Minnesota’s Towns out for several weeks

Minnesota Timberwolves center Karl-Anthony Towns will miss multiple weeks with a strained right calf muscle.

Towns was hurt midway through the third quarter Monday night in Minnesota’s 142-127 loss at Washington. He was helped off the court and unable to put weight on his leg.

The Timberwolves announced Tuesday that an MRI exam confirmed the injury that will sideline him indefinitely. The team said Towns would be “reassessed in several weeks.” Towns is averaging 20.8 points, 8.2 rebounds and 5.3 assists in 21 games with 50.5% shooting from the field.

• Julius Randle scored a season-high 36 points, and the visiting New York Knicks extended their win streak against the Detroit Pistons to 11 games with a 140-110 victory. Quentin Grimes, RJ Barrett and Jalen Brunson each scored 16 points for New York, which had lost four of five. Isaiah Stewart scored 19 points for Detroit, which hasn’t beaten New York since Jan. 7, 2020. WNBA: The Connecticut Sun hired Darius Taylor as the team’s general manager and added assistant GM to Morgan Tuck’s title. Taylor replaces Curt Miller, who served as Connecticut’s head coach and general manager before he left to take the coaching job with Los Angeles last month.

Taylor had been with Atlanta since 2017, rising from assistant coach to interim head coach and assistant GM in 2021. Baseball: The Major League Baseball Players Association voted to extend the contract of executive director Tony Clark through 2027.

Clark, 50, who had a 15-year big-league career mostly with the Tigers and Diamondbacks, is in position to lead the players through their next labor deal. The current contract is set to expire after the 2026 season.

• Infielder Jeimer Candelario agreed to a one-year deal with the Washington Nationals. Candelario, 29, is a switch-hitter who is coming off a down year for the Detroit Tigers, hitting .217 with a .272 on-base percentage in 2022.

In 2021, he tied for the majorleague lead with 42 doubles and batted .271 with a .351 on-base percentage, 16 homers and a career-best 67 RBIs.