Paris Saint-Germain superstar Neymar reaffirmed his desire to leave the club in a short meeting with sporting director Leonardo, sources told ESPN FC.

The meeting occurred after the Brazil international reported for preseason training on Monday, one week after he was expected back in the French capital.

As indicated through his father last week, Neymar returned to the French champions' Camp des Loges training centre after fulfilling his commitments back in his homeland, with Leonardo reminding the player of PSG's disappointment at his tardiness and consequent stance.

Neymar and Leonardo have spoken multiple times over the telephone since the latter's return as sporting director earlier this month, and the player's father has also told the PSG exec that his son wants out, but ESPN FC sources say that Monday marked the first time that such a talk has happened face to face.

Although Neymar did not train with his club teammates and is not expected to feature in Tuesday's friendly against Dynamo Dresden in Germany, the 27-year-old did a significant amount of gym work and is expected to undergo further tests as his teammates travel to Rudolf Harbig stadium.

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The ball is now in Barcelona's court after the €222 million man dropped a thinly disguised hint at his hopes for a summer move over the weekend.

Sources have also revealed that Barca feel it is possible to still bring the South American in after signing Antoine Griezmann for €120 million last week. Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu had previously stated that he was aware that Neymar wanted to leave but that PSG didn't want to sell him.

Meanwhile, super-agent Pini Zahavi remains hard at work with Philippe Coutinho's agent Kia Joorabchian on trying to ensure that a possible switch stands the strongest chance of happening.

Elsewhere, Abdou Diallo's signing is expected to be made official by the Ligue 1 giants on Tuesday after the 23-year-old underwent his medical on Monday ahead of his proposed €32m move from Borussia Dortmund.

Derbyshire 146 (Hudson-Prentice 55, Sanderson 5-46) and 155 for 5 need a further 164 runs to beat Northamptonshire 342 and 122 (Palladino 4-33) by 308 runs

An astonishing day on which 24 wickets fell ended with Northamptonshire closing in on victory against Derbyshire at Chesterfield.

After Ben Sanderson took 5 for 46 to bowl Derbyshire out for 146 with Fynn Hudson-Prentice unbeaten on 55, Tony Palladino claimed 4 for 33 as Northants were shot out for 122. That left Derbyshire chasing 319 for victory but by the close, they were 155 for 5, still 164 runs short of the target.

A pitch offering spin and variable bounce was certainly demanding to bat on but lack of foot movement and poor shot selection accounted for the majority of the wickets.

The carnage began when Wayne Madsen played across the line to give Sanderson his first victim and the rest of the day became a procession as wickets tumbled to a rash of poor strokes. Tom Lace and Leus du Plooy paid the price for failing to get forward as Derbyshire slipped to 60 for 6 before Hudson-Prentice took 22 from a Rob Keogh over.

Matt Coles struck with his third delivery by trapping Matt Critchley on the crease but Hudson-Prentice reached 50 before Keogh wrapped up the innings giving Northants a lead of 196.

They chose not to enforce the follow-on but instead of an afternoon of accumulation, Northants moved into T20 mode and were bowled out in a chaotic session on a pitch which had clearly put doubts in the minds of the batsmen.

Ricardo Vasconcelos was run out attempting a second to deep square leg and after Luke Proctor offered no shot to Hudson-Prentice, Palladino profited from inadequate technique and ill-judged shots.

Keogh played across the line, Adam Rossington drove wildly at his first ball and although Temba Bavuma and Josh Cobb briefly threatened to restore order, more frantic shot selection sent the innings into terminal decline.

Cobb drove Critchley to long off and Bavuma fell victim to the mood of recklessness when he skied Palladino to point. Hamidullah Qadri beat Coles's charge and less than 31 overs had been bowled when Saif Zaib holed out to leave Derbyshire facing the highest successful run chase at Queen's Park.

They clearly decided to approach it in a positive way as Billy Godleman and Luis Reece came out swinging in the late afternoon sunshine. Godleman repeatedly charged the opening bowlers before he was stumped for 25 off Sanderson in the fifth over and Madsen lost his middle stump trying to work Coles through midwicket.

Reece was lbw playing back to Keogh and Luke Proctor struck twice in his first over to leave Northants favourites to wrap up victory on Tuesday.

Whaddabout that Final eh?

How about those England boys and all those big moments? The Stokes heroics, Buttler being Buttler, the Archer cool at the death of the death? That throw from Roy and the sharply calm captaincy of Eoin Morgan?

