After making arguably the two biggest splashes of the NHL trade deadline, the Dallas Stars and Florida Panthers are the new favorites to win the Stanley Cup in 2025, showing +600 odds at ESPN BET.

Dallas acquired right wing Mikko Rantanen from the Carolina Hurricanes and later signed him to a reported eight-year contract extension; Florida picked up longtime Boston Bruins left wing Brad Marchand.

Before the transactions, the Stars were +700 to win the season's championship, while the Panthers were +750 and immediately shortened to +650 before settling at the current number. Pricing across the sportsbook marketplace varies, with some books showing the Stars as outright favorites and others posting Florida as the favorite as short as +500.

Both teams flew up the odds board past the Edmonton Oilers, who sit at +700 as of Friday afternoon and are not the Cup favorites for the first time since July 2, when the Panthers were favored. The two teams faced off in the 2024 Stanley Cup Final, with Florida prevailing.

Edmonton is still easily ESPN BET's most popular Stanley Cup future selection, attracting a leading 22.7% of the bets and 14.2% of the handle. The Panthers have the second-most money at 9.8%, while the Hurricanes have the second-most tickets at 13.4%. Carolina, who had traded for Rantanen in late January, is fourth on the sportsbook's odds board at +900.

The team Rantanen began the season and his career with, the Colorado Avalanche, made one of the other big moves of the deadline, acquiring center Brock Nelson from the New York Islanders. Prior to the trade, Colorado was +1300 to lift the Cup and is +1000 as of Friday afternoon, tied with the Washington Capitals for fifth.

Washington, attracting plenty of attention and special betting markets amid Alex Ovechkin's goal record chase, have taken the third-most Cup futures wagers (8.5%) at ESPN BET. Meanwhile, the Winnipeg Jets, leading the league with 90 game points, are tied with two other teams at +1200 on the odds board, but have attracted the third-most money (9.4%) at the sportsbook. Each team made smaller trades ahead of the deadline.

Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam recently declined a request to meet with Myles Garrett amid the star pass rusher's trade request, a league source confirmed to ESPN on Friday.

NFL Network first reported that Haslam declined Garrett's request to meet and directed him to speak instead with general manager Andrew Berry, who oversees football operations.

A Browns spokesperson declined to comment.

The development comes with both sides dug in on their stances -- Garrett wishing to be traded to a contender and the Browns adamant that they will not acquiesce in the request. Garrett first requested a trade in early February, saying the Browns' future is not aligned with winning right now. A source also said that Garrett is not open to a contract extension with the team.

Berry reiterated at the NFL scouting combine in Indianapolis last week that he does not intend to trade Garrett, the 2023 Defensive Player of the Year. Browns coach Kevin Stefanski later said Garrett is "part of the present. He's part of the future."

Garrett, a six-time Pro Bowler and four-time All-Pro selection, has two years remaining on the record-breaking five-year, $125 million extension he signed in 2020 but has no more guaranteed salary.

In eight seasons, Garrett, 29, has made the playoffs twice. The Browns' 3-14 finish in 2024 was their worst since going 0-16 in 2017, Garrett's rookie year. Cleveland holds the second pick in the 2025 NFL draft.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The Tennessee Titans have released outside linebacker Harold Landry III. The move saves the Titans $10.9 million in cap space but increases to $17.5 million if Tennessee designates Landry's release as a post-June 1 move.

Landry led the Titans with nine sacks last season and posted 15 tackles for a loss and 15 quarterback hits in 17 starts. Last season was Landry's third consecutive season with at least nine sacks, including a career-high 12 in 2021.

The Titans signed Landry to a five-year, $87 million contract in 2022. Landry suffered a torn ACL during the preseason and missed all of 2022. He returned in 2023 and finished second on the Titans with 10.5 sacks.

Landry's 83.1% of defensive snaps played last season led all Titans linebackers. Tennessee used a rotation of Landry, outside linebackers Arden Key and Jaylen Harrell, and defensive lineman Sebastian Joseph-Day to play outside of interior defensive linemen Jeffery Simmons and T'Vondre Sweat.

The Titans granted Landry's agents permission to seek a trade during the combine last month. Nothing materialized, so Tennessee is releasing the 28-year-old pass rusher, making him a free agent.

Landry was drafted by the Titans in the second round (41st overall) of the 2018 NFL draft. He was the final member of Tennessee's 2018 draft class on the roster.

Tennessee has the No.1 pick in this year's draft and hosted outside linebacker Abdul Carter at its facility Thursday.

Brad Marchand will be traded to the Florida Panthers pending a trade call, sources told ESPN on Friday.

It was a late splash at the NHL trade deadline on Friday for the Panthers, who are gearing up for another run at the Stanley Cup.

A source told ESPN's John Buccigross that the Bruins will receive a 2027 second-round choice that turns into a 2028 first-round pick if certain conditions are met.

