Quarterback Russell Wilson, fresh off signing a four-year, $140 million contract extension with the Seattle Seahawks, is thanking each of his offensive linemen with $12,000 in Amazon stock, ESPN confirmed on Monday.

TMZ was first to report the gifts.

In a letter to all 13 of Wilson's linemen, the highest-paid player in the NFL expressed his gratitude toward the men who protect him on Sundays.

"You sacrifice your physical and mental well-being to protect me, which in turn allows me to provide and care for my family," Wilson wrote. "This does not go unnoticed and it is never forgotten."

Wilson went on to write that he wanted to give his linemen something that would have a lasting impact on their families' lives.

"You have invested in my life," Wilson wrote, "this is my investment into yours."

The 30-year-old Wilson reached an extension with the Seahawks that made him the highest-paid player in the league last week.

SALT LAKE CITY -- Houston Rockets center Clint Capela, who had perhaps his worst performance of the season in the Rockets' 107-91 Game 4 loss to the Utah Jazz on Monday, told ESPN that he has been battling two respiratory illnesses during the series.

Capela, who missed a practice due to illness days before the series started, said he was diagnosed with adenovirus and a klebsiella infection during a Sunday visit to a Salt Lake City doctor, who prescribed medication and eye drops.

Capela, whose eyes were extremely bloodshot, was told it would be another four or five days before he would be fully recovered.

"It's tough, man," Capela told ESPN after being held to four points on 1-of-6 shooting and seven rebounds in the loss. "Especially when I try to breathe, it's hard. I'm just going to fight it the best that I can."

It was a season-worst scoring total for Capela, who averaged 16.6 points and 12.7 rebounds during the regular season. He grabbed fewer than seven rebounds only twice this season.

The Rockets were outscored by 20 points in Capela's Game 4 minutes. It was his second worst plus-minus of the season behind a minus-22 in a Dec. 6 loss in Utah.

SALT LAKE CITY -- "Determination over negativity" isn't just a marketing slogan for Donovan Mitchell's Adidas signature shoe. It's a mantra for the young Utah Jazz star.

So Mitchell wasn't thinking about how much he had struggled during this Western Conference playoff series when the fourth quarter of Game 4 began with the Houston Rockets leading by four points. He just wanted to make sure the Jazz got to board a flight to Houston the next afternoon.

"I'm not trying to go home," Mitchell told ESPN after scoring 19 of his game-high 31 points in the fourth quarter of the Jazz's series-extending 107-91 win Monday night. "I'm not trying to watch the rest of these games from the couch."

Mitchell made sure the Jazz's season didn't end by single-handedly outscoring the Rockets 19-12 in the final quarter. He had a flurry of 13 points during a 15-1 run in the first few minutes of the frame that gave Utah the lead for good.

Mitchell struggled mightily as the Rockets put the Jazz in jeopardy of being swept, shooting 32.8 percent from the floor in the first few games of the series, including missing a wide-open 3-pointer that would have tied the score in Game 3 with eight seconds remaining. Mitchell's misery continued for most of Game 4, as he missed nine of his first 12 shots from the floor.

Mitchell started to warm up when he made a couple of driving layups in the third quarter, just before he got a breather for a few minutes at the end of the period.

"That's when I realized that I had to continue to be aggressive," Mitchell said. "I thought they were fouls, and they weren't, and I've got to be able to fight through contact. I said, 'All right, you're not getting nothing. You've got to be able to be even more aggressive.'"

Mitchell came out firing to start the fourth quarter, with Rockets guard Eric Gordon, his nemesis all series, resting to begin the period. Mitchell swished a 3-pointer from the left wing off a feed from Ricky Rubio on the first possession. After a Rubio floater gave the Jazz a lead, Mitchell scored 11 consecutive points -- hitting a pretty turnaround jumper after a spin move in the lane, knocking down a pair of free throws, getting a shooter's roll on a 30-footer in transition and punctuating the run with a pull-up 3.

"The confidence level goes from zero to 100," Mitchell said. "Well, I wouldn't say zero, but it just goes up crazy. For me, the biggest thing is maintaining your composure. Not just going to shoot because you can, but being able to make the right plays. I think what I was most happy with was that I didn't settle. I kept getting into the paint.

