The BulleTin • Friday, May 28, 2021 B5
Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2021
TODAY
SATURDAY
TONIGHT
HIGH
69°
LOW
40°
Intervals of clouds and
sunshine
Partly sunny, pleasant and
warmer
ALMANAC
Yesterday Normal
Record
66°
67° 87° in 1934
52°
39° 21° in 1954
PRECIPITATION
24 hours through 5 p.m. yesterday
0.00"
Record
0.52" in 1993
Month to date (normal)
0.78" (0.76")
Year to date (normal)
2.15" (4.89")
Barometric pressure at 4 p.m.
30.07"
SUN, MOON AND PLANETS
Rise/Set
Today
Sat.
Sun
5:27am/8:38pm 5:27am/8:39pm
Moon
11:46pm/7:22am
none/8:29am
Mercury 6:30am/10:00pm 6:28am/9:55pm
Venus
6:27am/10:00pm 6:28am/10:02pm
Mars
8:32am/11:54pm 8:31am/11:52pm
Jupiter 1:38am/12:11pm 1:34am/12:08pm
Saturn 12:52am/10:38am 12:48am/10:34am
Uranus
4:15am/6:23pm 4:11am/6:20pm
Last
New
First
Full
Jun 2
Jun 10
Jun 17
Jun 24
Tonight's sky: Conjunction of Venus and
Mercury below the western horizon. (Not
visible.)
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
UV INDEX TODAY
10 a.m.
Noon
2 p.m.
4 p.m.
5
9
9
5
The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index ™ number,
the greater the need for eye and skin protection. 0-2 Low,
3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High; 8-10 Very High; 11+ Extreme.
POLLEN COUNT
Trees
Moderate
Weeds
Low
Source: Oregon Allergy Associates
TUESDAY
86°
56°
Partly sunny and very
warm
Very warm
EAST: Partly sunny
and pleasant Friday.
Fair and cool Friday
night. Mostly sunny
and warmer Saturday.
93°
62°
92°
56°
The temperature near the
record of 94
The temperature near the
record of 94
Astoria
60/45
Hood
River
Yesterday
Today Saturday
Yesterday
Today Saturday
Yesterday
Today Saturday
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
Astoria
58/52/0.29 60/45/pc 67/49/pc
La Grande
76/50/0.02 65/37/pc 74/43/pc
Portland
65/52/0.14 68/48/pc 79/52/pc
Baker City
75/42/0.00 65/32/s 71/38/pc
La Pine
63/35/0.00 69/34/pc 76/42/pc
Prineville
68/45/0.00 71/38/pc 76/44/pc
Brookings
59/45/0.09 67/48/pc 64/50/pc
Medford
70/50/0.00 82/48/pc 88/53/pc
Redmond
72/48/0.00 70/36/pc 78/43/pc
Newport
57/50/0.00 58/44/sh 59/47/pc
Roseburg
66/49/Tr
75/47/pc 82/50/pc
Burns
74/36/0.00 69/34/s 74/42/c
Eugene
65/46/0.03 70/42/pc 78/46/pc
North Bend
62/49/0.06 63/48/pc 61/48/s
Salem
65/52/0.13 70/47/c 80/50/pc
Klamath Falls
72/34/0.00 74/37/pc 80/42/c
Ontario
82/45/0.00 73/43/s 78/48/c
Sisters
61/45/0.00 70/38/pc 77/47/pc
Lakeview
74/30/0.00 71/40/s 76/43/c
Pendleton
78/53/Tr
70/41/pc 78/48/pc
The Dalles
73/53/Tr
73/47/pc 83/50/pc
Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice, Tr-trace, Yesterday data as of 5 p.m. yesterday
NATIONAL WEATHER
As of 7 a.m. yesterday
Reservoir
Acre feet
Capacity
Crane Prairie
47917
87%
Wickiup
71819
36%
Crescent Lake
24270
28%
Ochoco Reservoir
9997
23%
Prineville
81959
55%
River fl ow
Station
Cu.ft./sec.
