The Atlanta Hawks have acquired the No. 4 pick, Virginia forward De'Andre Hunter, in Thursday's NBA draft from the New Orleans Pelicans for the No. 8 (Texas center Jaxson Hayes), 17 (Virginia Tech guard Nickeil Alexander-Walker) and 35 picks, league sources told ESPN.

The Pelicans are also sending Solomon Hill, the No. 57 pick and a future second-round pick to Atlanta as part of the exchange. Atlanta is also sending a heavily protected Cleveland first-round pick in 2020 to the Pelicans, sources said.

Hunter, who was named the ACC Defensive Player of the Year last season, would shore up an Atlanta team that struggled on defense last season, posting the fourth-worst defensive efficiency in the league. No player under contract with the Hawks for next season ranked in the top 150 in ESPN's defensive plus-minus this past season.

The move marks the second year in a row that Atlanta general manager Travis Schlenk has made a big move in the lottery. Last year, it was to trade down two spots to select Trae Young while also acquiring the No. 10 pick in this year's draft.

The Pelicans acquired the No. 4 pick from the Lakers last week in the deal that will send Anthony Davis to Los Angeles. The trades can not become official until July 6 at the earliest.

NEW YORK -- Welcome to the NBA, Zion Williamson.

The superstar forward out of Duke was selected No. 1 overall by the Pelicans in Thursday night's NBA draft at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, confirming what had been inevitable once New Orleans won the draft lottery last month.

Williamson, a generational talent because of his combination of size, strength, speed and skill, was the dominant force in college basketball last season. As a freshman, he averaged 22.6 points, 8.9 rebounds, 2.1 steals and 1.8 blocks, all while shooting 68% from the field as he wowed with one spectacular highlight play after another en route to being named the Wooden Award winner as the nation's top player.

"I don't think it's feelings I can really describe," Williamson said. "You know, as a little kid you say you want to go to the NBA. People basically say, you've got to have a Plan B because the chances of doing it is just little to none. For me to be selected No. 1, I mean, I can't dream it no better than that."

Williamson immediately steps in as the centerpiece for a new-look Pelicans team that agreed to trade star big man Anthony Davis to the Los Angeles Lakers last week. Williamson said he was excited about the challenge of turning things around in the Big Easy, and of partnering with Lonzo Ball and Brandon Ingram, two of the players who will come in the Davis trade.

"What excites me the most is the fact that they're young and they're close to my age so they can help me a lot more, like how to deal with this transition," Williamson said. "I think we can build something over there."

Like Williamson, the second and third picks also went according to plan. Murray State point guard Ja Morant went second to the Memphis Grizzlies, and Williamson's teammate at Duke, swingman RJ Barrett, went third to the New York Knicks.

Morant, an explosive athlete with a solid 3-point shooting stroke, led the Racers to the second round of the NCAA tournament, averaging 24.5 points and 10.0 assists while going from a mid-first-round pick before the season began to the clear No. 2 prospect entering draft night, according to ESPN's Jonathan Givony and Mike Schmitz.

Morant steps in to a Grizzlies team that on Tuesday agreed to trade point guard stalwart Mike Conley to the Utah Jazz for forwards Jae Crowder and Kyle Korver, the No. 23 pick Thursday night and a protected future first-round pick.

"It's been crazy," Morant said. "Obviously a wild moment for me, coming from my story, what I've been through to get to this point. I'm just very excited to be able to accomplish my dream."

Barrett, meanwhile, had been hoping to join the Knicks all along. Barrett's mother, who is from Brooklyn, met his father, Rowan, while she was a track star and he was a basketball star at St. John's in Queens.

"It would mean a lot," Barrett, who was born in Canada, said Wednesday of getting the chance to play for the Knicks. "My late grandfather, rest in peace, he was the biggest Knicks fan. He'd always tell me I'd play for the Knicks. It would mean a lot to me."

When he got his wish, the crowd at Barclays Center exploded in cheers, and Barrett -- resplendent in a pink suit and black shirt -- walked onto the stage as the crowd chanted his name. Barrett cried into his father's shoulder after his selection.

"That was crazy. That was one of the reasons why I was crying, because [my grandfather and I] used to watch the Knicks growing up and he would always tell me I was going to be a Knick," Barrett said. "I'm sad he can't be here to see it. But I'm just very happy, man."

