TRENTON, N.J. – Tickets for the 2020 Indoor Auto Racing Series races in Trenton, N.J., and Syracuse, N.Y., will go on sale for the first time on Wednesday, Nov. 20.

The third annual East Coast Indoor Dirt Nationals will again be held at the CURE Insurance Arena in Trenton, N.J. but on a new later date, Feb. 21-22.

The exciting event featuring nearly 100 wingless 600cc micro sprints had been held the last two years in December, prior to Christmas.

To relieve family conflict with Christmas holiday events, the dirt race has been moved to the weekend after the Daytona 500. On Friday night, Feb. 21, competitors will race in ten heat races that will set the field for four 20 lap features that will follow.

These events, which will begin at 7 p.m., set the starting grid for Saturday’s events.

On Saturday, Feb. 22, the first green flag will fall at 6 p.m. with the first of 10 qualifying transfer races that will advance top finishers to the back of the next event.

The program concludes with a 50-lap, 24-car feature paying $5,000 to win, that will not start until after 8 p.m.

The “Concrete Series” season finale follows on March 13-14 in a second-year return to the Exposition Center on the grounds of the New York State Fairgrounds in Syracuse, N.Y.

Tickets have been on sale for the first two events of the 2020 Indoor Auto Racing Series fueled by VP Race Fuels.

The 2020 schedule opens with the Ironton Telephone Allentown Indoor Race, inside the PPL Center on Jan. 3-4, 2020.

The NFL will not provide a list of personnel executives and coaches who will attend Colin Kaepernick's workout Saturday to the quarterback's representatives, sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter.

Sources earlier Wednesday told ESPN that the NFL had agreed to give the Kaepernick camp a list of attendees. However, an NFL source later told ESPN that the league never promised to provide that list.

Although multiple teams have confirmed that they will attend the workout, none has identified by name who will be going.

Several high-level NFL executives reached out as a courtesy to Kaepernick's representatives to say they couldn't attend and were caught off-guard and confused by the purpose of the NFL scheduling the workout.

The NFL informed its clubs Tuesday that a private workout would be held for Kaepernick on Saturday in Atlanta. It is set to include both on-field work and an interview with the quarterback, who has been out of football since 2016, the year he began protesting police brutality and racial injustice by kneeling during the pregame national anthem.

Sources previously told ESPN that Kaepernick and his reps were alerted to the workout at 10 a.m. Tuesday, ahead of a 4 p.m. ET personnel notice the league sent to teams. When notified, the quarterback's reps asked for the workout to be on a Tuesday, which typically is when NFL workouts take place because head coaches and general managers can attend more easily. On Saturday, almost half of the NFL teams will be traveling to games, and most of the rest of the coaches and players will be heading to their team hotels to prepare for games the next day.

But the NFL said the workout had to be on a Saturday, sources previously told ESPN. When the league was asked whether it could be the following Saturday -- by making it this Saturday, the 32 teams had only about three days to decide whether to attend and whom to send -- the NFL said no and didn't provide a reason.

Sources previously told ESPN that the league office also said none of the 32 teams had been made aware of the workout before the memo was sent. When Kaepernick's representatives asked whether a team or teams had asked for the workout, the NFL league office said, "We can't tell you that," the reps explained.

Because of the mystery around the workout and because none of the teams had been informed before Tuesday, Kaepernick's representatives began to question the legitimacy of the workout and the process and wonder whether it was a public-relations stunt by the league, sources previously told ESPN. The representatives asked the league office for a list of personnel executives and coaches who would be attending the workout because GMs and head coaches make personnel decisions, particularly given how important the quarterback position is.

As things stand now, the NFL has decided not to provide that list.

The Kaepernick workout remained a hot topic Wednesday across the league.

Coaches for the Miami Dolphins, Detroit Lions, Atlanta Falcons and Tampa Bay Buccaneers said they expected to have a representative at the Falcons' practice facility on Saturday. In addition, John Elway told 9News that the Denver Broncos will be represented, and a Washington Redskins spokesman said that organization would be there. A source told ESPN's Ed Werder that the Dallas Cowboys also plan to be at the workout.

Carolina Panthers safety Eric Reid, who was the first player to join Kaepernick in taking a knee during the pregame national anthem to protest social injustice while both were with the San Francisco 49ers, said Wednesday that "it feels disingenuous" that the NFL would schedule a workout for the QB on Saturday.

"I'll believe it when I see it," Reid said Wednesday. "At this point, it feels like a PR stunt."

MILWAUKEE -- The Bucks have assigned Thanasis Antetokounmpo, the older brother of reigning MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo, to the G League.

Milwaukee announced Wednesday that Antetokounmpo and Dragan Bender had been assigned to the Wisconsin Herd.

Despite snow storms in the forecast, Giannis Antetokounmpo made the 90-mile drive to the Herd's home game in Oshkosh to watch his brother play Wednesday night. The Bucks were off.