Deschutes R. below Crane Prairie
121
Deschutes R. below Wickiup
1180
Deschutes R. below Bend
127
Deschutes R. at Benham Falls
1490
Little Deschutes near La Pine
125
Crescent Ck. below Crescent Lake
16
Crooked R. above Prineville Res.
28
Crooked R. below Prineville Res.
179
Crooked R. near Terrebonne
70
Ochoco Ck. below Ochoco Res.
12
-10s
-0s
0s
10s
20s
30s
40s
50s
60s
70s
80s
90s
100s
110s
NATIONAL
EXTREMES
YESTERDAY (for the
T-storms
Not as hot with plenty of
sunshine
Yesterday
City
Hi/Lo/Prec.
Abilene
89/73/0.00
Akron
75/53/0.09
Albany
70/58/0.02
Albuquerque
86/55/0.00
Anchorage
56/45/0.00
Atlanta
87/69/0.09
Atlantic City
81/67/0.50
Austin
88/72/0.00
Baltimore
86/65/0.04
Billings
70/44/Tr
Birmingham
86/69/0.33
Bismarck
51/38/0.22
Boise
82/52/0.00
Boston
83/69/0.29
Bridgeport, CT 83/64/0.10
Buffalo
66/50/0.00
Burlington, VT
63/54/0.00
Caribou, ME
55/50/0.03
Charleston, SC 94/72/0.00
Charlotte
92/63/0.00
Chattanooga
88/69/0.00
Cheyenne
71/42/0.00
Chicago
59/53/0.03
Cincinnati
81/63/0.00
Cleveland
63/53/0.02
Colorado Springs 75/53/0.00
Columbia, MO
71/67/0.64
Columbia, SC
94/65/0.00
Columbus, GA
89/65/0.00
Columbus, OH
80/57/0.01
Concord, NH
75/62/Tr
Corpus Christi
87/74/0.00
Dallas
91/76/0.00
Dayton
80/59/0.15
Denver
73/49/0.00
Des Moines
78/59/0.42
Detroit
70/48/0.00
Duluth
43/37/0.00
El Paso
94/71/0.00
Fairbanks
62/49/0.01
Fargo
55/44/0.00
Flagstaff
75/36/0.00
Grand Rapids
59/42/0.03
Green Bay
48/41/0.41
Greensboro
88/66/0.00
Harrisburg
83/62/0.11
Hartford, CT
78/64/0.28
Helena
77/38/0.00
Honolulu
86/73/0.07
Houston
91/73/0.00
Huntsville
85/67/0.03
Indianapolis
82/60/0.01
Jackson, MS
91/66/0.00
Jacksonville
91/68/0.00
Today
Hi/Lo/W
82/63/t
60/47/r
52/41/r
86/60/s
52/44/sh
85/60/pc
67/56/sh
88/68/t
76/54/r
68/42/t
85/58/t
64/48/c
69/45/s
59/47/r
64/49/r
48/43/r
56/42/pc
57/34/pc
92/72/pc
88/67/t
83/56/t
74/46/pc
51/46/r
72/47/r
57/48/r
77/52/pc
58/44/pc
93/69/s
89/67/pc
69/48/r
61/42/sh
87/74/pc
85/65/t
68/46/r
81/50/pc
52/38/c
50/44/r
55/34/pc
97/65/s
47/35/s
66/43/c
77/37/s
51/39/r
55/37/c
86/65/t
69/50/r
63/45/r
63/39/pc
86/71/pc
87/71/t
80/52/t
67/43/r
83/62/t
93/66/s
Amsterdam
Athens
Auckland
Baghdad
Bangkok
Beijing
Beirut
Berlin
Bogota
Budapest
Buenos Aires
Cabo San Lucas
Cairo
Calgary
Cancun
Dublin
Edinburgh
Geneva
Harare
Hong Kong
Istanbul
Jerusalem
Johannesburg
Lima
Lisbon
London
