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Ryder Jones will make his Major League debut on Saturday afternoon, but when he steps into the batter’s box for the first time, he’ll see a familiar face. Even though Mets’ right-hander Jacob deGrom was busy winning the National League Rookie of the Year Award when Jones was spending his first full professional season in the Giants’ organization, Jones said he’s seen deGrom before.

When your team is compared to the 100-loss 1985 San Francisco Giants, you know you’re doing something historic. When it’s all said and done, this year’s version of the Giants may well be the worst since the franchise moved west. If this squad had been the 1958 version, the city might have sent them back to New York.

After playing past midnight in Atlanta on Thursday night (well, Friday morning), Bruce Bochy’s ballclub endured a five-hour cross country flight back to San Francisco and didn’t land until the sun was rising. So when San Francisco fell behind 7-1 on Friday evening against the New York Mets, it shouldn’t have come as much of a surprise that the team looked as if it was sleepwalking. For as well as ballplayers have it, that travel schedule is brutal.

For the second time this week, the San Francisco Giants have dug into the AAA ranks and called up a relief pitcher. On Friday, the Giants announced they’ve recalled left-hander Steven Okert from AAA Sacramento and designated right-hander Bryan Morris for assignment.

Jordan Bell spent Thursday night with his family and friends as he awaited being selected in the 2017 NBA Draft. Bell was chosen by the Chicago Bulls with the 38th overall pick, before the Warriors purchased the rights to him for $3.8 million.

It’s hard to imagine a worse way to lose than on a walkoff, and in the past week, the San Francisco Giants have watched their opponents’ sprint onto the field to celebrate game-winning hits on three separate occasions. For the 2017 Giants, though, there are worse ways to lose, and sure enough, they found one on Thursday evening.

For the second consecutive year, the Golden State Warriors acquired the No. 38 overall pick in the draft, this time sending a bag of cash ($3.5 million) to Chicago. For the second consecutive year, they may have uncovered another hidden gem before 29 other NBA teams. Last year it was Patrick McCaw. This year it’s 6-foot-9 […]

The Warriors purchased a second round pick for the second year in a row, and used it to take Oregon big man Jordan Bell. The cost for Bell was reportedly $3.5 million, but the Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year fills a definite need for Golden State.

Danny Ainge sent a signal: we’re playing the long game. The Celtics want to bet on their scouting department and try and get young, cheap, homegrown stars to take over the league once the Warriors — and 32-year-old LeBron James — begin to fizzle out

The NBA is far too big a stage for a player’s Dad to continue to drive the news cycle. I think LaVar’s days of influencing opinion on Lonzo, the newest Los Angeles Laker, are mostly over. His unveiling of a purple-and-gold ‘Big Baller Brand’ hat on Draft Night, his prediction that Lonzo will take the Lakers to the playoffs in his first year . . . all the final acts of his long-running play, “Lonzo and Me”.