CLEVELAND -- Cavaliers rookie forward Evan Mobley could be sidelined for a month with a sprained right elbow suffered Monday night in a loss to Boston.

The No. 3 pick in this year's draft got hurt when his arm got tied up while battling Celtics center Enes Kanter under the basket. Coach J.B. Bickerstaff called the injury "a freak thing" because it happened on a common play.

The Cavs said an MRI taken Tuesday confirmed the original diagnosis of a sprain. Mobley will begin treatment and rehab, and the team estimates his return to the court in "approximately 2-4 weeks."

Mobley's loss is a major blow to the Cavs as he has helped them get off to a surprisingly strong start at 9-6. The 20-year-old is averaging 14.6 points, 8.0 rebounds and 1.6 blocks.

The Cavs have been dealing with an assortment of injuries lately.

Leading scorer Collin Sexton remains sidelined with a meniscus tear in his left knee. The Cavs have not updated his status in a week.

Also, center Jarrett Allen missed Monday's game with an illness and will not make the trip to play at Brooklyn on Wednesday.

Kevin Love and Lauri Markkanen recently cleared the NBA's health protocols and are working on their conditioning before playing. Bickerstaff said it's possible Love could return against the Nets.

After Mobley got hurt, the Cavs finished with just nine players against the Celtics.

There's growing optimism that Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James -- who has been out two weeks with an abdominal strain -- could make his return against the Boston Celtics on Friday, sources told ESPN.

James has been making good progress, and Friday's meeting with the Celtics (7:30 p.m. ET, ESPN) looms as a target for him to rejoin the Lakers' lineup.

The 36-year-old James has started to resume individual workouts in recent days, Lakers coach Frank Vogel said Sunday.

James has missed nine games this season -- including two with a sprained ankle -- and the Lakers are desperate to get him back on a consistent basis. The Lakers begin a five-game trip on Wednesday in Milwaukee against the Bucks.

The Lakers are 8-7 and lost 121-103 on Monday to the Chicago Bulls at Staples Center.

CLEVELAND -- Cleveland will have two teams called the Guardians.

The Major League Baseball franchise and a local roller derby club have reached a resolution in a lawsuit filed over the use of the name Guardians, allowing both to continue using it.

The sides on Tuesday jointly announced an "amicable resolution," an agreement that permits the Indians to continue their changeover to Guardians -- a switch that was delayed due to the legal matter and isn't completely finished.

No other terms of the agreement were disclosed.

The legal scuffle was another hurdle in a long route to the official name change for the team, whose decision to drop Indians angered some fans. The American League team has been known as the Indians since 1915.

Next season, they'll be the Guardians, a name chosen after a yearlong process that sprang from a national reckoning over racist names and symbols.

Last month, the Cleveland Guardians roller derby team, which was formed in 2013, filed its lawsuit alleging the baseball team's switch from Indians to Guardians infringed on its trademark and employed deceptive trade practices, violating a state law.

"A Major League club cannot simply take a smaller team's name and use it for itself," the lawsuit said. "There cannot be two 'Cleveland Guardians' teams in Cleveland, and, to be blunt, Plaintiff was here first."

Now that the legal entanglement has been resolved, the Guardians baseball team can begin selling merchandise. The team had been hoping to have new jerseys and caps on store shelves in time for holiday shopping.

Earlier this month, the team began removing Indians signs in and around Progressive Field.

Jose Berrios has reached agreement on a seven-year, $131 million extension with the Toronto Blue Jays, a source told ESPN, confirming multiple reports.

The deal is pending a physical.

Toronto acquired the 27-year-old right-hander at the trade deadline from the Minnesota Twins, and he went 5-4 with a 3.58 ERA in 12 starts for the Blue Jays down the stretch.

Berrios went 12-9 overall in 2021 as he set career bests with a 3.52 ERA and 204 strikeouts. He is 60-47 with a 4.04 ERA in his six-year career.

Berrios, a two-time All-Star, was scheduled to become a free agent after the 2022 season.

Meanwhile, the Jays' staff ace, Robbie Ray, is currently a free agent. The American League Cy Young finalist went 13-7 with a 2.84 ERA and led the major leagues with 248 strikeouts.

Left-hander Steven Matz, who went 14-7 with a 3.82 ERA last season, also is a free agent.

