The Sun (Lowell)

Nets turn to former Uconn coach Ollie to rescue their season

Eastern Conference. The Nets dropped five of their past six games, including a 50-point loss to the Celtics in their last game before the All-star break.

Ollie coach Uconn for six seasons (2012-18). The Los Angeles native then spent two years (2021-23) as head of coaching and basketball developmen­t for Overtime Elite before joining the Nets.

Vaughn finished 71-68 with the Nets, guiding them into the playoffs on two separate stints.

“He’s always carried a great voice in there. He’s very direct with the players. He does hold them accountabl­e,” GM Sean Marks said of Ollie. “I think what makes a good coach is to be able to put yourself in those players’ shoes, be able to tell great stories and be brutally honest with guys and I think those are attributes that Kevin absolutely has.”

Leonsis gets resistance

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Influentia­l labor groups announced Tuesday they are opposing efforts to move two profession­al sports franchises from the nation’s capital to northern

Virginia, citing in part an apparent inability to reach a satisfacto­ry deal for union workers on the constructi­on projects.

The opposition of the Northern Virginia AFL-CIO and member unions including UNITE HERE Local 25, which represents hospitalit­y workers in the national capital region, creates another hurdle for Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin and supporters of a proposed $2 billion deal to move the NBA’S Washington Wizards and NHL’S Washington Capitals from Washington, D.C., to Alexandria.

Lowell native Ted Leonsis

owns both teams.

Youngkin, a Republican, responded to Tuesday’s news by saying his administra­tion and project partners had worked “in good faith” for months on negotiatio­ns that would give union workers a “substantia­l role” in the project. He said labor leaders had “backtracke­d,” and he vowed to press forward with the proposal.

German star dies

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s 1990 World Cup hero Andreas Brehme has died.

Brehme endeared himself to the nation in the final when he scored a late penalty after team captain Lothar Matthäus’ boots broke to give West Germany a 1-0 win over Diego Maradona’s Argentina.

Brehme’s partner Susanne Schaefer told Germany’s dpa news agency on Tuesday that he died “suddenly and unexpected­ly” in the night from a cardiac arrest. He was 63.

Known affectiona­tely as “Andi” Brehme, the Hamburg-born player was a star of German soccer in the 1980s and 1990s. He played mostly as an attacking left back and will always be associated with the 1990 World Cup triumph.