Durant out of protocol
Kevin Durant has rejoined the Brooklyn Nets and will be able to play Saturday in his return to Golden State.
Durant, 32, missed three games for coronavirus health and safety protocol reasons and faced a mandatory seven-day quarantine after being a close contact of a team employee who tested positive for the virus.
The star forward continued to test negative during his absence and returned to practice Friday.
Durant spent three seasons with the Warriors, winning NBA titles in the first two before rupturing his Achilles tendon in Game 5 of the 2019 NBA Finals. He left shortly after to sign with the Nets.
NBA
Former Whitnall High School star Tyler Herro was cleared Friday to resume basketball activities with the Miami Heat after missing one game while dealing with the NBA’s health and safety coronavirus protocols.
The second-year guard was flagged after a test result Thursday but then cleared after returning subsequent negative tests. Herro was not permitted to play in Miami’s win over Houston on Thursday night while the matter was sorted out.
GOLF
Jordan Spieth shot a 5-under 67 at Spyglass Hill on Friday for a one-shot lead over Daniel Berger at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
Spieth was at 12-under 132, his first 36-hole lead since his last win, the 2017 British Open at Royal Birkdale.
BASEBALL
The Hall of Fame has canceled its traditional outdoor induction ceremony for the second straight summer because of the pandemic and plans an indoor, televised event for Derek Jeter and others.
Jeter, Larry Walker, former Milwaukee Brewer Ted Simmons and late players’ association executive director Marvin Miller were to have been inducted last summer but the ceremony was called off for the first time since 1960.
COLLEGE HOCKEY
The Wisconsin women’s team got goals from four players, and goalie Kennedy Blair stopped all 12 shots she faced in the Badgers’ 4-0 win over Bemidji State on Friday in Madison.
The top-ranked Badgers improved to 10-2-1.
COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL
Devyn Robinson had 18 kills and Sydney Hill had 34 assists for Wisconsin (7-0) in a 25-21, 25-17, 25-13 victory over Indiana in Bloomington, Indiana.
MU women 3, DePaul 0: Hannah Vanden Berg had eight kills, two aces and five digs in a 25-19, 2513, 25-19 victory for the Golden Eagles (5-2) over DePaul at the Al McGuire Center.