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Police on Monday arrested the 16-year-old driver of a car that was involved in a fatal wreck that killed longtime Auburn radio announcer Rod Bramblett and his wife on May 25.

The Auburn Police Division said in a statement that Johnston Edward Taylor of Auburn was arrested at his home on Monday. He is charged with two counts of manslaughter and was being held at the Lee County Jail on $50,000 bond.

Bramblett and his wife, Paula, died from injuries suffered in the car wreck on Shug Jordan Parkway around 7 p.m. ET on May 25. Police previously said the 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee that Taylor was driving struck the rear of the 2017 Toyota Highlander the Brambletts were in. Rod Bramblett was 53; Paula Bramblett was 52.

The statement from Auburn Police on Monday said a report from the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency's Traffic Homicide Unit confirmed that Taylor's vehicle was "traveling at an excessive rate of speed, well over the posted 55 mph speed limit, when the crash occurred."

The statement said a toxicology analysis from the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences confirmed "the presence of marijuana in Taylor's system."

Rod Bramblett was airlifted to UAB Hospital in Birmingham, where he died of a severe closed head injury, the coroner's office said. Paula Bramblett died of multiple internal injuries in the emergency room of East Alabama Medical Center.

Bramblett served as the lead announcer for Auburn football, men's basketball and baseball. According to the school's athletic website, he had been the voice of the baseball team since 1993, and he took over play-by-play duties for football and basketball in 2003.

"I'm heartbroken by the loss of Rod Bramblett and his wife Paula. Rod was a true professional and was always a pleasure to work with," Auburn football coach Gus Malzahn said in a statement in late May. "He loved Auburn and it showed in his work. As much as he loved Auburn, his family came first and foremost. This is a difficult time and we will continue to pray and offer our support to the Bramblett family, especially their children Shelby and Joshua."

Bramblett was a three-time winner of the Alabama State Broadcaster of the Year award (2006, 2010, 2013). He was honored as the National Broadcaster of the Year by Sports Illustrated in 2013, in part for his call on Chris Davis' game-winning, 109-yard return of a missed field goal as time expired to beat Alabama in the Iron Bowl, which is simply known as "Kick-Six" by Tigers fans.

Kevin Durant was never supposed to be on the Golden State Warriors. It was an accident: A one-time-only salary-cap spike left a 73-win team with enough space to add perhaps the world's second-best player. The NBA had seen Big 3s before. It had never seen a Big 4 like this.

All four stars were still younger than 30 after they won their first title, obliterating the league across a 15-1 postseason. The Warriors looked poised to be the greatest dynasty since Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls.

Only two years and one championship after that 2017 crown, that team is gone. Durant plays for the Brooklyn Nets, which is a thing you have to say out loud a few times before you believe it. He is recovering from a devastating injury; Klay Thompson is too. Andre Iguodala plays for the Memphis Grizzlies.

Maybe it is just this hard to sustain greatness. Maybe this is the shelf life of a championship team now. The grind -- 100-plus games every season -- is exhausting. The LeBron James-era Miami Heat lasted four seasons, until everyone seemed old, weary or ready to move on. Superstar contracts make it hard to build depth. Those contracts are short. Stars win titles, then seek other kinds of validation.

Durant spent part of the summer after that first championship working with Steve Nash, a Warriors consultant. Nash was struck by Durant's despondency.

"He didn't have a great summer," Nash told me last year. "He was searching for what it all meant. He thought a championship would change everything and found out it doesn't. He was not fulfilled."

The Warriors enjoyed having Durant, and he enjoyed playing in Golden State. Still: They never found a permanent comfort zone together. Teammates and coaches looked for hopeful signs. When Durant and Stephen Curry sipped wine together for hours after a team dinner in Denver during Durant's first preseason with Golden State, coaches smiled. The two stars were getting to know each other, getting over the awkward stage.