"My teammates obviously just having my back is huge, continuing to fight, fight, fight and just [encouraging me] to take the same shots I've been taking, not shying away because of my struggles."

The Jazz had been outscored by 11 with Mitchell on the floor through the first three quarters. He was plus-19 in the fourth quarter, when he was 6-of-12 from the floor, 3-of-5 from 3-point range and 4-of-4 from the free throw line.

"We made some mistakes," said Rockets coach Mike D'Antoni, whose team was 4-of-20 from the floor and 0-of-13 from 3-point range in the fourth quarter. "Left him one time on a penetration and he hits a 3. We didn't square up on another penetration, it's a layup. Just, it's us. I mean, it's him, too. I mean, he's good. He's gonna get rolling, so I'm mot worried about that if we do what we're supposed to do, but we didn't."

Mitchell scored more points in Monday's fourth quarter than he had in the final frames of the Jazz's three losses in the series. He had 13 points on 4-of-16 shooting in the first quarter of the previous three games.

"We know he's a winner," said Jazz center Rudy Gobert, who along with Derrick Favors anchored a dominant defensive performance. "It was hurting him a lot, too, after those bad games. I knew that he was gonna come out ready tonight, and he did."

Jazz reserve guard Kyle Korver felt so strongly about Mitchell after Game 3 that he made a lengthy statement without prompting in support of the second-year guard, saying he'd never seen anyone as young as the 22-year-old take ownership of a team with such charisma and class. Korver said then that the missed 3 that would have tied the game would just be part of Mitchell's journey.

Now, so is a spectacular scoring flurry in the fourth quarter to help the Jazz avoid a sweep.

"Anyone who's spent any significant amount of time with him knows that his character is as high as his talent level," Korver told ESPN. "Things happen in playoff series. We're all on this learning curve. He's early in his postseason career. It's only his second year, but this is who he is. Tough night the other night, right? It was a hard one, but we all knew that he was going to bounce back.

"And he didn't start off this game well. He didn't really get going until the fourth quarter, but every single person in our locker room had confidence that when the game was on the line, he was going to take the shots and he was going to make them."

DETROIT -- The last time the Milwaukee Bucks danced out of the first round of the playoffs, Giannis Antetokounmpo had yet to pick up a basketball.

It was 2001, Ray Allen was lighting up the court against the Philadelphia 76ers. Antetokounmpo was 7 years old and half a world away.

Fast forward 18 years.

The Bucks, led by playoff career-high 41 points from Antetokounmpo, defeated the Detroit Pistons 127-104. With the win, the Bucks completed a first-round sweep of Detroit. Milwaukee won the first game of the series 121-86, the second 120-99 and the third 119-103. Before Monday night, the Bucks had lost eight straight first-round playoff series.

"It's a good night for Milwaukee," coach Mike Budenholzer said. "It's a good night for the Bucks."

The celebrations were not overwhelming. A crowd of Bucks fans -- some holding up a Greek flag -- lollygagged, screaming "MVP" in Antetokounmpo's direction. As he exited the court, Antetokounmpo high-fived Milwaukee's general manager, Jon Horst, and the team owners.

In their postgame interviews, Antetokounmpo and Eric Bledsoe vowed to celebrate over cards on the plane back to Milwaukee.

"Hopefully I'll win a poker game and take some of Giannis' money," Bledsoe said, giggling. "We know Bud will come with a great game plan, so we will leave it up to Bud to stress over."

The Pistons didn't relent easily. Coach Dwane Casey swapped Luke Kennard out of the starting line up in place of Bruce Brown, giving Detroit's second unit a shooting boost. The Pistons built a double-digit lead early in the first quarter. But by the end of the period, their lead had been slashed to two. The two teams exchanged points in the second quarter -- the lead bobbling back and forth.

At the half, the Pistons led by six. The Bucks found their stride in the middle of the third quarter. The Pistons were plagued by foul trouble and sent the Bucks to the free throw line 16 times in the third quarter alone. By the end of the third, Detroit's advantage had disappeared. Less than one minute into the fourth, the Bucks had built a 15-point lead.

From there, Blake Griffin fouled out and the Bucks never looked back.

"We just had to weather the storm," Bledsoe said. "At the end of the day, they didn't want to get swept. We knew they was going to come out aggressive."

