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George scores 33 points, Leonard adds 30 to help surging Clippers beat Suns 131-122

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:37:29 GMT

PHOENIX (AP) — Los Angeles coach Tyronn Lue was still stewing a little in the postgame press conference, replaying in his head how the Clippers’ offense got a little stagnant during the final eight minutes against Phoenix on Wednesday night.The good news for the Clippers is the first 40 minutes were so good it didn’t really matter.Paul George scored 33 points, Kawhi Leonard added 30 and the Clippers extended their winning streak to four straight by beating the Suns 131-122. Los Angeles has won 13 of 15 while Phoenix had its four-game winning streak snapped.George shot 8 of 14 from the field, going 5 of 10 from 3-point range. James Harden had 22 points and 11 assists. The Clippers shot 55% from the field and 53% from 3-point range — efficient numbers all around. Harden said he expects that will be the norm as he continues to adapt to his new team after being traded from Philadelphia on Oct. 31.“We still haven’t figured it out, because different teams guard us differ...

Tyler Herro scores 21 points, Heat pull away in 4th quarter to beat Lakers 110-96

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:37:29 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tyler Herro scored 21 points, Duncan Robinson had 11 of his 13 points in the fourth quarter and the Miami Heat beat the Los Angeles Lakers 110-96 on Wednesday night.Jaime Jaquez Jr. added 16 points and Nikola Jovic and Bam Adebayo scored 15 apiece as all eight Miami players who saw action scored in double figures. Kevin Love had a season-high 14 rebounds along with 10 points.Miami was without Jimmy Butler for the sixth time in seven games because of irritation in his right foot.Anthony Davis had 29 points and 18 rebounds for Los Angeles. Austin Reaves added 24 points. The Heat shot just 39.1% from the field the first three quarters, but were 14 of 24 in the fourth, including 6 of 11 on 3-pointers.The Lakers were just 4 of 30 on 3-pointers and committed 15 of their 22 turnovers in the first half as they lost for the ninth time in their last 12 games. LeBron James was 6 of 18 from the field and finished with 12 points.Love’s layup off a steal gave the Heat a 4...

Auston Matthews scores in OT as Maple Leafs edge Ducks 2-1

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:37:29 GMT

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Auston Matthews scored 2:12 into overtime and the Toronto Maple Leafs rallied for a 2-1 victory over the Anaheim Ducks on Wednesday night, squeaking by after taking 57 shots on goal.Martin Jones made 27 saves in his second standout performance in two nights after earning the shutout over Los Angeles on Tuesday. John Tavares scored with just under six minutes remaining in regulation to send the game into the extra period.Matthews delivered his 30th of the season in overtime to beat Ducks goaltender Lukas Dostal, who had a career-high 55 saves. The score came on a pass from the slot by Mitchell Marner, with Matthews delivering his game winner just inside the right post.Frank Vatrano scored for the Ducks, who lost their third-consecutive game and fell to 1-5-0 on a season-high eight game homestand.The Maple Leafs lost forward Bobby McMann to a game misconduct for boarding on the Ducks’ Pavel Mintyukov in the second period. After leaving briefly when he hit the ed...

Bruner scores 33 to propel Denver to 95-82 victory over Idaho State in OT

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:37:29 GMT

DENVER (AP) — Tommy Bruner scored 33 points and hit two 3-pointers in overtime to lead Denver to a 95-82 victory over Idaho State on Wednesday night.Bruner added five rebounds and six assists for the Pioneers (10-6). Touko Tainamo scored 18 points while shooting 8 for 13 (1 for 3 from 3-point range) and 1 of 4 from the free throw line, and added eight rebounds. Isaiah Carr shot 5 of 8 from the field to finish with 12 points.Brayden Parker finished with 20 points, four steals and four blocks for the Bengals (4-10), who have lost six in a row. Miguel Tomley added 19 points and eight rebounds for Idaho State. Maleek Arington also had 18 points, six assists and three steals. Arington made two free throws with less than a second remaining to second the game to OT tied at 77.___The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.Source

USC beats Cal 82-74 to end 2-game skid with Bronny James making key play

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:37:29 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Boogie Ellis had 15 points, eight rebounds and seven assists and Southern California defeated California 82-74 on Wednesday night to snap a two-game skid.Bronny James added 10 points off the bench in just his second home game since making his collegiate debut on Dec. 10. He came up with a big defensive rebound with 2.7 seconds remaining, got fouled and made both free throws to seal the win.The Trojans (7-7, 1-2 Pac-12) avoided losing their first three league games since the 2014 season. They had dropped five of six.The Golden Bears (4-10, 0-3) trailed by 17 points in the second half before getting within five on Jaylon Tyson’s dunk after DJ Rodman’s turnover, capping a 5-0 run.Tyson’s 3-pointer cut the Bears’ deficit to 78-74 with 29 seconds left. But he missed a 3-pointer with 16 seconds to go and Ellis came up with the rebound.Tyson led the Bears with 23 points.Kobe Johnson added 14 points, tying his career high with four 3-pointers, seve...

