England's World Cup-bound IPL contingent are due back in the coming days, ahead of ODIs against Ireland and Pakistan, while several other members of the squad have been in Royal London Cup action. A week into the 50-over competition, we take a look at who's up and who's down.

Jason Roy
Roy missed Surrey's opening Championship fixture as he continued his recovery from a hamstring injury sustained with England in the Caribbean. His Royal London Cup started with innings of 19 and 9, and worse seemingly followed at The Oval on Tuesday, when he left the field after fours overs against Essex. Initial reports suggested another hamstring issue but that was later updated to a back spasm - and Roy was fit enough to return at the fall of the seventh Surrey wicket, scoring 19 off 11 balls to finish on 35 not out.

Liam Plunkett
With Jofra Archer set to press his case for promotion to the World Cup squad, Plunkett is currently the bowler under most scrutiny. The 34-year-old switched counties over the winter, but looked rusty when taking 1 for 85 on his Championship debut for Surrey and then received further punishment at the start of the Royal London campaign - recording figures of 7-0-67-0 and 6-0-57-1 in games at Bristol and Hove. However, he did return to wicket-taking form against Essex, with 4 for 50 to go alongside an excellent catch to remove Tom Westley.

Alex Hales
Despite only being contracted for white-ball cricket by Nottinghamshire, Hales was given time off for "personal reasons" and is not expected to feature for them in the Royal London Cup. Hales has recently found himself as the back-up batsman in England's ODI squad but opened twice in the Caribbean in March, when Roy was sidelined by injury. Since that tour, Hales' only cricket has been two T20 matches at the PSL, and although his England availability is not said to be in doubt, it is hardly ideal prep for the World Cup.

Chris Woakes
Woakes' fitness has been closely monitored as England seek to manage his long-term knee injury. He was left out of the squad to face Ireland next week, and the subsequent T20I against Pakistan, in order to keep his workload down - and the same goes for his RLC appearances. He claimed 3 for 47 in Warwickshire's tie with Yorkshire in their opening game before being rested as part of an agreement with the ECB for Sunday's trip to Northampton. Got through a full ten overs, though finished wicketless, against Nottinghamshire at Edgbaston on Tuesday.

Mark Wood
Second only to worries about nursing Woakes through the World Cup is the question of whether Wood can stay fit. Having come through three lots of ankle surgery to catch fire again on England's tour of the Caribbean, where he regularly bowled in excess of 90mph, Wood was due to be available for Durham at the start of the season - specifically, the ECB pinpointed a fixture at Derby in the opening round of the Championship and RLC games on April 17 and 24. The England medical staff are reportedly exercising caution after scans on his ankle, but thus far Wood has yet to feature at all for his county.

Joe Denly
Denly made his IPL debut this year, although it was not the happiest of experiences as he made a golden duck opening the batting for Kolkata Knight Riders. Having otherwise sat on the fringes, and due home by April 26 for an England training camp, Denly tweeted on Saturday that he was heading back early to get ready for the summer's main event. Denly hasn't actually played an ODI since 2009, but made the preliminary World Cup squad and appeared in decent touch when making 56 from 69 balls in Kent's RLC match at Bristol. Of concern, though, was the fact he failed to take to the field during Gloucestershire's innings with Kent assistant coach Allan Donald confirming: "Joe Denly suffered a back spasm while batting that we need to manage".

And the good news…
Among those at the IPL, Jonny Bairstow has enjoyed a standout debut campaign, currently the tournament's second-leading run-scorer after playing his final game, in Chennai, on Tuesday. Having scored just two half-centuries in his previous 18 white-ball innings for England, he looks to have made a timely return to form. There have also been impressive performances in India from Jos Buttler, Moeen Ali and Jofra Archer, although Ben Stokes has not had quite the same success. On the county scene, Tom Curran has been in good form, while there has been consistent game time for Eoin Morgan, Chris Jordan, David Willey and Adil Rashid. The Test captain, Joe Root, made scores of 73, 130 not out and 94 in two Championship games but has so far sat out the RLC.

Oman 177 for 3 (Jatinder 65, Nadeem 31*, Kinchit 1-25) beat Hong Kong 176 (Babar 56, Bilal 4-30) by seven wickets

Left-arm swing bowler Bilal Khan bagged four wickets on one of his favourite hunting grounds at Wanderers before Jatinder Singh's half-century paced a simple chase. Oman thus continued their undefeated run at WCL Division Two with a seven-wicket win over Hong Kong. Oman are now in the driver's seat for one of the four ODI status berths up for grabs in the tournament, and can be the first team to clinch it with a win over Namibia on Wednesday.

