Oats said he'd spoken to a longtime friend in the NBA who told him it's all down to getting back to fundamentals, including improvement in guarding one-on-one, boxing out, sprinting back and communicating. He added that leadership on that starts from the top down, including himself.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has suspended a college scholarship program that helps students from rural and underserved backgrounds pursue careers in agriculture, food, natural resource sciences,