Tyler Lydon signs with Sacramento Kings
Tyler Lydon has agreed to a two-year contract with the Sacramento Kings, becoming the second free agent from SU to find a landing spot this offseason.
The news was first reported by ESPN’S national NBA reporter Adrian Wojnarwoski, via an anonymous source. Lydon’s agent Andy Shiffman, of Priority Sports, confirmed the agreement to Syracuse.com | The Poststandard via text message.
Lydon was the No. 24 overall pick in the 2017 NBA Draft but spent the first two years of his NBA career with the Denver Nuggets, where he had little opportunity for playing time on a strong team that featured a deep rotation of forwards, many of them veterans. The Nuggets finished second in the Western Conference last year behind Golden State.
Lydon played in one NBA game during his first season and 25 last year. He averaged just 3.8 minutes and .9 points in those outings.
The 6-foot-10 forward also played 23 G-league games over those two years, averaging 12.9 points. He has shown the ability to shoot efficiently at that level knocking down 50.2 percent of his shots and 36.9 percent of his 3-point tries, crafting a profile as a stretch-forward in the NBA.
Lydon is just 23 years old and made around $3.5 million in salary during his first two NBA seasons.
Lydon joins a group of Syracuse players in the NBA next season that will include Jerami Grant, Dion Waiters and the recently-signed Michael Carter-williams. Rookies Tyus Battle and Oshae Brissett competed in the NBA Summer League in hopes of landing a spot, as did Malachi Richardson and Andrew White III.
Sacramento’s options at forward for next season currently include Harrison Barnes, Marvin Bagley, Trevor Ariza, Harry Giles and Caleb Swanigan.
WIMBLEDON, England – It was more a canvas than a court.
For nearly five hours Sunday, Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer, relentless rivals atop the tennis world, were pure artists, placing the ball with surgical precision, sliding acrobatically across the grass, somehow getting their rackets on dropshots that should have been out of reach.
In the end, it was top-seeded Djokovic who emerged victorious by the narrowest of margins,
MILWAUKEE – After being swept at Coors Field last September, the Giants arrived at Miller Park in Milwaukee near the end of the 2018 season as an exhausted, depleted and overmatched bunch.
The club had lost Buster Posey, Johnny Cueto and Pablo Sandoval to season-ending injuries and had recently traded Andrew Mccutchen in a deal that signaled an unofficial waving of a white flag.
The only flag the 2019 Giants have seen in the past few weeks is a green one that’s giving them the go-ahead to climb the Wildcard standings. With an 8-3 seriesclinching victory over the Brewers on Sunday, this year’s trip to Miller Park only added to a growing sense in the Giants clubhouse that their roster has enough pieces to keep on ascending. 7-6 (5), 1-6, 7-6 (4), 4-6, 13-12 (3), winning his fifth Wimbledon singles title in the first championship decided by final-set tiebreak – a rule put in place by the tournament in October.
“It was probably the most mentally demanding match I’ve ever been a part of,” said
“It’s a tough place to play and to beat these guys, they’ve been tough on us, it’s great to leave here taking the series,” manager Bruce Bochy said.
San Francisco might be six games under .500, but after winning for the eighth time in 10 games on Sunday, the Giants have pulled within 4.5 games of the Phillies for the second Wildcard berth.
Starter Tyler Beede’s performance in the Triple-a bullpen last summer didn’t even merit a September call-up, but after another strong effort against Milwaukee on Sunday, Beede has emerged as a fixture in this year’s rotation.
The right-hander matched a career-high with seven strikeouts and tossed 6 2/3 innings of threerun ball on Sunday to secure his third career victory. With the game tied 2-2 in the top of the sevDjokovic, who successfully defended his Wimbledon title. He was all but impassable, a human back-to-backboard.
“It was one shot away from losing the match,” he said. “This match had everything,
enth, Beede showed bunt, pulled back and drilled a RBI single up the middle to ignite a six-run rally.
“Fortunately they were expecting bunt and had the second baseman shifted over to where the ball squeaked through,” Beede said. “Obviously you get a little lucky there but it was good to put the ball in play.”