Man of the Match Bilal struck a massive blow in the third over, claiming the tournament's leading scorer Anshy Rath for just 3, caught in the slips by Jatinder. Hong Kong's innings finally started to stabilise around Babar Hayat and Tanwir Afzal, who added 62 for the fifth wicket to take them to 109 for 4 in the 32nd, but Bilal's intervention broke the stand with Tanwir dismissed for 32.

Hayat carried on to top-score with 56, but was the third of legspinning allrounder Khawar Ali's victims, to leave Hong Kong 149 for 7. Bilal was then brought back to wipe out the tail in the 48th over. A run out of last recognised batsman Scott McKechnie for 26 was followed by wickets on back-to-back balls for Bilal, finishing off Hong Kong for 176 with two overs unused.

Oman faced little pressure in the field, with the Hong Kong bowling unit lacking any spark as Jatinder and Khawar coasted through a 79-run opening stand in the first 21 overs. Khawar was runout for 28 to break the stand, but Jatinder compiled 49 runs in tandem with Aqib Ilyas before both fell in quick succession to the spin duo of Kinchit Shah and Jhatavedh Subramanyan. Captain Zeeshan Maqsood and Mohammad Nadeem knocked off the remaining 43 runs without much fuss. Nadeem ended unbeaten on 31, and has yet to be dismissed in the tournament.

USA 128 for 0 (Monank 70*, Marshall 54*) beat Papua New Guinea 127 (Siaka 32, Gore 4-23, Khan 3-41) by 10 wickets

After being on the brink of starting the tournament 0-2 needing to take four wickets with two overs to go in their thrilling two-run win against Namibia, USA are now 2-1 after walloping Papua New Guinea by 10 wickets at Affies Park.

The last time these two teams met in one-day cricket was in 2011 at WCL Division Three in Hong Kong, when Papua New Guinea sent USA in to bat under heavy cloud cover and bowled them out for 44. It took eight years, but USA finally exactly a heavy dose of revenge. The new-ball exploits of Ali Khan and an incisive spell of left-arm spin by Karima Gore decimated the middle order.

On a ground where chasing targets has traditionally been best after the pitch flattens out in the afternoon sun, PNG chose to bat first at the toss and paid the price as Khan produced another hostile spell of fast bowling to take three wickets in the Powerplay, giving him a tournament best 12 wickets after three matches. It began with a brute of a delivery to Tony Ura ,who edged to Steven Taylor at second slip, before a pair of inswingers trapped Sese Bau and Assad Vala leg before to leave PNG 19 for 3.

Gore arrived in the 24th but attacked the stumps from ball one. His first three wickets were lbw decisions. Chad Soper and Lega Siaka prodded down the wrong line to arm balls before Jason Kila was late on a sweep. Damien Ravu was bowled by Gore for the final wicket as the innings lasted just 39.3 overs.

Monank Patel and Xavier Marshall batted 10 overs before lunch to take USA to 49 for 0. PNG extended a streak of three maidens with two more to start after the break, but Monank and Marshall exploded shortly thereafter, scoring 79 off the next 43 balls to end the match. Monank took Siaka's part-time spin apart in the 19th, driving three sixes in a 22-run frame, and was named Man of the Match.

Namibia 258 for 6 (Baard 90, Williams 65*, Saad 2-32) beat Canada 160 (Frylinck 3-24, Groenewald 3-42) by 98 runs

Stephan Baard's 90 at the top of the order was bookended by an unbeaten 65 from Craig Williams as Namibia bounced back from their final-over loss to USA to notch a 98-run win over Canada. Namibia moves to 2-1 with the win while Canada remains the only winless team in the tournament at 0-3, as their hopes of reclaiming ODI status hang by a thread.

Baard and Jean Bredenkamp added 73 for the second wicket to steady the innings after the loss of JP Kotze in the Powerplay for just 6. Bredenkamp eventually fell to left-arm spinner Saad bin Zafar, who along with Nikhil Dutta took two wickets each to slow down Namibia in the middle stage of the innings.

But Williams produced half-century stands with Baard and JJ Smit to keep Namibia on course for a well-above par total at United's sluggish outfield. Smit clubbed three sixes in his 35 off 23 balls to dominate a 51-run stand with Williams before falling in the 49th over to Romesh Eranga.