Madrid
Manila
64/46/pc
82/65/pc
61/53/r
112/76/pc
89/79/t
83/58/pc
81/70/s
61/45/pc
68/53/r
69/51/pc
69/50/pc
86/74/s
94/69/s
57/39/c
88/79/s
56/49/sh
58/48/sh
72/53/s
76/48/s
92/85/sh
73/61/s
79/65/s
69/46/s
68/63/pc
80/58/pc
65/52/c
82/59/pc
98/85/pc
Saturday
Hi/Lo/W
77/63/t
53/46/r
53/43/c
88/61/pc
52/46/r
73/52/c
60/54/r
82/66/t
58/48/r
65/42/pc
72/51/pc
72/45/pc
75/50/c
53/49/r
57/49/r
58/46/pc
65/45/pc
62/37/pc
87/62/t
82/55/t
68/51/c
60/46/c
62/44/s
57/45/c
56/47/r
74/52/t
66/46/s
87/60/t
80/54/c
55/46/r
54/42/c
85/72/t
77/64/c
56/44/r
67/50/t
65/47/pc
62/43/pc
65/45/pc
97/70/s
56/45/pc
61/46/c
76/38/pc
64/36/s
65/37/s
75/50/t
55/47/r
53/45/r
67/40/pc
85/70/pc
82/67/t
67/48/pc
61/43/s
75/54/c
90/63/c
City
Juneau
Kansas City
Lansing
Las Vegas
Lexington
Lincoln
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Louisville
Madison, WI
Memphis
Miami
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Nashville
New Orleans
New York City
Newark, NJ
Norfolk, VA
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Orlando
Palm Springs
Peoria
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
Portland, ME
Providence
Raleigh
Rapid City
Reno
Richmond
Rochester, NY
Sacramento
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Antonio
San Diego
San Francisco
San Jose
Santa Fe
Savannah
Seattle
Sioux Falls
Spokane
Springfi eld, MO
Tampa
Tucson
Tulsa
Washington, DC
Wichita
Yakima
Yuma
Yesterday
Hi/Lo/Prec.
55/44/0.00
77/66/1.05
60/41/0.00
96/70/0.00
82/62/Tr
75/63/1.16
89/69/0.00
74/62/0.00
85/67/Tr
49/46/0.61
89/69/0.00
87/74/0.00
52/48/0.16
47/46/0.95
87/64/0.00
89/75/0.00
81/66/0.06
87/68/0.07
86/76/0.00
85/71/1.30
73/64/0.97
92/68/0.00
101/69/0.00
76/60/0.04
83/67/0.87
99/70/0.00
74/57/0.02
76/64/Tr
83/66/0.02
92/67/0.00
47/40/0.09
82/46/0.00
91/70/0.00
63/49/Tr
86/53/0.00
82/71/1.43
82/50/0.00
89/73/0.00
69/61/0.00
68/53/0.00
72/50/0.00
83/47/0.00
93/70/0.00
60/50/0.42
52/50/0.71
72/54/Tr
80/65/1.71
91/75/0.00
96/66/0.00
88/74/1.15
86/69/0.37
75/67/0.06
71/58/0.00
100/69/0.00
Today
Hi/Lo/W
51/45/r
60/45/pc
50/40/r
98/73/s
71/48/r
60/41/pc
81/54/c
76/60/pc
76/51/r
51/35/r
79/55/t
88/74/s
51/46/r
61/41/c
75/52/t
89/73/pc
67/49/r
68/50/r
89/72/t
72/53/c
58/41/pc
93/70/s
101/72/s
52/41/r
71/51/r
102/73/s
68/47/r
59/47/c
64/46/r
91/69/t
68/47/pc
80/53/s
88/64/r
47/43/r
89/54/s
60/47/c
