The Charlotte Bobcats ended Boston’s seven-game winning streak as Byron Mullens scored 25 points and had 18 rebounds in a 94-91 win over the Celtics on Monday.
Kevin Garnett had 16 points and 13 rebounds for the Celtics, but missed a key 18-footer that would have given Boston the lead late in the game.
Paul Pierce and Avery Bradley had chances to send the game into overtime in the final seconds, but missed open three-pointers.
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Ramon Sessions had 19 points for the Bobcats, including the go-ahead jumper from 18 feet with 25.7 seconds left.
Minnesota’s Luke Ridnour scored 21 points, while Ricky Rubio added 13 and 10 assists as the Timberwolves downed the Cleveland Cavaliers 100-92 to end an eight-game losing streak on the road.
Nikola Pekovic added 16 points and 10 rebounds as Minnesota ended a four-game losing streak and improved to just 4-16 since losing center Kevin Love with a broken hand.
Kyrie Irving scored 20 points and Tristan Thompson had 16 for the Cavaliers.
Chris Paul scored 21 points and made 11 assists, while Blake Griffin scored 20 points in Philadelphia as the Los Angeles Clippers cruised past the 76ers 107-90.
Jamal Crawford also scored 20 points and Matt Barnes had 11 for the Pacific Division-leading Clippers.
Nick Young led the Sixers with 29 points.
In Indianapolis, Indiana, Brook Lopez scored 25 points as the Brooklyn Nets opened overtime with a 9-3 run to pull away and down the Indiana Pacers 89-84.
The Pacers appeared to swing the game with a 7-0 run that gave them a 76-72 lead with 1 minute, 38 seconds left in regulation, but Brooklyn scored the final four points to force overtime and started fast in the extra period to put the game away.
New Orleans won for the third time in eight games as Ryan Anderson scored 31 points, while Robin Lopez had 23 points and 10 rebounds in the Hornets’ 105-86 victory over the Detroit Pistons.
Reserve Rodney Stuckey led Detroit with 19 points, but most came after the game had been decided. Greg Monroe added 17 points and 11 rebounds.
In other games, rookie Brandon Beal scored a season-high 28 points to help the Washington Wizards to a rare 102-90 road win over the Milwaukee Bucks, the San Antonio Spurs defeated the Chicago Bulls 103-89 as Kawhi Leonard had a career-high 26 points, while Josh Smith had 26 points and 13 rebounds as the Atlanta Hawks edged the Dallas Mavericks 105-101.
A sumo star was born in Japan on Sunday when 24-year-old Takerufuji became the first wrestler in 110 years to win a top-division tournament on his debut, triumphing at the 15-day Spring Grand Sumo Tournament in Osaka despite injuring his ankle on the penultimate day. Takerufuji, whose injury had left him in a wheelchair outside the ring, shoved out the higher-ranked Gonoyama at the Edion Arena Osaka to the delight of the crowd, giving him an unassailable record of 13 wins and two losses to claim the Emperor’s Cup. “I did it just through willpower. I didn’t really know what was going
The US’ Ilia Malinin on Saturday produced six scintillating quadruple jumps, including a quadruple Axel, in the men’s free skate to capture his first figure skating world title. The 19-year-old nicknamed the “Quad god,” who is the only skater to land a quadruple Axel in competition, dazzled with an array of breathtakingly executed jumps starting with his quad Axel and including a quadruple Lutz in combination with a triple flip and a quadruple toe loop in combination with a triple toe. He added an unexpected triple-triple combination at the end to earn a world-record 227.79 in the free program for a championship
Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter is being criminally investigated by the IRS, and the attorney for his alleged bookmaker said Thursday that the ex-Los Angeles Dodgers employee placed bets on international soccer — but not baseball. The IRS confirmed Thursday that interpreter Ippei Mizuhara and Mathew Bowyer, the alleged illegal bookmaker, are under criminal investigation through the agency’s Los Angeles Field Office. IRS Criminal Investigation spokesperson Scott Villiard said he could not provide additional details. Mizuhara, 39, was fired by the Dodgers on Wednesday following reports from the Los Angeles Times and ESPN about his alleged ties to an illegal bookmaker and debts well
MLB on Friday announced a formal investigation into the scandal swirling around Shohei Ohtani and his former interpreter amid charges that the Los Angeles Dodgers superstar was the victim of “massive theft.” The Dodgers on Wednesday fired Ippei Mizuhara, Ohtani’s long-time interpreter and close friend, after Ohtani’s representatives alleged that the Japanese two-way star had been the victim of theft, which was reported to involve millions of dollars and link Mizuhara to a suspected illegal bookmaker in California. “Major League Baseball has been gathering information since we learned about the allegations involving Shohei Ohtani and Ippei Mizuhara from the news media,” MLB