Cavaliers finish deal to acquire Korver
Two days after agreeing to the deal, the Cleveland Cavaliers completed a trade with Atlanta for Kyle Kor ver, one of the league’s best three-point shooters, who will be able to spot up on the perimeter and wait for LeBron James to pass him the ball.
The Cavaliers sent forward Mike Dunleavy, guard Mo Williams, cash and a protected future first-round draft pick to the Hawks for Korver, a 14-year veteran whose ability to come off screens and deep range challenges defenses.
The trade was agreed upon Thursday and completed Saturday. Korver could join the team Sunday in Phoenix.
Coach Tyronn Lue said he intends to bring Korver off the bench.
Penn State’s costs related to the Jerry Sandusky scandal are approaching a quarter-billion dollars and growing, five years after the former assistant football coach’s arrest on child molestation charges. The scandal’s overall cost to the school has reached at least $237 million, including a recent $12million verdict in the whistleblower and defamation case brought by former assistant coach Mike McQueary, whose testimony helped convict Sandusky in 2012.
The university has settled with 33 people over allegations they were sexually abused by Sandusky, and has made total payments to them of $93 million. James Madison won its second Football Championship Subdivision title game, beating Youngstown State, 28-14, at Frisco, Texas. Khalid Abdullah ran for 101 yards and two touchdowns after two early scoring passes by Bryan Schor in the Dukes’ victory.
Abdullah finished the season with a school-record 1,809 yards rushing and an FCS-best 22 touchdowns for the Dukes (14-1). Novak Djokovic successfully defended his Qatar Open title by beating top-seeded Andy Murray, 6-3, 5-7, 6-4, in the final in Doha. Kristina Mladenovic and Richard Gasquet clinched France’s second Hopman Cup title, beating Americans CoCo Vandeweghe and Jack Sock, 4-1, 4-3, in the deciding mixed doubles match in the tournament final in Perth, Australia. Karolina Pliskova won all but five points in the first six games to set up a 6-0, 6-3 rout of Alize Cornet in the Brisbane International final in Australia. Pliskova will move to a career-high No. 5 ranking for the Australian Open, which begins Jan. 16.
On the men’s side, Milos Raonic’s title defense ended in a 7-6 (7), 6-2 semifinal loss to Grigor Dimitrov, who will play Kei Nishikori in Sunday’s final. Nishikori beat Stan Wawrinka, 7-6 (3), 6-3.
In a race peppered with World Cup history, Alexis Pinturault held off hard-charging Marcel Hirscher by .04 of a second to win Switzerland’s classic giant slalom in Adelboden. With his 19th career World Cup win, Pinturault broke a tie with Alpine ski icon JeanClaude Killy for most victories by a Frenchman in the circuit’s half century of racing. Killy won his first race almost 50 years ago to the day when the same Adelboden hill staged the first giant slalom of the debut World Cup season.