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2B Saturday, May 23, 2020 • Telegraph Herald • TelegraphHerald.com sports in brief national basketball association Packers’ Montravius Adams facing drug, driving charges ELKO, Ga. — Green Bay Packers defensive lineman Montravius Adams was arrested in Georgia this week and charged with marijuana and driving offenses. He was stopped Tuesday just after 6 p.m. on suspi- cion of driving with a suspended registration and no insurance, according to a Houston County Sheriff’s Office report. It was not immediately clear why police had such suspicions. An officer detected a scent of marijuana, which was found in a search of the car, the report said. He faces misdemeanor charges of possession of less than an ounce of marijuana, driving with a suspended registration and driving without insurance. Adams was released from the Houston County De- tention Center on $2,964 bond. The Packers said in a statement they are aware of what happened but will not comment further because it is an “ongoing legal matter.” Jets sign Flacco to 1-year deal NEW YORK — The New York Jets and quarterback Joe Flacco have agreed to terms on a one-year deal, the 2013 Super Bowl MVP’s agency announced on Twitter. The move to bring in Flacco gives third-year starter Sam Darnold a veteran backup, but one who is also coming off a TONY GUTIERREZ • The Associated Press file herniated disk that cut short his only season in Denver and The Utah Jazz announced Friday that Jerry Sloan, the on his way to a spot in the Basketball Hall of Fame, has required surgery to repair. coach who took them to the NBA Finals in 1997 and 1998 died. He was 78. The 35-year-old Flacco spent his first 11 NFL seasons in Baltimore, where current Jets general manager Joe Douglas was a scout in 2008 — when the Ravens drafted the quarter- back 18th overall out of Delaware. BASKETBALL Jazz legend passes Ewing being treated for COVID-19 WASHINGTON — Georgetown basketball coach Patrick tainly aware of Coach Sloan and what he with one team in NBA history; Popovich Ewing tested positive for COVID-19 and is being treated Hall of Fame coach Jerry meant to the NBA and to the coaching is in his 24th season with the San Antonio at a hospital. The school said the 57-year-old Ewing is the Sloan dead at age 78. world,” Jazz coach Quin Snyder said Fri- Spurs. only member of its men’s program who has contracted the day. “But, upon living in Utah, I became “We lost one of the giants of basketball, coronavirus. BY TIM REYNOLDS acutely aware of just how much he truly not only of the NBA variety but basketball “This virus is serious and should not be taken lightly,” the The Associated Press meant to the state.” in general,” said longtime NBA executive Hall of Famer as a player for the Hoyas in college and the Sloan was a two-time All-Star as a Rod Thorn, who hired Thorn as coach of New York Knicks in the NBA said in a statement issued by Jerry Sloan walked up the steps to the player with the Chicago Bulls, led his the Bulls in 1979. “No one ever played the university. “I want to encourage everyone to stay safe stage at the Basketball Hall of Fame to alma mater, Evansville, to a pair of NCAA harder. He was a very, very good player and take care of yourselves and your loved ones. Now more give his enshrinement speech in 2009, college division national championships and then became one of the top coaches than ever, I want to thank the healthcare workers and every- almost as if he were dreading what the and was an assistant coach on the 1996 in the history of the NBA.” one on the front lines. I’ll be fine and we will all get through next few minutes would bring. U.S. Olympic team that won a gold medal Out of Sloan’s 23 seasons with the this.” He never wanted the spotlight. at the Atlanta Games. He fell in love with Jazz, the team finished below the .500 “This is pretty tough for me,” Sloan the game as a student in a one-room Il- mark only once. He’s one of five coach- Connaughton raises virus relief funds said that night. linois schoolhouse, never forgetting his es to roam the sidelines for at least 2,000 Milwaukee Bucks guard Pat Connaughton raised over Talking about himself, that wasn’t roots. games, and the only one of those five $200,000 for COVID-19 relief during an 11-hour radiothon. easy. But basketball, he always made that “His more than 40 years in the NBA with a winning percentage better than Connaughton was on the air on 94.5 ESPN