The Los Angeles Lakers brought up their seventh-straight NBA victory by beating the undermanned Los Angeles Clippers 113-95 on Saturday.
Pau Gasol scored 23 points and five teammates finished in double figures for the Lakers, who moved back into a tie with Phoenix for the Western Conference lead.
The winnings streak matches the Lakers' longest this season to be their best since they won 11 straight late in 2003-2004.
The Lakers have also won six-straight road games -- their longest such streak in five years.
76ers 101, Heat 96, OT
In Miami, Philadelphia scored the final 10 points in overtime to send Miami to their 11th-straight loss.
Andre Iguodala scored 24 points and converted a key late three-point play for the Sixers, who fell behind early in the extra period.
Nets 102, Pacers 91
In East Rutherford, New Jersey, Richard Jefferson equaled his season high with 36 points to lead New Jersey over Indiana.
Vince Carter added 24 for the Nets, who are 2-1 since trading Jason Kidd to Dallas in a multiplayer deal on Tuesday.
Wizards 110, Bobcats 95
In Washington, the home side broke through for only their second win from 12 games by downing Charlotte.
Bucks 115, Nuggets 109
In Milwaukee, the home side rallied from 23 points down to beat Denver.
Michael Redd scored a season-high 42 points, including five free throws in the final 1:13, for the Bucks.
Spurs 98, Hornets 89
In San Antonio, the home side won their fifth straight by downing New Orleans, moving into a tie with the Hornets atop the Southwest Division.
Jazz 100, Hawks 94
In Salt Lake City, Utah brought up their 14th-straight home win by downing Atlanta.
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
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
Taiwanese gymnast Lee Chih-kai failed to secure an Olympic berth in the pommel horse following a second-place finish at the last qualifier in Doha on Friday, a performance that Lee and his coach called “unconvincing.” The Tokyo Olympics silver medalist finished runner-up in the final after scoring 6.6 for degree of difficulty and 8.800 for execution for a combined score of 15.400. That was just 0.100 short of Jordan’s Ahmad Abu Al Soud, who had qualified for the event in Paris before the Apparatus World Cup series in Qatar’s capital. After missing the final rounds in the first two of four qualifier