Beverley hit with suspension to start next season
Patrick Beverley’s shove of Phoenix’s Chris Paul earned the Clippers guard an unpaid one-game suspension to start next season.
The NBA announced the discipline Saturday, three days after Beverley, with five minutes to play in Game 6 of the Western Conference finals, committed “an unsportsmanlike act for forcefully pushing the Phoenix Suns guard Chris Paul from behind and knocking him to the court,” said Kiki VanDeWeghe, the NBA’s executive vice president for basketball operations.
Beverley was ejected. He later apologized on Twitter to Paul, whose 41 points in Game 6 helped eliminate the Clippers from the team’s first conference finals.
“@CP3 emotions got the best of me last night gang,” Beverley wrote. “My bad wasn’t meant for you. Congrats on making it to the Finals. Best of Luck.”
his perfect NASCAR Xfinity Series season at Road America in Wisconsin.
After spinning off course twice, Busch rallied in the final stage and led the last five laps in the No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota for his fourth victory in four starts this year and 101st in the series.
NASCAR allows Cup Series drivers to compete in only five Xfinity and five Truck Series races a year. Busch is scheduled to enter his final Xfinity event of the season next week at Atlanta.
Busch edged teammate Daniel Hemric by 3.522 seconds, with Michael Annett
third, AJ Allmendinger fourth and Gibbs driver
Harrison Burton fifth. Road America has had a different winner in each of its 12 Xfinity events.
Allmendinger won the first two stages, giving up the lead when Busch went past him on the right in the closing laps.
Austin Cindric, last year’s winner on the 4.048mile course, led Saturday, but his Ford suffered damage in a wreck that began when Myatt Snider spun off course coming out of a restart. Cindric ended up eighth.
This Xfinity Series race capped an eventful day for Busch. Although he had the second-fastest time in practice for the Cup race, Busch crashed his Toyota and will have to use a backup car Sunday. That means he will start in the back of the pack.
Max Verstappen clinched his third straight pole position with a commanding drive for Red Bull at the Austrian Grand Prix. ... Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton will stay with Mercedes through 2023 after signing a two-year contract extension.
West Virginia guard Miles McBride will remain in the NBA draft, while fellow Mountaineers guard Sean McNeil will return for another season.
The Indiana Fever beat the Connecticut Sun 73-67 to snap a franchise single-season record 12-game losing streak . ... Betnijah Laney scored 19 points to help New York rally from an 18-point deficit and beat Washington 82-79.
Tomas Satoransky ended Canada’s hopes of making the Tokyo Olympics, his fading-away, off-the-glass jumper with 1.8 seconds left in overtime the deciding basket in the Czech Republic’s 103-101 win in a qualifying tournament semifinal at Victoria, British Columbia. Blake Schilb scored 31 points for the Czechs (2-1), who will play Greece in Sunday’s title game.
Also advancing: Luka Doncic and Slovenia (98-70 over Venezuela); Lithuania (88-69 over Poland); Serbia (102-84 over Puerto Rico); Italy (79-59 over Dominican Republic); Germany (86-76 over Croatia); Greece (81-63 over Turkey); and Brazil (102-74 over Mexico).
Harry Kane scored twice and England overwhelmed Ukraine 4-0 to reach the European Championship semifinals against Denmark . ... D.C. United set a team scoring record with a 7-1 win over Toronto FC.
Tadej Pogacar dealt a demoralizing blow on the first day of the Tour de France in the Alps, when cycling’s precocious star claimed the yellow jersey after what was a grueling eighth stage to everyone else . ... World champion Anna van der Breggen rode away from the rest of the field in the Giro d’Italia Donne, winning the first summit finish of the marquee women’s stage race to take the overall lead.