SAN FRANCISCO — Golden State Warriors general manager Mike Dunleavy told reporters Tuesday night that he has no plans to move Jimmy Butler‘s contract prior to the Feb. 5 trade deadline, despite Butler’s torn ACL and the team’s desperate need for a roster upgrade to realistically compete in the Western Conference.

“I don’t envision that,” Dunleavy said. “Now that you’ve brought it up, I’d say my vision for him is to give us a boost next year the same way he did last year when he arrived.”

The Warriors had a lower profile but relatively similar situation manifest last regular season. Veteran guard De’Anthony Melton tore his ACL in November. In December, Dunleavy traded Melton’s contract to the Brooklyn Nets for Dennis Schroder. In February, he flipped Schroder as part of the package to the Miami Heat to acquire Butler.

On Monday, Butler tore his right ACL on an awkward landing against the Heat. The injury ends his season, and his absence, as Dunleavy admitted, is expected to bleed into next regular season.

Butler is owed $54.1 million this season and $56.8 million next in the final year of his current deal.

As the Warriors sort through the aftermath of the devastating injury news, there has been a thought that they could use his contract out on the trade market — presumably attached to draft picks — as an avenue to upgrade this win-now roster around Stephen Curry. Dunleavy, though, shot that down.

“At his age, to have the year he’s had is impressive,” Dunleavy said of Butler, who will turn 37 before next season. “I think he’s got a style of game that can play for a long time with his skill, his physicality, his mind for the game. So I guess my vision for him is him returning at some point between now and this time next year.”

Butler’s injury has a domino effect on Jonathan Kuminga, the Warriors’ embattled young wing who entering Tuesday has played only 10 minutes in the past month and issued a trade demand to the franchise last week as the DNPs pile up.

“I’m aware of [the trade demand],” Dunleavy said. “In terms of demands, when you make a demand, there needs to be a demand on the market.”

Butler’s absence could reopen a path to playing time for Kuminga, as Warriors coach Steve Kerr said prior to Tuesday night’s game against the Toronto Raptors. Kuminga has been buried in the rotation and disgruntled before, only to return to a high-usage role — most notably during the second round of the playoffs last May against the Minnesota Timberwolves after Curry strained a hamstring.

“I’m disappointed it hasn’t worked out better [with Kuminga],” Dunleavy said. “But it is what it is. …There’s still time left here. He’s on our roster. I know a trade has been requested, but nothing’s imminent and things in this league can change in a heartbeat, as they did last night. So he’s got to be ready.”

The Warriors are expected to pursue Kuminga trades up until the deadline, but Dunleavy did say he will use the next two weeks to assess where the Warriors stand in the aftermath of the franchise-altering Butler injury.

He said the Warriors could opt to use some of their future first-round picks to search out immediate help, but the threshold for a push-the-chips-in deal is high.

“If we’re talking about trading draft picks that will be going out when Steph isn’t here, it’s going to have to be a player that we think we’ll be getting back that is going to be here when those picks are going out,” Dunleavy said. “That player’s going to have to be pretty impactful. It would take a good amount — positionally, play style, archetype, all that. I would leave it pretty broad and open.

“But if there’s a great player to be had, we’ve got everything in the war chest that we would be willing to use.”

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — The Indiana Hoosiers were ready to party Tuesday night, and hundreds of loyal fans joined them when they arrived back on campus in Bloomington.

Turning out in freezing temperatures and brutally cold wind chills, fans, players and coaches celebrated college football’s implausible national champions. The heartwarming scene reminded fans how Indiana’s journey emulated the Hollywood version in “Hoosiers.”

“Hoo, hoo, hoo, Hoo-siers,” fans chanted as six team buses pulled into the south side of the team’s practice facility.

At traditional football powers such as Alabama, Michigan or Ohio State, mid-January scenes like this can be an expectation. Bloomington is different.

Here, success is measured in banners rather than trophies, and athletes are expected to pride themselves on playing for the name on the front of their jerseys. Here, fans embrace tales of the work ethic of players from the small dots on their state map and pride themselves on the notion that in 49 other states, basketball is just, well, basketball. In Indiana, it’s akin to a religion.

Coach Curt Cignetti and his football Hoosiers are upending those traditions.

In two seasons, they created a compelling story — a rags-to-riches tale of college football’s losingest program capturing its first national title. Indiana beat Miami 27-21 Monday night on the Hurricanes’ home field — the pro-Hoosiers crowd made it feel like a game in Bloomington — and sealed the milestone with an interception by the nephew of a former Miami player.

How inspirational was this season?

“I am a Purdue graduate, but I have worked at IU for almost 20 years, and I told my colleagues today this is the first year ever I rooted for IU,” Leah Mullins said, referring to Indiana’s biggest rival. “I had to pull myself away from the Boilermakers because this season has just been so inspiring and so exciting and there’s just like, such a camaraderie within the community.”

That sentiment was on full display Tuesday night.

Whether it was people dressed in Indiana’s trademark crimson-and-cream candy-striped pants, IU window flags fluttering in the breezy air or the Hoosiers victory flag waving high above the stadium with the sun setting behind it, the excitement was evident.

On the main street leading to the stadium, somebody added the words “national champ” to a display of wooden cutouts that has steadily grown with each win this season. The Hoosiers became the first team since the 1890s to finish 16-0.

There were long lines to purchase national championship gear at a local sporting goods store earlier Tuesday, and when word came that the team had landed at Indianapolis International Airport, about an hour’s drive northwest of Bloomington, the parking lots started filling up.

