Stephen Curry returned from a one-game absence to lead all scorers with 32, while Klay Thompson added 17 more as the Golden State Warriors defeated the Washington Wizards 114-107 on Tuesday night.
Curry missed Sunday’s loss at Indiana with a sore right foot and played nearly 34 minutes, hitting 11 of 18 field-goal attempts, including five of nine from three-point range.
Marreese Speights added 16 points off the bench for the Warriors, who have won five of their past six games.
Paul Pierce led the Wizards with 25 points, 18 in the second half.
Marcin Gortat added 16 points and 11 rebounds, while John Wall chipped in 16 and 11 assists.
Washington have lost four straight and nine of 11.
CAVALIERS 102, PISTONS 93
In Auburn Hills, Michigan, Kevin Love tied a career-best with eight three-pointers for 24 points, while LeBron James added 19 points and 11 assists as the Cleveland Cavaliers rallied in the second half.
Love fell just one short of teammate J.R. Smith’s record of nine three-pointers against Detroit. Love missed both his two-point attempts.
James nearly had an odd triple-double, turning the ball over nine times, one short of his career high. Kyrie Irving added 18 points for Cleveland, who have won 17 of their past 19 games.
Reggie Jackson had 22 points, nine assists and eight rebounds in his second game with Detroit, while Kentavious Caldwell-Pope added 21 points.
Tayshaun Prince started at small forward in his first game as a Piston since he was traded to Memphis in January 2013.
THUNDER 105, PACERS 92
In Oklahoma City, Russell Westbrook had 20 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists as the Thunder picked up their seventh straight win.
Westbrook claimed his third triple-double of the season and the 11th of his career, despite resting for the entire fourth quarter.
Serge Ibaka had 23 points and 10 rebounds, while Enes Kanter added 15 points for the Thunder.
Oklahoma City won their third straight without Kevin Durant.
The reigning MVP had a screw replaced on his surgically repaired right foot on Sunday and he is to be re-evaluated within a week.
C.J. Miles scored 21 points, George Hill scored 13, while David West and Solomon Hill each added 11 for the Pacers, who had won three straight.
MAVERICKS 99, RAPTORS 92
In Dallas, Texas, Monta Ellis scored 20 points and Dirk Nowitzki had 18 as the Dallas Mavericks hit seven of their first 10 shots of the fourth quarter to defeat the Toronto Raptors.
The victory was Dallas’ third straight, their longest winning streak since early last month, and it pulled the Mavericks within one game of first-place Houston in the Southwest Division.
DeMar DeRozan led the Raptors with 18 points. Toronto closed a stretch of four road games in five days with their third consecutive loss, one short of their season high.
The Raptors are second in the Eastern Conference, their lead over No. 3 Chicago shrinking to one game.
Dallas’ Rajon Rondo sat out the final 20 minutes after having words with Mavericks head coach Rick Carlisle during a timeout.
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