Amid the kaleidoscopic madness of that chaotic ending, it was easy to lose sight of what had gone earlier and the incredible performance of one player on the biggest stage in cricket. Whaddabout Liam Plunkett?

Who'd have thought Liam Plunkett Bowling Cross-Seam In The Middle Overs could become a thing? But in this World Cup, it has most assuredly become A Thing. Plunkett hadn't bowled at his best in the semi-final against Australia; it was the only match in which he took no wickets, undermined perhaps by new-ball dominance that had preceded him.

But throughout the tournament his range of cross-seamers - he has three variations of that variation - have captured the biggest scalps: Virat Kohli, Chris Gayle, Hashim Amla. And at Lord's, the first of his three wickets was his former Yorkshire team-mate and linchpin of the New Zealand line-up, Kane Williamson. With cross-seam in the middle overs. Whuddathunket!

"I felt good I wasn't going to try and do anything different," said Plunkett after the game. "I was going to bowl cross-seam, mix the seam up and just hit my length. That's what Morgs said to me first-up. He said, 'We've not tried cross-seam yet. Do what you do.'

"And he often said to me during the game, 'You're the best in the world at that point.' So to have your captain say that to you, it gives you a little bit of a spark and today I felt good and just to get Kane out is a massive turning point. I've played with Kane, I know how good he is, obviously player of the tournament, so to get that wicket it felt like the momentum had shifted a little bit."

When we spoke during the aftermath of the match, Plunkett was still struggling to be coherent through the emotion and kept apologising.

"It's not sunk in, it's not sunk in. I had a minute where we won and then we went back upstairs, I bawled my eyes out. You know the guys are celebrating and I was just hit by a wave of emotion and seeing my old man, who's been on the journey with me, my mum and dad, but my dad, he's not an emotional person but to see him cry, it was tear-jerking for sure."

Plunkett has every reason to feel this more than just about anyone. He made his World Cup debut twelve years ago - in 2007. Just let that sink in for a second. That longevity in itself also serves as a reminder that many professional cricketers, even the best ones, can go through their career without having their glory moment on the big stage.

"It's surreal," said Plunkett. "I was playing in the World Cup in the Caribbean, 2007, I think it was, against Ross Taylor and then I'm in the final with Ross Taylor again. It just goes by in a flash."

"But I've never really won a massive trophy. I know this is the biggest of the biggest for a cricketer to win the World Cup. I won a trophy with Durham way back when, and a few Champos, but I've never won a T20 in front of a big crowd or an IPL. It was meant to be, to win this in front of a big crowd in England at Lord's, the best ground in the world, in front of an amazing crowd and everyone got to see it on TV. I'd have given my right leg for it.

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"The boys have been amazing over the past four years. You don't deserve to win anything, you don't deserve to win a World Cup, but what we've played in the last four years, we've dominated teams on the other side of the world. We've travelled, we've won away series, we won here 4-0, we beat the good teams, but you've got to put that all together for a World Cup. We saw that in the ICC Champions Trophy, we got beaten in the semi-finals and you start to think, in the back of your mind, that you can't go on to win a trophy."

Plunkett's ten runs from ten balls, including a crucial boundary, shouldn't be overlooked either. He was the last batsmen to contribute any runs in a partnership with Stokes; those who came after were all out for ducks. But he stresses the balance of personal responsibility and faith in team-mates.

"I think the best thing about this team is that you know the person behind you can do the job, but no one wants to leave it to them."

England's next ODI is eight months away. Their next World Cup campaign is four years away and England have learned, at long last, the value of long-term planning. At 34 years of age, it's possible that we may never see Plunkett's Cross-Seam In The Middle Overs on such a big stage again. But it is also probable that nothing could ever surpass this.

"I'm speechless. I keep thinking, 'I'm a World Cup winner'. Sorry if I'm not making too much sense," he apologises once more.

That's quite okay, Liam. As Eoin Morgan would say, do what you do.

"Did I sleep at all?

Hmm. I did sleep. I did."

Kane Williamson talks in the dry, wry, inimitable tone of his. We are standing at arm's length. I am trying hard to find an emotion in the man's face. This is no ordinary man. This man, this leader of men, lost the World Cup in the cruelest way possible.

No, wait.