While players were clearly excited to have won, there was also a feeling of inevitability that hung in the locker room. The Bucks had, after all, swept the Pistons in the regular season and beat them by double digits in every game. With the Game 4 win, the Bucks tied the 1986 Lakers for the second-highest point differential in a series sweep in NBA history, according to ESPN Stats & Information research.

Milwaukee was also the second team in postseason history to win their first four playoff games by at least 15 points, joining the 1980 Celtics.

The Bucks have said all the right things this series: that they are determined not to get ahead of themselves. Players said they are taking the playoffs one game at a time. Budenholzer said he found no solace in the fact that his team swept the Pistons in the regular season, and that they are not focused on what will happen in the second round because they needed to take care of business against the Pistons first. Now business is taken care of and it's on to the next one.

The Boston Celtics loom ahead.

Last year, the Celtics were the Bucks' playoff death knell. Milwaukee fell to Boston in a seven-game series -- the last of which took place at TD Garden. Bledsoe struggled in that series, shooting just 44 percent from the field.

This year's Boston/Milwaukee series will have some new faces. The Bucks added Brook Lopez to their starting lineup and signed veteran depth with George Hill and Nikola Mirotic. Last year, Gordon Hayward and Kyrie Irving were sidelined with injuries for the Celtics.

At least for one night, the Bucks say they will try to put off worrying about their future opponent.

"We're going to enjoy this win tonight," Bledsoe said. "And worry about them tomorrow."

After only one season on the job, Igor Kokoskov was fired as coach of the Phoenix Suns on Monday night.

The timing on the dismissal of Kokoskov, the first European-born NBA head coach, was partly rooted in a desire to compete against the Los Angeles Lakers in pursuit of Philadelphia 76ers assistant coach Monty Williams, league sources told ESPN.

"After extensive evaluation, I determined it is best to move in a different direction with our head coaching position," Suns general manager James Jones said in a news release. "I want to thank Igor for his work this past season and wish him the best with his future endeavors."

The Lakers are planning on a second meeting with Williams later this week, assuming the Sixers defeat the Brooklyn Nets on Tuesday to end their first-round series. The Lakers are also planning a second interview with Tyronn Lue.

The Suns have a stable of young talent that could grow to include the possible selection of Duke forward Zion Williamson or Murray State guard Ja Morant in the upcoming NBA draft. Also, Jones played under Williams in his time as a Portland Trail Blazers assistant coach, and new senior VP of basketball operations Jeff Bower hired Williams as head coach of the New Orleans Pelicans in 2010.

Kokoskov is considered a superior offensive teacher of the game but fell victim to a roster devoid of point guards and organizational dysfunction that has turned the franchise into a coaching graveyard. Kokoskov started three rookies in 36 games this season, with the Atlanta Hawks the next-highest team in games starting three rookies, with four.

The Suns' next coach will be their seventh in an eight-season span.

The Suns finished tied with the Cleveland Cavaliers for the second-worst record in the NBA at 19-63. The New York Knicks were 17-65. Phoenix was an NBA-worst 21-61 a year ago.

Since 2012-13, the Suns are 199-375, tied with the Orlando Magic for the worst record in the NBA in that span.

Information from ESPN's Stats & Information was used in this report.

A new lawsuit alleges that new Sacramento Kings coach Luke Walton sexually assaulted a woman sometime before being named coach of the Los Angeles Lakers in April 2016.

The civil lawsuit, first reported by TMZ and confirmed by ESPN, alleges that Kelli Tennant, a former host on Spectrum SportsNet LA -- the Lakers' regional sports network -- received an unwanted physical advance by Walton at a Santa Monica, California, hotel room.

The suit alleges that Tennant, who had a working relationship with Walton stemming from his time as a guest analyst on Spectrum, met with him at the Casa Del Mar Hotel to drop off a copy of her book, for which he provided the foreword, when he was in town on a road trip as an assistant coach with the Golden State Warriors.

According to the legal documents obtained by ESPN, Walton allegedly invited Tennant to his room so they wouldn't be seen together by any Warriors players. He then allegedly pinned Tennant to the hotel bed and forcibly kissed and groped her.

