WOOD GOING FROM ROCKETS TO MAVS

A person with direct knowledge of the agreement said the Houston Rockets are trading center Christian Wood, their leading scorer and rebounder this season, to the Dallas Mavericks in exchange for four players and a draft pick.

Boban Marjanovic, Trey Burke, Sterling Brown and

Marquese Chriss are going to the Rockets, who will also receive the No. 26 pick this year, according to the person.

It will not be finalized until the June 23 draft, the person said.

It is a major move for the Mavericks, after Wood averaged 17.9 points and 10.1 rebounds per game. He was one of nine players to average at least 17 points and 10 rebounds, joining Philadelphia’s Joel Embiid, Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo, two-time MVP Nikola Jokic of Denver, Miami’s

Bam Adebayo, Sacramento’s Domantas Sabonis, New Orleans’ Jonas Valanciunas, Chicago’s

Nikola Vucevic and Phoenix’s Deandre Ayton.

Wood is entering the final season of a three-year, $41 million contract. He revealed to reporters in Houston last week that he had preliminary talks with the Rockets on an extension, though it isn’t known if one side balked or if it simply became clear that he wasn’t going to be in the team’s longterm plans.

Either way, now Dallas star Luka Doncic gets another talented option to surround himself with next season. Wood has become a much better 3-point shooter as his career goes along; his 131 makes from beyond the arc this season matched his total from the previous two seasons combined.

College football

The Army-Navy game will be played in New England for the first time, the service academies announced Wednesday as they revealed the five cities that will host the game over the next five years.

Next year’s game will be played at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass., home of the New England Patriots.

The 2024 game will be at FedEx Field in Landover, Md., followed by M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore in 2025, the Meadowlands in East Rutherford, N.J, in 2026, and Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia in 2027.

WNBA

Poway native Kelsey Plum scored 27 points, A’ja Wilson added 25 points and the visiting Las Vegas Aces beat the Dallas Wings 92-84.

Plum, who entered needing nine points to reach 1,500 in her career, scored 14 in the first half. Plum also made a 3-pointer in her 21st straight game.

• Tina Charles scored a season-high 29 points on 11of-21 shooting, Diana Taurasi hit four 3-pointers and finished with 17 points and the Phoenix Mercury beat the host Indiana Fever 93-80.

• Courtney Williams scored 20 points and the Connecticut Sun made 14 3pointers in a 105-92 victory over the visiting Atlanta Dream.

Local colleges

UC San Diego women’s basketball coach Heidi VanDer veer announced the addition of graduate transfer Denali Pinto.

A 6-foot guard from Boulder, Colo., Pinto spent four seasons at Colorado School of Mines (D-II. She holds the school’s records in career points (1,652), single-season points (578) as well as points in a game (38) and holds the top spot in seven other statistical categories.

• San Diego State women’s 4x400m relay team of Jalyn Harris, Danae Dyer, Aisha Watt and Sakura Roberson were named second team All-American. The relay team earned that honor by placing in the top 16 at the NCAA Outdoor Championships, where they ran a time of 3:34.79 to place 13th in the event.

• San Diego State righthanded pitcher Troy Melton received secondteam ABCA/Rawlings AllWest Region recognition. In his final season on The Mesa, Melton (5-2) earned Mountain West Co-Pitcher of the Year honors and merited first-team all-conference distinction after leading the league with a 2.07 ERA while ranking second in opposing batting (.235).

Olympics

The International Olympic Committee is expected to make a decision next week about whether to allow women to compete in Nordic combined at the 2026 Games. The sport has been part of the Winter Olympics since 1924. It is also the only Olympic sport without women. There is the possibility that the sport is dropped entirely, according to athletes and advocates. Five-time Olympian Billy Demong says the IOC’s solution for gender equity may be to take men out of the program for 2026.