Marchand, the Boston Bruins' captain, was in the final months of an eight-year deal with Boston that carried a $6.125 million salary cap hit. The captain wanted to stay in Boston; however, negotiations with his camp and the Bruins reached a stalemate over term, sources told ESPN. The Bruins were hesitant to give Marchand a two-year contract.

Marchand, who turns 37 in May, is currently sidelined with an upper-body injury that could keep him out until shortly before the playoffs. The Bruins are currently in Tampa, but Marchand remained in Boston, rehabbing. The winger had three surgeries this past summer -- on his elbow, groin and abdomen. He competed in every game for Team Canada at 4 Nations Face-Off and was effective for the Bruins, scoring 21 goals in 61 games this season.

The defending Stanley Cup champions got even stronger over the past week, notably acquiring defenseman Seth Jones from Chicago. Florida also picked up a new backup goalie in Vitek Vanecek and a depth forward in Nico Sturm.

The Bruins fell out of playoff contention -- in a season that already cost coach Jim Montgomery his job -- and became big sellers on Friday, also trading away veteran center Charlie Coyle to Colorado and Brandon Carlo to Toronto. Earlier, the team traded away Trent Frederic and Justin Brazeau.

A Stanley Cup champion with Boston in 2011, and a perennial top-liner who bridged the Bruins' transitions between several different coaching staffs, Marchand, 37, can play the tough minutes for the Panthers as they battle for first place in the Atlantic Division with the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Marchand has scored at least 21 goals in the past 12 seasons, and he has hovered between 18 and 19 minutes per game on the ice in the past 10 years for the Bruins.

DALLAS -- The Dallas Mavericks said Friday that Anthony Davis is improving daily, but gave no indication of when the forward they got in their trade of Luka Doncic might be ready to play again.

The Mavericks said a recent reevaluation of Davis' left adductor strain showed that he "is improving daily and has therefore been cleared for more dynamic on-court movements."

Davis has played in only one game for Dallas since the 10-time All-Star was acquired in that seismic trade on Feb. 2 that sent five-time All-Star and Mavs fan favorite Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers.

The Mavericks said center Dereck Lively II, who has been out since Jan. 14 because of a right ankle stress fracture, is progressing in his rehabilitation and has progressed to individual court work. Davis and Lively will be evaluated weekly.

After a dominant first half for the Mavs in a 116-105 victory over Houston on Feb. 8, Davis pulled up lame late in the third quarter. He finished with 26 points, 16 rebounds, 7 assists and 3 blocks.

Davis was out with an abdominal strain for his final two games with the Lakers and the first two he could have played for the Mavs.

Dallas went into its home game Friday night against Memphis in the final Western Conference spot to get into the NBA's play-in tournament. That was the 11th game for Davis to miss with the Mavericks, who had 18 regular-season games remaining after that.

The Lakers are 9-2 since Doncic made his L.A. debut on Feb. 10 and are on an eight-game winning streak.

Mavericks center Daniel Gafford missed his 10th game Friday because of a right knee sprain. The team said Gafford was "showing progress" and would be evaluated again in two weeks.

NEW YORK -- DeMar DeRozan was fined $25,000 by the NBA for publicly criticizing officials after the Sacramento Kings' loss to the Denver Nuggets.

"The refs were terrible," DeRozan said after the 116-110 loss Wednesday, according to The Sacramento Bee. "Terrible as s---. Simple as that."

DeRozan scored 18 of his 35 points in the third quarter to give Sacramento a 93-84 lead heading into the fourth.

However, in the fourth quarter, the Nuggets shot 13 free throws compared with the Kings' four. Denver outscored Sacramento 32-17 in the final frame and finished with 30 free throws to 14 for the Kings.

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.

Former Mavericks majority owner Mark Cuban chimed in on the controversial Luka Doncic deal for the first time and left little doubt he sides with legions of miffed Dallas fans.

"If the Mavs are going to trade Luka, that's one thing," Cuban said in an interview with WFAA, the ABC affiliate in Dallas. "Just get a better deal. No disrespect to Anthony Davis, but I still firmly believe if we had gotten four unprotected No. 1s and Anthony Davis and Max Christie, this would be a different conversation."

Cuban retained 27.7% of the team after selling the majority stake in 2024, but he said his involvement with the Mavericks is no longer a factor in any team decisions. He wouldn't say whether he would've traded Doncic.

"I'm not going there. It doesn't matter," he said.

Cuban was at the front of the decision-making line in 2018 when the Mavericks acquired Doncic on draft night in a trade with the Atlanta Hawks, who dealt Doncic for the Mavs' first-rounder, Trae Young.

Doncic was traded by general manager Nico Harrison to the Lakers last month in one of the more stunning transactions in league history, with shock waves still reverberating in Texas. With Doncic gone and Davis hurt in his debut with the team, the Mavericks played point guard Kyrie Irving a league-high number of minutes for a 30-day stretch before he suffered a season-ending ACL tear.

Irving turns 33 later this month.