The presumptive No. 1 pick entering the college basketball season, Barrett's star was surpassed by the comet that is Williamson. Still, the 6-foot-7 forward was seen as a part of the three-player tier considered a cut above the rest of the draft prospects after averaging 22.6 points, 7.6 rebounds and 4.3 assists at Duke last season.

Now he'll get a chance to prove he's up to the challenge he wanted to take on: reviving the Knicks, who had the league's worst record in 2018-19.

The real excitement at the draft began with the No. 4 pick, which still technically belonged to the Los Angeles Lakers but has been traded twice in the past week. First, it was sent to the Pelicans on Saturday as part of the Lakers' package for Davis. Then, a couple of hours before the draft began, it changed hands again, going to the Atlanta Hawks in exchange for the Nos. 8 (Texas center Jaxson Hayes), 17 (Virginia Tech guard Nickeil Alexander-Walker) and 35 picks in this year's draft, plus a protected first-rounder from Cleveland next year.

Atlanta made that move to take Virginia forward De'Andre Hunter -- and that's precisely what the Hawks did (via the Lakers) adding the rangy forward to an intriguing young core that includes Trae Young, Kevin Huerter and John Collins.

Hunter, who was named the ACC Defensive Player of the Year last season, will shore up an Atlanta team that struggled on defense last season, posting the fourth-worst defensive efficiency in the league. No player under contract with the Hawks for next season ranked in the top 150 in ESPN's defensive plus-minus this past season.

The move marks the second year in a row that Atlanta general manager Travis Schlenk has made a big move in the lottery. Last year, it was to trade down two spots to select Young, while also acquiring the No. 10 pick in this year's draft -- which turned out to be forward Cam Reddish from Duke.

"I didn't know they were going to trade up to the fourth pick," Hunter said. "I know they were trying to do something to get earlier in the draft. I mean, it was just a decision between me and my agents. Atlanta was the one place I did work out for."

With Hunter off the board, that left the Cleveland Cavaliers with the chance to take Vanderbilt point guard Darius Garland with the fifth pick. Despite being in the middle of lots of trade discussions leading up to the selection, the Cavaliers wound up hanging onto it and taking Garland, an intriguing prospect who played only five games for the Commodores last season before suffering a season-ending knee injury. Those five games are the second fewest by a college player drafted in the top 10 since the one-and-done era began in 2006.

That put the Minnesota Timberwolves on the clock, after they had traded forward Dario Saric and the No. 11 pick (North Carolina guard Cam Johnson) to Phoenix to move up five slots to No. 6. With the pick, Minnesota (via Phoenix) took Texas Tech forward Jarrett Culver, who entered the draft fresh off leading the Red Raiders to within a few bounces of winning this year's national championship.

Culver's selection cleared the way for the Chicago Bulls, picking seventh, to fill a need at point guard by taking North Carolina point guard Coby White, who could immediately step into the team's starting spot as a rookie next season.

From there, New Orleans took Hayes (via Atlanta) -- giving the Pelicans another athletic young big to pair with Williamson -- before the Washington Wizards selected Japanese forward Rui Hachimura from Gonzaga ninth and the Hawks, with their second pick in the top 10, took Reddish, the third player of the night from Duke.

The only other time since 1966, the common draft era, that one school has had three players selected in the top 10 was in 2007, when Al Horford (third), Corey Brewer (seventh) and Joakim Noah (ninth) all were selected out of Florida.

Johnson's surprise selection at No. 11 gave the ACC a record with six lottery picks from a single conference. Johnson, 23, is older than his future teammate Devin Booker, who is set to enter his fifth NBA season and is still just 22.

Rounding out the lottery, the Charlotte Hornets and Miami Heat took back-to-back Kentucky Wildcats at No. 12 and No. 13 -- forward PJ Washington and guard Tyler Herro -- and the Boston Celtics grabbed Indiana swingman Romeo Langford at No. 14.

NEW YORK -- If you thought Aaron Judge, upon his return to the New York Yankees' lineup Friday from an injured-list stint, was going to ease himself back into playing, think again.

The Yankees right fielder reminded reporters at Yankee Stadium on Thursday afternoon that he knew how to play at only one speed, and he intends to perform that exact same way once he comes back from his two-month layoff due to a left oblique strain.

"When I get back on the field, I got to play," Judge said. "I'm not going to try to baby it or go at 80 percent. We're in the major leagues. I've got to be at 100 percent. So I'm going to go out there and play at 100 percent."