81/54/pc
88/71/pc
69/61/pc
66/53/pc
74/53/s
82/54/s
94/70/s
64/47/sh
61/41/c
64/41/pc
65/45/pc
89/73/s
100/67/s
73/51/c
76/57/r
70/49/pc
73/41/pc
100/63/s
Saturday
Hi/Lo/W
54/45/r
68/48/pc
62/36/s
97/73/s
55/44/c
68/51/pc
72/51/c
75/60/pc
59/47/pc
65/39/s
68/52/pc
88/75/pc
60/44/s
66/51/pc
62/46/c
86/68/t
56/48/r
59/49/r
75/60/t
72/56/pc
67/51/pc
91/69/t
100/73/s
66/42/s
56/47/r
102/73/s
53/45/r
53/46/c
53/47/r
78/53/t
65/44/pc
84/54/c
67/51/r
59/46/c
90/54/pc
66/48/s
77/54/pc
84/69/t
68/61/pc
65/52/pc
75/53/pc
84/56/pc
88/58/c
70/51/s
58/50/sh
72/46/pc
66/45/s
87/73/pc
100/66/s
73/54/pc
58/50/r
70/54/pc
77/48/pc
100/64/s
104/85/0.00
80/57/0.08
57/50/0.03
68/59/0.02
76/53/0.00
82/73/0.00
104/81/0.00
69/59/0.41
59/39/0.00
57/46/0.00
68/45/0.00
77/70/0.00
70/50/0.00
72/38/0.00
77/57/0.00
61/51/0.48
70/57/0.96
85/66/0.00
91/81/0.03
47/41/0.33
63/50/0.00
93/81/0.00
84/69/0.00
66/62/1.01
64/46/0.05
57/54/0.38
61/54/0.10
64/52/0.02
104/84/s
81/58/t
58/43/pc
71/57/r
76/57/pc
84/74/pc
105/78/pc
75/68/c
69/48/pc
57/39/c
70/53/pc
82/75/pc
74/55/pc
65/40/s
84/68/pc
66/50/sh
67/54/sh
86/67/pc
88/79/t
59/38/pc
62/50/s
104/80/r
82/74/s
74/69/pc
49/44/r
61/47/pc
65/50/pc
62/48/sh
107/85/s
82/59/t
65/47/s
68/47/r
75/57/pc
84/75/s
102/80/pc
77/60/pc
71/49/s
65/43/s
70/53/pc
88/73/s
74/59/pc
66/39/pc
79/63/t
60/53/r
70/53/pc
84/71/pc
88/80/t
61/39/s
61/49/sh
83/78/r
80/72/s
78/66/pc
61/46/s
63/50/pc
64/47/sh
60/46/sh
INTERNATIONAL
48 contiguous states)
National high: 110°
at Death Valley, CA
National low: 23°
at Boca Reservoir, CA
Precipitation: 3.10"
at Monett, MO
FIRE INDEX
Moderate
High
Moderate
Very high
Moderate
82°
49°
NATIONAL
Umatilla
76/44
Rufus
Hermiston
69/46
75/44
73/49
Arlington
Hillsboro Portland
Meacham Lostine
74/44
68/44 68/48
63/35
Wasco
63/36 Enterprise
Pendleton
The Dalles
CENTRAL: Sunny
Tillamook
62/34
69/45
70/41
Sandy
73/47
McMinnville
62/43
to partly cloudy and
Joseph
Heppner
La
Grande
64/45
Maupin
Government
69/45
breezy Friday. Mostly
65/37
62/36
Camp
71/44 Condon 67/42
Union
Lincoln City
clear Friday night.
64/40
56/38
66/36
Salem
59/48
Spray
Mostly sunny and
Granite
Warm Springs
70/47
Madras
70/39
Albany
59/33
warm Saturday.
Newport
Baker City
71/39
71/39
Mitchell
58/44
67/44
65/32
WEST: A mix of clouds
Camp Sherman
66/40
Redmond
Corvallis
John
Yachats
Unity
and sunshine Friday.