Clarkson scores 36, Jazz outlast hard-luck Pistons in OT, 154-148

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:37:29 GMT

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Jordan Clarkson scored 29 of his 36 points after halftime and Lauri Markkanen added 31 as the Utah Jazz outlasted the tough-luck Detroit Pistons 154-148 in overtime on Wednesday night.One game after his first triple-double, Clarkson hit a dagger 3-pointer with 1:44 left in overtime to give the Jazz a 149-142 lead.The Jazz have won nine of their last 12, their best stretch of the season before they face a road trip to Boston, Philadelphia and Milwaukee.Markkanen and Alec Burks exchanged 3-pointers in the final 5 seconds of regulation to send the game into overtime, where the Jazz finally controlled the game and sent the Pistons to their 30th loss in their last 31 games.Detroit’s Bojan Bogdanovic scored a season-high 36 points, including eight 3s, and Burks added a season-best 27 points. Both spent significant parts of their careers with the Jazz.Cade Cunningham had 31 points and 12 assists, but the Pistons extended their 17-game road losing streak, which h...

Jeffrey Epstein documents: Here’s what we know so far

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:37:29 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Dozens of previously sealed court documents related to Jeffrey Epstein were made public late Wednesday, as a court releases more records from a years-old lawsuit connected to the late financier.They’re likely to disappoint sleuths online, where the plan to release documents prompted rumors of a list of “clients” or “co-conspirators.” In fact, the judge who made the call wrote in December that she was ordering the records released because much of the information within them is already public.The first 40 documents, of around 250 expected to eventually be unsealed, largely mention figures whose names were already known, including high-profile friends of Epstein’s and victims who have spoken publicly.Ahead of the documents’ release, misinformation about their contents ran rampant on social media. Users wrongly claimed that late-night host Jimmy Kimmel’s name might appear, spurred by a joke New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers made Tuesday on ESPN’s “The Pat McA...

Stock market today: Asian shares slip, echoing Wall Street’s weak start to 2024

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:37:29 GMT

TOKYO (AP) — Asian stocks slipped on Thursday, tracking a weak start to 2024 on Wall Street as Japan’s markets reopened. The mood was somber in Tokyo as the market reopened from the New Year holidays with a moment of silence instead of a celebratory New Year’s ring of the bell after a major earthquake Monday left at least 77 people dead and dozens missing. Dark-suited officials bowed their heads in a ceremony that usually features women clad in colorful kimonos. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 fell 0.5% to 33,288.29.Hong Kong’s Hang Seng shed 0.4% to 16,574.36 and the Shanghai Composite index sank 0.4% to 2,946.15. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 declined 0.4% to 7,494.10. South Korea’s Kospi declined 0.8% to 2,586.02. India’s Sensex, however, climbed 0.6%. Stocks fell on Wall Street on Wednesday, as the slow start to the year there stretched into a second day. The S&P 500 lost 0.8% to 4,704.81, though it remains within 2% of its record set exactly t...

California restaurant’s comeback shows how outdated, false Asian stereotype of dog-eating persists

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:37:29 GMT

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — David Rasavong’s cultural pride is evident all throughout his restaurant.It’s on the wall of family portraits and where a stunning mural depicts his family’s journey from Laos to California. It’s on the menu filled with Lao and Thai dishes like the crispy coconut rice salad of Nam Khao and the stir-fried rice noodles of Pad See Ew.And it’s in the fact that Love & Thai in Fresno, California, restaurant is open at all. A baseless accusation grounded in a racist stereotype about Asian food using dog meat brought a six-month barrage of harassment so heated that Rasavong, 41, closed down its previous location over fears for his family’s safety.His earlier restaurant had itself only been open for seven months when a so-called animal welfare crusader in May implied on social media that a pitbull tied up at an unconnected home next door was going to be served on the menu.A day after the initial commentary, vitriolic statements, voicemails and calls rained down. Ras...

Bombings hit event for Iran’s Gen. Qassem Soleimani, a shadowy figure slain in 2020 US drone strike

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:37:29 GMT

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — For Iranians backing the country’s theocracy, whose icons since the Islamic Revolution have been stern-faced clergymen, Gen. Qassem Soleimani represented a popular figure of national resilience in the face of four decades of U.S. pressure.For the U.S. and Israel, he was a shadowy figure in command of Iran’s proxy forces, responsible for fighters in Syria backing President Bashar Assad and for the deaths of American troops in Iraq. Solemani survived the horror of Iran’s long war in the 1980s with Iraq to take control of the Revolutionary Guard’s elite Quds Force, responsible for the Islamic Republic’s campaigns abroad. Relatively unknown in Iran until the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, Soleimani’s popularity and mystique grew after American officials called for his killing. A decade and a half later, Soleimani had become Iran’s most recognizable battlefield commander, ignoring calls to enter politics but growing as powerful, if not more, than ...