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Chris Paul at the Phoenix Suns

The Phoenix Suns report a transfer shot a good month before the NBA season starts. The Arizona franchise is All Star Chris Paul involved. The Suns signed the last with the Oklahoma City Thunder do Paul in a broad exchange. The Thunder received in exchange the 35-year-old point guard who walked away Ricky Rubio, Kelly Oubre, Jalen Lecque and Ty Jerome as well as the future First round draft of the Suns.

For ten-time All Star Paul, Phoenix is ​​the fifth station in the best basketball league in the world after the New Orleans Hornets, Los Angeles, Houston Rockets and Thunder. At matches in Beijing in 2008 and in London in 2012, he was with the American team Olympic champion.

With the Suns there is great hope, with the signature of Paolo he dies long series of appearances in the playoffs lost to be able to finish. The last time Phoenix was in the crucial phase of the championship ten years ago. The new NBA season begins December 22. Due to the corona pandemic, the regular season has 72 games instead of 82 per team. (zap / sda)

Medvedev bodigt Zverev

In the second match of the ATP finals he sat down Daniil Medvedev versus Alexander Zverev 6: 3, 6: 4 to. The Russian, who a few days ago won the Paris-Bercy final against the German, was the best player after the very competitive start-up phase and eventually achieved some success. Medvedev will play against Wednesday Novak Djokovic, while Zverev against Diego Schwartzman antritt. (pre / sda)

Baumgartner new president of the Basel club

The FC Basel has a new club president. Baumgartner Challenge replaces Bernhard Burgener. Burgener announced the change to the club’s top management in late September when he announced in an interview on the club’s website for the the next term will no longer be in office for the office. Burgener remains the strong man of FC Basel. Since summer 2017 he is the main shareholder of FC Basel Holding AG and chairman of the Board of Directors of the AG.

Burgener also announced castling in a video sequence on the club’s website. Consequently, Baumgartner was present at the general meeting in writing “With much more” elected. Baumgartner, a player of FC Basel from 1990 to 1994, is the club’s president on the board of directors of the AG, in which the club holds a 25% stake. The main task of the former defense lawyer is the deputy director of the Basel trade association. (zap / sda)

Three positive crown cases among Ukrainians

After three Crown Cases In the Ukrainian team it is clear whether Tuesday’s Nations League match in Lucerne against Switzerland can take place. Jewgeni Makarenko, Eduard Sobol is Dimitri Risnyk tested positive for coronavirus. Makarenko and Sobol played on Saturday against Germany (1: 3).

For now, the doctor from the canton of Lucerne and UEFA have coached the team Andrei Shevchenko allowed to train on Monday evening, as reported by the Ukrainian association. The crown tests that the Ukrainians conducted before training will decide whether the match will take place or not. (pre / sda)

Djokovic beats Schwartzman with confidence

Novak Djokovic started the ATP finals with a regular win. The Serbian faced the Argentine in London Diego Schwartzman 6: 3, 6: 2 to. Schwartzman, who qualified for the eight best players season finale for the first time, was only able to keep up with the world number one in the first few minutes. He also took the lead with a break in the first set, but had to give up his serve immediately. After the 2-2, the South American, small compared to the competition, has only won three games. After 78 minutes Djokovic finished the match with a successful volley. (pre / sda)

BVB has to do without Haaland

The striker of the Norwegian national team Erling Haaland he will also have to comply with the quarantine obligation on his return to Germany. The Norwegian authorities and the association made this clear. The national team had agreed to leave the country in solitary confinement until the end of the ten-day quarantine to be issued, reports the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”.

Haaland will therefore miss Borussia Dortmund against Hertha BSC on Saturday. Violating the Norwegian Infection Protection Act could result in up to two years in prison. After a positive test by defender Omar Elabdellaoui, the entire national team was quarantined and the Nations League match against Romania was canceled. The away match in Austria on Wednesday could be a selection B. (RAM)

Dillier finds a new employer

Professional cyclist Silvan Dillier found a new team. According to the newspaper “Het Nieuwsblad”, Aargauer will drive for next season Alpecin-Fenix around the superstar Mathieu van der Poel. The Belgian team automatically secured the right to start in the World Tour, home to the most important races, by winning the overall standings in the second-class European Tour.

Dillier’s contract with French side AG2R La Mondiale expires after three seasons at the end of this year. His biggest success so far was 2nd place in classic Paris – Roubaix, when he had to admit defeat to Peter Sagan in the final shot in 2018. In 2017, Dillier, still dressed as BMC at the time, also won a stage in the Giro d’Italia. (ram / sda)

Mascherano resigns

The longtime Argentine international Javier Mascherano ended his career at the age of 36. The former FC Barcelona player, who last made a living in his home country at Estudiantes de La Plata, played between 2003 and 2018 147 international matches for Argentina – as many as no one else.

With Barça, Mascherano has won a total of 18 trophies in eight seasons. In 2011 and 2015, the defensive midfielder triumphed with the Catalans in Champions League. (ram / sda / afp)

IOC: Olympia takes place in Tokyo

Due to the corona pandemic on Summer 2021 out of place The Tokyo Olympic Games will take place as planned. The head of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Thomas Bach, agreed on this with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Monday in Tokyo.

He is determined to host the games in his country’s capital next year, Suga said, according to local media. Bach thanked Suga for his efforts in hosting the games. They should become a symbol of the militia in the post-Crown era, Bach said. (ram / sda)

Johnson with the Masters tournament winning record in the United States

With five shots ahead and that Record result of 268 hits has the American golf pro Dustin Johnson won the 84th US Masters in Augusta. For the 36-year-old from the state of South Carolina, it was the second triumph in one of four major tournaments. In June 2016 he won the US Open. Johnson is Leader of the world rankings and for many years one of the consistently strongest players. In the past, he had narrowly missed several other Grand Slam level tournament wins.

He made the excellent impression he had made throughout the entire tournament up to that point Tiger Woods in the final round on a single hole. On the 12th hole, a very short but very treacherous par 3, he hit the ball three times in the water. Eventually there were detours through sand bunkers and a weak, shifted putt disastrous score of ten bars. Seven above par on a single hole. In 22 appearances at Augusta, an eight on the 15th hole, a par 5, had previously been the worst result of the Woods hole. The almost unbelievable incident forced Woods to retire from a presumably safe position in the first midfield of the 60 finalists. (zap / sda)

Aebischer, Kasami and Lang were named later

National coach Vladimir Petkovic has before Tuesday’s game against the, essential for maintaining the championship in the Nations League Ukraine three players nominated in Lucerne. Michel Aebischer (YB), Pajtim Kasami (Basel) and Michael Lang (Mönchengladbach) strengthen the Swiss squad.

Petkovic decided on the latest nominations because with Jordan Lotomba and Silvan Widmer two defense attorneys tested positive for coronavirus and with Nico Elvedi and Remo Freuler two suspended against Ukraine. For Kasami, who moved from Sion to Basel this season, is the first formation since March 2016. (zap / sda)