Grizzlies hire Wallace to replace West as GM

The Memphis Grizzlies hired Chris Wallace on Monday to replace Jerry West as their general manager and vice president of basketball operations.

Wallace, the former general manager of the Boston Celtics, will join new coach Marc Iavaroni in helping Memphis rebuild after finishing with the worst record in the league last season. West, who also had the title of president of basketball operations, announced in April he would not return when his contract expires June 30.

•Stephen Jackson will admit to criminal recklessness in firing a gun outside a strip club in Indiana and, if the plea agreement is accepted by a judge, pay a $5,000 fine and perform 100 hours of community service, a prosecutor’s office spokesman said.

In return, the Golden State Warriors player will have a one-year jail sentence suspended and a felony converted into a misdemeanor conviction, spokesman Matthew Symons said.

Jackson was traded from the Indiana Pacers to the Golden State Warriors in January, two months after the Indianapolis nightclub shooting. He is scheduled to plead guilty in Marion Superior Court on Wednesday.

•The Charlotte Bobcats hired Dell Curry as an assistant coach, while former assistant John Outlaw was named director of pro player personnel.

Curry, who played 16 years in the NBA, including a 10-year stint with the Charlotte Hornets, had served as the Bobcats’ director of player development. He’ll join first-year coach Sam Vincent’s staff.

•The Great Falls Explorers of the Continental Basketball Association named Scott Wedman as the team’s head coach.

Golf

Mickelson withdraws

Phil Mickelson withdrew from this week’s Travelers Championship in Cromwell, Conn., to rest his inflamed left wrist that he injured while preparing for the U.S. Open, a spokesman for his management company said.

Mickelson, who injured his wrist while chipping from rough at Oakmont (Pa.) Country Club on Memorial Day weekend, has been told not to play golf for at least two weeks, according to T.R. Reinman, a spokesman for the sports management company that represents him. Reinman said he is not sure when Mickelson will play next.

“He’ll continue his therapy. He’ll continue to be monitored by his specialist, and there will be a determination after that,” Reinman said.

•With Tiger Woods back stalking the lead, the U.S. Open’s television ratings made a big jump from last year.

Sunday’s final round on NBC earned a 7.0 overnight rating and a 17 share, up 37 percent from last year’s 5.1/12 after Woods missed the cut. It was the best Sunday overnight rating since a 9.3/21 in 2002, when Woods won at Bethpage.

Miscellany

Florida player charged

Prosecutors have filed two charges against suspended Florida offensive lineman Ronnie Wilson in an early April shooting incident at Gainesville, Fla.

Wilson, 19, allegedly fired a semiautomatic weapon into the air after being chased following a nightclub incident. He was charged with battery and discharging a firearm in public. Arraignment was set for July 3.

The alleged victim claimed Wilson spat on him and slapped him in the face at a nightclub.

•Vera Zvonareva, who has been bothered by a left wrist injury for months, withdrew from Wimbledon.

The 19th-ranked Russian also missed the French Open because of the injury. She has not played since retiring while trailing Dinara Safina in the semifinals of the Family Circle Cup in April.