Changes coming to NBA playoffs

LAS VEGAS — Changes to the NBA playoffs are almost certainly coming. Changes to the league’s much-discussed moratorium and Hack-a-Shaq aren’t, at least not now.

After meeting with the league’s Board of Governors on those and other topics, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said that — as expected — the league is leaning toward eliminating any protection for division winners in playoff seeding going forward and instead placing the eight teams on the Eastern and Western Conference brackets based solely by record.

There was no vote Tuesday, though one is expected soon.

Point guard Williams signs with Dallas

DALLAS — Deron Williams has joined his hometown Mavericks after Brooklyn bought out the contract the point guard signed when he spurned Dallas to stay with the Nets three years ago.

Williams, who grew up in the Dallas suburb of The Colony, signed a two-year, $10 million deal. He has a player option in the second year.

Ex-NFL QB McNabb facing second DUI

GILBERT, Ariz. — Former NFL quarterback Donovan McNabb had a blood alcohol level that was more than twice the legal limit when he was arrested on suspicion of DUI in Arizona last month, police said.

Police in the Phoenix suburb of Gilbert said lab tests show McNabb’s blood alcohol level was 0.17. The legal limit in Arizona is .08 and anything 0.15 or higher qualifies as extreme DUI.

It was the second DUI arrest for McNabb in 18 months. He served a day in jail after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor DUI charge resulting from a Dec. 15, 2013, arrest.

Froome dominating Tour de France

LA PIERRE-SAINT-MARTIN, France — Chris Froome used the first high-mountain stage of this year’s Tour de France to take control of the race, powering up a punishing climb in the Pyrenees at a pace that none of his rivals could match.