The Blue Jays, who finished third in the AL East last season with a 91-71 record, also have veteran left-hander Hyun Jin Ryu and promising 2021 rookie Alek Manoah in their rotation.

ESPN's Jeff Passan contributed to this report.

Right-hander Noah Syndergaard and the Los Angeles Angels have agreed to a one-year, $21 million deal, pending a physical, sources told ESPN on Tuesday.

Syndergaard, 29, spent the first seven seasons of his career with the New York Mets, making one All-Star team and displaying perhaps the nastiest array of pitches for a starter in the major leagues. Having pitched only two innings since 2019 because of Tommy John surgery, Syndergaard will join an Angels rotation that was among the worst in the big leagues last season.

The Angels' pursuit of starting pitching this winter was their top priority, with two-way star Shohei Ohtani coming off a season that will end with the American League MVP award and outfielder Mike Trout returning from an injury-plagued 2021.

The cost is hefty: Beyond the $21 million, the Angels will forfeit their second-round draft pick in 2022 because Syndergaard had been tendered a one-year, $18.4 million qualifying offer by the Mets. They will receive a pick after the draft's competitive balance Round B (around 70th overall).

While some in the industry expected Syndergaard to take the qualifying offer, the market proved healthier. The Angels, Toronto Blue Jays and New York Yankees were among the teams that showed the greatest interest in Syndergaard, sources told ESPN.

All of them saw enough in Syndergaard's late-September return, which included a pair of one-inning outings in which he didn't throw his slider or curveball. Though Syndergaard's average fastball velocity during the outings was down more than 3 mph from his 2017 peak, the promise of plenty more prompted the Angels to pay a premium.

According to ESPN Stats & Information, Syndergaard's deal, by average annual value, is the largest doled out by the franchise for a pitcher. C.J. Wilson signed a five-year, $77.5 million deal ($15.5 million AAV) prior to the 2012 season.

The Angels' need for pitching is no secret. Ohtani led the team with 130.1 innings; no other Angels pitcher exceeded 100. Syndergaard has never pitched 200 innings in a season; he's made 30 or more starts in a season twice (2016 and 2019).

However, a rotation that includes Ohtani, Syndergaard and left-hander Patrick Sandoval has the makings of something good -- particularly if general manager Perry Minasian can complement it with a top-of-the-rotation arm like free-agent right-hander Max Scherzer.

Syndergaard, a 6-foot-6 leviathan nicknamed Thor, looked superheroic early in his career, constantly ripping off 100-mph fastballs and pairing them with 93-mph sliders. During the Mets' run to the 2015 National League pennant, Syndergaard was among their best pitchers, and the next year he was even better, posting a 2.60 ERA, striking out 218 in 183.2 innings and looking every bit a star.

When Syndergaard was healthy, he was typically excellent, pairing his strikeout stuff with a tendency to generate groundballs. Over 718 career innings, he has a 3.32 ERA and has struck out 777, walked 166 and allowed just 64 home runs. His return from elbow reconstruction in March 2020 hit roadblocks and culminated with the September showcases, during which he allowed two runs in two innings.

That was enough for the Angels to see -- and pay.

Former British number one Kyle Edmund will miss next month's Battle of the Brits event in Scotland because of continuing issues with his left knee.

The 26-year-old had surgery in March and was back hitting in early summer but he has not so far been able to return to competitive tennis.

However he still hopes to be fit for January's Australian Open in Melbourne.

His place in the event, organised by Jamie Murray for 21 and 22 December in Aberdeen, will now be taken by Jack Draper.

A statement from organisers read: "Edmund has been forced to withdraw from the event because of a slower-than-expected recovery from the left knee injury which has kept him off the court for the last 13 months."

Edmund reached the Australian Open semi-finals in January 2018 and victory in the European Open saw him reach a career-high ranking of 14.

But since winning a second ATP title in New York in February 2020, he has struggled and is now ranked 122 in the world.

Fly-half Handre Pollard and scrum-half Cobus Reinach will start for South Africa against England on Saturday.

Reinach replaces Herschel Jantjies, while Lood de Jager starts at lock in place of Franco Mostert.

The Twickenham encounter will be South Africa's final match of the autumn after victories in Wales and Scotland.

Springboks coach Jacques Nienaber said he had made changes to his starting XV because "England will pose different threats to Scotland".