This man saw the World Cup being snatched from New Zealand's grip by the combined might of cricket's Laws and the thing that human nature can neither be prepared for nor prevail: fate. If you want to rub it in a bit more, this man had to swallow defeat in a World Cup final for the second successive time, after Brendon McCullum's New Zealand had lost to Australia.

So you ask Kane Williamson: did you sleep?

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Williamson did. But after a lot of time trying to understand what had happened. After a lot of time chatting with his team-mates in the away dressing room at Lord's, hours after the World Cup was over. After hours of reflection.

That reflection, by his own admission, Williamson says, will not end. Not for some time. It will haunt him and his men. At least for a while. I ask him to try and explain his emotions from the moment cricket was over. "I reckon I sort of explained that to a few people," Williamson says, nodding his head. "It hits in you in waves. For ten minutes you forget about it, and you make little jokes. And then it comes back to you and you go: 'Did that just happen? Did it just happen? Is that real or is that just I woke up wondering whether it was a bad dream? It wasn't. Was it.' "

You want him to cry. He has not, he assures. "Not me."

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Williamson might have managed to keep his emotions in check but a few of the New Zealand players could not hide theirs. Jimmy Neesham, who was in the middle when Jos Buttler ran out his partner Martin Guptill to deny New Zealand the two runs off the final ball of the Super Over and the World Cup, went down on his knees and might have shed a tear or two. Later Neesham, one of the most intelligent wordsmiths in cricket, summed up his feelings on Twitter succinctly: "Kids, don't take up sport. Take up baking or something. Die at 60 really fat and happy," he said in his first post. In a follow-up post, he explained: "That hurts. Hopefully there's a day or two over the next decade where I don't think about that last half hour."

Tim Southee, who played the 2015 final, but took a spectacular catch in the deep as a 12th man on Sunday, observed: "What is there to say?"

A lot was said and not said on Sunday evening. In the away dressing room at Lord's. Hours after the match was over. As the sun set in London and Lord's dazzled in moonlight Williamson and his men reflected on what had happened. It was important to not leave the venue without having bared a few feelings.

Kids, don't take up sport. Take up baking or something. Die at 60 really fat and happy.

— Jimmy Neesham (@JimmyNeesh) July 15, 2019

The chats were more to comprehend what happened. How could New Zealand lose without having lost? How could England get away when they needed 15 runs in the final over from Trent Boult? Two dot balls and then Ben Stokes hit a six. And then ran two, but that became six owing to that overthrow. England were granted six runs after New Zealand accepted the on-field umpires had interpreted the Law correctly even though soon it would transpire they had actually not. Still Boult managed to deny England victory. And then that traumatic Super Over.

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Former New Zealand batsman Craig McMillan, who finished his tenure as the batting coach with the World Cup, points out his mindset overnight. "There wasn't a lot of sleep last night. You are looking for a run. You can find a dozen runs quite easily, not one when you actually needed it. So that is going to be the nature of it for a little while."

McMillan says the emotions the players are feeling right now are "very hard" to put into words. "A lot of things were thrown at them, but they kept fighting, kept coming back at England, trying to find a way to win. Also hugely proud the way they conducted themselves off the field in pretty trying circumstances at the end of the match. Overriding emotions along with huge sense of disappointment that we couldn't quite do we what we came to this tournament to do."

According to Williamson all these events were talked about before New Zealand left the ground. "There were sort of tears [from team-mates], but it is a game of cricket, isn't it? Guys were gutted, truly gutted. Naturally you reflect on a game like that. Even if it was a World Cup final, but, yeah, you add into the mix, you just look at the small margins throughout the whole match, not just this one or that one. Everybody is thinking about their role and what maybe could have been different. But when you get to that stage it is almost outside of your control. The guys put on such a huge effort in both games [regulation time and Super Over] in that final and it wasn't quite enough for one reason or another."

It was surreal. While Williamson and his men were trying to pick themselves, in walked Eoin Morgan. The England captain, who is mates with Williamson, had come in to share a drink. Also his disbelief. "He was lost for words, didn't really know what to say. That is fair, especially after two months of getting to the final stage and to have a tie he said that there was nothing that separated the sides. I guess it is an odd feeling to in some ways not have a loser of the match but have a Cup winner," Williamson says.

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Monday morning, London was overcast. Grey. Nippy. As one New Zealand television journalist said, it was a funeral-like atmosphere, yet no one had died. But a dream did die.

Sometime on Monday morning New Zealand's prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, posted a personal message in support of Williamson's team. Ardern said New Zealand, the nation, had "aged" while watching the Super Over.

