Kristaps Porzingis is being traded by the Boston Celtics to the Atlanta Hawks, and part of what will be a three-team deal gives the Brooklyn Nets another selection in Wednesday’s first round of the NBA draft, according to a person with knowledge of the agreement.

Porzingis is going to the Hawks, while Georges Niang and a second-round pick will be acquired by Boston, and Brooklyn will wind up with Terance Mann and the No. 22 pick that is held by Atlanta in Wednesday’s draft, said the person who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the trade isn’t expected to be finalized until the start of the new league year on July 6.

ESPN first reported the trade, which was later confirmed by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The move is the second major one by Boston of the week, after the team agreed to trade Jrue Holiday to Portland.

Porzingis — who, like Holiday, was part of the team that helped Boston win the 2024 NBA title — will make $30.7 million next season on an expiring contract. He was slowed by illness at times in the second half of this past season, as well as in Boston’s playoff run this spring. But he intends to play for Latvia at EuroBasket this summer, a good sign.

Nuggets opt for co-VPs Tenzer, Wallace

Josh Kroenke balked at the word “abnormal” when it was used to describe the Denver Nuggets’ new front-office setup.

Instead, he countered with a different choice — unorthodox.

The Nuggets are relying on a unique co-partnership approach between executive vice presidents Ben Tenzer and Jonathan Wallace. It’s a way to take advantage of their particular skill sets and elevate a team built around three-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic.

“Most everything that has gotten us to this point has been unorthodox,” Kroenke, the vice chairman Kroenke Sports and Entertainment, said at a news conference to introduce his new front-office staff. “Our best player (Jokic) is the 41st pick — in a very unorthodox manner, the way he plays the game. So everything about us is unorthodox.”

Officially, Tenzer is the executive vice president of basketball operations and Wallace the executive VP of player personnel.

HOCKEY

Mogilny finally gets the call for HoF class

Alexander Mogilny’s long wait for the Hockey Hall of Fame is over, as the high-scoring Russian winger was selected as part of the eight-member class of 2025.

He was joined by fellow former NHL players Joe Thornton, Zdeno Chara and Duncan Keith as well as women’s hockey stars Brianna Decker and Jennifer Botterill. Mogilny had been eligible for election for 16 years going back to 2009.

Thornton, Chara and Keith all got in in their first year of eligibility. Longtime Boston University coach Jack Parker and women’s coach Daniele Sauvageau were elected in the builders category.

Visorless Martin retires from NHL

Matt Martin announced his retirement after 16 NHL seasons, all but two with the New York Islanders, a departure that leaves the league with only a few players who take the ice without a visor.

Martin was one of just five holdovers in the league who played without a visor on his helmet. His move to the front office as special assistant to Islanders general manager Mathieu Darche makes Ryan O’Reilly, Jamie Benn, Zach Bogosian and Ryan Reaves the only visor-less players remaining.

The NHL and NHL Players’ Association agreed in 2013 to mandate visors for newcomers, grandfathering them like helmets were decades earlier.

Asked about it in November 2023, Martin figured it would be a major adjustment to put a visor back on, especially given how much of his job on the ice was fighting. He played his final of 1,075 regular-season and playoff games without one on April 17.

MILB

Saints defeat Bats on first night of home series

St. Paul started their home series against the Louisville Bats with a 6-1 win. In just two strong three-run innings, the second inning and the fifth inning, the Saints notched six runs, and the Bats’ single homer in the seventh couldn’t measure up.

Pierson Ohl started at the mound for St. Paul, making his Triple-A debut allowing just three hits and no runs on his four innings. Michael Tonkin (1-0) got the win for the Saints, allowing one earned run and three hits over three innings.

Noah Cardenas, Edouard Julien and Carson McCusker all added home runs for the Saints. McCusker and Cardenas each had two RBI.

— Staff report

WNBA

Vandersloot has surgery to repair ACL

Chicago Sky guard Courtney Vandersloot underwent surgery to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament in her right knee, the team announced.

Vandersloot suffered the season-ending injury in Chicago’s 79-52 loss to Indiana on June 7. She had the operation at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.

A five-time All-Star, Vandersloot averaged 10.6 points and 5.3 assists in seven games.

The 5-foot-8 point guard was selected by the Sky with the third overall pick in the 2011 WNBA draft and helped lead them to the championship in 2021. She spent the previous two seasons in New York and helped the Liberty win the WNBA title last year before returning to Chicago this season.

NASCAR

Teams: Releasing records would be ‘catastrophic’

Attorneys for 12 of NASCAR’s 15 race teams argued in federal court that disclosing their financial records to the stock car series would be “catastrophic” to competitive balance and warned that making such details public would put them all in danger.

The hearing was over a discovery dispute between NASCAR and the teams that are not parties in the ongoing antitrust suit filed by 23XI Racing, which is owned by retired NBA Hall of Famer Michael Jordan and three-time Daytona 500 winner Denny Hamlin, and Front Row Motorsports, owned by entrepreneur Bob Jenkins.

— From news services