Cleveland Cavaliers guard Max Strus will make his season debut on Friday against the Washington Wizards, barring setbacks, sources told ESPN on Wednesday.

Strus suffered an ankle sprain in training camp workouts in mid-October.

He started all 70 games he played in last season, averaging career highs in minutes, points, rebounds, assists, steals and blocks and totaling the second-highest plus-minus on the Cavaliers. His return provides a major boost for their shooting and wing depth.

Strus has increased his stats across the board in every season of his career. He is entering his sixth NBA season.

The Cavaliers will now be able to deploy their most-used starting lineup from last season, when healthy, with Darius Garland, Donovan Mitchell, Strus, Evan Mobley and Jarrett Allen. Cleveland had an 18-10 record when those five started together.

The Phoenix Suns are among the teams that Jimmy Butler's agent has indicated in NBA circles that the six-time NBA All-Star is open to as a destination as the Miami Heat listen to trade offers, league sources told ESPN on Wednesday.

As reported in the Inside Pass on Tuesday, the Heat are open to dealing Butler if the trade proposal is right, according to league sources, and Butler's agent, Bernie Lee, expressed in league circles that he was open to the Dallas Mavericks, Houston Rockets, Golden State Warriors and Suns.

Butler was believed to prefer a win-now contender. He said Wednesday he doesn't mind his name being in the rumor mill.

"I actually like it," Butler said. "It's good to be talked about. I don't think there's such a thing as bad publicity -- to a point."

Butler, 35, is averaging 19 points, 5.4 rebounds and 4.8 assists this season. He's one of the NBA's elite competitors and is a perennial postseason performer. His teams have made the playoffs in 12 of his first 13 seasons, including the five previous seasons in Miami, where he has led the Heat to two NBA Finals berths and one additional Eastern Conference finals appearance.

Butler has $49 million on his contract with the Heat for this season -- with a $52 million player option for 2025-26 after the two sides failed to reach an extension last summer.

Right-hander Jonathan Loaisiga and the New York Yankees have agreed on a one-year contract with a team option for 2026, a source told ESPN on Wednesday.

The deal is pending a physical for Loaisiga, who has been hampered by elbow and shoulder injuries in recent years. He has appeared in 163 games over the past seven seasons with the Yankees.

In 2022, Loaisiga missed nearly two months because of shoulder inflammation. In 2023, arthroscopic surgery to remove a bone spur in his right elbow limited him to 17 appearances. Last season, he appeared in three games in 2024 before undergoing season-ending elbow surgery in April. He is expected to be cleared to pitch in late April.

When healthy, however, Loaisiga's ceiling is high. He boasts electric stuff, highlighted by a 98 mph sinker, which made him an appealing free agent option for several clubs, including the New York Mets, San Diego Padres, Texas Rangers and Toronto Blue Jays.

Loaisiga enjoyed his best season in 2021, when he posted a 2.17 ERA in 57 appearances across 70 innings. He returns to a Yankees bullpen that lost All-Star Clay Holmes to the Mets last week and could also lose Tommy Kahnle and Tim Hill in free agency this winter.

Loaisiga is the second player to agree to a deal with the Yankees since Juan Soto chose to sign with the Mets. He joins two-time All-Star left-hander Max Fried, who reached an agreement on an eight-year, $218 million contract Tuesday.

The Yankees also announced Wednesday they have traded catcher Carlos Narvaez to the Boston Red Sox for minor league right-hander Elmer Rodriguez-Cruz and international signing bonus pool money.

Jack Draper has cancelled his planned training week with Carlos Alcaraz because of a "little bit of a niggle" in his hip.

The British number one was due in Spain to train with the Wimbledon champion next week, but is limited to gym work at the moment.

Draper is in the Great Britain team which will contest the United Cup from 27 December, but is not yet sure whether he will be fit to play.

The Australian Open starts in Melbourne on 12 January.

"I've been working incredibly hard the last couple of weeks to get myself to hopefully improve for next year," said Draper.

"I did have a little bit of a niggle in my hip area and in terms of going away to Spain and training at that level of intensity with Carlos I had to make that call because it's not fair on him if I go and I am not 100%.

"It was something that we were really excited about, and something me and (his coach) James (Trotman) had been talking about for a while.

"To try to go out and hit with the best players in the world and get that exposure to the highest highest level possible on a regular basis to get prepared for the New Year."