That might not be the case with Williamson. Standing up close, you can see a few crease lines across the broad forehead. Those dark blue eyes retain a twinkle. He does not mind even cracking a joke or two. The man is even apologetic to you, saying he can crack jokes.

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Yet, there is no one sadder, more disappointed, more gutted than Williamson. But he will not show. You want the dam to burst. But, good luck. As New Zealand head coach Gary Stead is talking about whether sharing the World Cup would have been the ideal finish to the World Cup final, Williamson walks in the background with his partner to have some breakfast outside of the team hotel. Under an hour later Williamson walks back with cups of coffee, you assume, in his hand for the family.

Boult walks out of the team hotel with his partner and child in a pram as they head for the morning breakfast and possibly a walk along Hyde Park. Lockie Ferguson has his laundry bag slung on his back as he gets ready for a day without cricket on his mind.

According to Stead the New Zealand players are bound to "hit the wall" for a week or so as they replay the events of Sunday in their mind. "At the start there was lot of dejection and I guess bewilderment around how did it happen, why has it happened this way," Stead says. "Everyone will react to it over time, I imagine most of the guys will hit the wall for a week and feel down about things, but they shouldn't. We should be proud of what we've achieved."

At some point, a middle-aged Indian gentleman walks up to where the media is standing and unprompted tells a New Zealand journalist that he really respects Williamson's team. Only because they are true gentlemen, are down-to-earth. He says he and his family travelled from Los Angeles to watch three knockout matches of the World Cup including the final thinking India would feature. Although he was depressed for hours after India's exit in the semi-final, he did not curse New Zealand. "We lost against good people," he says.

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For youngsters like Ferguson, who was one of the fastest bowlers in the World Cup and who finished in the ICC's team of the tournament, the final result is difficult to "swallow." He admits that the ethos of Williamson's team is not to focus on the outcome although "this outcome is particularly hurting".

"Probably a bit of an understatement that it was emotional," Ferguson says. "Yeah, it's definitely for me been one of the most emotional nights in terms of cricket and to come so close and not get across the line, for whatever reason - it wasn't meant to be. As I said, the lads are getting around each other and patting each other on the backs on what was a great competition. Unfortunately we didn't quite get over the last hurdle but we were happy and hopefully inspire the next generation of Black Caps to come through and win a World Cup."

There is a whole gamut of emotions that New Zealand would have experienced, and will continue to, for a while. But as Williamson and his men leave England, the one overriding emotion is bound to be pride. Williamson agrees. "In time there will be a lot of reflection. Hopefully we will view at it in a bit of a rational way. Once again we do look at the campaign as a bigger picture and really proud of all the guys. It could be tricky. We talk about not being too caught up in results. I know that can be a really difficult especially when you have a World Cup final on the line, but if you do remove that, a little bit, and you look at the cricket that we played, the way the guys went about their business, we should be really proud."

And if they need any further proof that they did their job well, they should just listen to what McMillan says. "At the end, it was one of those games where you just shake your head and you are lost for words. I don't think I have ever been as gutted or as proud after a game of cricket. Gutted because we didn't get the result we wanted. I truly felt that we deserved to win yesterday at different times.

"And proud the way the guys handled themselves, kept coming back from difficult challenges, kept fighting and they nearly got there. It was a day of mixed emotions. There is a lot of raw emotion that will still be there today, you know. Four or six hours of sleep hasn't really changed that. There's a going to be a bit of time for the guys to get over it. We will. And there will be a time when we will look back at the game very fondly because there were some incredible performances yesterday."

Yes, New Zealand should be proud that they played a massive hand in making the 2019 World Cup final one of the greatest matches in cricket's history. London was painted with "We believed" banners to celebrate England's triumph. But New Zealand were equal winners.

ARLINGTON, Texas -- Jalen Hurts' arrival at Oklahoma is a major topic at Big 12 media days, but the quarterback transfer from Alabama still has work left to become the Sooners' front man in 2019.

"He's gotta win the job first," Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley said when asked what sets Hurts apart. "If he wins the job, then we'll talk about that."

Riley faced a series of questions about Hurts, who joined Oklahoma as a graduate transfer in January after three seasons with Alabama, where he went 26-2 as the Tide's starting quarterback. Hurts follows two quarterback transfers, Baker Mayfield and Kyler Murray, who won consecutive Heisman trophies with the Sooners before both went No. 1 overall in the NFL draft.