Thanasis Antetokounmpo, who signed a two-year, minimum contract with Milwaukee during the offseason, has appeared in one game for the Bucks this season. He had two points, two rebounds and one assist in six minutes in a 123-91 win at Orlando on Nov. 1.

Bender has yet to play for Milwaukee. He started the first two games of the season for the Herd and averaged 19.0 points, 6.5 rebounds, 1.5 blocks, 1.0 assist and 1.0 steal in 29.9 minutes per game.

Both are expected to be in uniform for the Herd on Wednesday.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

BOSTON -- Gordon Hayward didn't know exactly what happened when he ran into LaMarcus Aldridge late in the second quarter Saturday night, but he knew something wasn't right.

"You always think about the worst-case scenario," Hayward said Wednesday night when he addressed the media for the first time since undergoing surgery to repair a fracture of the fourth metacarpal in his left hand before the Boston Celtics hosted the Washington Wizards at TD Garden.

"Certainly on the play, I didn't know exactly what happened. But I heard it and felt it, and knew something immediately was wrong. That's why I signaled, 'Let's go check this out.'"

It turned out Hayward, 29, would need surgery, which he successfully underwent late Monday afternoon in New York. While he will have to sit out for approximately another six weeks because of it, Hayward said he was relieved his absence wouldn't be significantly longer.

"It's hard to know [how long you'll be out]," Hayward said. "After looking at the X-ray, it was clear as day that it was broken. Nowadays, you don't know what that necessarily means ... it depends on where the break is and how long it can be.

"I'm just happy that I relatively got good news, and I shouldn't be that long."

Hayward has been Boston's most consistent player to start the season, averaging 18.9 points, 7.1 rebounds and 4.1 assists in eight games this season for the Celtics, while shooting 55.5% overall and 43.3% from 3-point range. He has been praised by scouts who've seen him play in the early going and has benefited from an offseason fully dedicated to working on his body and game, rather than rehabbing as he was last summer.

That rehab was necessary because of the extended absence Hayward dealt with from the gruesome leg and ankle injuries he suffered six minutes into his first game as a Celtic -- the season opener of the 2017-18 campaign in Cleveland against the Cavaliers. That injury led to two different surgeries and the better part of a year battling just to get back onto the court -- followed by an uneven 2018-19 season as he tried to shake the rust off from his extended time away.

After going through that, Hayward admitted that this recovery -- while certainly not fun -- isn't nearly as daunting to have to face.

"It's a drop in a bucket for sure," he said. "Obviously frustrated. It's going to ... it sucks watching, and not being able to go out there and play, especially with the start that we've had.

"I think this time around, I'll be able to run around, use my legs still, maintain my conditioning, which I'm very thrilled about, and then be around the team, too. And kinda stay involved, which is good."

Hayward was sporting a colorful splint -- as well as being adorned with stickers of puppies and unicorns -- thanks to the artistic talents of his daughters. But he said he was happy that he didn't have to wear a cast, and that he'll be going back to New York on Friday to make sure everything is healing as expected. But he said he was happy about the fact it was his left hand, so he could continue shooting while he's out, and that he can also keep his conditioning in place while he waits to return to the court.

He also said that a pin and plate were put in his hand in order to help speed the process up -- and even cracked a joke about that being a good thing, after he needed a second surgery on his ankle last year.

"They put a pin and a plate in there, but that supposedly makes it stronger and makes it heal faster," he said, before adding with a smile, "I think that's a good thing this time around."

As for how long Hayward will actually be out, he said he isn't focusing on a timetable, but rather sticking to the plan the Celtics have laid out for him to recover and get back on the court.

"I think we'll take it, as cliché as it sounds, we'll take it day by day and week by week," he said. "It's one of those things that once the bone is healed, then it's kind of how much can you tolerate and how well does my body handle with the swelling, kind of how well it takes ramping up activities and doing different basketball things.

"Honestly, looking at the plan that we set up today and just kind of attacking each day. Hopefully I'll be back sooner rather than later."

HOUSTON -- Kawhi Leonard will play against the Houston Rockets on Wednesday in the first of a back-to-back set, and Paul George is expected to make his LA Clippers debut on Thursday at New Orleans.

Clippers head coach Doc Rivers ruled George out before the game against the Rockets and said the All-Star swingman probably will play his first game this season against the Pelicans, barring something unexpected.

"Maybe tomorrow or whenever we play after that," Rivers said of George, who is making his way back after having offseason surgeries on both of his shoulders.

Rivers said Leonard was ready to go against the Rockets but did not commit to the All-Star's status against New Orleans. In the Clippers' two previous back-to-back sets of games, Leonard sat out the first game due to load management for a patella tendon injury in his left knee. This is the first back-to-back set in which Leonard is playing in the first game.

Rivers admits that it has been more challenging than expected to not only incorporate two new stars on the team but also adjust to not having one for the first 11 games of the season and having the other sit twice already.