Draper says this injury is different to the hip problem that troubled him at the start of 2023, but it comes at an irritating time for the 22-year-old.

He has risen to 15 in the world after winning ATP titles in Stuttgart and Vienna and shown much greater resistance to injury this year.

The US Open semi-finalist was speaking at a Memory Walk in aid of the Alzheimer's Society in west London. Draper is an ambassador for the charity and has spoken movingly about the impact the disease has had on his grandmother.

Shortly before the walk, he described his grandfather, who is his grandma's main carer, as an "absolute hero to keep on doing what he's doing".

Pollard, who helped South Africa to 2019 and 2023 World Cup triumphs, has been with Tigers since 2022.

He joined the club from French side Montpellier just months after Leicester won the latest of their 11 Premiership titles.

Pollard has featured 37 times across all competitions for Tigers so far, with four coming under former Australia and Argentina boss Cheika this season.

He praised the Australian - who took over on a year-long contract in the summer - for the "positive environment" he has fostered in his few months at the helm.

"I'm really enjoying playing and all the boys, everyone, is enjoying it," said Pollard. "And you can't underestimate how important that is.

"We have to play hard and be on it every week, but the enjoyment element of it is so important in a rugby group in a long season like we have these days.

"That brings the best out of everybody."

David Bonderman, a lawyer and investor who managed money for one of the richest families in Texas, helped create one of the giants of the private-equity business and pushed to bring professional hockey to Seattle, died Wednesday. He was 82.

Asset management firm TPG, which Bonderman co-founded, the Seattle Kraken, Bonderman's family and his Wildcat Capital Management investment company announced his death.

For much of his career, Bonderman kept a low profile in public, rarely granting interviews with news organizations. He concentrated on corporate takeovers and other investments, many of which were highly profitable.

Forbes magazine estimated his wealth at $6.5 billion in March 2023.

"Rarely the loudest person in the room, but often the smartest, David remained humble, once saying that his personal strength was 'Not knowing a lot about something but knowing enough to make a decent decision,'" a statement from his family and companies said.

Born in Los Angeles on Nov. 27, 1942, Bonderman attended the University of Washington and Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1966.

After a stint teaching law at Tulane University, he joined the U.S. Justice Department in the late 1960s, then in 1971 became a partner and expert in corporate and securities law at Arnold & Porter, a high-powered Washington, D.C., law firm.

In 1983, he went to work for the Robert M. Bass Group investment company in Fort Worth, Texas. With money from the Bass family, which traced its wealth to the exploits of Texas oil wildcatter Sid Richardson, Bonderman and partner Jim Coulter made several leveraged buyouts in the 1980s, including a hugely profitable investment in Continental Airlines.

Bonderman and Coulter started Texas Pacific Group in 1992. According to its website, the private-equity firm now known as TPG manages $239 billion in assets and has invested in industries that include health care, technology and business services. The firm was a major early investor in short-term rental site Airbnb and music streaming service Spotify.

Bonderman served on several corporate and philanthropic boards. In 2017, he resigned from the Uber board hours after an employee meeting on sexism at the ride-hailing company.

When fellow director Arianna Huffington said data showed that having one woman on the board made it more likely a second would be added, Bonderman interjected, "Actually, what it shows is that it's much more likely to be more talking." He later apologized.

In politics, Bonderman was a longtime backer of former Texas governor and Republican President George W. Bush but flipped to support Democrat John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election. He famously told The Wall Street Journal that Bush was "a really good guy" but had divided the country.

"He's turning out to be the worst president since Millard Fillmore -- and that's probably an insult to Millard Fillmore," Bonderman said.

With his wealth from TPG, Bonderman purchased a minority stake in the Boston Celtics and was a member of the group holding a majority interest in the Seattle Kraken, an expansion team in the National Hockey League.

Bonderman also threw lavish birthday parties. The Rolling Stones played at his 60th birthday bash, and Paul McCartney headlined his 70th birthday soiree. Both events were in Las Vegas.

His survivors include five children and three grandchildren.

Substitute Ferran Torres scored twice including an 85th-minute winner as Barcelona earned a hard-fought 3-2 victory at Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League on Wednesday to move to the brink of qualification.

In a pulsating five-goal second half, Torres struck twice in 10 minutes after coming on in the 71st minute to lift Barcelona to 15 points in second place with two games remaining in the league phase.

Dortmund twice came from a goal down with Serhou Guirassy scoring both their goals but they could not do it a third time after Torres's goal from a Lamine Yamal pass.