Although Hurts performed well in Oklahoma's spring game and brings unique experience to a record-setting offense, Riley hasn't ruled out redshirt freshman Tanner Mordecai or true freshman Spencer Rattler, ESPN's top-rated dual-threat quarterback in the 2019 recruiting class. Oklahoma resumes practices next month.

"One of them's got to go win it," Riley told ESPN. "We've got an interesting dynamic in there with Jalen as an older, more experienced guy that's been through a lot of battles, and we've got some very young, talented players in there with a chance to make a name for themselves. It's really, truly, 'May the best man win.'"

Riley said there's a different feel to Hurts' arrival, given his experience at Alabama, where he started throughout the 2016 and 2017 season before being benched for Tua Tagovailoa in the national championship game against Georgia. Tagovailoa started for Alabama in 2018. Although Hurts arrives with more game experience than Mayfield or Murray, he won't spend a year learning Riley's offense like his predecessors did. Riley has focused on communication and terminology with Hurts but noted he hasn't had to spend as much time on it with a veteran player.

"It's not like you're starting from scratch," Riley said. "It's been a fun process. He's smart, he's eager."

Oklahoma loses Murray, four starting linemen and leading receiver Marquise "Hollywood" Brown from the record-setting 2018 offense, which led the nation in both scoring (48.4 points per game) and yards (570.3 yards per game). The Sooners return standout receiver CeeDee Lamb, tight end Grant Calcaterra and running backs Trey Sermon and Kennedy Brooks, the latter of whom returned to team activities late last week following a Title IX investigation by the university, Riley said.

"We don't plan on the offense dipping," Riley said.

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Golden State Warriors general manager Bob Myers said Monday that his team did not acquire All-Star guard D'Angelo Russell just to flip him in a different deal.

Speaking for the first time since acquiring Russell in a sign-and-trade that sent Kevin Durant to the Brooklyn Nets, Myers said the organization hasn't decided whether Russell fits into the team's long-term plans, despite speculation throughout the league that Russell could land somewhere else in the next year.

"I know it's been written and speculated. That's fine," Myers said Monday. "That's what everybody's job is to do. We didn't sign him with the intention of just trading him. We haven't even seen him play in our uniform yet, and a lot of people have us already trading him. That's not how we're viewing it. Let's just see what we have. Let's see what he is. Let's see how he fits.

"Part of our job in the front office and the coaching staff and the organization is, 'How does it all work?' ... So much of our sport at least, and maybe other sports, is, 'What are you doing next?' We got to figure out what we're doing now."

Myers added: "We're just happy that we got a young player that has a lot of upside, in our opinion, and we're excited at the possibility of him in our uniform."

After finding out on the opening night of free agency that Durant was headed to the Nets, the Warriors surprised some around the league by agreeing to a max extension with Russell worth $117 million over four years. The Warriors did not want to watch Durant walk away and have nothing in return, but it remains to be seen how Russell fits into the Warriors' system. Myers is hopeful that Russell, 23, can provide an offensive lift alongside superstar Stephen Curry as the group waits for Klay Thompson to return from a torn ACL at some point next season.

Myers remains confident that his group can win games as Curry and Draymond Green lead the way alongside a much younger group of new teammates. In addition to Durant's decision, the Warriors said goodbye to veteran stalwarts Andre Iguodala and Shaun Livingston as they reshaped their roster after five straight trips to the NBA Finals.

"The West keeps getting better and better," Myers said. "Can we compete? Yeah, I think that's shown -- at least at its core, whenever Klay comes back with Draymond and Steph -- that's a group that's shown and proved that they can win. As far as the other pieces, we have to see."

Myers said the decision to acquire Russell came quickly after the GM spoke to Durant and found out he was headed to Brooklyn on the opening night of free agency, an evening when transactions happened more quickly than on any night Myers said he could remember.

The Warriors GM said he spoke with Durant for an "hour or two" about much broader topics than just basketball on the cusp of free agency. Myers said the organization did everything it could to keep him, but Durant thought it was time for a change in his life.

"He just felt like it was something inside of him, in his heart, that he wanted to try something different," Myers said. "Nothing wrong with that. I have a peace about it, personally. I hope our fans can too. Just in the annals of Bay Area sports, he's one of the best athletes we've ever seen come through our city and certainly this organization. And you saw Joe [Lacob] reflect that in his statements, how he felt as an owner of this team. And so I just appreciate, growing up here, the fact that Kevin Durant wore a Warriors uniform for three years. To me that's pretty cool, whether I'm here in the position I'm in or just a Warriors fan. I think for him it was just a new chapter, trying something different."