The suit also alleges that in May 2017, sometime after the hotel incident occurred, Walton "forced an aggressive hug" and made a lewd remark about Tennant's outfit at a charity event the two attended.

The Lakers said they were never told of the allegations when Walton was their coach and had no additional comment because he now works for another team.

"At no time before or during his employment here was this allegation reported to the Lakers," the statement read. "If it had been, we would have immediately commenced an investigation and notified the NBA. Since Luke Walton is now under contract to another team, we will have no further comment."

The Kings released a statement on Monday night regarding the alleged incident.

"We are aware of the report and are gathering additional information," the statement said. "We have no further comment at this time."

The Warriors said they were also "aware of the alleged incident" and gathering additional information. The team had no other comment.

The NBA has opened an investigation of its own, sources told ESPN.

The Los Angeles Times reports that Tennant's lawyer declined to say whether she reported the alleged assault to police.

Walton "mutually parted ways" with the Lakers earlier this month, according to the team, and was hired by the Kings the next day.

Team sources told ESPN's Ramona Shelburne that the alleged incident occurred well before Walton joined the Lakers. "No one ever reported it to the team," a source said. "And that is not why the team parted ways with him."

BALTIMORE -- For catcher Jesus Sucre, less was more.

Pitching in the ninth inning of the Baltimore Orioles' 12-2 loss on Monday night, Sucre relied exclusively on soft stuff to retire the top of the Chicago White Sox's lineup in order. The 30-year-old backstop needed just nine pitches to set down Leury Garcia, Yoan Moncada and Jose Abreu, who had combined to go 5-for-13 with a home run and five RBIs through the first eight innings. Sucre induced infield grounders from Garcia and Moncada, then got Abreu on a fly out to right field to end the frame.

MLB Statcast classified all of Sucre's pitches as breaking balls, presumably due to their velocity (or lack thereof). But after the game, the veteran catcher revealed that eight of the nine pitches he threw were fastballs.

"It's more easy for the hitters if you throw harder," said Sucre, whose mound appearance on Monday was the sixth of his career. Previously, his fastball had been clocked as fast as 90.3 mph.

"If you don't throw hard, it's going to be hard for the hitters," he said.

Against the White Sox, Sucre's hardest pitch checked in at 69.3 mph. His softest offering was his only curveball, a 53.6-mph spinner that he threw to Moncada.

Sucre became the ninth position player to pitch in the majors this season, according to ESPN Stats & Information research. He joins Dodgers catcher Russell Martin and Indians backstop Kevin Plawecki as the only non-hurlers to record 1-2-3 innings.

The Orioles, who have already sent utility man Hanser Alberto and first baseman Chris Davis to the hill this year, are the only team that has used multiple position players to pitch. Davis took the mound on Saturday in the finale of a doubleheader sweep in which the Orioles lost 16-7 to the Minnesota Twins.

"We've been having tough games the last couple days," said Sucre, whose team has lost five of its past six contests, and 14 of its past 18. "I'm here to help my guys."

Prior to this season, the O's had used emergency hurlers a total of nine times in 65 seasons since coming to Baltimore. After Monday's loss to Chicago, the last-place Orioles have a 6.37 team ERA that ranks last in the majors.

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- For the first time in his professional career, Los Angeles Angels outfielder Peter Bourjos played the infield.

It didn't take long for him to look like he had already been there before.

Bourjos pulled off web-gem wizardry in the top of the 13th inning Monday night of a 4-3, 14-inning loss when, while playing second base for the first time in his career, he dove to his left to stop a hard-hit ground ball from speedy New York Yankees outfielder Brett Gardner.

Upon recording the out, Bourjos got his share of sarcastic cheers and claps from teammates in the home dugout.

Even his opponents were impressed.

"First of all, to get to it, knock it down, and I thought for sure like, 'How is he going to be able to know how to make that touch throw?' And he did," said Yankees manager Aaron Boone, a former major league infielder himself. "Tough play."

Bourjos' infield appearance was but one of a litany of strange occurrences late in the extra-innings game. As the clock raced past 2 a.m. back on the East Coast, things got wacky.

In addition to Bourjos playing out of position, the Angels -- out of position players when Bourjos entered the game in the 12th as a pinch hitter replacing designated hitter Kevan Smith -- were forced into trotting out a relief pitcher to serve as a pinch runner.