But Durant would withdraw. He grew so quiet during the middle of the 2017-18 season that coach Steve Kerr summoned him to lunch in Portland before the All-Star break. "I don't want to lose you," Durant remembered Kerr telling him.

"He had been drifting a bit," Kerr told ESPN after the 2018 NBA Finals. "He's vulnerable. I felt the need to reconnect."

There was a natural tension -- "stylistic tension, not personal tension," Kerr said then -- between Durant's approach and the Warriors' beautiful game, even if Durant had the savvy and skill to meld them. That tension came to a head during the 2018 Western Conference finals, when the Houston Rockets' switching defense jammed Golden State's motion and coaxed the Warriors into more one-on-one play. Durant slumped. Critics howled. The Warriors almost lost.

But they didn't lose. On the flight back from Houston after Game 7, Durant sat next to Bob Myers, Golden State's president of basketball operations, and declared, "I have never felt more a part of the team," Myers recalled last year.

For whatever reason, that feeling could never last. Some of it was probably Durant's (understandable) decision to cycle between short-term deals. Maybe some of the key personalities didn't hit it off like they hoped -- as Marcus Thompson of The Athletic detailed here.

Maybe some of it was baked into the unique four-star construction of the team. The Warriors were too good for observers to discuss anything but their internal dynamics. Even well-meaning attempts at that discussion could grow grating for the subjects of it. Maybe it was hard for Durant to feel a part of the Warriors if all anyone could talk about was what he had done to the Warriors -- to the team's style, to its identity, to the legacy and standing of its stars.

It surprised almost no one that he left. Some within the team worried during parts of 2017-18 that he would depart after that season.

Perhaps all of that is why Iguodala's departure felt so much more like the end of an era than Durant's. Golden State began its ascent before Iguodala. He bore witness to it in 2013, when the sixth-seeded Warriors shot and pranced by his Denver Nuggets in the first round. Iguodala saw something in those young Warriors, and they saw something in him.

Golden State pitched him in free agency that summer, even though they didn't have enough cap space. They even prepared a promotional DVD. He waved it away. Get the space and I'll come.

Myers still calls it the most stressful deal of his career. He canvassed the league looking to dump money. Joe Lacob, the Warriors' governor and Myers' boss, was away at a vacation home in Montana with limited cell phone reception when Myers found a partner: the Utah Jazz, demanding two unprotected first-round picks and $3 million in cash. Lacob was unreachable. His son, Kirk, the team's assistant general manager, told Myers to do the deal anyway.

After one season as a starter ended in a disappointing first-round loss, Kerr, the team's new coach, sold Iguodala on a bench role in 2014-15. It became the role of Iguodala's basketball lifetime -- the job that allowed for the purest expression of his beliefs about what the game should look like.

When he was an anointed young star with the Philadelphia 76ers, Iguodala would watch highlights of Kobe Bryant and Jordan, old teammates recalled; they were the sort of alpha scorers who franchise stars were supposed to emulate. Iguodala tried. He wasn't good enough at it to lead a team anywhere serious. It wasn't him.

He was much more comfortable blending in with the Warriors' ethos of selflessness, speed and aesthetic beauty. He didn't just blend with it. He elevated it.

There was nothing in the NBA like the Warriors in full flight: two genius playmakers, Iguodala and Draymond Green, sprinting up the floor, eyes darting side to side, searching out the all-time great shooters orbiting them. The Warriors became the Warriors only when Iguodala strolled onto the floor in place of a lumbering center: the Death Lineup that turned the 2015 Finals, when Iguodala was named MVP, and then the Hamptons Five.

The game looked different, sounded different. You didn't watch it or analyze it as much as let it wash over you. The combined creativity in those lineups took the game to rare places. Few players anywhere are more creative than Iguodala. He sees things before anyone else and imagines possibilities few contemplate.

