Fredette, Barry, Maddox and Travis picked for USA Basketball 3x3

The New York Giants’ belief in Daniel Jones won’t preclude them from at least scouting quarterbacks.

They could end up taking one with the sixth pick in the NFL draft.

“There’s some good ones in a lot of different places,” Giants coach Brian Daboll said Tuesday.

Caleb Williams, Jayden Daniels and Drake Maye are expected to be gone before the Giants are on the clock but J.J. McCarthy could be there. Bo Nix and Michael Penix Jr. are considered the next tier and the Giants could slide back and have either.

Daboll is studying them all. “I love evaluating quarterbacks,” he said. “I love meeting with the quarterbacks. It’s an awesome position to work with and it’s a really funny position to evaluate.”

The Giants gave Jones a $160 million, four-year extension last year that included $81 million in guarantees. He led them to a

Jimmer Fredette, Kareem Maddox, Canyon Barry and Dylan Travis piled up enough wins together last year to get USA Basketball qualified in men’s 3x3 for the Paris Olympics.

They’re staying together to chase gold in France.

USA Basketball announced its men’s 3x3 roster for the Paris Games on Tuesday, going with the same foursome that won a silver medal at the World Cup and gold at the Pan American Games last year. Other players were considered, including some from the NBA, but in the end the Americans decided to stick with what has worked.

“It’s the way that we wanted it to be,” Fredette said. “I think it’s what USA Basketball was looking for and it’s what we were hoping for.”

To them, it seemed right: The four players who did the bulk of the work — 3x3 rosters have only four players — should have gotten the opportunity to see what they can do on the sport’s biggest stage. USA Basketball evidently agreed.

“They’re the best team. And I think when you’re putting together a roster, you want the best team, the best group of four guys that

Baltimore Orioles general manager Mike Elias said Friday that he would remain “nimble” to potentially make additions to the club’s roster in the days between spring training’s end and opening day Thursday.

He did just that Tuesday by signing veteran second baseman-left fielder Tony Kemp to a major league contract, the team announced. The deal is worth $1 million, according to a source with direct knowledge of the deal.

Kemp does not have a minor league option, making it likely he is on the Orioles’ opening-day roster.

Kemp, 32, is an eight-year veteran with experience at several positions, mainly second base and left field. He’s spent the past three years as a regular with the lowly Oakland Athletics, breaking out in 2021 with a .800 OPS before deteriorating at the plate and posting a .607 OPS last season.

For the past few years, the Orioles have coveted their lefthanded hitting second basemen, including Rougned Odor in 2022 and Adam Frazier last season. The Orioles had veteran Kolten Wong and top prospect Jackson Holliday — both left-handed hitters — in camp, but they went outside the organization to get Kemp instead.

After Colton Cowser said he was told by the club’s brass that