Ultimately, it didn't matter that righty reliever Felix Pena came in as a 12th-inning baserunner. One batter after he entered, the Yankees got out of a possible trouble with an inning-ending ground ball.

Pena made the rare basepath appearance in an American League game because third baseman Zack Cozart was forced to leave after injuring his neck running the bases. Cozart had just taken his turn around second when his teammate, Brian Goodwin, drove in another baserunner with a game-tying single.

As Cozart raced back to second base, where the Yankees threw behind him, he dove awkwardly into the bag. His helmet appeared to come off and hit him in the face just before his head smacked into Yankees infielder DJ LeMahieu's shin. After a rather lengthy injury delay, Cozart came out of the game, replaced by Pena.

When it was time for the Angels to head to the field the next half inning, Pena's spot in the order was replaced by relief pitcher Luke Bard, who came on for the 13th. As a result, Bourjos' time as the DH was burned, meaning he had to enter the game on defense. Second base was where he was placed.

Pena wasn't the only Angels pitcher to enter late in a non-traditional role. In the 14th inning, with Los Angeles trailing by a run, starting pitcher Trevor Cahill came out to pinch-hit for Bard. It marked the first time an Angels pitcher had pinch-hit in an American League game since the DH was adopted in 1973.

Cahill, who fouled two pitches off Yankees reliever Jonathan Holder, struck out swinging to end the game.

"He put some good swings together," Holder said of Cahill. "It was definitely different seeing a pitcher up there."

PITTSBURGH -- Nick Burdi's combination of grit and resilience -- oh and a fastball that can touch triple digits -- helped the Pittsburgh Pirates reliever carve out a spot in the big leagues less than two years removed from Tommy John surgery on his right arm.

One innocent-looking pitch to Arizona's Jarrod Dyson on Monday night likely signaled another abrupt turn in Burdi's roller coaster career and the Diamondbacks' 12-4 comeback victory.

The 26-year-old, a former touted prospect in Minnesota who found traction in Pittsburgh, threw a 96 mph fastball to Dyson in the eighth inning then crumpled to the ground before clutching his right arm while tears filled his eyes. He wept while teammates tried to console him on the mound.

Pirates director of sports medicine Todd Tomczyk said Burdi was dealing with pain in his biceps and elbow, but it was too early for a diagnosis.

"It just takes the breath right out of you," said Pittsburgh manager Clint Hurdle.

Burdi had struck out 17 over 8 1/3 innings prior to Monday after making the Pirates out of spring training. Christian Walker touched him for a two-run home run in Arizona's seven-run seventh inning and Burdi gave up three straight singles to start the eighth before his second pitch to Dyson altered the trajectory of Burdi's season, if not his career.

"It's awful," Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo said. "We're competitors up until something like that happens. We're all in the same family. You hate to see anything like that happen. The way he went down, you're just hoping for the absolute best."

Burdi's teammates stopped by to check on him in the aftermath. While the prognosis is uncertain, the Pirates are confident Burdi will find a way to navigate the difficult path ahead.

"He's in good spirits," Pittsburgh starter Joe Musgrove said. "He's engaging. He's talking to us. He's not in a corner crying. He's ready to face whatever it is. He's got the work ethic and the mentality to bounce back from something like this."

COMEBACK KIDS

The Diamondbacks put together their major league leading ninth comeback by exploding in the seventh and eighth after falling behind 4-1. A walk and a single chased Musgrove, and Arizona poured it on against reliever Kyle Crick (0-1) and Burdi.

Swinging bunts by John Ryan Murphy and newly acquired Blake Swihart -- singles that didn't even reach the pitcher's mound -- and a flare to left field over a draw-in infield by Eduardo Escobar drew the Diamondbacks within 4-3. David Peralta then drilled a shot to the gap in right-center off Crick, and Walker followed two batters later with a towering flyball off Burdi that landed in the first row of seats in the right field stands. In a span of minutes, a three-run deficit morphed into an 8-4 lead.

"I think it's just a tribute to the guys we have," said Walker, whose seven home runs have all come in the seventh inning or later. "Our pitches are out there battling and keeping us in games. We want to do everything we can to score runs and win and all that."