70/38
70/36
67/44
Day
Prineville
57/47
65/33
Partly cloudy Friday
Ontario
Sisters
71/38
Paulina
66/37
73/43
night. Mostly sunny
Florence
Eugene 70/38
Bend Brothers 67/35
Vale
and warmer Saturday. 62/48
70/42
69/40
65/35
Sunriver
72/44
Nyssa
68/37
Hampton
Cottage
La Pine
72/43
Juntura
Oakridge
Grove
69/34
66/35
OREGON EXTREMES Coos Bay
Burns
72/38
72/44
71/44
Fort
Rock
64/47
69/34
Riley
YESTERDAY
Crescent
70/34
68/36
High: 82°
68/34
Bandon
Roseburg
Christmas Valley
Jordan Valley
at Ontario
Beaver
Frenchglen
Silver
61/49
75/47
70/35
67/36
Low: 29°
Marsh
Lake
69/38
Port Orford
71/36
71/32
at Howard Prairie
Grants
Burns Junction
Paisley
65/50
Pass
71/40
Chiloquin
71/37
83/48
Rome
Medford
74/40
Gold Beach
82/48
73/39
64/50
Klamath
Fields
Ashland
McDermitt
Lakeview
Falls
Brookings
73/40
79/51
74/37
72/37
67/48
71/40
Seaside
60/47
Cannon Beach
59/48
THURSDAY
TRAVEL WEATHER
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
541-683-1577
WATER REPORT
Bend
Redmond/Madras
Sisters
Prineville
La Pine/Gilchrist
WEDNESDAY
OREGON WEATHER
TEMPERATURE
Grasses
High
MONDAY
81°
50°
76°
48°
Patchy clouds
Bend Municipal Airport through 5 p.m. yest.
High
Low
SUNDAY
Shown are today’s noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
Rain
Showers
Snow
Flurries
Ice
Warm Front
Stationary Front
Cold Front
Source: USDA Forest Service
57/50/1.10
83/66/0.00
56/48/0.02
108/81/0.00
97/83/0.15
81/55/0.00
81/72/0.00
59/48/0.15
63/51/0.24
72/43/0.00
70/53/0.00
91/72/0.00
97/72/0.00
72/43/0.00
88/79/0.04
60/46/0.54
61/43/0.00
70/55/0.04
73/41/0.00
92/82/0.12
71/63/0.00
84/63/0.00
69/45/0.00
66/62/Tr
79/59/0.00
68/46/0.00
82/55/0.00
99/82/0.00
66/46/pc
80/63/pc
60/50/sh
109/76/pc
90/80/sh
79/55/pc
79/69/s
64/44/pc
65/53/sh
68/48/sh
57/42/s
87/69/pc
92/70/s
64/40/c
88/79/s
60/46/pc
64/49/pc
72/52/t
78/44/s
92/84/sh
69/58/c
77/63/s
67/42/s
67/62/pc
83/60/pc
68/49/c
89/62/pc
97/84/pc
Mecca
Mexico City
Montreal
Moscow
Nairobi
Nassau
New Delhi
Osaka
Oslo
Ottawa
Paris
Rio de Janeiro
Rome
Santiago
Sao Paulo
Sapporo
Seoul
Shanghai
Singapore
Stockholm
Sydney
Taipei City
Tel Aviv
Tokyo
Toronto
Vancouver
Vienna
Warsaw
TENNIS | FRENCH OPEN
Djokovic, Nadal, Federer grouped in same half at French Open
BY HOWARD FENDRICH
AP Tennis Writer
Well, here’s a new one for the
Big Three of men’s tennis: No-
vak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and
Roger Federer ended up in the
same half of the French Open
field.
Thursday’s draw in Paris
marks the first time in their
long and distinguished careers
that Djokovic, Nadal and Fed-
erer all are on one side of the
bracket at any Grand Slam
tournament, according to the
International Tennis Federa-
tion.
It means that no more than
one of them can reach the final
at Roland Garros, where play
begins Sunday. The trio tops
the leaderboard for major men’s
singles tennis titles: Federer and
Nadal are tied at 20 trophies,
while Djokovic has 18. No one
else has more than 14.
Nadal beat Djokovic in
straight sets in the 2020 final
for his record-extending 13th
championship on the French
NHL
Continued from B3
One thing that didn’t need
any getting used was the op-
ponent. The entire season
was played within the divi-
sion, with teams facing off
anywhere from eight to 10
times and reducing the need
for a feeling-out process
when the playoffs began.