"Honestly, it has probably been harder than we thought because we are still in the process of getting Kawhi right 100 percent, and then you don't have Paul at all," Rivers said. "Then you have a select few practices, and you have to make a choice every practice: Do you put Paul in the lineup even though he's not playing, but then you got to play tomorrow with another group, or do you put Paul in the second group, and we have chosen the second group, even the third group at times. I don't think he's yet to play even one minute with the starting lineup yet. It's just going to take time."

Rivers has been running three to four plays designed strictly for George every day in practice, despite not having George available in games in preparation.

"We'll figure it out," Rivers said. "It will take time, especially late-game stuff, ATO stuff, but you'll take it. You'll just take the talent. You know no matter what, you can run a play for Paul George. No matter what, you can run something for Kawhi. What I don't know is the rotations, the lineups that we can throw out on the floor.

"They are similar in the way they play. Paul comes off of more pin downs and screens, which actually adds to your offense because guys that do that create an offense in itself. JJ Redick, we used him running around and [also] Ray Allen [in Boston]. But it also created another offense for everyone else because of that, and Paul George can do that as well."

George, who had surgery in May to repair a partially torn tendon in his right shoulder and another procedure to repair a partial tear of his left labrum a month later, went through his first full live practice on Saturday.

"My shoulders haven't been this good in a long time," George told ESPN in early October during Clippers training camp. "I shot the ball pretty well last season, so I'm excited for what's to come."

SAN FRANCISCO -- New San Francisco Giants manager Gabe Kapler said Wednesday that he should have sought the guidance of experts four years ago when dealing with a 17-year-old girl who contacted him about an assault reportedly witnessed by Los Angeles Dodgers minor leaguers.

The teen later accused one of the players of a sexual crime, something Kapler said he didn't know in 2015, when the Dodgers organization opted not to contact police. Kapler was the Dodgers' farm director at the time.

In hindsight, Kapler and Giants president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi, who was then the Dodgers' general manager, said they wished they had been more supportive of the young woman and asked for advice from the outside.

"I think this is the right time to say that I'm sorry that I didn't make all the right moves," Kapler said as he was formally introduced by the Giants. "Everything that I did I acted on from a place of goodness and from my heart and wanting to do the right thing, but I was naive. I was in over my skis and trying to do things on my own when it was very clear that I needed counsel."

The Washington Post reported in February that Kapler did not alert police of the alleged assault in 2015. The newspaper said Kapler received an email from the 17-year-old saying she had been assaulted by two women during a night of partying with two Los Angeles minor leaguers. The girl later told police that she was also sexually assaulted by one of the players. Kapler tried to arrange a dinner with the girl and the two players and engaged in discussions with the girl's grandmother, but he never alerted authorities.

Kapler posted on his personal website earlier this year that he didn't know about the sexual assault allegation, saying, "There was no allegation of sexual assault made to me during my handling of this incident."

Kapler said Wednesday that he is taking responsibility for his past error in judgment.

"I don't think that I did enough, and we've talked about some of the ways that I could have been better in those situations," Kapler said. "I have a lot of remorse for that. I wish I would have been more informed, I wish I would have gotten more informed, and I take responsibility for not taking those steps. ... My responsibility in the issue was my responsibility in the issue, and that was to ask more questions, it was to get more counsel. It was to not naively think that I was in a position where I could help in the specific ways that came up."

Kapler acknowledged the challenges of having to explain himself and his actions from the start in a new job, especially following in the footsteps of the retired Bruce Bochy, who won World Series championships with San Francisco in 2010, '12 and '14.

The 44-year-old Kapler said he will eventually gain the trust of the fan base. Some of his first conversations with the players might be about what the Giants stand for, rather than between-the-lines baseball talk.

He realizes he is not the most popular hire.

"Yes, I feel like I'm in a little bit of a hole, and yes, that means something to me," he said. "I think I would probably just use it as an opportunity to roll up my sleeves a little bit more, to dig in a little bit more to really find out what the issues are, to find out why I have had some of those issues and why so far I have not been a popular hire and then be responsive to those things."

The Philadelphia Phillies fired Kapler on Oct. 10 after he went 161-163 in two seasons. Zaidi chose Kapler to lead the Giants over Astros bench coach Joe Espada and Rays bench coach Matt Quatraro.

Zaidi said the incident involving the minor leaguers didn't come up before the Giants hired him last offseason. He said, "There was never an attempt to cover anything up."

"We need to do better in this area. We're talking incident management and not really talking about why these incidents happen in the first place," Zaidi said. "As I think back to not just the past year but my 15 years in baseball, I realize I haven't done enough. I haven't done enough on the side of preventing those things from happening at all rather than what the right thing is and what the right protocol is for how to handle them. And that's something that I pledge, and we as an organization pledge: to be much more proactive and aggressive about going forward.

"We know that we're going to be on notice," he added. "We want to be on notice because this is something we want to be better at and, I think, we as an industry and a sport have to be better at."