Escobar added his third home run and finished with three RBI for Arizona. Murphy finished with three hits for the Diamondbacks, who improved to 5-2 on their current 10-game trip. Matt Andriese (3-1) picked up the win in relief.

POLANCO RETURNS

Pittsburgh right fielder Gregory Polanco doubled and singled in his first game back after undergoing left shoulder surgery last September. While Polanco acknowledged his throwing arm probably won't be at 100 percent for a while, he looked comfortable in the field, too, though he declined to take any risks on a pair of sinking flyballs sent his way in the later innings with Pittsburgh already trailing.

ALL SHUCK UP

The portion of Pittsburgh's second-smallest crowd (9,233) that stuck around for the ninth got a chance to watch outfielder JB Shuck make his second major league appearance on the mound. Shuck -- who gave up a run in an inning of work for the Chicago White Sox in 2016 -- allowed a walk and a hit but kept the Diamondbacks from adding to their huge lead.

"Unfortunately, you never want to be in that situation, but somebody, I guess has to do it," said Shuck, who reached 91 mph. "I don't mind doing it and hopefully helping out in some way."

TRAINER'S ROOM

Pirates: 2B Kevin Newman will spend some time in the outfield at Triple-A Indianapolis working in the outfield as he recovers from a laceration in the middle finger of his right (throwing) hand. Hurdle said Newman will also get in some work at shortstop, though Newman could find himself as more of a utility player at the big-league level.

UP NEXT

Pittsburgh's Trevor Williams (1-0, 2.59 ERA) will look for his first victory since March 31 on Tuesday. Arizona starter Luke Weaver (1-1, 3.92) tossed five shutout innings in his last start, a win over Atlanta on April 18.

NEW YORK -- Bryce Harper's first game at Citi Field as a member of the Philadelphia Phillies began with a long rain delay and ended with a short stay. Harper was ejected in the top of the fourth inning of a 5-1 loss after chirping from the bench after he struck out looking on a high fastball.

Four batters after Harper struck out on the 2-2 pitch, during the middle of Cesar Hernandez's at-bat, umpire Mark Carlson ejected Harper. Phillies manager Gabe Kapler rushed out of the dugout to argue. Harper then sprinted out from the dugout sans helmet, and Kapler had to push him away from Carlson. Harper continued to yell and point towards Carlson and had to be restrained.

"It just can't happen," Harper said. "In a game like that against the Mets, division rival, things like that, it just can't happen. For myself and this team, as well. We're a better team with me in the lineup, and I gotta stay in that game."

Phillies starter Jake Arrieta agreed.

"We need him in right field," he told reporters after the game. "I don't care how bad (the ump) is, I need him in right field, I need him at the plate and he wasn't there. So that hurts. He missed some pitches but for both sides. If that's the case, that happens on a nightly basis usually. The umpire is going to miss some calls. So what? Next pitch. We've got a game to play.

"I'm not happy with the way we showed up today. We need to come out tomorrow ready to go."

It was Harper's 12th career ejection and, incredibly, the first Phillies player to get ejected from a game since Justin De Fratus on June 16, 2015. Harper is second among active players in ejections, trailing only Matt Kemp, who has 14 and entered the majors six years before Harper.

"I have to stay in that game for the organization, the fans. I have to do better," Harper said. "These games matter. They matter now, they matter in September."

Kapler didn't believe Harper deserved to be ejected. "There was normal chirping from the dugout that is in every dugout every single night," he said. "It was no different."

Kapler said the Phillies were not happy with Carlson's strike zone: "Our dugout did not agree with a lot of Mark's calls. I think everyone can go back and look at the game and form their own opinions."

The pitch Carlson rung up Harper on was a fastball up in the zone and on the outside corner, but certainly a reasonable call according to strike-zone data. A previous called strike in the at-bat was even more borderline at the top of the zone.

Harper didn't say much to Carlson as he walked to the dugout after the call, but he apparently kept yelling from the bench. He had also struck out in the first inning, taking two pitches for strikes from Steven Matz and then swinging through a 2-2 slider.

Harper is hitting .272/.410/.531 but has now struck out 29 times in 22 games and is on pace for 213 strikeouts. He fanned a career-high 169 times last season in 159 games.