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Cavaliers Reportedly Sign Jeff Green
JEFF GREEN
Jeff Green is headed to Cleveland to bolster the Cava- liers' bench.
The 30-year-old veteran for- ward is joining the defending Eastern Conference champions on a one-year, $2.3 million deal, according to ESPN.
Green had "active conver- sations" with Cavaliers star Le- Bron James before making his decision to sign with the team, per ESPN.
The minimum-level deal will cost the Cavaliers roughly $8 million in salary and tax for next season. Cleveland's cur- rent payroll for the 2017-18 season is $135 million with $46 million in tax.
Toronto Raptors Send Carroll To Brooklyn Nets, Get C. J. Miles From Indiana Pacers
C. J. MILES
Looking down the barrel of some significant luxury tax penalties, Toronto Raptors GM Masai Ujiri is moving swiftly to get below the tax line while keeping his team com- petitive in the wide-open East- ern Conference.
Ujiri pulled off two trades in about 12 hours, sending vet- eran forward DeMarre Car- roll to Brooklyn in a salary dump and landing C. J. Miles in a sign-and-trade with Indiana for Cory Joseph.
The Raptors and Nets agreed to the Carroll deal late Saturday night, with Toronto sending a future first- and second-round pick to Brooklyn with Carroll and getting Justin Hamilton in return.
New Video Shows Venus Williams
Was Not At Fault In Accident;
She Advances To 4th Round
After much media coverage, and questions, Venus Williams has been vindi- cated.
After new footage emerged of the June 9 fatal car crash that Venus Williams was involved in, police have changed their tune about whether or not she was at fault. They now say she was driving lawfully at the time of the accident.
The police statement says that they located “surveillance footage ... obtained from a community south of the inter- section which recorded the traffic crash.”
The Associated Press de- scribes what police found as follows:
“Williams legally entered an intersection but was cut off by another car, setting off a chain of events that seconds later resulted in a fatal crash with a third car, police say video released Friday shows.
“The video, taken by a secu- rity camera, shows Williams heading north as she stops her 2010 Toyota Sequoia SUV at a stoplight behind a white car as she exits her Palm Beach Gar- dens neighborhood shortly after 1 p.m. June 9.
“When the light turns green, the white car turns left onto a six-lane, heavily trav- eled boulevard, but Williams heads straight. A dark colored sedan turns left in front of her, causing her to stop.
VENUS WILLIAMS
“She then continues straight into the far, west- bound lanes, where her SUV is struck in the passenger’s side by a 2016 Hyundai sedan driven by Linda Barson.”
Barson’s husband Jerome, 78, was hurt in the accident and died two weeks later in the hospital.
His estate has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Williams and will be seeking unspecified damages.
Will Play In Fourth Round Today
Williams, 37, is the oldest woman to reach the fourth round at Wimbledon since Martina Navratilova was the same age when she was the tournament's runner-up in 1994.
Williams beat 19-year-old Naomi Osaka of Japan 7-6 (3), 6-4 in the third round, and will face another 19-year- old on Monday with a quarter- final berth at stake, Ana Konjuh of Croatia.
BEAUTY UNLIMITED
ODESSA
This week, Odessa is our Beauty Unlimited feature. This young lady is not afraid to take chances when it comes to her career, and she is very self-motivated to suc- ceed. Odessa is very comfortable in front of the camera, and is willing to work with anyone who is professional in every sense of the word. Odessa promises that she’ll settle for nothing less than complete success, and we all wish she finds it. Congratulations to Odessa as this week’s Beauty Unlimited feature.
Barry Bonds Inducted To The Giants Wall Of Fame On Saturday
Everyone knows about Barry Bonds' story. How he's arguably
the best baseball player of all time,
yet how he's not
yet been inducted into the Hall of Fame due to the al- legations un- proven connecting him to perform- ance-enhancing drugs.
Bonds was inducted to the Giants Wall of Fame on Saturday, and he and his family celebrated on Friday night with a cake to com- memorate the occasion that actually looks an awful lot like a Cooperstown plaque.
The Giants released a
BARRY BONDS
photo of Bonds' Wall of Fame plaque after the unveil- ing Saturday.
For now, that cake is as close as Bonds gets to Coop- erstown. But if he ever is offi- cially inducted into the Hall of Fame, we now have a pretty good idea of how he'll celebrate the night before.
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