La Crosse Tribune Sports News

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MIAMI (AP) — Draft night belonged to Ben Simmons.

DENVER (AP) — One out away from keeping the game alive, reliever Carlos Estevez was done in by three sharply hit grounders that found their way through holes in the Colorado Rockies' defense.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Thunder might finally have found their shooting guard in Victor Oladipo.

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Marcus Semien and Khris Davis homered to help Kendall Graveman get the first win by an Oakland starter in more than three weeks as the Athletics beat the Los Angeles Angels 5-4 Thursday night.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Portland Trail Blazers have acquired the rights to Jake Layman out of Maryland, who was selected by the Magic with the 47th pick in the NBA draft on Thursday night.

SAINT FRANCIS — OK, admit it, you were surprised as I was Thursday night when the Milwaukee Bucks chose the NBA draft’s mystery man — 7-foot stringbean Thon Maker from Australia — with the 10th overall pick.

DALLAS (AP) — The Mavericks need a starting center and figure to use free agency to find one.

CLEVELAND (AP) — Still in party mode after winning the NBA championship, the Cavaliers spent most of Thursday watching the draft before acquiring the rights to point guard Kay Felder from Atlanta in the second round.

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The San Antonio Spurs realized they needed to get younger and more athletic when a historic season ended in a disappointing early exit from the playoffs.

DENVER (AP) — Nick Ahmed had a two-out RBI single in the ninth inning and the Arizona Diamondbacks recovered after blowing a late lead to beat the Colorado Rockies 7-6 on Thursday night.

MIAMI (AP) — For the second time in four years, the Miami Heat had no picks in the NBA draft.

NEW YORK (AP) — The long wait to find out which NBA team would be in his future was over in a hurry for Domantas Sabonis.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Washington Wizards sat out the NBA draft entirely, the first time in the franchise's 55-year history that the team did not make a selection.

HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Rockets added a pair of big men in the second round of the NBA draft on Thursday night in Louisville's Chinanu Onuaku and Chinese center Zhou Qi.

MINNEAPOLIS — Kris Dunn wanted Minnesota and that’s exactly what he got.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Clippers selected North Carolina power forward Brice Johnson with the No. 25 overall pick of the NBA draft on Thursday night.

WINONA — For the first time in five years, the annual Minnesota Wild Road Tour Caravan graced Winona on Thursday afternoon.

ATLANTA (AP) — Matt Harvey keeps trying to find a happy medium for the New York Mets.

VIROQUA — With a clutch RBI hit in the bottom of the seventh inning, Zach Trautsch helped the Viroqua American Legion baseball team complete a comeback over La Crescent and earn a 5-4 win on Thursday at the Viroqua tournament.