On defense, he out-thinks the world's best players -- moving in concert with them, arriving in places before they expect him. We all remember Thompson's barrage of 3s that saved Golden State in that epic Game 6 in Oklahoma City in 2016. Don't forget Iguodala's crunch-time defense -- how perhaps the greatest swipe-down steal artist of the last 15 years pulled the trick on both Durant and Russell Westbrook to short-circuit late Thunder possessions.

"He's as smart as any player I've been around," Kerr told ESPN in March, and when you pause to consider who Kerr has been around, that statement really means something.

Iguodala gave the Warriors some stealth swagger. He occasionally tried risky passes just to try them, even when something simpler would do, and even if the habit -- in Iguodala, but also in Curry and Green -- drove Kerr mad. After especially fancy passes, he smiled at the bench or gazed at his hands in mock astonishment. Upon landing after dunks, Iguodala paused in mid-crouch, arms spread, eyes wide open in faux shock: Oh, you forgot I used to do this?

Now he's gone, and the Warriors will never be the same. If (when?) the Warriors waive Shaun Livingston, the Curry/Thompson/Green trio will be all that remains from their first championship team. That trio won at historic levels before Durant. They went 34-4 over three seasons without him before the Finals against Toronto. That trio can still win -- big. Golden State's Plan A is to regroup around it. Thompson and Green are not yet 30.

But they did all that pre-Durant winning with in-their-prime role players supporting them. Iguodala was the best of them. Golden State has attempted to start that cycle again by effectively replacing Iguodala with D'Angelo Russell in a complicated sign-and-trade deal.

(On a side note, it is a trade that makes you appreciate what the San Antonio Spurs accomplished in their draft-day deal for Kawhi Leonard. Before things went haywire, the Spurs actually had done it: plucked a future franchise superstar who could extend the team's time among the elite toward the 30-year mark.)

Acquiring Russell came at enormous cost. Golden State is trading one future first-round pick to Brooklyn to facilitate the deal, per the reporting of Adrian Wojnarowski. That's right: The team losing Durant is trading a pick to the team getting Durant. Acquiring Russell in a sign-and-trade triggered a hard salary cap for Golden State just shy of $139 million. With every incumbent on the books, hitting that cap was unavoidable.

They had to trade someone. They chose Iguodala. The teams with space understood they held leverage. The Warriors sent a lightly protected 2024 first-round pick to Memphis along with Iguodala.

It is a huge gamble that Russell will be worth more than Iguodala and those picks in replenishing the talent around the franchise founding fathers.

Russell is surely not the player the Warriors would have chosen for this burden. He was the one available to them. It is hard to see how he fits all that well with Curry and Thompson beyond the fact that any ambulatory NBA player fits with the two greatest shooters in the history of the sport. Russell ran more pick-and-rolls than almost anyone else in the league last season. That does not mean it is a great idea to give Russell the ball and encourage him to jack floaters as Curry runs around. (It is a bad idea.)

Russell is a good enough shooter to play much more off the ball. That is the sort of hybrid role coach Luke Walton envisioned for Russell early in his stint with the Los Angeles Lakers -- jitterbugging the pick-and-roll on one possession, popping open behind a flare screen on the next.

He lost some of that off-ball dynamism with the Nets. Playing next to Curry (and, later, Thompson) will reanimate that part of Russell's game.

Russell can sop up minutes and possessions while Thompson recovers from a torn ACL. Golden State will not have to run Curry into the ground. The Curry/Russell/Thompson trio could be powerful on offense if Russell speeds the pace of his game in the half-court. He favored a laborious, if effective, on-ball style in Brooklyn. He will need to adjust to the improvisational read-and-react system of winks and cuts and give-and-go plays Thompson and Curry prefer.

If he does -- and Russell is skilled enough to do it -- those three could work as the backbone of a good offense. On defense, it's hard to see how Russell, Curry and Thompson can form 60% of effective lineups against top competition. Who defends point guards now? Is Thompson a full-time small forward?