But this is so new to Indiana, many fans were in the wrong location to catch a glimpse of Heisman Trophy winner Fernando Mendoza, defensive leader Aiden Fisher, Cignetti or the trophy. So they ran to their cars, followed the blaring sirens from the police escort and pulled in behind the buses.

“I haven’t seen Bloomington so connected and so ecstatic over anything in like a long time,” said Anika Drichel, a native of the college town of 85,000. “It’s so exciting.”

Some became believers when Cignetti won a school-record 11 games in 2024, with the only losses coming at eventual national champion Ohio State and eventual runner-up Notre Dame. Others hopped on board as Cignetti’s team beat then-No. 3 Oregon on the road in October or after the Hoosiers captured their first outright Big Ten title since 1945 by beating the Buckeyes. Others held out until the clock ran out on Monday night.

Those who didn’t get their chance to celebrate Tuesday will have other opportunities. Mendoza is scheduled to do an autograph session at a sporting goods store on Wednesday morning. The trophy will be on display at a grocery store on Wednesday and a Wal-Mart on Thursday.

The party will continue Saturday, with the school announcing a championship celebration at Memorial Stadium where fans can cheer on the CFP-winning Hoosiers at the end of a truly historic season.

“When it started getting really good I was like, ‘Well, you know maybe I should [get on board], this is really great,'” Mullins said. “And Fernando is such a great kid, I mean all of them. They’re all such good guys, it’s almost like, how can you not support these guys?”

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.

The center-field roster of the Baseball Hall of Fame grew deeper Tuesday with the announcement that Carlos Beltran and Andruw Jones were selected for induction.

Beltran was elected in his fourth year of eligibility after being named on 84.2% of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America (BBWAA) ballots, easily clearing the 75% threshold for enshrinement. Jones was named on 78.4% of the ballots, just clearing the bar to earn election in his ninth and second-to-last year of eligibility.

Beltran and Jones join Jeff Kent, who was elected in December in the contemporary era committee voting, in the Class of 2026.

Beltran, a nine-time All-Star and three-time Gold Glove winner, hit .279 during his 20-year career with 2,725 hits, 435 homers, 1,582 runs and 312 stolen bases. He is one of four players to reach 2,700 hits, 400 homers, 1,500 runs and 300 steals, joining Barry Bonds, Willie Mays and Alex Rodriguez.

Beltran becomes the fifth player born in Puerto Rico to be elected to the Hall, not including Edgar Martinez, who was born in New York but grew up and attended high school on the island.

“Today, my life really has changed, just being able to be named a Hall of Famer and what it really means to me, to Puerto Rico, to our family, to our project in Puerto Rico promoting baseball,” said Beltran, who now runs a baseball academy there.

Beltran, the 1999 AL Rookie of the Year with Kansas City, probably would have been elected during his first year or two of eligibility if not for his association with the Houston Astros‘ sign-stealing scandal dating to their 2017 World Series-winning club. His election surely bodes well for other members of that squad who will eventually arrive on the ballot, such as Jose Altuve, Alex Bregman, Carlos Correa and George Springer.

“I still receive love from the players, the teammates that I had inside the clubhouse,” Beltran said. “They know the type of person that I am, but at the same time, I understand that that’s also a story that I have to deal with.”

Jones will become the first player born in Curacao to be inducted. Best remembered for the legendary defensive prowess he displayed during the first decade of his career, Jones is one of only six outfielders to win 10 or more Gold Gloves. He hit .254 with 434 homers during his 17 seasons in the majors.

“I mean, we grew up playing baseball so much down there, that’s all we knew since we grew up — we wanted to play baseball,” Jones said. “[To be] the first player to make it from Curacao, it’s a great honor. And I know we’re going to have more people coming.”

Jones burst onto the scene in 2006, when at age 19 he homered twice in Game 1 of the 1996 World Series for the Atlanta Braves against New York at Yankee Stadium. Jones’ candidacy built slowly during his years of eligibility, growing from 7.3% in his first season to eventual enshrinement, the lowest starting mark for an eventual enshrinee.

Likely holding back Jones’ HOF candidacy in the early years of the process was the decline he displayed after his age-30 season, and domestic violence charges filed against him in 2012, a couple of months after he played in his last big league game. He pleaded guilty to the charges and was fined and went on to play two seasons in Japan.

“This is going to be a great moment to actually be on the stage with those guys that you idolize, those guys that you grew up watching, guys that you compete with,” Jones said. “Then enjoying that moment, when you get that chance to be on the elite level.”

This year will mark the first time that two career center fielders will be inducted on the same day. Jones shared that Beltran called him after they received their respective calls Tuesday to celebrate.

The biggest gainers over last year’s balloting were a pair of pitchers. Felix Hernandez was named on 46.1% of the ballots in his second year of eligibility, a 25.5% leap over last year.

Meanwhile, Yankees and Astros great Andy Pettitte, a 256-game winner whose candidacy has dragged because of admissions that he used HGH, was named on 48.5% of ballots, a 20.6% uptick from the last voting cycle. Pettitte has two more years of eligibility remaining in the BBWAA balloting.

The leading first-time eligible player was Phillies left-hander Cole Hamels, who was named on 23.8% of the ballots. Meanwhile, Brewers third baseman/outfielder Ryan Braun, the 2011 NL MVP who was later suspended for PED use, was named on only 3.5% of ballots, shy of the 5% minimum needed to carry over to next year.

The Hall of Fame’s induction ceremony will take place on July 26 on the grounds of the Clark Sports Center in Cooperstown, New York.