lacob. “So he was incredibly important.
“Unfortunately, he got in- jured,” Lacob continued about Durant. “He’s coming back now for the Finals, and so the story’s not fully written yet.”
High Schooler Matthew
Boling Takes Ted Ginn Up
On $10,000 Challenge
Jalen Rose Says Michigan
A confident high school sprinter wants to take Ted Ginn, Jr. up on his chal- lenge.
Ginn, who has played in the NFL for 12 seasons, said on “The Lefkoe Show” this week that he is the fastest player in the NFL. He is even willing to wager $10,000 or more to race anyone from pole to pole.
“Where your check at?” Ginn told Lefkoe, via Pro Football Talk. “I’m always down to do it. I’ve been run- ning from light pole to light pole my whole life.”
Ginn ran a 4.37 40 at Ohio State’s Pro Day, was timed as fast as 4.28 at Ohio State, and says he has been clocked as low as 4.22.
Matthew Boling, a high
Hiring Juwan Howard Will
Saints' Ted Ginn Jr. $10,000 challenge taken up by high school star 'White Lightning.'
school sprinter from Hous- ton, took Ginn up on the challenge via Twitter.
Back in late April, Boling set the high school record for fastest 100 meter sprint in all conditions.
Michigan has decided to hire a member of the Fab Five as its next men’s head basket- ball coach, and Jalen Rose is confident that will finally allow him and his former teammates to put aside their differences.
Rose, who has openly feuded with Chris Webber for several years now, said on ESPN’s “Get Up” Thursday morning that Juwan Howard being hired as the
JALEN ROSE AND JUWAN HOWARD
head coach at Michigan will lead to the Fab Five reuniting.
Finally Reunite The Fab Five
Deontay Wilder
Promises Anthony
Joshua Fight Will Happen
Deontay Wilder can put on a show against Dominic Breazeale and others, but the real fight all fans want to see is a bout between him and Anthony Joshua. Wilder says that will happen but just wants patience from the fans on that front.
Wilder spoke with Jim Gray in an interview on Showtime after his first- round knockout of Breazeale on Saturday night at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Gray said fans want to see Wilder
DEONTAY WILDER
against better competition. Wilder understood and promised the fight with Joshua would happen.
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