Fit is almost beside the point. If it works better than anticipated, great. But the end goal was probably to turn Durant into a player the Warriors could trade for other players -- and picks that represent the chance to find such players -- that fit more cleanly around the Curry/Thompson/Green foundation. They can trade Russell again on Dec. 15. The Minnesota Timberwolves will still covet him then; Robert Covington would form the starting point of a very nice package. Other teams will need a point guard.

There was another path: Let Durant walk for nothing; keep Iguodala; use most of the midlevel exception to build out the 2019-20 roster; and hoard every future draft pick. The Warriors also could have netted a trade exception big enough to fit almost any player in the league. (As is, they likely are getting a $17 million trade exception in the Iguodala part of the deal.)

At first glance, I preferred that path. Golden State paid at the top of the market in draft compensation to shed Iguodala. They gave Russell the max as his market was drying up. I am lukewarm on Russell's ability to get any better unless he changes his shot selection.

But you can understand why the Warriors chose Russell. Trade exceptions usually snare expensive players on the decline. The "keep Iguodala" route would not have netted any real cap flexibility -- not now, and not later, with Green one year from cycling onto a fat, new contract. Golden State's best methods of grabbing a good young player in that scenario would have been trading one core star, or hitting on a masterstroke late in the draft. The chances of such a player developing in time to absorb some of the load from Curry, Thompson and Green before they decline are remote.

Thompson's injury changed the calculus. The Warriors needed someone right now to play a ton of minutes -- more than Iguodala can -- at a guard spot. Golden State likely isn't contending this season. Iguodala has little purpose on a non-contending team.

Even with this more expensive Russell roster -- and that hard cap -- the Warriors were still able to re-sign Kevon Looney to a three-year, $15 million deal. They will have almost only minimum-level deals left to fill the roster, but it's not as if the alternate Iguodala/Looney/midlevel exception scenario is yielding meaningfully more present-day on-court talent than the Russell/Looney/minimums path Golden State chose.

Two rival executives who didn't like the Russell deal framed the debate this way: Couldn't the Warriors have gotten someone better if they had canvassed the league with a package of Iguodala and two picks? Maybe? The most sensible destination would be a win-now team in need of cap relief, or stagnant mid-tier teams hunting a pivot. Danilo Gallnari? DeMar DeRozan? Clint Capela? One of Miami's good young players -- the best of whom (Josh Richardson) they just agreed to trade for a legit star in Jimmy Butler? Kyle Lowry on an expiring deal if Kawhi Leonard bolts Toronto?

It's unclear if any of those guys would have been gettable. How many turn the 2019-20 Warriors back into contenders and carry more long-term trade value than Russell?

There was no ideal path once Durant left. Time will tell if this one works. It will come down to whether Russell is worth more -- in his play or what the Warriors trade him for -- than those two picks. There are even hypotheticals in which the Warriors trade Russell and Thompson -- or Russell and Green -- for god knows what.

The changes just felt so abrupt: Durant down, Thompson down, Durant out, and then Iguodala gone in exchange for someone never connected with the Warriors.

Tomorrow is always coming in the NBA, even when it seems a long way off.

Sixteen-year-old center fielder Jasson Dominguez, perhaps the most highly regarded prospect from Latin America in a decade, signed with the New York Yankees on Tuesday morning in a deal that includes a $5.1 million bonus, sources familiar with the agreement told ESPN.

The 5-foot-11, 195-pound Dominguez is a powerful switch-hitter with top-end speed and a well-regarded throwing arm -- a classic five-tool player. His bonus dwarfed the Yankees' previous record of $3.2 million for a player on July 2, when international free agents are eligible to sign.

Dominguez will not be eligible to play games until next season but will immediately join the Yankees' top echelon of prospects. The team's devotion of nearly 95% of its bonus pool to one player -- the Yankees have just shy of $5.4 million to spend in their fixed international free-agent pool -- shows their regard for Dominguez.