Milwaukee seem simple. also paralleled a period of tremendous .600. and 100.5 ESPN Madison throughout the day Thursday. He Sloan, who spent 23 years as coach of growth in the league, a time when we And he was revered as a player with was joined on air at various times by Bucks teammates Gi- the Utah Jazz and took the team to the benefited greatly from his humility, the Bulls, and his No. 4 jersey was the first annis Antetokounmpo, Donte DiVincenzo and Kyle Korver NBA Finals in 1997 and 1998, died Friday kindness, dignity and class,” NBA Com- retired by the franchise. as well as coach Mike Budenholzer, general manager Jon at 78. The team said that for four years he missioner Adam Silver said. “Loyalty was his badge of honor and Horst and co-owner Marc Lasry. had Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body Sloan often said numbers meant noth- his no-nonsense approach to competi- His guests on the radio show included Green Bay Packers dementia. ing to him. That’s a shame, because he tion was perfect for the game,” said Mi- quarterback Aaron Rodgers, Packers coach Matt LaFleur, Sloan presided over the glory days of has so many to marvel. ami Heat President Pat Riley, the fellow Milwaukee Brewers players Christian Yelich and Josh Had- the John Stockton and Karl Malone pick- Sloan’s 1,221 NBA coaching wins Hall of Famer who called it a privilege to er, Brewers manager Craig Counsell, and Wisconsin men’s and-roll-to-perfection era in Salt Lake have only Lenny Wilkens, Don Nelson coach against Sloan. “Jerry will go down basketball coach Greg Gard. City. He is fourth on the NBA’s all-time and Gregg Popovich ahead of him. And in history as one of the most admired win list. Sloan’s 23 seasons with the Jazz are the great winners and respected teachers of Williamson says he had no valid contract “Before coming to Utah, I was cer- second-longest string that one coach has basketball ever.” with marketing firm in lawsuit WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Lawyers for New Orleans Pel- icans rookie Zion Williamson want a federal judge in North Carolina to rule that a marketing firm suing Williamson for $100 million never had a valid contract with the former Duke star. HARRIS: Prime Sports Marketing and its president, Gina Ford, Wanted to set an example at WD sought breach-of-contract damages from Williamson and Continued from page 1B dignity and help them along, 40 RBIs, 46 walks, 5 strikeouts, IHSBCA All-State Super Team his current representatives at Creative Artists Agency after it can make a world of differ- a .709 slugging percentage, a for a third straight year. The the player pulled out of an agreement with Prime Sports be- Bobcats’ basketball team ence. That’s what I took away .593 on-base percentage as a Telegraph Herald has named fore he became the No. 1 overall pick in the 2019 NBA draft. while Haldeman starred in from Spencer, and that’s what junior in leading the Bobcats him its player of the year for high school. I hope I passed on to the next to a 32-10 record and a second the past two summers. COLLEGE ATHLETICS “Spencer is such a great guy group of Bobcats.” straight Iowa Class 4A state Harris also earned TH play- and he set such a great exam- Harris earned a spot in the tournament appearance. He er of the year honors in foot- NCAA permitting on-campus workouts ple for all of us growing up,” varsity baseball starting line- went 3-1 with a 0.88 ERA, 63 ball the past two seasons and The NCAA is permitting athletes in all sports to partic- said Harris, who made time up as an eighth grader and strikeouts, 32 2/3 innings and led the Bobcats to the Iowa ipate in voluntary athletic activities on campus beginning for coaching youth sports and has batted .375 (174-for-464) a .155 opponents’ batting av- Class 3A state championship June 1. participating in several service with 31 doubles, 16 triples, 16 erage. last fall. He ranks among the NCAA’s Division I Council announced Wednesday that it projects while in high school. home runs, 176 RBIs and just Harris last summer col- school’s top all-time scorers in was lifting its moratorium on voluntary workouts in football “When you’re a little kid grow- 20 strikeouts in four seasons. lected the Mississippi Valley basketball as well. and men’s and women’s basketball at the end of the month. ing up, it’s important to see On the mound, he has gone Conference Mississippi Divi- “Harris makes whatever The NCAA applied it to all sports Friday.