Reinach makes his first Test start since August in the continued absence of injured scrum-half Faf de Klerk, while star wing Cheslin Kolbe has also missed the autumn Tests through injury.

Nienaber added: "Elton, Herschel and Franco have shown they can inject energy and ignite a spark on attack off the bench, which will be handy against an English outfit we know will be highly charged up for this match."

England will be without hooker Jamie George and captain Owen Farrell because of injuries sustained in last Saturday's 32-15 win against Australia.

But, with new faces brought into the side as head coach Eddie Jones builds a team for the 2023 World Cup and the introduction of attack coach Martin Gleeson, Nienaber is expecting different challenges to those posed in the World Cup final.

The Springboks coach said: "England have traditionally had a strong pack of forwards and backs that can trigger action on attack, but they have a number of new players and coaches this season, who will want to make their mark, so there may be a different dynamic in their style of play."

England's team is due to be named at 13:30 GMT on Thursday.

South Africa: Le Roux; Kriel, Am, De Allende, Mapimpi; Pollard, Reinach; Nche, Mbonambi, Nyakane, Etzebeth, De Jager, Kolisi, Smith, Vermeulen.

Replacements: Marx, Kitshoff, Koch, Mostert, Wiese, H Jantjies, E Jantjies, Steyn.

His friends call him Bruno.

For 1,110 regular-season games over 16 NHL seasons, many called Andrew Brunette their teammate. After he retired in 2012, the Minnesota Wild called him by many titles -- coach, assistant general manager, special assistant to the general manager and director of player personnel. In July 2019, Joel Quenneville called him up and asked him to join his staff, becoming an assistant coach with the Florida Panthers.

The same Joel Quenneville who coached Brunette as a Colorado Avalanche player for three seasons, and then again with the Chicago Blackhawks in Brunette's last season as a player.

The same Joel Quenneville who resigned on Oct. 28 with the Panthers undefeated (7-0-0).

Now they call Andrew Brunette the interim head coach in Florida, charged with managing an unanticipated crisis that threatened to derail an otherwise promising season for the franchise.

"These are not the circumstances that I'd ever dream of, or ever want to step into. But in life, you just take what's given to you, and just do the best job that you can do," Brunette told ESPN recently.

Quenneville's resignation came after the release of an investigation into how the Chicago Blackhawks handled claims by Kyle Beach that former video coach Brad Aldrich sexually assaulted him in 2010. Quenneville had participated in a meeting about the claims during the team's run in the Stanley Cup Playoffs and -- like everyone else in a position of power in that meeting -- took no immediate action. Aldrich remained on his staff, and celebrated with the other coaches when Chicago won the Stanley Cup.

When the investigation was released publicly in October, Blackhawks GM Stan Bowman and senior vice president of hockey operations Al MacIsaac resigned. Quenneville tendered his own resignation after a meeting in New York with NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and Panthers owner Vincent Viola.

"Suffice it to say that whatever conversations I had with Joel, or I suppose Vinnie Viola had with Joel, Joel ultimately concluded that the most sensible course of action for him was to resign," said Bettman.

The Hockey Hall of Fame welcomed its newest class on Monday night in Toronto, which means it's time to start speculating on next year's immortals.

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, there wasn't a 2021 class for the Hall. That means players like Henrik and Daniel Sedin carry over to the Class of 2022 for consideration, which certainly complicates things for next year's eligibility newbies and the 18-person selection committee.

Here's our current ranking of eligible player candidates for the Class of 2022. Keep in mind that for players, the class can feature a maximum of four male and two female honorees:

Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy, 27, has been charged with two additional counts of rape, the United Kingdom Crown Prosecution Service said. Mendy is now facing six counts of rape and one count of sexual assault. The charges relate to four complainants over the age of 16.

The France left-back was originally charged on Aug. 26 with alleged attacks on three different women between October 2020 and August 2021 and was denied bail for a second time at the start of October.

The CPS also said it had authorised Cheshire Police to charge Louis Saha Matturie, 40, with two additional counts of rape and one of sexual assault.

Mendy joined City from Monaco in 2017 and has made 75 appearances for the club. After starting the 1-0 defeat to Tottenham Hotspur on the opening weekend of the season, he was an unused substitute for the 5-0 win over Norwich City on Aug. 21.

Mendy, whose trial is due to begin at Chester Crown Court on Jan. 24, 2022, has been suspended by City, pending an investigation.