The sentiment is shared around the industry. When the Yankees became favorites to sign Dominguez, other teams -- including the Texas Rangers, Tampa Bay Rays and Los Angeles Angels -- lamented the loss of the chance at a player whom evaluators believe will be a star.

Since he arrived at the academy of trainer Ivan Noboa as a 13-year-old, Dominguez has stood out for his developed physique and ability to hit balls far. Scouts took to calling him El Marciano, or The Martian, because they said there was no way he was from this world.

In addition to his $5.1 million bonus, Dominguez will receive $250,000 in potential scholarship money from the Yankees should he choose to further his education.

The US-based thrower is No.4 on the UK all-time rankings

Greg Thompson is looking forward to making his mark at the British Championships and IAAF World Championships in Doha after jumping to No.4 on the UK all-time rankings for the discus in the United States.

The Shaftesbury Barnet athlete is studying for a double degree in kinesiology and philosophy at Maryland University in the US but despite his busy academic schedule threw a Doha qualifying mark of 65.56m at the Penn Relays in Philadelphia in April and is hoping for further improvements this summer.

The UK record of 68.24m was set in 2012 by Lawrence Okoye and during that same year Thompson won English Schools gold in Gateshead throwing in trainers.

Talent runs in the family, too, as he is the son of Neville Thompson – a former GB international. Thompson Snr threw 55.68m at Crystal Palace in 1993 and Thompson Jnr beat that mark at the same venue soon after his 20th birthday.

“With my dad being an international from the moment I could walk it was, like, ‘let’s grab a disc and have some fun with it’,” he remembers. “I have vivid memories of being a little ’un and trying to pick up a 2k discus after he’d thrown it and trying to throw it back to him but he told me to take my time and not hurt myself. When I grew up, he was always the archetype and what I wanted to live up to.”

Initially, Thompson played rugby, football, badminton and he loves snooker too. He has a brother in the Arsenal football squad as well, but his heart is in athletics.

Formerly coached by his father, Thompson is now guided by Travis Coleman at Maryland University. Unusually, he is left-footed and left-handed but throws with his right arm.

“My dad always threw with his right arm so from the moment he got me a small makeshift discus as a kid I tried to put it in my right hand,” he explains.

He also plays badminton and throws a javelin with his right hand but throws darts and a basketball with his left. “When it comes to the finer motor or precision skills or writing, I use my left,” he says.

The Briton stands 6ft tall but is not that large for an elite discus thrower. So he utilises his speed in the circle and athleticism to get the most out of himself.

“When I threw 65m recently, the athlete who was second, Roje Stona of Jamaica, is about 6ft 6-7in tall and completely dwarfed me,” says Thompson.

As he reaches the end of his fourth year at Maryland University, too, he juggles training with studies. “I have a good blend between the two,” he says.

All eyes will be on Thompson to see if he can build on his big early season throw – and next week he competes for Great Britain in the World University Games in Naples, Italy. As someone who won a medal in a UK maths competition seven years ago, he will have no problem calculating how many more metres he needs to leapfrog further up the national rankings.

In addition to Okoye, the only Brits who have thrown further are Brett Morse and Perriss Wilkins – although the latter is a discredited figure after allegations of using a light discus at competitions in addition to a doping ban.

“I knew something was in the tank this year and something was brewing,” Thompson says on his big throw. “I threw a PB in training before Penn Relays and I thought that if I got everything right I could throw 65 metres.

“I’ve felt my potential has been around 65 metres for a year or so but it hasn’t happened until this year due to a myriad of physical and mental factors.”

Thompson, who turned 25 last month, has previous international experience as he finished 10th in the 2013 European Juniors. But after the World University Games he is aiming to seal selection for Doha at this summer’s Müller British Championships – a competition where he finished runner-up to Morse 12 months ago – and he would love to compete at the Diamond Leagues in the UK.

“I’m looking forward to being a small fish in a big pond and rising to the challenge,” he says.