Judge, who went on the Yankees' IL after he suffered the oblique strain during a swing April 20 against Kansas City, has not yet been added to New York's 25-man active roster. Manager Aaron Boone said that addition will not come until the Yankees make a corresponding roster drop following Thursday's series opener against the Houston Astros.

There has been much speculation as to which player the Yankees will remove in order to add back Judge, but Boone still isn't tipping his hand as to who that may be. Veteran outfielder Cameron Maybin seems the most likely subtraction, but the 32-year-old has performed well in Judge's absence since coming to the Bronx via a late-April trade.

Maybin entered Thursday with a .307 average, a career-best .383 on-base percentage, and having hit four home runs in his previous five games. Judge continued to laud the Bronx Bombers' work since he's been away.

"Guys keep stepping up and doing their job," Judge said, before sarcastically adding: "I'm trying to crack this lineup, I don't know where I'll fit in."

The Yankees went into the Astros series having homered in a league-leading 22 consecutive games. That's three games shy of the 25-game franchise record the 1941 Yankees set.

Judge said he felt like he had been ready to get back into games about a month ago, when he first started swinging again. The swinging began with tee work, toss work, work off high-velocity pitching machines, and culminated with live at-bats in rehab games at Triple-A this past week.

In six games with the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, Judge had one home run.

"To see him walk through the doors earlier and walk into the coaches' room, really good obviously to see him, knowing that he feels really good, and knowing what he brings to the [locker] room," Boone said. "So it's good to have him back, and can't wait to get him back [Friday]."

While Boone expects Judge to go all out and play at his normally high level, he's also going to be careful early on about not playing the outfielder too many days in a row.

"I expect him to be Aaron Judge," Boone said. "I'll take it slow with him as far as playing a few days, day off, and probably build him up that way. The one thing he hasn't done is played a ton of games.

"I'll want to build him up smartly. So probably won't play him four or five or six days in a row. We'll kind of build to that. But feel like he's physically in a really good spot, and he has been now for a while, and feels ready to go, and I know he'll impact us in a big way."

Through 20 games, Judge batted .288 with five home runs and 11 RBIs before he was injured. He has a rather simple plan to avoid reinjuring himself.

"I'm not worried about it happening again," Judge said. "Got to make sure I'm warm [pregame]. That's the biggest thing, getting warmed up right. Stretch out, get the core working, and then once that's ready to go, just go be an athlete and be ready to play."

LOS ANGELES -- An MRI on Thursday revealed that veteran starting pitcher Rich Hill is nursing a flexor tendon strain near his left elbow, an injury that will prevent him from throwing for nearly a month and will keep him on the injured list at least into August.

The diagnosis is often a precursor to Tommy John surgery, which at this point would sideline a starting pitcher until the 2021 season. But Hill says he believes he dodged more serious ligament damage and sounded confident in his chances of returning to the Los Angeles Dodgers' rotation in 2019.

"Yeah, I think I'll be able to pitch again this season," Hill said. "Definitely. When that is, I don't have that answer."

Hill exited his Wednesday start against the San Francisco Giants after experiencing tightness in his forearm while warming up for the second inning. A postgame ultrasound gave the 39-year-old left-hander hope that he had avoided a complete tear of his ulnar collateral ligament and an MRI on Thursday morning showed the type of ailment that the Dodgers believe can heal on its own. The technician, Hill said, did not yet know the grade of the strain.

Hill underwent a platelet rich plasma injection to promote quicker healing and estimated that he would have to wait three to four weeks to restart his throwing program, which means the middle of August is probably the earliest he could return to starting major league games.

The Dodgers will initially use a combination of Julio Urias and Ross Stripling when Hill's turn comes up in the rotation, then perhaps settle on one replacement after the All-Star break. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts reaffirmed Hill's stance that he would return this season, but called it "disheartening" to lose him for a prolonged period.

"Rich is a very driven guy," Roberts said. "But obviously nature's gotta take its course and the healing process has to happen. I expect him to dominate the rehab process, but right now, there's really nothing he can do outside of just let the body heal."

Hill, baseball's oldest active pitcher, underwent Tommy John surgery in 2011 and experienced a late-career renaissance shortly thereafter. Over the past four years, he has compiled 39 wins with a 3.02 ERA in 431⅔ innings. His 2.55 ERA this season ranks eighth among those with at least 10 starts.

Given his age, another Tommy John surgery might end his career.

Hill, in the last year of his current contract, is only thinking about returning before October.

