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NBA Draft: Thompson twins make history as Nos. 4 and 5 selections to Houston, Detroit

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:58 GMT

Amen and Ausar Thompson took an unconventional route, but their final destination was determined within moments of each other Thursday night in the NBA Draft.The Thompson twins, who started playing basketball in Oakland and were home schooled before moving to Florida and playing at Atlanta-based Overtime Elite in hopes of becoming NBA players, were Nos. 4 and 5 selections as announced by Commissioner Adam Silver at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.The Houston Rockets selected Amen at No. 4, and no sooner did the family finish with ABC/ESPN television interviews, the Detroit Pistons selected Ausar at No. 5.“I’m super excited,” Ausar said during his television interview. “I’ve never seen anything like this. It feels like making history with Amen.”Another player with local ties, wing Brandin Poziemski of Santa Clara, stayed in the area as the No. 19 pick in the first round by the Warriors.Twins have been selected in the first round of the draft before, bu...

Why does illegal street vending in Mission District seem to go unpunished? SF police union explains

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:58 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- Illegal street vending in San Francisco appears to go on unabated by police in the city's Mission District. The president of the San Francisco Police Officers Association tells KRON4 there is a reason it appears that way.On any given day, you can buy anything from clothing, pharmacy products or grocery items right at the corner of 24th Street and Mission in San Francisco. A’s ‘SELL’ t-shirts to go to Baseball HOF in Cooperstown The only problem is -- without a city-issued permit for vending -- these folks are breaking the law says lifelong Mission District resident, Rafael Guttierez. He says he recorded these videos to show that it's not just illegal street vending happening here.And he says, oftentimes, they're selling these items right in front of san francisco police officersBack in 2022, the SF Board of Supervisors enacted a new street vendor enforcement code that went into effect earlier this year.According to SFPD Chief Bill Scott, San Francisco Polic...

Mariners hammer struggling Germán as Woo gets his 1st win in a 10-2 rout of the Yankees

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:58 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Another dreadful outing by Domingo Germán made things easy for touted rookie Bryan Woo on a breakthrough night for the Seattle Mariners.Teoscar Hernández hit one of Seattle’s four early homers and the Mariners teed off against a suddenly inept Germán in blowing out the sloppy New York Yankees 10-2 on Thursday to prevent a three-game sweep.Woo (1-1) breezed into the sixth inning with a no-hit bid to earn his first major league victory. Kolten Wong hit his first home run for the Mariners before Ty France and Cal Raleigh also went deep against Germán (4-5).“We just kind of came in with a different attitude today,” Wong said. “Guys were aggressive, guys were excited to go out there and compete. That was the kind of game that we really needed to kind of jumpstart us back to the winning ways.”Julio Rodríguez got Seattle started with a one-out single in a four-run first. Hernández had an RBI single, Eugenio Suárez delivered a two-run double and Mike Ford capped the qu...

White’s homer in 11th sends LSU to College World Series finals with a 2-0 win over No. 1 Wake Forest

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:58 GMT

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Jay Johnson has coached in the College World Series finals before, and he’s won his share of big games.To him, nothing compared with Thursday night.“That is one of the greatest moments in my entire life, what happened on the field tonight,” LSU’s second-year coach said after his team’s 2-0, 11-inning victory over No. 1 national seed Wake Forest clinched a spot in the CWS finals.Tommy White hit Camden Minacci’s first pitch into the left-field seats to set up an All-SEC best-of-three finals matchup with Florida starting Saturday night. It will be a rematch of the 2017 final that the Gators won for their first national title.“Now that we’re here, it’s not a surprise,” Johnson said. “This is the first team I’ve coached that I think can win a national championship. Hands down.”That’s saying something. Johnson nearly won one in 2016 when he was at Arizona, which lost a three-game finals to Coastal Carolina.LSU (52-16) became the...

Live updates | After just over 3 hours, Round 1 of NBA draft is complete

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:58 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Follow along with the developments from Thursday’s NBA draft at Barclays Center:___It took just over three hours, and thankfully sped up a bit toward the end, but the first round of the NBA draft is complete.The final pick: Missouri’s Kobe Brown by the Los Angeles Clippers, right around 11:15 p.m. Eastern.The second round goes much more quickly. There’s only two minutes between picks instead of five minutes between selections in Round 1, and no long family hugging sessions since most players selected in Round 2 aren’t physically present at the draft. And there’s only 28 picks, since two second-rounders were forfeited.Philadelphia and Chicago were stripped of their second-round picks after the league found they broke rules last summer by talking to free agents too early. The 76ers had next year’s second-round pick stripped for the same reason.___What to know:— Emotional Victor Wembanyama goes No. 1 in NBA draft to Spurs— Hornets, Mi...

