Cavaliers, Kings in trade talks

The Cavaliers are continuing their quest to acquire Kings guard George Hill, according to an ESPN report.

The trade package between Cleveland and Sacramento centers around Cavs guard Iman Shumpert and forward Channing Frye, according to league source cited by ESPN. A secondround pick is also in play, the sources say.

According to the report, Hill has been unhappy with his role with the Kings. The Cavaliers appear to be looking to make changes, too, in light of their recent 3-9 skid.

A 6-foot-3 point guard, Hill is averaging 10.3 points per game this season.

Injuries have limited Shumpert to 13 games this season. In limited action off the bench this year, Frye is averaging 4.1 points per game.

KEVIN LOVE NAMED AN ALL-STAR RESERVE » Stephen Curry will be able to stock his All-Star roster with plenty of Golden State teammates.

Klay Thompson and Draymond Green were chosen as reserves Tuesday, giving the defending NBA champions a record-tying four All-Stars for the second straight year.

The Minnesota Timberwolves and Washington Wizards also had two reserves selected, and they will go into the pool of players that Curry and fellow captain LeBron James can draft to comprise the teams for the Feb. 18 game in Los Angeles. Their rosters will be unveiled Thursday.

Minnesota’s Jimmy Butler and Karl-Anthony Towns were chosen from the Western Conference along with Oklahoma City’s Russell Westbrook, San Antonio’s LaMarcus Aldridge and Portland’s Damian Lillard.

Besides Washington’s John Wall and Bradley Beal, the rest of the Eastern Conference reserves were Boston’s Al Horford, the Cavaliers’Kevin Love, New York’s Kristaps Porzingis, Toronto’s Kyle Lowry and Indiana’s Victor Oladipo.

Tennis

MERTENS ADVANCES » When Elise Mertens was growing up in the medieval city of Leuven, Belgium, Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin were taking Belgian tennis to new heights. She remembers, back to when she was five, seeing Clijsters play for the first time — the year Clijsters made her first French Open final.

“I mean, what they achieved was amazing, and of course I looked up to them,” Mertens said.

Now, she’s is following in their sizable footsteps. The 22-year-old Mertens upset No. 4-seeded Elina Svitolina, 6-4, 6-0 on Tuesday to reach the semifinals of the Australian Open, the first Belgian woman to do so since Clijsters’ last appearance at the tournament in 2012.

Mertens has trained at Clijsters’ tennis academy in Belgium for the past three years and has grown close to the fourtime major winner. Clijsters has been watching all of Mertens’ matches in Melbourne this week and texting her support.

“She was also stressed in my last match,” Mertens said in her oncourt interview after beating Svitolina. “She said, ‘Oh my God, I have so much stress.”’

Now, she’s just two wins away. Her next opponent will be No. 2-seeded Caroline Wozniacki, who beat Carla Suarez Navarro in the other semifinal match.