That familiarity is respon-
sibility for the tightness of
games and series, even those
that on paper looked more
lopsided. Nashville’s Colton
Sissons said, “There’s just
not a lot of difference in the
level of play” between teams
like the Predators and divi-
sion-wining Hurricanes, and
the same could be said be-
tween the Golden Knights
and Wild in the West.
“These games are tight,”
Vegas coach Peter DeBoer
said ahead of Game 7 on Fri-
day. “Teams are too close, too
good, the margins of error
are too small.”
Open’s red clay, but if they meet
again this time, it would have to
be in the semifinals.
Djokovic is seeded No. 1,
and Nadal is seeded No. 3 —
the seedings adhere strictly to
the ATP rankings, so the Span-
iard’s unprecedented previous
success in Paris is irrelevant.
The only certainties before
the draw were that Djokovic
would be on one side and No. 2
Daniil Medvedev on the other;
Nadal and No. 4 Dominic
Thiem were randomly placed
and could have shown up in ei-
ther half.
What no one knows is how
many more Grand Slam tour-
naments will feature all three
of the sport’s top men. Federer,
whose record for most weeks at
No. 1 in the ATP rankings re-
cently was broken by Djokovic,
turns 40 on Aug. 8. Nadal’s 35th
birthday is next week; Djokov-
ic’s 34th was last week.
Federer is currently ranked
No. 8 after playing only three
matches over the past 15
“You look at every single
night and whether it’s
going into overtime or
they’re one-goal games,
they’re all pretty tight and
good matchups. Super fun
to watch, and obviously
the pace of the game is as
high as can be.”
— Mike Reilly, Boston Bruins
defenseman
The margin of error gets
even smaller as the postsea-
son wears on.
A safe bet is more nail-bit-
ing with games — and even
series — decided by a bounce
or a big play at the right mo-
ment. Probably a bunch more
in overtime, too.
“It’s going to be a really,
really intense playoffs as it
keeps going,” Maurice said.
months because of two oper-
ations on his right knee. He
could meet Djokovic in the
quarterfinals.
The other possible quarter-
final on their side is Nadal vs.
No. 7 Andrey Rublev.
The two remaining poten-
tial quarterfinals are Medve-
dev vs. No. 5 Stefanos Tsitsipas,
and Thiem vs. No. 6 Alexander
Zverev.
Medvedev is a two-time
Grand Slam finalist but is 0-4
for his French Open career.
Thiem won last year’s U.S.
Open and twice has been the
runner-up in Paris.
Serena Williams, who has
won three of her profession-
al-era record 23 Grand Slam
titles in Paris, is in a quarter of
the women’s draw filled with fa-
miliar faces.
That includes possible
matchups with three-time ma-
jor champion Angelique Ker-
ber in the third round, two-
time Wimbledon champ Petra
Kvitova in the fourth, then ei-
ther two-time Australian Open
champ Victoria Azarenka or
No. 3 seed Aryna Sabalenka in
the quarterfinals.
Other possible women’s quar-
terfinals: No. 1 Ash Barty vs.
No. 5 Elina Svitolina, No. 4 So-
fia Kenin vs. No. 8 Iga Swiatek
in what would be a rematch of
the 2020 final won by Swiatek,
and No. 2 Naomi Osaka vs. No.
6 Bianca Andreescu.
Four-time major champion
Osaka announced Wednes-
NBA
what happened to Russ is obvi-
ously far behind that line.”
Westbrook was leaving the
Wizards’ game in Philadel-
phia with an ankle injury when
someone sitting over the tun-
nel that leads from the floor
threw popcorn on him.
“We apologize to Russell
Westbrook and the Wash-
ington Wizards for being
subjected to this type of un-
acceptable and disrespectful
behavior,” the 76ers said in a
statement announcing the ban.
“There is no place for it in our
sport or arena.”
