In Brief: Luka Doncic traded to Lakers
By The Associated Press
Luka Doncic has been traded by the reigning Western Conference champion Dallas Mavericks to the Los Angeles Lakers for Anthony Davis.
The deal was announced Sunday after trade talks that took place over about a month and were kept extremely tight-lipped.
Doncic, Maxi Kleber and Markieff Morris are headed to the Lakers, while Davis and Max Christie are going to Dallas.
The Utah Jazz also are involved in the deal.
The trade may come at a serious price for Doncic, who now can’t sign a five-year supermax extension this summer that could have been worth about $345 million.
IOWA HONORS CAITLIN CLARK
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Caitlin Clark wasn’t back in her home arena to play a game.
Still, the “butterflies,” the former Iowa guard said, were quite similar.
Clark returned to Iowa’s Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Sunday to have her jersey number 22 retired in a ceremony after the Hawkeyes’ 76-67 win over No. 4 USC, one season after she completed her historic college career.
The jersey retirement concluded Clark’s chapter with the Hawkeyes, where she became college basketball’s all-time leading scorer while leading Iowa to back-to-back appearances in the NCAA national championship game the last two seasons.
KIM WINS LPGA SEASON OPENER
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A Lim Kim has opened the LPGA season with a wire-to-wire win at the Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions.
She completed a wire-to-wire win.
But it wasn’t without a few nervous moments thanks to hard-charging Nelly Korda.
The No. 1 player in women’s golf made up a four-shot deficit and caught Kim with a birdie on the 15th hole.
Kim responded by making three birdies over the last four holes and shot 67 to win by two shots.
It’s her second straight LPGA win in which she never trailed after any round. Korda shot a 65 and was runner-up.
USC RETIRES WILSON’S NUMBER
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Three-time WNBA MVP A’ja Wilson had her South Carolina No. 22 jersey hung in the rafters at Colonial Life Arena on Sunday.
The ceremony took place before No. 2 South Carolina beat Auburn. The latest honor for Wilson comes at the building where she became the program’s all-time leading scorer and a statue of her greets visitors.
She helped South Carolina to its first national title in 2017.
She also became the Gamecocks’ first No. 1 WNBA draft pick, chosen by the Las Vegas Aces.
“Home is where your legacy began,” Staley said in a video shown to the crowd before her jersey ceremony.