In public and private moments, commissioner Adam Silver has made it clear that the NBA will not return until health officials and the CDC give full clearance. If and when the NBA is able to resume its season in a “bubble” city, one preliminary plan would be a two-week quarantine where teams can utilize facilities again and players can work out in solo settings, then a two-week training camp followed by an abbreviated regular season and playoffs, sources said. It would all take place without fans, according to those sources. Many team executives are preparing for a delayed NBA draft — as late as September.
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Only one Silver & Black draftee will …
Only one Silver & Black draftee will have a mention in history books written about the U.S. presidency. In another move that added fuel to controversies about oversight during his administration, President Donald Trump on Monday removed Glenn Fine as head of a group charged with overseeing the $2 trillion coronavirus aid package passed last month by Congress. In 1979, the Spurs selected Fine in the 10th — yes, the 10th — round of the NBA draft out of Harvard.
“I never heard of him,” Wayne Witt, the …
“I never heard of him,” Wayne Witt, the Spurs director of media relations from 1974-94, said Wednesday. “Sorry, Mr. Fine, but I don’t know you.” That Witt doesn’t remember Fine is no surprise. Instead of going to training camp with a team then headed by general manager Bob Bass and coach Doug Moe, the 5-foot-9 point guard became a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University.
Trump discusses cutting TVA’s Jeff Lyash’s ‘ridiculous’ salary under COVID-19 infrastructure package
Trump discusses cutting TVA’s Jeff Lyash’s ‘ridiculous’ salary under COVID-19 infrastructure package.
WASHINGTON — Tennessee Valley Authority, headquartered in Knoxville, was a topic of discussion during Wednesday’s Coronavirus Task Force press conference.
President Donald Trump was asked about members of his administration and members of Congress that have pointed out that Tennessee Valley Authority President and CEO Jeff Lyash is the top paid federal employee, making roughly $8 million.
“It’s ridiculous,” Trump said of Lyash.
“That’s a quasi-public agency and whoever the head of the agency is, that person makes a lot of money,” Trump continued. “Which is an amazing thing, and when we want them to do something, they’re not there for us. That’s not good.
“They’ve been there for a long time. That’s been a story for a long time.”
Trump continued by saying he is in support by reducing a salary like Lyash’s “by a lot” and that it could occur as part of an infrastructure bill.
“Tennessee Valley Authority — I’ve been waiting for somebody to ask me about that,” Trump said. “It’s been bothering me for a long time.”
Lyash was named TVA’s President and CEO in April 2019.
Tom Brady says he grew uncomfortable with Donald Trump
Tom Brady wasn’t happy with President Donald Trump during the campaign.
Some of Tom Brady’s most uncomfortable press conferences came during President Donald Trump’s campaign. And that’s exactly how Brady described that phase of the quarterback’s friendship with Trump: “uncomfortable.”
When Trump was running for president in 2016, he asked Brady to speak at the Republican convention, and Brady had to turn him down.
“Then the whole political aspect came, and I think I got brought into a lot of those things because it was so polarizing around the election time. It was uncomfortable for me, because you can’t — and not that I would undo a friendship — but the political support is so different than support of a friend,” Brady said in an interview with Howard Stern on Sirius XM on Wednesday.
Brady added: “I didn’t want to get into the political thing.”
Still, Trump said at a Manchester, N.H., rally that he had the support of the quarterback. But Brady never openly endorsed Trump, saying only that the he supported Trump as a friend.
During the interview on SiriusXM on Wednesday, Brady explained that he first met Trump when he was the New England Patriots’ quarterback in 2002. At 24 years old, Brady had just won his first Super Bowl, and Trump asked Brady to judge the Miss USA competition. Brady admitted to enjoying the perks — like this one — to suddenly being a famous, professional athlete. So their relationship evolved from there.
“He called me after games, and he’d say, ‘I watched your game, Tom. Let’s play golf together,'” Brady told Stern on SiriusXM. “He became someone that would come up to our games and watch on the sideline and he would cheer for the Patriots. He always had a way of connecting with people — and still does.”
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Anthony Chiang: Adam Silver said call …
Anthony Chiang: Adam Silver said call with President Trump that included other sports commissioners was an “old school conference call.” Said it lasted about 45 minutes, and “it was more just a chance for us to say we stand behind the country.”
President Trump details timeline of sports returning
President Trump details timeline of sports returning.
NCAA coronavirus advisory panel: Amesh Adalja discusses how college football season is at risk
Playing 2020 football season ‘under intense discussion’ by coronavirus NCAA advisory panel
WASHINGTON – The coronavirus pandemic continues as the United States attempts to flatten the curve ahead of a national peak.
Dr. Deborah Birx discussed three hotspot areas during a Coronavirus Task Force press conference Saturday.
“By the predictions that are in that healthdata.org, they are predicting in those three hotspots, all of them hitting together in the next six to seven days,” Birx said Saturday of the Detroit, New York and Louisiana areas.
President Donald Trump also discussed his teleconference Saturday with sports commissioners and action they have taken to cancel, postpone and suspend competition.
“I just spoke with the commissioners, leaders of, I would say virtually all of the sports leagues,” Trump said during the Coronavirus Task Force briefing. “Rob Manfred, Commissioner of Major League Baseball, Roger Goodell, Commissioner of the National Football League, Adam Silver, Commissioner of the National Basketball Association, Gary Bettman, Commissioner of the National Hockey League, Jay Monaghan, Commissioner of the PGA Tour, Cathy Engelbert, Commissioner of the Women’s National Basketball Association. Dana White, the Ultimate Fighting Championship, Vince McMan, President of the WWE, Don Garber, Commissioner of Major League Soccer, Steve Phelps, President of NASCAR, Michael Wahn, Commissioner of the LPGA, Roger Penske, founder and Chairman Penske Corp and Drew Fleming, President of the Breeders’ Cup, and there were a couple of others on and these are all the great leaders of sport and they want to get back, they got to get back.
“They can’t do this. The sports weren’t designed for it. The whole concept of our nation wasn’t designed for, we’re going to have to get back. We want to get back soon, very soon.”
Trump was also asked about wanting fans back in arenas and stadiums in the near future.
“Absolutely, I want fans back in the arenas,” he said.
Trump mentioned that fans will return to arenas and stadiums “whenever we’re ready” and that it would happen “as soon as we can – obviously.”
“The fans want to be back, too,” he continued. “They want to see basketball, baseball, football and hockey. They want to see their sports, they want to go out onto the golf courses and breathe nice, clean, beautiful, fresh air.
“I can’t tell you a date, but I think it’s going to be sooner rather than later. We’re not going to have to have separation for the rest of our times on the planet. We need it for this period of time, but eventually people are going to be able to occupy those seats in arenas next to each other like we have for all of my life and all of your life. They want to sit next to each other at restaurants. They don’t want to be six feet away.”
A “sooner rather than later” return of professional sports would have an impact on college athletics and a reality of the football season taking place. The 2020 college football season is slated to kickoff August 29.
Tim Reynolds: President Trump on his …
Tim Reynolds: President Trump on his meeting with sports commissioners today: “They want to get back. They’ve got to get back. They can’t do this. Their sports weren’t designed for it. The whole concept of our nation wasn’t designed for it. We have to get back. We want to get back soon.”
Adrian Wojnarowski: On conference call …
Adrian Wojnarowski: On conference call with Trump and pro sports leaders today, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver spoke of a possible return to play once there was an “all clear” from public health officials, sources familiar with call tell ESPN.