Myers also acknowledged that the process of saying goodbye to both Durant and Iguodala -- who was traded to the Memphis Grizzlies to clear the cap space to sign Russell -- was tough.

"It's very difficult," Myers said. "Those are people I like. Those are people I still like. Those memories, those relationships don't change. Just 'cause they're going to go work for a different company or different team, what we shared, whether it's myself or their teammates or anybody in the organization, that doesn't go away. So that hurts. I mean, those things hurt. If they don't hurt, then I guess you never had a relationship with those guys in the first place.

"That's the hard part of the business, but I'm sure I'm going to see those guys again. Looking forward to it in whatever capacity they're in, whatever teams they're on. And I wish them well. Those guys were tremendous -- both of them. For me personally, for our fans, for our community, how they represented themselves. So yeah, that's a tough thing to pivot off of."

As the Warriors start looking ahead to next season, they do so with several other key questions about their roster, besides all the inexperience. Myers said he will visit Thompson in Los Angeles at some point in the next couple of weeks as he continues his recovery, but there was no update on a timeline for Thompson to return next season. Myers also said there has been no "internal dialogue" at this point regarding any load management possibilities for Curry or Green. He said there is some optimism surrounding the organization about the challenges ahead, despite the uncertainty after all the years of sustained success.

"It's a new dawn for us," Myers said. "But it's OK. We haven't been in this position for five years, but it's going to be fun. It doesn't mean it's going to be easy because when you have young players, there's a learning curve to their growth, to their NBA experience."

LAS VEGAS -- Memphis Grizzlies head coach Taylor Jenkins has yet to lead an official NBA game, but he's bringing some hardware home to Beale Street.

Brandon Clarke had 15 points and 16 rebounds to lead the eighth-seeded Grizzlies to a 95-92 victory over the third-seeded Minnesota Timberwolves in the championship game of the NBA Summer League on Monday.

"It was a lot of fun, this is why I do what I do," said Jenkins, the only NBA head coach to coach a summer league team. "I love to compete, love to teach and have a great group of guys on the court and our staff off the court. It was so much fun to work with them for 20 days. It's a lot to do in a short amount of time. And to be able to win a championship is fun. I told the guys this morning when you have a chance to win a championship there's nothing like it."

Clarke, who was named overall MVP for the summer league, also had three blocks and four assists to earn the championship game MVP. He had four double-doubles in the tournament.

"I feel like I'll just fit in perfectly (with Memphis) because his system and his culture is similar to what it was like at college at Gonzaga," said Clarke. "It was just really fun playing for him. He was just a really great coach. Every day he was up to play hard and up to get us better. It was awesome playing for him."

The Grizzlies, who led by as many as 17 points, led by only two after the three quarters, but got a boost from Grayson Allen, who scored 10 of his team-high 17 points in the second half and deflected the ball away to keep Minnesota from taking a last-second shot.

"He's played in lots of big games, he's just somebody that's used to making those big shots, making those big plays," Clarke said. "Adding him to the team is something that's gonna be really big for us."

Bruno Caboclo and Dusty Hannahs also had 15 points for the Grizzlies, while Tyler Harvey added 12 points and five assists.

Memphis tied its league-high 31 points for a quarter when it opened the game with a 31-19 edge after one, while its 56 first-half points were a new team-high for the 11-day event.

The Timberwolves, who went into the game as the lone undefeated team, clawed their way back into the game behind the hot hand of Kelan Martin, who drained three 3-pointers in the third quarter. Minnesota cut Memphis' lead to one point six times.

"We tried to find a way to come back and we didn't, we came up short," Timberwolves coach Pablo Prigioni said. "Credit to them, they were better. They showed all tournament long, they fought to the end, so nothing we can ask more. It was a hell of a summer league."

Martin led five Timberwolves in double figures, finishing with a game-high 19 points.

Jordan Murphy scored 14, Mitchell Creek had 13, Barry Brown Jr. chipped in 12 and Keita Bates-Diop finished with 10 for Minnesota.