Canada's batting struggles in Namibia continued once again as six of the top seven got starts but none passed Rodrigo Thomas' 28. Dilon Heyliger wound up top-scoring from No. 10 with an unbeaten 29 to save Canada from taking an even bigger hit to their net run rate.

It's difficult to get noticed in a team that contains Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers, but Moeen Ali has definitely made his presence felt at Royal Challengers Bangalore this season.

While Kohli (387), de Villiers (332) and Parthiv Patel (283) have more runs than Moeen (216), his runs have come at the best strike-rate of anyone in the team - 168.75. Moeen played crucial roles in Royal Challengers winning their two most-recent matches. His 66 off 28 balls set the platform for a 200-plus total against Kolkata Knight Riders, and his 26 off 16 ensured Royal Challengers piled on enough - just about - to beat Chennai Super Kings.

"My job in the team is to do that [take the pressure off Kohli and de Villiers]," Moeen said on the eve of Royal Challengers' match against Kings XI Punjab. "It is very difficult for a team to win if you rely on just two guys batting because they feel the pressure as well. My job is to come and score some runs and be part of the batting group and contribute in winning games.

"I think it gives a lot of confidence if Virat and AB don't score, or if one of them doesn't play, like AB didn't against KKR, we can still score 200-plus. I have the confidence in my own game and belief that I can also score runs just as quick as them and take games away from the opposition. It won't always happen but I know I can do that.

"I might be a quiet sort of person, but I'm quite confident in my own game. Before I even came to RCB, I said to myself I wanted to score the runs that I could. I know I can do it, it is just going out and having the confidence to do it."

Apart from Moeen's contributions, one other feature of Royal Challengers' last two games was the difference Dale Steyn made to their attack. In their first eight matches of the season, their bowlers had only taken three wickets in the Powerplay overs, at an average of 144.33. In their last two games, they've taken seven at an average of 9.85, with Steyn claiming four.

"He's been massive," Moeen said. "We didn't take wickets in Powerplays and now since he has come, we've been taking wickets. When you take two, three, four wickets [in Powerplays], most of the time you're going to win the game.

"I think just the name of Dale Steyn [is enough], well he has not played much in the last couple of years, but he still has class. The way he bowls, the swing… he pitches it up, he's quite brave in the way he bowls. It's probably the thing that we've been lacking in this team and it has cost us in a few games. But having him has been huge for our bowlers as well - the way he sets the tone in the first couple of overs. Anybody can get smashed but he has been fantastic."

Wednesday's game will be Moeen's last of the season before he leaves to join England's camp ahead of the World Cup. This means he will miss at least three games for Royal Challengers.

"It's not ideal, obviously," Moeen said. "I think it's worse when there're three games to go, that there's not much cricket left and you always think, 'I could've played those three games.' If there were six, seven games, it was a little more understandable. But it's a small window. And knowing that there could be a chance of going through if we win all our games, then you miss out on a potential semi-final and stuff.

"But I'll definitely keep an eye out and see how they're going, hoping that we're winning all our games. It's also difficult to leave a team, especially when I'm in a bit of form and I want to keep going in the IPL, trying to improve my game. I feel like I'm a big part of the boys and I'll miss them. It's a shame but there's obviously the World Cup which is very important as well."

San Francisco 49ers franchise kicker Robbie Gould says he has pulled the contract proposals he sent to the team and told the Niners that he will not negotiate or sign a long-term deal with them and wants to be traded.

Gould said Tuesday that if he reports at all, it will not be before the 49ers' Sept. 8 regular-season opener, making him a summer holdout.

Gould's agent, Brian Mackler, said: "At this time, we are unsure when or if he will report. It will not be prior to Sept 8, at the earliest, if at all."

The 36-year-old Gould indicated that he has gotten tired of 14 months of contract negotiations and wants to be closer to his wife and children in Chicago. After 11 years with the Bears, Gould was released. He spent 2016 with the New York Giants before signing a two-year deal with the Niners. Gould's wife and three boys under age 5 stayed in Chicago.

San Francisco placed the franchise tag on Gould in February. The Niners have been adamant that they want and expect Gould to be on the team this year.

"Robbie's going to be a part of us this coming year, I know that," Niners general manager John Lynch said Monday. "We would like it to be longer than that. We've made an attempt to make that happen. We haven't come to an agreement as of yet and we'll see where that goes, but Robbie will be a part of us this coming year. We're excited for that because he's very good at what he does, and he's also a big part of this team."

Gould said he was discouraged by the 49ers' decision to pursue free-agent kicker Stephen Gostkowski before he re-signed with New England, rather than getting a long-term deal done with him.

