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INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Anthony Edwards scored 31 points, Donte DiVincenzo added 18 and the surging Minnesota Timberwolves beat Los Angeles Clippers 94-88 on Thursday night. Jaden McDaniels and Ayo Dosunmu each scored 12 points and Rudy Gobert had 13 rebounds to help the Timberwolves improve to 5-1 since Feb. 9 and 3-1 since the All-Star break. Advertisement Edwards, who …

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Nazem Kadri scored two goals and the Calgary Flames beat the San Jose Sharks 4-1 on Thursday night in the first game back from the Olympic break for both teams. Connor Zary broke a tie early in the third period when he beat Yaroslav Askarov with a shot for the slot on the rush. Kadri …

DENVER (AP) — U.S. Olympian Matt Boldy had two goals and two assists, Filip Gustavsson stopped 44 shots and the Minnesota Wild beat the Colorado Avalanche 5-2 on Thursday night for their sixth straight victory. In Minnesota’s first game after the Olympic break, Boldy extended his points streak to seven games, and fellow U.S. teammate Quinn Hughes had his team-leading …

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Ryan O’Reilly scored with 3:16 remaining and the Nashville Predators scored three times in the third period in a 4-2 win over the Chicago Blackhawks on Thursday night in the teams’ first game following the Olympic break. Filip Forsberg and Matthew Wood also scored for Nashville. Steven Stamkos scored his 29th of the season into an …

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Kevin Durant scored 26 of his season-high 40 points in the second half and the Houston Rockets wiped out a 19-point Orlando lead in less than four minutes to beat the Magic 113-108 on Thursday night. Reed Sheppard came off the Houston bench to add 20 points, hitting five 3-pointers in the second half. Alperen Sengun …

NEW YORK (AP) — Julian Champagnie scored 26 points to lead the San Antonio Spurs to their 11th straight victory, 126-110 over the Brooklyn Nets on Thursday night. Victor Wembanyama had his second straight quiet night offensively, finishing with 12 points, but the surging Spurs had plenty of balance against the lottery-bound Nets. Stephon Castle scored 18 points, De’Aaron Fox …

Here’s a sentence that should scare the rest of the NBA: The Oklahoma City Thunder are getting healthy. Shai Gilgous Alexander, who missed nine games with an abdominal strain, is not on the injury report and is expected to return to the Thunder rotation on Friday night against Denver. Advertisement The reigning NBA MVP, Gilgous-Alexander is the frontrunner to repeat, …

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Aaliyah Chavez scored 16 points and No. 7 Oklahoma rolled to an 89-44 win over Arkansas on Thursday night. Payton Verhulst and Raegan Beers played key roles for the Sooners in their final regular-season home games. Verhulst had 14 points and five assists and Beers had 11 points and 12 rebounds. They potentially will play at …

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Mikaylah Williams had 20 points, 10 rebounds and five assists, and No. 6 LSU pulled away in the second half for a 89-73 victory over Tennessee on Thursday night. Williams’ also became the 17th player in LSU history to score 1,500 career points when she hit a jumper about midway through the third quarter. Advertisement …

Bruce Froemming, a major league umpire for 37 consecutive years who worked the third-most games in big league history and a record 11 no-hitters, died Wednesday, his son said. He was 86. Froemming fell just after midnight Tuesday and hit his head on the hardwood floor at his home in Mequon, Wisconsin, and was taken to Ascension Columbia St. Mary’s …

Oklahoma City Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is reportedly cleared to return to action after missing the last nine games with an abdominal strain, according to ESPN NBA insider Tim MacMahon. Gilgeous-Alexander is not on the Thunder’s injured report for Friday’s game against the Denver Nuggets. Gilgeous-Alexander has averaged 31.8 points, 6.4 assists and 4.4 rebounds this season and is a …

Donovan Mitchell will miss the Cleveland Cavaliers’ big Friday matchup with the Detroit Pistons. Mitchell is listed as out for the game on the NBA injury report with a groin issue. Additionally, James Harden is listed as questionable with a fractured right thumb. Also questionable on the report are Keon Ellis (left index finger fracture), Dennis Schroder (ankle sprain), Dean …

