Wade puts perfect cap on final All-Star game
Dwyane Wade is adamant that the end of this season will be the right time for him to bid farewell to basketball.
The game of basketball spent the weekend disagreeing with him.
Wade’s final All-Star appearance as a player is now complete, a four-day trip that had testimonials, celebrations, moments with his family, countless photos and chats with some of basketball’s royalty, and one more lob to LeBron James for good measure.
He scored seven points in his final NBA All-Star Game, helping Team LeBron get a 178-164 victory against Team Giannis.
“If you could wake up and say, ‘This is how I would like my perfect day to go, this is how I would like my perfect All-Star weekend to go,’ then this was it for me,” Wade said.
Pro football
Now that Kyler Murray has decided to play in the NFL instead of reporting to spring training as a first-round draft pick by baseball’s Oakland Athletics, the questions can shift to the Heisman Trophy winner’s height. “I’ve been a 5-10 projected in the first [round], I mean, that’s crazy to me, the fact that I’m already projected that high,” Murray said. “I’m not over 6-foot. I haven’t seen that since I’ve been alive.”
• The Jacksonville Jaguars have exercised a $12 million option on Pro Bowl defensive end Calais Campbell for 2019.
Tennis
Serena Williams has returned to the top 10 in the tennis rankings for the first time since taking a break to have her first child. Williams dropped as low as 491st upon her return to competition in March 2018 but is now up to No. 10 after reaching two Grand Slam finals since losing to Angelique Kerber at Wimbledon.
Elsewhere
Tiger Woods, Novak Djokovic, Lindsey Vonn and the France national soccer team were among the winners at the Laureus World Sports Awards in Monaco. Woods earned the Comeback Award 19 years after he was first recognized.