GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Florida guard Bradley Beal is turning pro, leaving the Gators after one season. Beal announced his intentions Friday, declaring for the NBA draft after telling coach Billy Donovan. The 6-foot-4 Beal is expected to be a lottery pick in the June 28 draft, predicted to go in the top five. Donovan calls the 18-year-old Beal "as mature a kid at this age as Ive ever been around." Beal says his dream is "sitting right here in front of me" and that hes "ready to realize this dream." Beal averaged 14.8 points, 6.7 rebounds and 2.2 assists as a freshman and made the first-team All-Southeastern Conference team. He is the second player to leave Florida for the NBA after one season during Donovans 16 years, joining Donnell Harvey (2000). Nike Air Max 1 Dam . Finally, the horn sounded. That first victory as an NBA head coach was his. 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Nike Air Max 90 Dam Online . -- The San Francisco 49ers parted ways for good with running back Brandon Jacobs on Monday, an expected move after the outspoken player was suspended for the final three regular-season games. Nike Air Max 90 Dam . "Its been a long time and Ive been wanting to get out there," Oden said after his preseason debut in Miamis 108-95 victory at New Orleans on Wednesday night.NEW YORK -- With time running out and business beginning to suffer, the NBA is eager to intensify talks with its union. And Commissioner David Stern says the NFLs problems show why. Stern believes footballs labour situation, which he called a "mess," was worsened by a lack of urgency to get a deal done well before its collective bargaining agreement expired, something he wants to avoid as his league tries to negotiate a new deal with its players. "It seemed that at the end of the bargaining between the NFL and the players, one got the sense that in the last day or two they had closed the gap," Stern said Thursday. "I dont know if thats accurate or not, but thats what I read. And you wonder as an outsider whether it would have been a good thing to close that gap a few days earlier, a couple of weeks earlier so that you had the opportunity and the plan to do that." The NBA plans to soon send the union a revised proposal for a new collective bargaining agreement, hoping it will trigger meaningful negotiations ahead of the June 30 expiration date. But Stern made it clear in his meeting with Associated Press Sports Editors that he will lock the players out if a deal cant be reached to give owners the financial relief they seek, even if it comes at the expense of his reputation. "The league is my client, not my vehicle to a legacy," Stern said. Stern said someone on the players side challenged him on that before the 1998 work stoppage, telling Stern he wouldnt dare shut down the league that hed spent more than two decades growing. "Youre going to learn the hard way. Thats not the way we operate this league. We operate in the best interest of the league," Stern said of his response at the time. But Stern doesnt believe it has to come to that point, with more than two months of bargaining time available. And he warned the players that the deal offered to them before the current CBA expires may be more favourable than one they could be presented after games have already been lost.dddddddddddd "If theres a work stoppage that changes our financial picture even more negatively ... it would seem to indicate that the offer that was there has to recalibrated to what the new realities economically are," Stern said. Stern also defended the right of his owners to profit off their investments. Though the league is projecting US$300 million in losses this season, the leagues initial proposal in February 2010 for a new CBA sought to reduce player salary costs by about $750 million annually. The players quickly rejected that proposal, which also called for a hard salary cap to replace the current system that allows for certain exceptions. The players sent a counterproposal that summer, but the league wasnt interested in it and there has been no progress. But deputy commissioner Adam Silver said the uncertainty of whether there will be games next season will start to hurt the league when it comes to various ticket and sponsorship renewals. "Frankly, were running out of time," Silver said. "We have roughly two months and a week to get a deal done before the expiration of this collective bargaining agreement. And I think on that point, Billy Hunter and the union are in full agreement with us that we need to intensify these discussions." Stern downplayed other comparisons to the NFLs situation, saying his league is losing money and has openly shared its financial data with the union. He also seemed to question the NFLPAs decertification process, but said having two leagues with labour problems would only further anger the public. He believes his league would bounce back if games are lost, but with a cost. "The damage that would be done to both sides would be intense," he said. cheap nfl jerseys ' ' '