NBA clarifies seedings

The NBA told teams that playoff seeding will be based on winning percentage, and that any tiebreakers necessary after that will follow the usual procedures.

It was an issue that needed clarity because the 22 teams that will be going to the Disney complex near Orlando, Fla., for the planned resumption of the season next month will not have played the same number of games.

The NBA told teams of the plan late Friday for utilizing tiebreakers in a memo.

Based on the league plan for the restart, with games starting again in late July, Dallas will end up playing an NBA-high 75 contests. Most others will play between 72 and 74 if the NBA’s plans for teams to play eight games at the Disney complex before the playoffs begin.

Horse racing

Honor A. P. won the $400,000 Santa Anita Derby by 2¾ lengths Saturday at Arcadia, Calif,. to move into the Kentucky Derby picture. Ridden by Hall of Famer Mike Smith, Honor A. P. ran 1 1/8 miles in 1:48.97 and paid $6.40, $2.60 and $2.20. The race was run without spectators.

Colleges

Four-star wide receiver Kaden Prather committed to West Virginia, picking the Mountaineers over a group of schools that included Penn State, Michigan, Alabama and others. The 6-foot-3, 210-pound wide receiver from Northwest in Maryland is ranked as the No. 13 player in the state.

• Oklahoma State was fined $10,000 on top of its men’s basketball team being banned from the upcoming postseason after the NCAA found that former assistant coach Lamont Evans accepted up to $22,000 in bribes intended to help steer athletes to choose certain financial advisers.

Gymnastics

Kurt Thomas, the first U.S. male gymnast to win a world championship gold medal, died, according to his family. He was 64. Thomas had a stroke May 24, caused by a tear of the basilar artery in the brain stem.