In Seattle, Allen Iverson returned to Philadelphia's starting lineup to score 40 points and lead the 76ers to a 112 to 101 win over the SuperSonics
New Sixers coach Chris Ford kept Iverson out of the starting lineup Tuesday night in a loss to Denver after the star guard missed a practice after the All-Star break.
Iverson was 10-of-24 from the field and made 17 free throws to help Philadelphia snap a five-game road losing streak. Glenn Robinson added 26 points, and Willie Green had 10.
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Ray Allen led Seattle with 31 points and 11 rebounds.
Timberwolves 92, Kings 75
Kevin Garnett had 22 points and 24 rebounds for the Minnesota Timberwolves Thursday in victory over the Sacramento Kings in a matchup of the Western Confer-ence's top teams.
Sam Cassell added 18 points for Minnesota (39-15), which used a whopping 60-34 rebound advantage to beat Sacramento (38-14) in a surprisingly Eastern Conference-style game.
"We're trying to get that No. 1 seed," Cassell said. "We've got to continue to do what we can to get that seed."
Peja Stojakovic had 15 points for the Kings, whose 75 points were a season low -- 30 under their average and just the third time they were under 90.
"Unfortunately, everyone took turns missing shots," coach Rick Adelman said.
Clippers 102, Celtics 100
In Los Angeles, Eddie House made an off-balance 19-foot jump shot with 1.8 seconds remaining as Los Angeles edged Boston.
Elton Brand scored 24 of his season-high 39 points in the first half, and the Clippers overcame the early ejection of Quentin Richardson to end a five-game losing streak.
Brand also had 11 rebounds and blocked six shots. Ricky Davis led Boston with 23 points.
Meanwhile, China has appointed Dallas Mavericks' assistant coach Del Harris to lead its men's basketball team into this year's Athens Olympic Games, the China Basketball Association (CBA), said yesterday.
Revelations of positive doping tests for nearly two dozen Chinese swimmers that went unpunished sparked an intense flurry of accusations and legal threats between the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the head of the US drug-fighting organization, who has long been one of WADA’s fiercest critics. WADA on Saturday said it was turning to legal counsel to address a statement released by US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) CEO Travis Tygart, who said WADA and anti-doping authorities in China swept positive tests “under the carpet by failing to fairly and evenly follow the global rules that apply to everyone else in the world.” The
Taiwanese judoka Yang Yung-wei on Saturday won silver in the men’s under-60kg category at the Asian Judo Championships in Hong Kong. Nicknamed the “judo heartthrob” in Taiwan, the Olympic silver-medalist missed out on his first Asian Championships gold when he lost to Japanese judoka Taiki Nakamura in the finals. Yang defeated three opponents on Saturday to reach the final after receiving a bye through the round of 32. He first topped Laotian Soukphaxay Sithisane in the round of 16 with two seoi nage (over-the-shoulder throws), then ousted Indian Vijay Kumar Yadav in the quarter-finals with his signature ude hishigi sankaku gatame (triangular armlock). He
Rafael Nadal on Wednesday said the upcoming French Open would be the moment to “give everything and die” on the court after his comeback from injury in Barcelona was curtailed by Alex de Minaur. The 22-time Grand Slam title winner, back playing this week after three months on the sidelines, battled well, but eventually crumbled 7-5, 6-1 against the world No. 11 from Australia in the second round. Nadal, 37, who missed virtually all of last season, is hoping to compete at the French Open next month where he is the record 14-time champion. The Spaniard said the clash with De Minaur was
RALLY: It was only the second time the Taiwanese has partnered with Kudermetova, and the match seemed tight until they won seven points in a row to take the last set 10-2 Taiwan’s Chan Hao-ching and Russia’s Veronika Kudermetova on Sunday won the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix women’s doubles final in Stuttgart, Germany. The pair defeated Norway’s Ulrikke Eikeri and Estonia’s Ingrid Neel 4-6, 6-3, 10-2 in a tightly contested match at the WTA 500 tournament. Chan and Kudermetova fell 4-6 in the first set after having their serve broken three times, although they played increasingly well. They fought back in the second set and managed to break their opponents’ serve in the eighth game to triumph 6-3. In the tiebreaker, Chan and Kudermetova took a 3-0 lead before their opponents clawed back two points, but