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2. Basketball – NBA: Like a taste of recovery

The Los Angeles Clippers, title contenders, beat the Orlando Magic (99-90) on Wednesday for the first friendly preparatory to the resumption of the NBA season, also the opportunity to discover what the meetings will look like in the bubble from Disney World. Devoid of any atmosphere or almost, behind closed doors requires, the game resumed in Florida more than four months after the interruption of the championship due to the coronavirus, with, as the protocol provided for, the management members and the substitutes scattered at a distance of 1.80 m from each other each in its seat, but not masked.

3. Football – Mercato: OL are still targeting Gustavo and will welcome a young Turk

The team tells us this Thursday that Lyon is about to finalize the arrival of a young Turkish defender, Cenk Özkaçar. At 19, he defends the colors of Altay Izmir and OL should spend 2 million euros to buy his last year of contract. In addition, the daily announces that the Gones still have in mind to convince Luiz Gustavo to return to France. The former Marseillais, now in Fenerbahçe, is ardently desired by his former coach, Rudi Garcia, and by Juninho.

We have also retained for you

• Football – Serie A : Unable to beat Fiorentina on Wednesday at San Siro (0-0), Inter Milan offered a first match point to Juventus, who will again be crowned Italian champions if successful Thursday on the pitch. Udinese.

• Football – MLS : The Montreal Impact, coached by Thierry Henry, guaranteed to finish among the best four thirds after Cincinnati’s victory on Wednesday against the New York Red Bulls, has qualified for the round of 16 of the tournament organized by the MLS.

• Basketball – NBA : Houston Rockets star Russell Westbrook, positive for the coronavirus in early July and arrived in Florida on Monday after two weeks in quarantine, reunited with his teammates on Wednesday in training in the Disney World bubble, where the NBA season will resume on July 30.

• Rugby : Five or six matches instead of three, the northern and southern nations separated, a Rugby Championship in a single country: the autumn testing schedule, completely upset by the Covid-19 pandemic, took shape on Wednesday with the World Rugby recommendations.

• Golf – British Masters : Scotland’s David Law took the lead in the British Masters with a card of 64, or seven strokes under par, in the first round on Wednesday at Newcastle.

• Football – Friendly match: Lyon went to beat La Gantoise at (2-3) in a friendly Wednesday, for their penultimate preparation match before their next big meetings: the Coupe de la Ligue final against PSG on July 31 and the round of 16 return of Champions League against Juventus on August 7.

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A legendary final (Djokovic-Nadal, US Open 2019), the world snooker championships, an OM-PSG: there will be heavy, very heavy this Thursday on our antennas.

What not to miss today

1. Football – Serie A: Juventus, first match point

He is only missing three points. After Inter Milan’s draw against Fiorentina (0-0), Juventus Turin only needs a victory against Udinese to be crowned champion. In case of victory Thursday in Udine, Juve would find themselves three days from the end with 10 points ahead of Inter and nine over Atalanta. Theoretically, the Bergamasques could therefore return, but the Turinese would stay ahead thanks to direct confrontations (3-1, 2-2).