Kansas native’s dazzling NBA draft coat a nod to home state, Dorothy of Wizard of Oz

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:58 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Kansas native Gradey Dick brought a bit of home with him to the NBA draft. After all, there’s no place like it.The guard from Wichita, Kansas, who played his lone college season at his home state school, wore a sparkly and bedazzled red coat Thursday night. Dick said it was his nod to Dorothy from the classic movie “Wizard of Oz.”“I’m from Kansas, she’s from Kansas,” Dick said. “She’s got her slippers, I have my coat.”Dick showed off his jacket on the red carpet coming into the Barclays Center. The 6-foot-8 sharp-shooter set a freshman record with 83 3-pointers at Kansas, and the Toronto Raptors selected him at No. 13 overall.Now Dick’s jacket matches one of his new team’s colors. One of his last workouts was for the Raptors, and he said he was hoping he might go there after having a great time with the team. “It kind of worked out good with the colors,” Dick said. “I’m beyond blessed. I’m happy.”___AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/NBA and https...

AP PHOTOS: In Sri Lanka, fishers suffer as sea erosion destroys homes and beaches

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:58 GMT

IRANAWILA, Sri Lanka (AP) — Ranjith Sunimal Fernando now has a shell of a home at the edge of Sri Lanka’s coast, lost to the sea. Waves lap past the broken walls into damaged, empty rooms.“One night last month, my son went to the bathroom and I suddenly heard him screaming, ‘our house has gone into the sea!’,” said Fernando, a 58-year-old fisher born and raised in Iranawila, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of the capital, Colombo. “I saw parts of my house were already eaten up by the sea and my son coming out of the water, carrying our commode. Our home’s foundation was completely washed out and we were forced to shift further inland.”He salvaged what he could from the wreck of what was once his home — wooden support beams, sections of roof and other building materials — to build another further inland. Others go out to the water to recover items they lost to the sea.Much like the hundreds of other fishing hamlets that dot the coastline, the village of Iranawila suffers f...

Blazers take guard Scoot Henderson with the No. 3 pick in the NBA draft

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:58 GMT

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Portland Trail Blazers selected guard Scoot Henderson of the NBA G League with the third overall pick in the NBA draft on Thursday night. The selection complicates things a bit for the Blazers, who already have an All-Star guard in Damian Lillard. Known for his tenacity on the court, Henderson could be packaged in a trade if Portland pursues a high-profile veteran to join Lillard. Or, he could replace Lillard if the Blazers decided to rebuild. He could even pair with Lillard in Portland’s backcourt. After the San Antonio Spurs took French teenager Victor Wembanyama with the top pick and the Charlotte Hornets took forward Brandon Miller out of Alabama, Henderson fell to the Blazers with No. 3. Asked what Portland is getting, Henderson said: “Somebody that’s going to come in and attack the basket every single time, put pressure on the defense and play both sides of the floor. And a winner.”Henderson, a 6-foot-2 teenager from Georgia who has been c...

Coulibaly follows Wembanyama as the French players make history in the NBA draft

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:58 GMT

For a brief moment, Bilal Coulibaly was an Indiana Pacer. Then, he was traded to the Washington Wizards.A whirlwind night for Coulibaly at the NBA draft on Thursday was part of a memorable one for his country.It’s a time of basketball renaissance for France.Coulibaly and his much-heralded French teammate and No. 1 pick Victor Wembanyama made draft history by becoming the first two players from France to both be taken in the top 20, according to research provided by the league.“We coming,” Coulibaly said after being taken at No. 7 by the Pacers before being traded. “We coming.”Make that, France has already arrived.Between Wembanyama, the generational talent who went to the San Antonio Spurs (once home of French great Tony Parker) and Coulibaly, the 18-year-old versatile forward, the country remains a hot bed for hoops.There have been more NBA players from France than from any other country outside of North America, according to the league.Coulibaly joins Wembanyama, Killian Hayes (se...

'You don’t expect hail': Red Rocks concertgoers flee severe weather

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:58 GMT

MORRISON, Colo. (KDVR) -- Concertgoers still felt traumatized the morning after a major hailstorm unloaded during a concert at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. “Out of nowhere, here comes hail," Samantha Cochran, who was at the concert, said. Red Rocks explains how it warns people of severe weather Samantha was with her sister Mollie waiting for Louis Tomlinson. They described the wait for one weather delay before the concert was cleared to start. Mollie said just a few moments later there was another weather delay in place, then within two minutes the hail started. “We were in the corner standing with cardboard over our heads," Mollie said. "We kind of just stood there and hoped for the best."Hail blankets the ground at Red Rocks Amphitheatre during a delayed Louis Tomlinson concert. (Credit: Briley McAdams)Both left with just minor bruising and welts. They said they feel lucky compared to what others went through. "I don’t want to experience that again and I will be more aware," Mollie ...