"The bottom line is, I'm unsure if I want to play there anymore," Gould told ESPN. "At this point, I have to do what's best for me and my family back home."

Now, with the draft about to kick off Thursday night, the 49ers have uncertainty after this season at the kicker position that looked to be solid.

The 49ers have only unproven kicker Jonathan Brown on the roster. He entered the NFL in 2016 after signing with the Cincinnati Bengals as an undrafted rookie free agent and has never kicked in a regular-season NFL game. The Niners signed him to a two-year deal on March 8.

ESPN's Nick Wagoner contributed to this report.

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- New England Patriots wide receiver Josh Gordon, who currently is serving an indefinite NFL suspension, officially signed his restricted free-agent tender on Tuesday, a league source told ESPN's Field Yates.

This means that if Gordon is reinstated, he would be under contract with the Patriots for 2019 and scheduled to earn a base salary of $2.025 million.

The 28-year-old Gordon played in 11 games for the Patriots during the 2018 regular season, totaling 40 receptions for 720 yards and three touchdowns. He was suspended on Dec. 20 for violating the terms of his reinstatement under the league's substance abuse policy, missing the team's final two regular-season games and all three playoff games.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell had been asked about Gordon's status in late March at the league's annual meeting.

"The first thing right now is to focus on Josh himself as a young man, and what he needs to do to get his life on the right track. That's what our focus is. We have resources supporting that, and that's our hope -- to make sure he gets on the right track," Goodell said. "Once he gets on the right track, we'll get to that place. But I think right now, he has had a complete focus on 'I have to get myself all cleared in the right place before I can get back on the field.'"

The Patriots are currently thin at receiver, with Super Bowl LIII Most Valuable Player Julian Edelman atop the depth chart, followed by Phillip Dorsett, Demaryius Thomas, Braxton Berrios, Bruce Ellington, Maurice Harris and Damoun Patterson.

The Kansas City Chiefs added a significant piece to their defensive rebuild on Tuesday by trading a pair of draft picks to the Seattle Seahawks in exchange for defensive end Frank Clark, league sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter.

Clark, who had yet to sign the $17.128 million franchise tag given to him by the Seahawks, has agreed to a five-year, $105.5 million deal that includes $63.5 million guaranteed, sources told Schefter.

The Chiefs parted with their first-round draft choice, which is 29th overall, and the teams will exchange third-round picks, sources told ESPN. The Chiefs also will send the lower of their two 2020 second-round draft picks to the Seahawks, sources told ESPN.

"I feel like I'm good. I wanted to be somewhere where I'm wanted, where I'm appreciated," Clark told ESPN's Josina Anderson on Tuesday. "I thank God that K.C. came in and showed that. ... In life, you just want to be shown that you are appreciated sometimes, and I feel like this was one of those things."

Now that an agreement on a long-term deal is in place, Clark will fly to Kansas City to take a physical and finalize the trade, sources told ESPN. The agreement with Clark would eclipse the five-year, $105 million deal -- but not the $65 million guaranteed -- given to DeMarcus Lawrence by the Dallas Cowboys earlier this month.

Clark has 36 sacks in his four NFL seasons, including a team-high 14 with the Seahawks last season.

The Chiefs had one of the NFL's worst defenses last season, and that liability kept them from the franchise's first Super Bowl in 49 years. The Chiefs lost 37-31 in overtime in the AFC Championship Game to New England after losing the coin flip to begin the extra period and failing to stop the Patriots from driving for the winning touchdown.

Shortly afterward, the Chiefs replaced most of their defensive staff, including longtime coordinator Bob Sutton. Steve Spagnuolo replaced him and changed the base defensive system to a 4-3 from a 3-4.

The Chiefs cleared out three of their best defensive players in safety Eric Berry and linebackers Justin Houston and Dee Ford, who was designated with the franchise tag and then traded to the San Francisco 49ers for a second-round pick in 2020. The Chiefs then signed or traded for five new starters, most notably Clark and safety Tyrann Mathieu.

Before the trade, the Seahawks had a league-low four picks in this year's draft.

Clark also had four forced fumbles and an interception last season, and he added a sack in a wild-card playoff loss to the Dallas Cowboys.

His 33 sacks since 2016 rank ninth in the league, and his 2,045 defensive snaps in that span are fewer than the eight players ahead of him, according to ESPN Stats & Information research. Of the 21 players with at least 25 sacks since 2016, Clark's average of a sack every 63.9 snaps ranks seventh.

