Indiana’s perfect start to the season came to an end with a 110-94 loss to Chicago on Saturday, with Luol Deng scoring 23 points to lead the Bulls to victory.
Also on Saturday, Miami beat Charlotte for the 13th straight time, the Los Angeles Clippers improved to 5-0 at home by rallying past Brooklyn, and Dwight Howard’s big fourth quarter steered Houston past Denver.
Chicago got 20 points from Derrick Rose, who returned to the lineup after missing a game with hamstring soreness, and won their fourth straight thanks chiefly to going 11-of-19 from three-point range.
Roy Hibbert had 14 points and 10 rebounds for the Pacers, who were the first team in 11 years to win their opening nine games.
Miami’s LeBron James scored 30 points to lead the Heat to a 97-81 win over Charlotte.
Kemba Walker had 22 points to lead the Bobcats, who shot 35 percent from the field.
Los Angeles’ Blake Griffin had 30 points and 12 rebounds as the Clippers beat Brooklyn 110-103.
J.J. Redick added 26 points for the Clippers, who have not lost to the Nets since 2010.
Andray Blatche and Mason Plumlee scored 19 points each for Brooklyn, who were missing four of their five regular starters.
Houston’s Dwight Howard scored 18 of his 25 points in the fourth quarter, including 13 of 19 free throws in a 2.5-minute stretch, to lead the Rockets to a 122-11 win over Denver.
Dallas’ Monta Ellis had 19 points and eight assists to help the Mavericks beat the Magic 108-100 and win at Orlando for the eighth straight time.
Golden State’s Klay Thompson scored 25 points as the Warriors held off Utah 102-88 for their third-straight win.
Atlanta’s Jeff Teague scored 16 points to lead eight players in double figures for the Hawks, who won 110-90 to send New York to a fifth straight home loss.
Cleveland’s Kyrie Irving scored nine of his 41 points in overtime to help the Cavaliers beat Washington 103-96 and snap a three-game skid.
Minnesota’s Kevin Love had 23 points and 12 rebounds, and Nikola Pekovic had 20 points and 12 boards to lead the Timberwolves past Boston 106-88.
New Orleans’ Anthony Davis had 13 points, nine rebounds and a career-high eight blocks in less than three quarters, helping the Pelicans rout Philadelphia 135-98 and emphatically snap a three-game skid.
Oklahoma City’s Russell Westbrook scored 26 points and Kevin Durant added 24 as the Thunder beat Milwaukee 92-79.
Bayer 04 Leverkusen go into today’s match at TSG 1899 Hoffenheim stung from their first league defeat in 16 months. Leverkusen were beaten 3-2 at home by RB Leipzig before the international break, the first loss since May last year for the reigning league and cup champions. While any defeat, particularly against a likely title rival, would have disappointed coach Xabi Alonso, the way in which it happened would be most concerning. Just as they did in the Supercup against VfB Stuttgart and in the league opener to Borussia Moenchengladbach, Leverkusen scored first, but were pegged back. However, while Leverkusen rallied late to
If all goes well when the biggest marathon field ever gathered in Australia races 42km through the streets of Sydney on Sunday, World Marathon Majors (WMM) will soon add a seventh race to the elite series. The Sydney Marathon is to become the first race since Tokyo in 2013 to join long-established majors in New York, London, Boston, Berlin and Chicago if it passes the WMM assessment criteria for the second straight year. “We’re really excited for Sunday to arrive,” race director Wayne Larden told a news conference in Sydney yesterday. “We’re prepared, we’re ready. All of our plans look good on
The lights dimmed and the crowd hushed as Karoline Kristensen entered for her performance. However, this was no ordinary Dutch theater: The temperature was 80°C and the audience naked apart from a towel. Dressed in a swimsuit and to the tune of emotional music, the 21-year-old Kristensen started her routine, performed inside a large sauna, with a bed of hot rocks in the middle. For a week this month, a group of wellness practitioners, called “sauna masters,” are gathering at a picturesque health resort in the Netherlands to compete in this year’s Aufguss world sauna championships. The practice takes its name from a
When details from a scientific experiment that could have helped clear Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva landed at the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), the leader of the organization’s reaction was unequivocal: “We have to stop that urgently,” he wrote. No mention of the test ever became public and Valieva’s defense at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) went on without it. What effect the information could have had on Valieva’s case is unclear, but without it, the skater, then 15 years old, was eventually disqualified from the 2022 Winter Olympics after testing positive for a banned heart medication that would later