"I'm disappointed, obviously -- not only for myself, but to help this team out," Hill said. "I want to get back as soon as I'm physically able, but not push it where it's obviously going to be nonproductive."

Roger Federer says he was "lucky" after surviving a scare against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga to reach the Halle Open quarter-finals.

Top seed Federer, 37, beat French world number 77 Tsonga 7-6 (7-5) 4-6 7-5.

The eight-time Wimbledon champion is bidding for a 10th Halle title.

World number five Alexander Zverev withdrew from the doubles due to a knee injury but beat American Steve Johnson 6-3 7-5 to reach the last eight of the singles.

Federer will play Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut in the next round at the grass-court tournament, while German 22-year-old Zverev will face Belgian David Goffin.

World number three Federer was a set and a break up against Tsonga, 34, before the Frenchman came back to take the match to a third set.

"I knew when I gave away that lead that it would be tight. Then it was about holding my nerve," said the Swiss.

"The third set was more of a battle. I tried to stay calm. It had a bit of everything: happiness, sadness, frustration. It was a bit emotional at the end, which was nice."

Zverev enjoyed a slightly more straightforward win, but admitted he is still having problems with his knee.

"Obviously my knee is still swollen but the pain is much less than it was a few days ago," he said.

"I hope when the swelling goes out it will be much better."

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Roger Penske has been named the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Donald Trump.

The announcement was made by President Trump on Thursday during a meeting in the Oval Office with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Penske is considered one of the greatest team owners in motorsports history. After starting his career as a driver, Penske transitioned to the ownership side of motorsports and success quickly followed.

In Indy car competition, Penske has won the Indianapolis 500 a record 18 times. Included in those victories is Simon Pagenaud’s triumph in the Indianapolis 500 in May. He’s also a four-time NTT IndyCar Series champion as a car owner.

He’s also been amazingly successful in NASCAR as a team owner, capturing the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series championship twice as an owner with Brad Keselowski (2012) and Joey Logano (2018). He’s also a two-time Daytona 500 winning team owner.

Penske also owns teams that compete in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship and Virgin Australia Supercars Championship. His Team Penske organization has also competed in Can-Am, Trans-Am and Formula One throughout the years.

Statement from Roger Penske on receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom. pic.twitter.com/DnXig3KjrD

— Team Penske (@Team_Penske) June 20, 2019

Bangladesh are not giving up their semi-final hopes just yet. That's what Tamim Iqbal has said, despite his team's chances of getting there coming down significantly following a 48-run loss to Australia. Having lost to England and New Zealand too, Bangladesh not only have to win their three remaining games but also hope other results go in their favour.

"I think we still have a chance," Tamim said, when asked if Bangladesh were now aiming to finish at No. 5, as the best of the rest. "I don't think any of my team-mates are thinking along those lines. We have a chance if we win three matches. If God forbid we don't have anything to play for, then we will think about No. 5."

Tamim said one way of ensuring everything goes right would be for Bangladesh to minimise the kind of mistakes they made at Trent Bridge. He felt the batsmen did their job in going past 300 for the third time in the competition, and that they could even have got to their target of 382 had he or Shakib Al Hasan stuck around until at least the 30th over, which could have left them a T20-style chase in the last 20.

"A positive side is that we made 320-plus in our last two matches, and both were chases," Tamim said. "The batsmen believe that we can chase around 320-330. I think we lost the game in a spell of three or four overs. We actually bowled well in the last three overs. I think we have to minimise mistakes.

"I am not too experienced in chasing a big score, so I stopped looking at the scoreboard. I was trying to be 180-200 at the 30-over mark. It would give us a chance in the last 20 overs chasing the remaining runs. We wouldn't have made 330-odd if we had gone hard early. I think Shakib and I got out at the wrong times."

After making 62, his highest score in the tournament, Tamim played on to Mitchell Starc in the 25th over, setting Bangladesh back at a crucial stage. "Maybe everything is not going according to plan. I have felt confident in the last two matches, but luck hasn't been on my side. I normally play this shot through third man quite well but it wasn't my day.

"I think I am hitting it well, but it is a matter of time that I get a big one. But the problem is, we don't have much time."

Sussex 255 and 236 for 5 (Evans 106*, Brown 64) lead Worcestershire 383 (Cox 61, Ferguson 56, Wessels 55, Leach 54*) by 108 runs

Sussex batsman Laurie Evans emerged as the key figure on day three of an absorbing contest here, yet it was all going so well for Worcestershire and their enthusiastic Chester Road hosts until midway through the afternoon session.