In return for Doncic, Dallas acquired Davis, Christie and a 2029 first-round pick from the Los Angeles Lakers on Feb. 1. For comparison, the cost for the Phoenix Suns to acquire Kevin Durant two years before the Doncic deal: Mikal Bridges, Cam Johnson, Jae Crowder and four unprotected future first-round picks and a pick swap in 2028. Phoenix also received T.J. Warren.

The Lakers also received forwards Maxi Kleber and Markieff Morris.

Davis might not play another game this season. If so, he totaled 31 minutes in a Dallas uniform in 2025.

Dallas cited the team's "culture" as part of the reason for trading Doncic, while also expressing concern over the organization's ability to re-sign him as a free agent. The conundrum was familiar for Cuban, who likened the scenario to deciding to move on from popular point guard Steve Nash.

"I went through this before with when Steve Nash left and then won two MVPs. The good news is that we went to the Finals and won a championship," Cuban said. "So I've been through something -- but there wasn't social media back then, so it wasn't quite the same. You're going to make mistakes. I think the biggest challenge the Mavs have right now is there's nobody who's really outgoing to communicate."

Dallas is 10th in the Western Conference standings.

Information from Field Level Media was used in this report.

SACRAMENTO -- The San Antonio Spurs boarded the team flight Thursday bound for Sacramento and were pleasantly surprised to see teammate Victor Wembanyama on board.

Ruled out for the season in February due to deep vein thrombosis in his right shoulder, Wembanyama accompanied the team on its trip to Sacramento to support new teammate De'Aaron Fox, who returns to Sacramento to face the Kings on Friday for the first time since they traded him to the Spurs as part of a transaction involving three teams, multiple players and draft picks.

"What [Wembanyama is] going through is definitely tough," Fox said at Friday's shootaround. "For us, we just want him to be healthy. We want him to be healthy enough to be able to get on a plane to be able to support us as a team. That's what he wants to do anyway."

Team doctors deemed it safe for Wembanyama to fly, a team official said, due to the specific type of blood-thinning medication he is taking to treat the blood clot in his right shoulder. The official said that Wembanyama isn't expected to make every trip, as some important steps in his treatment plan could take place during times the Spurs are on the road.

"Some of the stuff that has already been discussed [regarding Wembanyama's treatment], we'll probably keep it in-house for now," San Antonio acting head coach Mitch Johnson said. "Everything is as we said initially. No long-term effects on his health and basketball activities."

Fiddling with his phone, Wembanyama sat on the bench while his teammates conducted their shootaround at the Golden 1 Center.

The team announced Wembanyama's condition after the 21-year-old returned to San Antonio on the heels of the NBA All-Star Game in San Francisco. Before returning home, Wembanyama had taken a brief trip to Wyoming to unwind, according to a source.

The Spurs remain optimistic Wembanyama will make a full recovery by the start of next season.

At this point, though, Wembanyama is under strict orders from the team to not even touch a basketball.

PEORIA, Ariz. -- Seattle Mariners right-hander George Kirby has inflammation in his throwing shoulder and likely will open the season on the injured list.

"I would not anticipate that he's ready for the first 10 days, two weeks of the season," Mariners general manager Justin Hollander said Friday.

Hollander emphasized that an MRI revealed no structural damage to the shoulder.

Although Hollander said Kirby has been throwing the ball well with a velocity that met expectations, the right-hander hadn't felt he was bouncing back from each outing particularly well. That led to the MRI.

Hollander said the Mariners plan to shut Kirby down to get the inflammation out. He will be reassessed in a week.

"We want to make sure we're doing the right thing for the big picture of the whole season as opposed to worrying about Opening Day," Hollander said.

Kirby, 27, started 33 games last season to tie for the major league lead. He went 14-11 with a 3.53 ERA with 179 strikeouts and 23 walks in 181 innings.

He made the AL All-Star team in 2023, when he made 31 starts and went 13-10 with a 3.35 ERA.

Ireland make four changes, with captain Caelan Doris returning to the back row after missing the Wales game with a knee injury. Suspended Garry Ringrose is replaced by Bundee Aki in the centres, while Jamie Osborne takes injured Mack Hansen's place on the wing with Hugo Keenan coming in at full-back.

Finlay Bealham returns at tight-head prop with Thomas Clarkson dropping to the bench.

Bealham, Doris and Jack Conan are set to win their 50th Test caps, with the latter appearing from the bench.

Ireland: 15-Keenan; 14-Osborne, 13-Henshaw, 12-Aki, 11-Lowe; 10-S Prendergast, 9-Gibson-Park; 1-Porter, 2-Sheehan, 3-Bealham, 4-J McCarthy, 5- Beirne, 6-O'Mahony, 7-Van der Flier, 8-Doris (capt).

Replacements: 16-Herring, 17-Healy, 18- Clarkson, 19-Ryan, 20-Conan, 21-Baird, 22-Murray, 23-Crowley.