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Saturday 23 February 2019

In this Feb. 16, 2019, file photo, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver
speaks during NBA All-Star festivities in Charlotte, N.C.
Associated Press
AP source: NBA, union

forward talks on

ending ‘one-and-done’

By TIM REYNOLDS sioner Adam Silver said last Multiple cars crash in turn 3 during the NASCAR Daytona 500 auto race at Daytona International
AP Basketball Writer July that it was time to re- Speedway, Sunday, Feb. 17, 2019, in Daytona Beach, Fla.
MIAMI (AP) — The NBA and vert back to the policy that Associated Press
its players are continuing will allow players to go into
to move forward on plans the league right out of high NASCAR’s new rule
to eliminate the “one-and- school, something that will
done” rule in college bas- have to be collectively
ketball, something that the bargained with the players. Continued from Page 17 next week, and the venue to get back into a full-time
sides have been working The NBPA has had previous that is expected to be a ride, is back in the car af-
toward for months. talks with the NBA on the The lower-horsepower, truer indicator of what the ter successfully making last
The league has sent a pro- idea, which is likely to be in high-downforce and high- competition might look like week’s Daytona 500.
posal to the National Bas- place by the 2022 draft. drag formula is designed to the rest of the season. The 37 cars is the lowest
ketball Players Association “I think it’s a good idea,” slow the cars, bunch them It’s made Atlanta a mystery since the road course at
on lowering the minimum Boston’s Jayson Tatum, together and create a as teams spent Friday trying Watkins Glen last August,
age for entering the NBA who went to the NBA af- more entertaining product. to figure out how to attack but up one car from the
draft from 19 to 18, and the ter one season at Duke, But Atlanta is an anomaly the track with this competi- field at the Atlanta race
union discussed the con- said at All-Star weekend. in that its racing surface is tion package. last February.
tents at a meeting in the “If you’re good enough to one of the oldest in the se- “Sunday you will find out, I Corey LaJoie came to At-
Bahamas earlier this week, come out of high school, I ries and was last repaved in guess, if somebody spanks lanta with bonus funding
a person with knowledge feel like you should be able 1997. It is rough and bumpy, the field,” said Atlanta na- from Old Spice, which got
of the matter told The As- to. But I don’t make those quickly eats away at tires tive Chase Elliott. “Until a strong return on its in-
sociated Press on Thursday. decisions.” and is typically a handful then, I am really not sure vestment from its Daytona
The person spoke to the AP “I don’t understand the even for the veterans. what we are going to have. sponsorship that featured
on condition of anonymity point of it,” Cousins said In simplest terms, Sunday’s I’m sure there is going to be LaJoie’s entire face on the
because neither side re- about the ‘one-and-done’ race may look nothing like guys that get it better than hood of his car. Acorns, an
leased the proposal pub- rule. “What’s the differ- how the package races others to start, but I think as online investment app, is
licly. ence between 18 and 19 the rest of the season. time goes, everybody is go- making its NASCAR debut
USA Today Sports first re- and 17 and 18? You’re “This track is unlike any ing to continue to develop as sponsor for Ryan New-
ported the proposal being immature, you’re young, other track, as we all know, and make it better and im- man and Bubba Wallace,
sent. you’re ignorant to life in with the surface and bumps prove their cars and their driving for cash-strapped
The proposal changed general. So what’s really and the character,” said packages for these race Richard Petty Motorsports,
hands before All-Star week- the difference? You’ve still Jimmie Johnson, who leads tracks. has a one-race deal at At-
end and long before Duke got a lot of growing to do all active drivers with five “I think Atlanta, too, is a lit- lanta with McDonalds.
star Zion Williamson, quite as a man.” previous wins at Atlanta. tle different than some oth- Garrett Smithley, with three
possibly the No. 1 pick in The one-and-done rule has “My focus has been to get er mile-and-a-half tracks previous Cup starts, is mak-
this year’s draft, got hurt been in place since the drivability right and then we are going to visit with ing his season debut in the
Wednesday night. William- 2006 draft. Silver, who was make speed a secondary the surface. I think your car owned by new team
son was diagnosed Thurs- once a proponent of rais- item. We’ll see how it all car is probably going to Spire Motorsports. Spire at
day with a Grade 1, or mi- ing the draft minimum age plays out. This package is have to drive a little better the end of last year bought
nor, sprain of his right knee. to 20 before changing his so new to all of us.” here than it might at other the charter held by de-
Williamson, a freshman, is mind, said last year that An early version of the places.” The field Sunday funct Furniture Row Racing
widely expected to be in he believes the league package was used in last will be three drivers short of — and its one of the most
the NBA next season and and the players “can cre- year’s All-Star race to rave the 40-car limit, with Gaunt valuable entrants in the se-
forgo his final three seasons ate a better system.” The reviews from fans that Brothers Racing the only ries. Furniture Row won the
of collegiate eligibility. G League also introduced prompted NASCAR to im- team without one of the 2017 championship with
Neither the league nor the a plan last year to begin plement it for this season. charters that guarantees Truex Jr. to rank that char-
players’ union has hidden offering “select contracts” Roughly half the field test- a spot in the field to come ter, now owned by startup
the fact that both sides worth $125,000 to elite ed the package last month from Daytona to Atlanta. Spire, on the top end of the
want the current system prospects who are not yet at Las Vegas Motor Speed- Parker Kligerman, the NBC financial payouts in NAS-
changed. NBA Commis- eligible for the NBA.q way, where NASCAR races Sports reporter who is trying CAR’s system.q