A lead on first-innings of 128 had been established at lunch, the lower order having transformed the scorecard from a modest 226 for 6 late on day two to 383 before Adam Finch became Ollie Robinson's fifth wicket, and Sussex were four down for 34, still well in arrears.

But just as Stiaan Van Zyl was making his way back to the pavilion after Josh Dell had taken a fine catch low to his left at cover, bowler Wayne Parnell was clutching the hamstring in his left leg. The South African has a history of such injuries, including one earlier this season. His immediate departure from the field prompted dismay among home supporters, having seen him bowl well to take four wickets as Sussex slipped to 102 for 6 on the opening day.

It would have been less of a blow had the captain, Joe Leach, another of Worcestershire's key weapons, not himself needed to leave the field not half a dozen overs earlier, nursing a sore gluteus muscle in his upper right leg. Leach bowled again later, but during the period both were out of the attack Sussex were able to lay the foundations for a recovery that saw them end the day 108 in front, five down.

As seems to happen so often, Ben Brown, the Sussex captain, was a key figure in turning Sussex fortunes, anchoring a partnership of 157 in 37 overs with Laurie Evans, the former Warwickshire batsman, who lost Brown as a partner when the former top-edged an attempted pull, going on to complete his maiden first-class century for Sussex when he drove Leach past mid-off for his 16th four.

It was a first century in the Championship by Evans since his double-hundred against Sussex for Warwickshire four years ago, since which time he has moved counties hoping to further his red-ball career only to find himself playing largely in the white-ball formats.

It has not served him badly, particularly on the increasingly lucrative T20 circuit, but it has brought frustrations too, since he would like to be seen as the master of all formats. This season, with a vacancy created by the retirement of Luke Wright from the red-ball game, may provide the opportunity.

Speaking with characteristic candour afterwards, Evans admitted he was "overjoyed" to have made his mark at last in a Championship game.

"My first-class career leaves so much to debate," he said. "I don't really know what has happened to it, in a way, and with the waiting I feel like it's great to finally get out there and get a hundred.

"I moved to Sussex for red-ball cricket, primarily, but as it happened I got injured in the first year, I missed a chunk in the middle of the season, and people came in and did well.

"I felt like I might have been due an opportunity last year and I spoke with Dizzy (head coach Jason Gillespie) about it. I felt I had played pretty good cricket all year and my game was in as good a shape as it ever had been.

"I feel ready for the challenges of red-ball cricket. When you get the chance there is pressure on you, having said I felt ready to play. You have to go out and do the business.

"The red-ball game is a lot tougher, it tests your technique so much more, and that's why runs in red-ball cricket feel so rewarding.

"So I'm overjoyed, really, after all the hard work I've done."

Earlier in the day, the depth of Worcestershire's batting helped them build so substantially on an overnight lead, six wickets down, of seven runs. Ollie Robinson again offered the most threat among the Sussex bowlers, giving away few easy runs, but Ben Cox, Brett D'Oliveira, Parnell and Leach all made a significant mark with the bat.

Cox and Leach made half-centuries, the latter finishing unbeaten on 54 after flexing his muscles with eight fours and a six. The last four wickets added 157.

Robinson, who has taken 18 wickets in three matches since recovering from a shoulder injury, made the first breakthrough of the day when Cox pushed forward and edged to wicketkeeper Brown for 61.

D'Oliveira fell leg before to the same bowler before Parnell followed up his four first-innings wickets by stretching the lead in partnership with Leach, the pair adding 68 before the South African was bowled off his legs by Luke Wells. Leach completed his half-century with a pull for six off Robinson.

Leach sent down 10 overs late in the day, appearing to be none the worse for his earlier mishap. How much he can contribute to the final day will depend on whether he suffers any reaction overnight. Parnell's further participation as a bowler, however, looks in doubt.

The New York Mets have fired pitching coach Dave Eiland and bullpen coach Chuck Hernandez, the team announced Thursday.

The Mets named 82-year-old Phil Regan as Eiland's replacement.

Eiland, 52, was in his second season as the Mets' pitching coach. Hernandez was in his first season with the team.

The Mets entered Thursday with a 4.67 ERA, third worst in the National League. The vaunted pitching trio of Jacob deGrom (3.26 ERA), Noah Syndergaard (4.55) and Zack Wheeler (4.94) all have struggled this season.