The Germans dropped down to ninth place on 12 points. The top eight teams qualify automatically for the round of 16.

Barcelona bossed possession from the start and captain Raphinha and top scorer Robert Lewandowski had early chances.

The hosts responded with a chance of their own through Marcel Sabitzer but it was Dortmund keeper Gregor Kobel who was kept busy in a largely one-sided first half with the visitors enjoying close to 70% possession.

Dortmund looked sharper after the break and Guirassy put the ball in the net in the 50th minute before the effort was ruled out for offside.

There was nothing wrong, however, when Raphinha latched on to a superb Dani Olmo pass to finish off a quick move in the 53rd minute and put Barcelona in the driving seat with his sixth goal of the competition.

The hosts levelled with Guirassy's well-taken penalty on the hour after the Guinea international was brought down in the box before Dortmund's Kobel came to the rescue once more, stopping another Olmo shot.

He was beaten in the 75th when Torres, who had come on four minutes earlier, slotted in on the rebound after Kobel had punched a Frenkie de Jong volley into his path.

Guirassy hit back three minutes later when the Barca defence was caught napping but it would not be enough to earn a point as Torres scored once more after a superb through ball from Yamal.

There was still more bad news for injury-plagued Dortmund after defender Nico Schlotterbeck turned his ankle following a header in the last move of the game and had to be treated on the pitch after the final whistle.

A late Tammy Abraham goal gave AC Milan a thrilling 2-1 Champions League win over Red Star Belgrade at the San Siro on Wednesday to make it four wins in a row for the Italian side.

Red Star went close to drawing first blood with an Andrija Maksimovic volley that hit the crossbar before Rafael Leao got the opener for the home side in the 42nd minute, superbly controlling a long ball from Youssouf Fofana with his right foot before using his second touch to clip it into the top corner with his left.

Nemanja Radonjic, who scored twice when his side came from behind to beat Stuttgart 5-1, equalised in the 67th minute, collecting the ball outside the box and unleashing a blistering shot that flew past the despairing dive of Mike Maignan.

Abraham struck the winner in the 87th minute, making the most of some chaos in the penalty box after a set piece to lash the ball into the net and lift Milan up to 12th spot on 12 points, while Red Star are 31st with three points.

Arsenal took a giant step towards the Champions League knockout stage as Bukayo Saka once again proved the catalyst as his double helped them to a 3-0 victory over AS Monaco on Wednesday.

Mikel Arteta's side began the fixture outside the top eight in the expanded league stage and with plenty of work to do to avoid being dragged into the playoffs.

It was not all plain sailing for Arsenal who were guilty of some profligate finishing but England forward Saka made sure they moved into third spot in the table with two games left.

He broke the deadlock in the 34th minute from a Gabriel Jesus pass and just when it looked as though a succession of missed chances by his teammates could prove costly he was gifted his second in the 78th minute.

Substitute Kai Havertz rubber-stamped Arsenal's fourth win from six games in this year's competition in the 88th minute.

Arsenal have 13 points while Monaco, who began the evening level with the London club, are now 16th with 10 points.

With injuries forcing his hand, Arteta handed a first Champions League start to 18-year-old Myles Lewis-Skelly and the left back played a key role in Saka's opener.

Shrugging off a challenge, he showed great vision to pierce Monaco's defensive line with a pinpoint pass to Gabriel Jesus whose low cross was swept in by Saka.

Monaco's initial poise evaporated and they were fortunate not to be buried before the interval.

A dreadful mistake by Soungoutou Magassa sent Martin Ødegaard clear through on goal. The Norway international looked certain to score but rolled his shot wide of the post.

Brazilian Jesus, whose goal touch has deserted him this season, had earlier spurned a one-on-one and another good chance, both times denied by Monaco keeper Radoslaw Majecki.

Gabriel Martinelli was also guilty as Arsenal arrived at halftime somehow only one goal ahead.

Heartened by those escapes, Monaco threatened to make Arsenal pay in the second half with Thilo Kehrer flashing a header just wide from a swinging free kick and former Liverpool player Takumi Minamino then shooting too close to David Raya when the ball was cut back to him in the area.

All their good work was undone though as they gifted Arsenal an early Christmas present in the 78th minute.

A mix-up between defender Mohammed Salisu and his keeper allowed Saka to score his ninth goal of the season in all competitions and ease any late nerves.