ALL TOURNAMENT TEAM -- Joining Clarke on the first team was New Orleans' Nickeil Alexander-Walker, Brooklyn's Jarrett Allen, Miami's Kendrick Nunn and New York's Mitchell Robinson. Fan favorite Rui Hahimura from Washington headlined the second team, and was joined by Toronto's Chris Boucher, New Orleans' Jaxson Hayes, Portland's Anfernee Simons and San Antonio's Lonnie Walker IV.

The Los Angeles Dodgers placed outfielder Chris Taylor on the 10-day injured list on Monday with a left forearm fracture.

The move came one day after Taylor exited a game against the Boston Red Sox after getting hit near his left wrist by a Heath Hembree fastball in the 11th inning.

X-rays taken after the game were negative, but Taylor had a second examination on Monday that revealed the break.

DENVER -- With nearly every swing, Brandon Crawford's day at the plate got better and better.

Crawford went 5-for-6 with two homers and tied a San Francisco team record with eight RBIs, and the Giants scored a season high in runs in a 19-2 rout of the Colorado Rockies on Monday in the first game of a split doubleheader.

"I never expect a five-hit game to come along, but yeah, I have been feeling a lot better at the plate," Crawford said. "There were a couple of at-bats in Milwaukee where I was having good at-bats, kind of battling and getting deep into counts. Even drawing walks kind of helps your confidence going forward. I've been feeling good, seeing the ball well. You expect to get hits when that happens."

The rest of the Giants followed his lead.

Mike Yastrzemski went 4-for-6 with a homer and Buster Posey also went deep for San Francisco, which earned a rare victory at Coors Field in the makeup for a May 8 rainout. Crawford has eight home runs on the season.

It was just the fifth win in the Giants' past 25 games at the Rockies' ballpark, though San Francisco has been hot recently, winning nine of its past 11.

For the Rockies, it was the most runs they have ever allowed to the Giants, National League West rivals. It marked only the fourth time in the Rockies' history they lost by at least 17 runs, and the first since losing by 17 to Florida on Sept. 17, 1995.

Preserving his bullpen in the one-sided slugfest, Rockies manager Bud Black inserted first baseman Mark Reynolds to pitch the ninth. Reynolds allowed two runs and two hits. It was the third time in Rockies history that a position player had been used as a pitcher.

"You have to preserve their innings when you need to," said Black, also alluding to the number of runs being scored at Coors Field lately as well as overall in the major leagues.

Rockies pitchers have allowed 148 runs over 15 home games since June 12, an average of 9.9 runs per game, while Colorado has scored 114 (7.6 runs) in that same span.

"I think it's been a little wacky for the last month, really," Black said. "This is what's happening in 2019. We've really got to cinch our belts a little tighter as pitchers and work our way through this. And we've got to get the ball down more consistently, now more than ever before, because of what's happening with home run totals and what's happening on offense across the big leagues."

Jeff Samardzija (7-7), who had allowed 17 runs in 12⅔ innings in losing his three previous starts at Colorado, didn't give up a run until pinch hitter Raimel Tapia homered to straightaway center with two out in the sixth inning.

It was Tapia's fourth career pinch homer and the third this season. Ryan McMahon homered in the seventh for the Rockies' other run.

Samardzija retired the first six batters he faced and finished with nine strikeouts in 6⅔ innings. He allowed two runs and four hits.

German Marquez, who won both of his previous starts against the Giants in San Francisco this season, was in trouble from the outset.

Five of the first six batters he faced connected for hits capped by back-to-back home runs by Crawford and Yastrzemski in San Francisco's five-run first inning.

Marquez (8-5) allowed a career-high 11 runs on 11 hits in 2⅔ innings. It was the second time in four days that Rockies pitchers had been tagged for 17 or more runs in a game. The Reds beat Colorado 17-9 on Friday.

The Giants put together a seven-run third that included a two-run homer by Posey off Jesus Tinoco.

Crawford added an RBI single in the fourth, a two-run drive off Tinoco in the sixth and a two-run single in the ninth off Reynolds. Others in the San Francisco era with eight RBIs in a game are Willie Mays on April 30, 1961, and Orlando Cepeda on July 4, 1961.

TAKING THE MOUND

Reynolds made his second career pitching appearance when he pitched the ninth inning. He also pitched last July 8 against Miami while with Washington. Reynolds threw 21 pitches, 10 for strikes, and allowed two hits and two runs. He walked one and hit Posey in the back with a pitch when he tried to throw a curveball.