The Seahawks recently added defensive ends Cassius Marsh and Nate Orchard in free agency. Dion Jordan, who spent the past two seasons with Seattle, remains unsigned.

Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson became the highest-paid player in the NFL when he signed a four-year, $140 million contract extension with the team last week.

ESPN's Brady Henderson contributed to this report.

The Pittsburgh Steelers are working to complete a contract extension for quarterback Ben Roethlisberger before the NFL draft begins Thursday night, sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter on Tuesday.

Roethlisberger, who was drafted by the Steelers in 2004, is heading into the final season of the four-year, $87.6 million extension he signed in 2015.

The two sides have been talking since the end of the 2018 season and are getting closer to having a new deal in place, a source told ESPN.

Roethlisberger, who turned 37 on March 2, has two Super Bowl victories and ranks sixth in career passing yards (56,194) and seventh in touchdowns (363). He led the NFL in passing yards in 2018 with 5,129. The Steelers never have had a losing season with him at quarterback, and he is among the franchise leaders in career games played with 216.

Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson became the highest-paid player in the NFL when he signed a four-year, $140 million contract extension last week.

ESPN's Jeremy Fowler contributed to this report.

OAKLAND, Calif. -- The Golden State Warriors understand that they have to win one more game over the LA Clippers to advance to the Western Conference semifinals, but the group also knows that a showdown with the Houston Rockets awaits if and when they do.

"They're a great team," Warriors swingman Klay Thompson said after Tuesday's practice. "They got two Hall of Fame guards in the backcourt [in James Harden and Chris Paul], and everyone else has carved out a nice role. We've had a ton of history with them in the last five years of the playoffs. I know they're just itching to get another shot at us, and that's when, when two teams meet like that, when the stakes are that high, it makes for the best basketball in the world."

Thompson's comments come on the heels of Sunday's postgame interview with ESPN's Lisa Salters, in which he noted that the Warriors were hoping to close out their series against the Clippers as soon as possible -- after blowing a 31-point second-half lead in Game 2 -- because the Warriors knew the Rockets were on the verge of sweeping the Utah Jazz and getting extra rest. After the Jazz extended their series with a Game 4 win on Monday, both the Rockets and Warriors have a chance to close out their series on Wednesday in Game 5s.

"It's really not hard at all," Warriors guard Stephen Curry said of focusing on the Clippers, not the impending Rockets series. "At the end of the day, we know what Houston's about. We know what Utah's about and their styles of play. At this point, there isn't anything really different jumping off the TV, but coming to practice, we lock in and focus and get ready for the game [Wednesday], hopefully take care of business. It's kind of ingrained in our routines and our mindsets as we've been through so many different experiences in the playoffs. You know how to pace yourself and stay locked in on the task at hand while still having an awareness of what's going on throughout the league."

Curry said he has been keeping up with all the playoff games just like he normally would.

"You watch every game," Curry said. "You understand what's going on. You may not be as in tune, like focused on the details, but I like watching basketball in general, so it doesn't matter really who's on. Just understanding we got to focus on getting four wins now against the Clippers and go from there, but as a fan of basketball, I turn on every game."

The good news for the Warriors is that forward Draymond Green will play in Game 5 after undergoing an MRI on his right wrist. Green was seen leaving Staples Center in a wrist brace after Game 4, but Kerr didn't seem concerned that the injury will have any impact on the defensive star moving forward.

"He's fine," Kerr said. "He had an MRI, and it was clear, and he practiced fully today, so he's fine."

As for injured center DeMarcus Cousins, he was back at the Warriors' facility with his teammates on Tuesday as he continues the rehab process for a torn left quad. Cousins suffered the injury during Game 2 of the series, and Kerr noted that it is "highly unlikely" he returns before the season ends.

"We'll see what happens in a few weeks," Kerr said. "Once we have a better sense of healing and his ability to maybe get on the court, maybe, who knows? But at this point, conservatively, I would say it's highly unlikely [he returns]."

Jason Kidd interviewed for the Los Angeles Lakers' head-coaching vacancy Monday, multiple sources told ESPN.

Kidd becomes the third candidate to meet with the Lakers, following Philadelphia 76ers assistant coach Monty Williams and former Cleveland Cavaliers head coach Tyronn Lue, who both interviewed last week. Miami Heat assistant coach Juwan Howard is also scheduled to interview for the job, sources told ESPN, and Williams and Lue are expected to have follow-up sessions.