The NBA is sending a message: After a buzzer, don’t take the ball and throw it toward the opposite basket (not as a shot, more of a celebration… or just because). That message is going to cost the Timberwolves Anthony Edwards and the Magic’s $25,000 each as both were fined by the league on Thursday “for throwing the game ball …

The NBA has fined Anthony Edwards of the Minnesota Timberwolves $25,000 after he threw a ball into the stands during the team’s 124-121 win over the Portland Trail Blazers on Tuesday night. The incident happened at the end of the first half with Minnesota leading Portland 62-59. Edwards rebounded the final shot of the half, then cocked back and tossed …

Want to get more Covers content? Add us as a preferred source on your Google account here. The Charlotte Hornets will try to run their road trip winning streak to three games as they visit the Indiana Pacers on Thursday night. Advertisement Indiana hasn’t come close to covering in any of its last four games, so I’m taking a surging …

With the entire 2020 NBA season in the balance due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Los Angeles Clippers guard Lou Williams decided to risk it all for some lemon pepper wings from a strip club. That’s how Magic City broke containment and went from Atlanta institution to nationally-recognized establishment. Six years later, and Williams’ iconic(?) moment will be immortalized by the …

The New York Jets have agreed to trade pass rusher Jermaine Johnson to the Tennessee Titans for defensive tackle T’Vondre Sweat, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press on Thursday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the player-for-player swap of starting players cannot become official until the start of the NFL’s new league year on …

With the fantasy basketball playoffs right around the corner, your roster decisions over the next two weeks could be the difference between a championship and an early exit. Injuries are unavoidable this time of year — so how do you manage them? Here’s the breakdown of every notable injured player heading into the stretch run, along with whether I would …

Slice up stats and records any way you like, the Spurs are on a roll. When the Spurs won in Detroit the other night, it was their 1300th win since the start of the new millennium. Wednesday night’s win in Toronto was their tenth in a row, the first time since the 2015-16 season. Here’s an interesting piece of trivia. …

The Cleveland Cavaliers didn’t do enough to get the win, but there were some positives to take away from their narrow 118-116 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks. Jarrett Allen was far and away the most dominant on the court on a night the Cavs were without three starters in James Harden (thumb), Donovan Mitchell (groin), and Evan Mobley (calf). He …

March Madness is quickly approaching, with the men’s college basketball regular season coming to a close in the coming weeks. A few teams are starting to pull ahead as national championship favorites. Eight of the last nine national champions have been No. 1 seeds in the NCAA tournament, with the lone exception being UConn in 2023, as the Huskies were …

When you think about the Oklahoma City Thunder, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander comes to mind. SGA has been the face of the Thunder, winning the league MVP and Finals MVP last season. When he’s been healthy, he’s been dominant again this season. Advertisement But with SGA missing time due to an injury, another former Kentucky Wildcat has stepped up the last few …

Chaotic starts, tricky overtaking, lifting off the gas on straights. Formula 1’s new era of regulations could upend the series in unexpected ways when the season begins with the Australian Grand Prix next week. Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton, the two most successful drivers on the grid, were critical in testing of cars whose electrical hybrid systems promote unusual driving …

Broadcaster Stephen A. Smith is known for his outspoken personality, whether it’s discussing sports across the ESPN platform or talking about politics wherever he can. Smith spoke with Graham Bensinger, host of “In Depth with Graham Bensinger,” and provided some clarification on several notable topics involving himself, including his relationship with Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James and a potential …

The shorthanded Cleveland Cavaliers, playing without Donovan Mitchell (groin), James Harden (finger), and Evan Mobley (calf), couldn’t keep up with a hot-shooting Milwaukee Bucks team, leading to their 118-116 defeat. The stats in the table below are taken from Cleaning the Glass. Effective Field Goal Percentage Offensive Rebounding Percentage Offensive Turnover Percentage Free Throw Rate Cavs 55.2%, 56th percentile 35.4%, …