Newsmakers

Traded The Philadelphia 76ers traded center Samuel Dalembert to the Sacramento Kings for Andres Nocioni and Spencer Hawes. Dalembert asked for a trade last year because he was unhappy with his role. Hawes, a 7-foot-1 center, averaged 10 points and 6.1 rebounds last season. He was Sacramento’s first-round draft pick out of the University of Washington in 2007.

•The St. Louis Blues now have a goalie who fits right into their youth movement, acquiring Jaroslav Halak fresh off his star-making playoff run for Montreal. The Blues picked up the 25-year-old Halak, whose play helped the Canadiens make a surprise run to the Eastern Conference finals, for a pair of minor league forwards, former 2007 first-round pick Lars Eller and Ian Schultz. Halak won a pair of Game 7s and helped Montreal, the eighth seed in the Eastern Conference, bounce heavily favored Washington and Pittsburgh out of the playoffs.

Hired A perennial candidate to lead the team he played for and coached as an assistant, John MacLean was named the head coach of the New Jersey Devils, replacing the retired Jacques Lemaire. MacLean was considered for the head coaching position with the Devils on three other occasions, but lost out to, in order, Claude Julien (2006), Brent Sutter (2007) and Lemaire (2009). MacLean spent last season coaching the Devils’ American Hockey League affiliate in Lowell, Mass., and led the team to its only playoff appearance in four seasons. That followed seven years as a Devils assistant.

Retiring U.S. Snowboarding coach Bud Keene, who helped guide star pupil Shaun White to gold medals in the Winter Olympics in 2006 and 2010, is stepping down. Keene spent the last two years as the head of the U.S. Snowboarding Freestyle National Development program. Keene joined U.S. Snowboarding after the 2006 Olympic season, specializing in the halfpipe. Sidelined Croatian tennis star Ivo Karlovic has withdrawn from Wimbledon with a foot injury. Karlovic, who reached the quarterfinals last year, had been seeded No. 25 for the Grand Slam tournament beginning Monday. The 6-foot-10 Karlovic has been bothered for months by an Achilles tendon injury in his right foot and also missed the French Open.