NBA, players have a new labor agreement

The most financially successful era in NBA history will continue uninterrupted for at least six more years, after the league and its players came to a tentative agreement on a new Collective Bargaining Agreement that will kick in this summer.

“The NBA and National Basketball Players Association have reached a tentative agreement on a new Collective Bargaining Agreement, pending ratification by players and team governors,” was the league’s only comment.

Technically, it will be a seven-year deal, though either side can opt out a year early. It will also begin the era of an in-season tournament, something Commissioner Adam Silver has wanted for years.

Barring a change to the current plan, teams will be given an 80-game schedule for next season in August. Those 80 games will include “tournament” games — probably four — that will count in regular-season standings. All teams will have two more games added to their schedule eventually so the full 82-game slate is played; the two teams that make the tournament final will be playing an 83rd game that won’t count in the standings.

Golf: Patrick Rodgers’ three-shot lead at the Valero Texas Open remained intact when the field completed the weather-delayed second round on Saturday. Rodgers, looking for his first PGA Tour victory and first Masters appearance, had completed rounds of 66-67 for 11-under Friday while much of the afternoon portion of the field could not finish due to darkness. Tennis: Twelfth-seeded veteran Petra Kvitova, in her 13th appearance at the Miami Open, finally won her first crown, upsetting 7th-seed Elena Rybakina on Saturday with a marathon tiebreaker in a 7-6 (14), 6-2 win.

Women’s college basketball: South Carolina All-American Aliyah Boston declared for the WNBA draft on Saturday.