The Jazz did not detail the
specifics of what happened in
their game against Memphis
on Wednesday. Security was
involved in a matter involving
at least one fan in seats rela-
tively close to the the Memphis
bench during Game 2, but it
was not known if that was the
incident in question.
Grizzlies guard Ja Morant
tweeted out the hashtag “pro-
tectourplayers” not long after
that game.
“The Utah Jazz have zero
tolerance for offensive or dis-
ruptive behavior,” the team
said Thursday. “An incident
occurred last night involving
a verbal altercation during
Game 2. Arena security staff
intervened, and the investiga-
tion resulted in the removal
and banning of three Jazz fans
indefinitely. We apologize to
all who were impacted by this
unfortunate incident and con-
demn unacceptable fan behav-
ior.”
The National Basketball
Players Association said “true
fans … honor and respect the
dignity of our players. No true
fan would seek to harm them
or violate their personal space.”
And the NBA said its rules on
fan behavior will be “vigor-
ously enforced in order to en-
sure a safe and respectful envi-
ronment for all involved.”
NBA buildings are welcom-
ing their largest crowds of the
season for the playoffs, after
a regular season where atten-
dance was severely limited be-
Michel Euler/AP file
Novak Djokovic, left, and Rafael Nadal prior to the 2020 French Open
final at Roland Garros stadium in Paris, France, in October. When this
year’s French Open starts Sunday in Paris, Nadal will be seeking his
21st Grand Slam title to break a tie with Roger Federer for the men’s re-
cord, while Djokovic will be aiming for his 19th.
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“We investigated the matter
and determined that this pa-
tron, who is not a season-ticket
holder, did indeed spit on Trae
Young, and for that reason, he
is now banned from The Gar-
den indefinitely,” the Knicks
said.
“We apologize to Trae and
the entire Atlanta Hawks orga-
nization for this fan’s behavior.”
Video showed that some-
one spit on Young while he was
preparing to inbound the bas-
ketball in the fourth quarter of
New York’s win over Atlanta at
Madison Square Garden.
Young was the subject of
profane chants from some
fans in that arena throughout
the first two games of the se-
ries; the Hawks’ guard taunted
them right back after his shot
with less than a second left
gave Atlanta a win in Game 1.
“There’s obviously a line,”
Brooklyn forward Blake Grif-
fin said Thursday. “I think
day on Twitter that she would
not be doing news conferences
during the French Open.
A year after withdrawing
from Roland Garros before
the second round because of
an injured left Achilles, Wil-
liams will face 74th-ranked Iri-
na-Camelia Begu of Romania
to begin things. They met once
before, with Williams winning,
on clay in Rome in 2016, the
year Begu reached the fourth
round in Paris for the deepest
French Open run of her career.
Other first-round matches
include Swiatek against Kaja Ju-
van, a 20-year-old from Slove-
nia who beat Kerber in the first
round in Paris last year; Aza-
renka against another owner
of two major trophies, Svetlana
Kuznetsova; and Kenin, last
year’s Australian Open cham-
pion, against 2017 French Open
champion Jelena Ostapenko.
Nadal and Swiatek are the fa-
vorites to win the singles titles,
according to FanDuel Sports-
book.
cause of policies put in place
to keep players and others safe
during the pandemic.
It has not been without
problems, and players are
again airing concerns about
behavior.
“I’m sick and tired of it, hon-
estly,” Westbrook said.
He’s not alone. Los Ange-
les Lakers star LeBron James
— who chimed in on Twitter
shortly after the Westbrook in-
cident Wednesday — has said
in the past that fan behavior is
an issue, and clearly still does.
Brooklyn guard Kyrie Ir-
ving — in advance of Game
3 of the Nets’ series at Boston
on Friday — said he hoped the
scene there on Friday night
“is strictly basketball, there’s
no belligerence or any racism
going on, subtle racism, peo-
ple yelling (expletive) from the
crowd.”
“These arenas, they’ve got
to start protecting the players.
We’ll see what the NBA does,”
Westbrook said Wednesday
night.