Kidd's interview was with general manager Rob Pelinka and team executive Kurt Rambis and was conducted at the team's practice facility in El Segundo, California. The interview with the Hall of Fame point guard lasted for several hours, sources told ESPN.

The 46-year-old Kidd formerly coached the Brooklyn Nets and Milwaukee Bucks. He was fired by Milwaukee during the 2017-18 season. In Kidd's 4½ seasons with the Bucks and Nets, his teams compiled a 183-190 record (.491).

Kidd has previous ties to Lakers star LeBron James, having been an Olympic teammate of his in 2008, when Team USA won the gold in Beijing. Kidd's Dallas Mavericks also defeated James and the Heat in the 2011 NBA Finals.

The woman accusing Luke Walton of a 2014 sexual assault said Tuesday that she was terrified the NBA coach was going to rape her and that the reason it took her so long to publicize the allegations was because she was scared.

Kelli Tennant -- a former host on Spectrum SportsNet LA, the Lakers' regional sports network -- spoke with media during a news conference Tuesday in Los Angeles, after a civil lawsuit alleging that Walton sexually assaulted her was accepted by the Los Angeles County Superior Court.

Tennant alleges that Walton, then an assistant with the Golden State Warriors who was in Los Angeles on a road trip, sexually assaulted her in a Santa Monica, California, hotel room, which her attorney says happened in 2014.

"This type of behavior cannot be condoned and no woman should ever be made to feel like a victim," Tennant said Tuesday.

Tennant had a working relationship with Walton stemming from his time as a guest analyst on Spectrum. In the lawsuit, she alleges she met with him at the Casa Del Mar Hotel to drop off a copy of her book, "a guide for student-athletes making the transition into a world after sports," for which he wrote the foreword.

Tennant alleges that Walton invited her up to his room, where he allegedly pinned her to the bed and forcibly kissed and groped her.

"Out of nowhere, he got on top of me and pinned me down to the bed and held my arms down. With all his weight," she said of Walton, who was named head coach of the Sacramento Kings earlier this month. "He kissed my neck, and my face and my chest. And as I kept asking him to please stop and to get off, he laughed at me.

"I thought he was going to rape me. I was finally able to get up after what felt like forever. And I immediately jumped up to leave the room and he came around and grabbed me from behind and again held my arms down so I could not move. And started kissing my neck again. I kept begging him to please let go and to please stop. And he continued to laugh in my ear. He finally let me go, and I got out of the room."

Tennant said she did not go the police or talk with officials at Spectrum after the alleged incident because she was only 25 at the time and was scared.

"When someone assaults you and you think you're going to be raped, coming forward is a scary thing," she said. "And I have spent years now dealing with this, trying to forget about it, hoping that I could push it to the side and bury it and hoping that time would heal. And that was not the case. And I feel like over this time I was able to muster up the courage and have enough conversations with [my attorney Garo Mardirossian] where I felt comfortable to talk about this."

In the lawsuit, Tennant also alleged that Walton "forced an aggressive hug" and made a lewd remark about her outfit at a charity event the two attended in May 2017.

News of the lawsuit first surfaced Monday night in a story by TMZ that later was confirmed by ESPN.

Walton, 39, was hired to be the Lakers' head coach in 2016, after his run as a Golden State assistant. Walton and the Lakers mutually parted ways on April 12, and he was then hired by the Kings shortly after.

Walton's attorney, Mark Baute, called the allegations "baseless.''

"The accuser is an opportunist, not a victim, and her claim is not credible,'' Baute said in a statement earlier Tuesday. "We intend to prove this in a courtroom.''

Mardirossian initially said during Tuesday's news conference that they were not interested in filing a criminal complaint.

"If you go to the police a few years later it's very difficult to put together a case where you have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that standard of care is much higher," he said. "So police departments are not very likely to get involved in a case this old at this time."

But pressed on the matter, Mardirossian later said they're not "closing the door on (going to the police) right now."

"Maybe we'll be contacted by a police department that watches or listens or hears about this and wants to investigate this," he said. "We know the NBA is going to investigate this. So we'll see where this takes us."

NBA spokesman Mike Bass had said earlier Tuesday that the league is speaking with the Kings and is "in the process of gathering more information." The Kings also have said they are gathering additional information.

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.

The Warriors said they were "aware of the alleged incident" and gathering additional information. Warriors guard Stephen Curry didn't offer much more when asked about his former coach Tuesday.

"I know the team had a comment on it," Curry said. "That's pretty much all we can say right now. But in terms of Luke, I've known him for a long time so hopefully everything works out."