Posey glared at Reynolds as he walked to first, and Reynolds said after the game that Posey texted him to make sure he knew that he was just joking with him. Reynolds also said he didn't try another curveball and save for a changeup, stuck with fastballs the rest of the way.

TRAINER'S ROOM

Giants: 3B Evan Longoria was placed on the 10-day injured list because of left foot plantar fasciitis. His roster spot was filled by the recall of RHP Ray Black from Triple A-Sacramento. Longoria was lifted from Sunday's game at Milwaukee in the fifth inning because of left foot soreness.

26th MAN

The Giants had RHP Sam Coonrod as their 26th man for Monday's split doubleheader while the Rockies appointed RHP Yency Almonte. Both appeared in the first game. Coonrod threw a scoreless ninth and Almonte allowed a run and two hits in 2⅔ innings.

UP NEXT

Giants: RHP Dereck Rodriguez (3-5, 5.27 ERA) was scheduled to be recalled from Triple-A Sacramento to start Game 2 of the doubleheader.

Rockies: RHP Chi Chi Gonzalez (0-1, 6.00 ERA) was expected to be recalled from Triple-A Albuquerque to start the second game.

NEW YORK -- Injured New York Yankees starter Luis Severino is so ready to get back on a big league pitcher's mound that he indicated Monday he would be comfortable changing his role, and pitching out of the bullpen, if necessary.

"I just want to pitch," Severino said, addressing reporters before the Yankees opened a four-game series against the Tampa Bay Rays. "It doesn't matter where or when, in the bullpen or as a starter, I just want to pitch."

Severino's comments came as speculation started picking up steam in recent days that the Yankees could consider moving him out of the starting rotation once he returns from the right lat strain and shoulder issues that have derailed his season to this point.

The comments also came on the same day Severino resumed a throwing program, playing catch with fellow injured pitcher Dellin Betances, who was also throwing for the first time in this post-setback stage of his own recovery from a right lat strain. When manager Aaron Boone saw both pitchers early in the day, he wished them a "Happy Throwing Day."

In terms of Severino, just three weeks ago the right-hander was shut down for a second time this season after an MRI revealed the injury in the back of his throwing arm wasn't quite 100 percent healed. Just prior to the MRI, however, he had been previously cleared -- without an MRI -- and as a result, was in the middle of a throwing program. At the time, he and the Yankees believed he was finally moving past the arm/back troubles that have nagged him since he was scratched from a March spring training start.

"I'm real confident," Severino said Monday, indicating his belief in the current health of his right latissimus dorsi muscle. "Even the last time when they sent me back, I didn't feel nothing. Maybe they were afraid of something bigger happening. I just know that I feel good."

Yankees general manager Brian Cashman first hinted at the possibility of pitching Severino out of the bullpen on Friday during an interview with "MLB Network Radio" on Sirius XM. The belief is that because he wouldn't be asked to throw upward of 80 pitches on an every-five-day cycle late in his remaining rehab, Severino would have less time to get back to pitching if he was tasked instead with the considerably lighter reliever's workload.

The six weeks Cashman has been anticipating Severino would need in his rehab as a starting pitcher might be reduced by a few days if he's coming out of the bullpen.

"I want to be a starter," Severino said. "[But] if they talk to me and they need me quicker, I would say yes [to being a reliever]."

Boone hesitated to say whether or not the bullpen option was a real one for his ace, who went 19-8 with a 3.39 ERA and 220 strikeouts as a starter last season.

"We want to build him up, and hopefully the process goes smoothly and he gets built up that way," Boone said. "That being said, we'll probably continue to reevaluate him every couple of weeks to see where we're at, and to see what's going to make the most sense."

Earlier in his career, Severino did pitch out of the bullpen. He relieved 11 times in 2016, going 3-0 with a 0.39 ERA. In 23⅓ innings, he had 25 strikeouts. His past two seasons, however, he has been used exclusively a starter.

In addition to Severino's work in the outfield Monday, Betances made 25 throws from about 60 feet as his own throwing program resumed. Since he had previously built himself up to pitching off a mound and throwing to batters, he isn't expected to rehab quite as long as Severino.

Still, the righty reliever isn't trying to place a timeline on his own return. He, too, has had his share of false starts and setbacks after being originally shut down following a string of spring-training appearances. Betances, similarly, has yet to pitch in a big league game this season.

"For me, it's about bouncing back once I start facing hitters," Betances said of the next milestone he wants to reach. "That's what got me last time."