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To get one, <a class="subscriptions-link" href="">go to the subscriptions page</a>.<br>With a <span class="sitename">Press Herald</span> subscription, you can gift 5 articles each month.<br><strong>BASKETBALL</strong><br>Danny Green, the sharpshooting guard who won an NCAA championship at North Carolina before helping three different franchises win NBA championships, announced his retirement as a player.<br>Green won NBA titles with San Antonio in 2014, Toronto in 2019 and the Los Angeles Lakers in 2020, and was a starter on all three of those clubs. He averaged 8.7 points over parts of 15 pro seasons.<br>“I’m officially moving on from the game of basketball and the NBA,” Green said on his YouTube channel. “It’s been a great run. I’m very proud to be able to walk away from the game. I’m at peace with it. I wasn’t at first, but I think it’s one of those things – once I turned 37, the body started reacting a little differently.”<div id="exco-adslot" class="opscoad-exco-adslot" data-unit="/6119/pressherald.com/sports" style="display: block; margin:0 auto; text-align:center; width:100%;"></div><br>Green retires with 1,577 3-pointers, 43rd-most in NBA history. He’s one of only 12 players to make that many 3-pointers and shoot at least 40% from beyond the arc.<br>He’s also ninth in postseason 3-pointers, with 315 of those.<div class="ad-injection"><span class="before-injected-ad ad-notice">Advertisement</span><div id="adslot1" class="injectable-ad-slot opscoad-adPosition1" data-unit="/6119/pressherald.com/sports" data-ad-index="1" style="display: block; margin:0 auto; text-align:center; width:100%;"></div></div><br><strong>WNBA: </strong>The WNBA will expand its Finals next year to a best-of-seven format, the league announced.<br>The league currently has a best-of-five semifinals and finals in its playoffs with a best-of-three first round.<br>“This will give our fans a championship series format that they are accustomed to seeing in other sports,” WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert said before Game 1 of the Finals.<br>Engelbert said the better seeded teams will host the first, second, fifth and seventh games. The league also will be changing the opening round to give the lower seeded team at least one home game. The higher seeded team will host Game 1, and 3 if it’s necessary. Currently the first round has the first two games at the better seeded team. All four of the first round series were sweeps this year.<br>• The Golden State Valkyries have found their head coach with Natalie Nakase taking the job.<br>Nakase, who has spent the last three years as an assistant with the Las Vegas Aces, was hired by the expansion franchise that begins play in 2025.<div class="ad-injection"><span class="before-injected-ad ad-notice">Advertisement</span><div id="adslot2" class="injectable-ad-slot opscoad-adPosition2" data-unit="/6119/pressherald.com/sports" data-ad-index="2" style="display: block; margin:0 auto; text-align:center; width:100%;"></div></div><br>Nakase helped the Aces to back-to-back WNBA championships in 2022 and 2023. Prior to her time with the Aces, Nakase spent 11 seasons in various capacities with the Los Angeles Clippers, most recently as an assistant coach and player development coach in a dual role with the NBA team and their G League affiliate, the Agua Caliente Clippers.<br><strong>HOCKEY</strong><br><strong>NHL:</strong> Columbus Blue Jackets captain Boone Jenner is expected to miss most of the season after having shoulder surgery on Wednesday, the day before the team’s season opener.<br>The 31-year-old top-line forward injured his shoulder in practice last Friday and had surgery at The Steadman Clinic in Vail, Colorado. General manager Don Waddell said, “our hope is he can return before the end of the season.”<br>Jenner has been the team captain since 2021-22 and its all-time leader in games played and ranks third in goals and points. He finished second on the team in goals last season, scoring 22 times and adding 13 assists.<br><strong>AUTO RACING</strong><div class="ad-injection"><span class="before-injected-ad ad-notice">Advertisement</span><div id="adslot3" class="injectable-ad-slot opscoad-adPosition2" data-unit="/6119/pressherald.com/sports" data-ad-index="3" style="display: block; margin:0 auto; text-align:center; width:100%;"></div></div><br><strong>NASCAR CUP SERIES:</strong> The two teams suing NASCAR asked a judge for a preliminary injunction Wednesday so they can compete next season under the charter system they are challenging as their antitrust case moves through federal court.<br>23XI Racing, which is owned by Michael Jordan, veteran driver Denny Hamlin and Curtis Polk, and Front Row Motorsports, owned by Bob Jenkins, sued NASCAR and chairman Jim France last week in the Western District of North Carolina. The two teams accused NASCAR of being “monopolistic bullies” after refusing to sign new charters proposed by the stock car series.<br>The charter system is a revenue-sharing model that is similar to a franchise in other professional sports. Although charters can be sold and leased, the charters have contractually binding terms, expiration dates and can be revoked by NASCAR. Teams fought to have them made permanent but NASCAR would not consider the issue and the newest extension runs through 2031.<br><strong>TENNIS</strong><br><strong>SHANGHAI MASTERS:</strong> No. 2-ranked Carlos Alcaraz’s 12-match winning streak was ended by Tomas Machac 7-6 (5), 7-5 in the Shanghai Masters quarterfinals.<br>It was No. 33 Machac’s third tour-level quarterfinal, and the Czech player proved more than a match for the four-time major-winning Spaniard as he earned his second win over a top-five opponent this year in two hours.<div class="ad-injection"><span class="before-injected-ad ad-notice">Advertisement</span><div id="adslot4" class="injectable-ad-slot opscoad-adPosition2" data-unit="/6119/pressherald.com/sports" data-ad-index="4" style="display: block; margin:0 auto; text-align:center; width:100%;"></div></div><br>Machac will play top-ranked Jannik Sinner in the semifinals.<br>Sinner advanced to his fifth ATP Masters semifinal of the season when the Italian swept aside fifth-ranked Daniil Medvedev in straight sets.<br>Sinner started strongly and only faced one break point in his 6-1, 6-4 masterclass over the Russian, who needed treatment on his shoulder from the physio during the second set.<br><strong>WUHAN OPEN:</strong> Second-ranked Aryna Sabalenka rallied from a set down to beat No. 35 Yulia Putintseva 1-6, 6-4, 6-0 to maintain her undefeated record at the Wuhan Open and rise to the top of the WTA rankings.<br>Thursday’s win for the Belarussian allowed her to regain top spot in the rankings from Iga Swiatek, who is absent from the women’s Asian swing citing personal reasons and fatigue.<br>Coco Gauff advanced to the quarterfinals with a 6-4, 6-1 rout of 17th-ranked Marta Kostyuk.<br>Next for Gauff is No. 45-ranked Magda Linette, who continued her impressive form this week by beating eighth-seeded Daria Kasatkina 6-2, 6-3.<br>We invite you to add your comments. 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