The Boston Globe

Bronny James testing waters by entering both draft and portal

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Bronny James will enter the NBA draft after one season at Southern California that was shortened by his recovery from cardiac arrest. The 19-year-old son of LeBron James announced on his Instagram account that he also plans to retain his college eligibilit­y and will enter the transfer portal, hours before USC introduced Eric Musselman as its new coach. Musselman comes from Arkansas and replaces Andy Enfield, who left on Monday to become coach at SMU. “I've had a year with some ups and downs but all added to growth for me as a man, student and athlete,” James wrote. James averaged 4.8 points and 2.8 rebounds while starting six of 25 games for the Trojans. He shot 37 percent from the field, 27 percent from 3-point range, and 68 percent from the free throw line. The combo guard, didn't make his college debut until Dec. 10. He suffered cardiac arrest on July 20 during a workout at the Galen Center. He was found to have a congenital heart defect that was treatable.

Sampson edges Hurley

Kelvin Sampson of top-seeded Houston narrowly edged UConn's Dan Hurley for his second Associated Press Coach of the Year award. Sampson received 23 of 62 votes from the national panel that votes for the weekly AP Top 25; balloting closed before the start of the NCAA Tournament. Hurley, whose top-seeded Huskies will play Alabama in the Final Four on Saturday night as they chase a second consecutiv­e national title, finished second with 21 votes. Houston won the Big 12 regular-season title in its first year in the league, advanced through the opening weekend of the NCAAs for the fifth time in a row, and lost in the Sweet 16 to Duke after All-American guard Jamal Shead hurt his ankle. Sampson, who also earned AP coach of the year in 1995 with Oklahoma . . . Purdue’s Zach Edey collected his second Associated Press Player of the Year award, becoming the first back-to-back winner since Ralph Sampson won three in a row at Virginia from 1981-83. Edey received 57 of 62 votes, with the others going to Tennessee's Dalton Knecht (3) and Shead (2). FOOTBALL

Brown gets big money

Pro Bowl defensive end Derrick Brown agreed to a four-year, $96 million extension that includes $63.1 million in guaranteed money, keeping the 2020 first-round pick in Carolina. The 6-foot-5-inch, 320-pound Brown is coming off a year in which he set an NFL record for tackles by a defensive lineman with 103, breaking the mark of 98 set by Springfiel­d native Christian Wilkins with Miami in 2022. He was set to make $11.7 million in the final year of his rookie contract. SKIING

Shiffrin engaged

Skiing power couple Mikaela Shiffrin and Aleksander Aamodt Kilde have announced they're engaged to be married. The 29-year-old Shiffrin, a two-time Olympic champion who has won a record 97 World Cup races, grew up skiing in New Hampshire before attending Burke Mountain Academy in Vermont. Aamodt Kilde is a former overall World Cup champion and twotime Olympic medalist. The 31-year-old Norwegian's season ended in January when he sustained injuries in a crash during a downhill race. MISCELLANY

Bucks skid continues

Gary Trent Jr. scored 31 points and Immanuel Quickley narrowly missed a triple-double as the Toronto Raptors snapped a 15-game losing streak with a 117-111 victory over the slumping Bucks. Milwaukee, playing without the injured Giannis Antetokoun­mpo (hamstring), lost for the fifth time in its last six games, with the last three coming against Washington, Memphis, and Toronto — teams all well below .500 in the NBA standings . . . Two-time defending Tour de France champion Jonas Vingegaard remained hospitaliz­ed in Spain one day after he broke his collarbone and several ribs in a bad crash with other top riders during a chaotic Tour of the Basque Country. The Danish rider’s Visma-Lease A Bike team said further tests revealed that Vingegaard also sustained a collapsed lung and a pulmonary contusion during the crash in Thursday's fourth stage. The accident came less than three months before the start of the Tour de France on June 29 ... Norby Williamson, ESPN's head of event and studio production, is leaving the network after nearly 40 years. The move was announced in a memo by Burke Magnus, the network's president for content, and is effective immediatel­y.

 ?? JOHN LOCHER/ASSOCIATED PRESS ?? Bronny James was heavily limited this season at Southern Cal following his cardiac episode over the summer.
JOHN LOCHER/ASSOCIATED PRESS Bronny James was heavily limited this season at Southern Cal following his cardiac episode over the summer.

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