Stephen Curry scored 27 points and Klay Thompson had 25 as the Golden State Warriors held off the Los Angeles Clippers 110-106 on Tuesday for their 10th consecutive victory.
David Lee added 17 points for the Warriors, who had lost four in a row at the Staples Center. Los Angeles had won seven in a row.
Blake Griffin had 40 points, 12 rebounds and five assists. Chris Paul had 27 points and nine assists, while J.J. Redick finished with 14 points.
Paul’s layup drew the Clippers to 106-104 with 12 seconds left, but he was called for a backcourt violation taking an inbounds pass from DeAndre Jordan with nine seconds left.
Thompson and Curry combined for four straight free throws to close out the win for the Pacific Division champions.
NETS 111, PACERS 106
In New York, Brook Lopez had 24 points and 11 rebounds as Brooklyn reclaimed sole possession of eighth place in the Eastern Conference with their season-high fourth straight victory.
The Nets moved back ahead of Boston and dealt a blow to the Pacers, who fell 1.5 games behind Brooklyn. They were to visit the Celtics yesterday.
Joe Johnson added 21 points, including five straight after the Pacers got within three with about 2 minutes left. Alan Anderson scored 20.
Brooklyn won for the sixth time in seven games and claimed the tiebreaker with Indiana by winning the season series.
George Hill scored 28 points for the Pacers, who lost for the eighth time in 10 games.
Indiana starting guard C.J. Miles, who averaged 27 points in his previous two games, sprained his right ankle in the first quarter and played just six minutes.
SPURS 95, HEAT 81
In Miami, Kawhi Leonard scored 22 points and Tony Parker added 16 in his 1,000th NBA game, leading the Spurs to the road win.
Tim Duncan had 12 points and 11 rebounds for San Antonio, who went 12-3 last month — the league’s second-best record during the month behind only Golden State. Boris Diaw scored 11 points.
Goran Dragic had 19 points and Dwyane Wade added 15 for Miami. Chris Andersen grabbed 10 rebounds.
San Antonio stayed sixth in the West and were in contention to clinch a playoff berth yesterday in Orlando.
The Heat remained seventh in the Eastern Conference race, but now are two losses behind sixth-placed Milwaukee and only half a game up on Brooklyn.
PISTONS 105, HAWKS 95
In Auburn Hills, Michigan, Andre Drummond had 22 points and 13 rebounds, powering Detroit to the victory.
Anthony Tolliver had 13 points and 10 rebounds for the Pistons, who have won five of six. Reggie Jackson collected 12 points and 11 assists, despite being limited to four-minute stints in each of the last three quarters by an illness.
Tolliver made his eighth consecutive start in place of Greg Monroe, who is out with a right-knee injury.
Thabo Sefolosha scored 19 points for Atlanta, while Al Horford had 16 on eight-of-11 shooting.
The Hawks, who have clinched the Eastern Conference’s top seed for the playoffs, have dropped two of three.
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
HSIEH MAKES QUARTERS: Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-wei and Elise Mertens of Belgium won in the women’s doubles and face Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Sofia Kenin of the US Top-ranked Iga Swiatek and US Open champion Coco Gauff were knocked out of the women’s singles at the Miami Open on Monday, while Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-wei advanced in the women’s doubles. Swiatek lost to Ekaterina Alexandrova 6-4, 6-2, hours after third seed Gauff fell in three sets to No. 23 Caroline Garcia 6-3, 1-6, 6-2. Alexandrova beat a top-ranked player for the first time and advanced to face Jessica Pegula, a 7-6 (7/1), 6-3 winner over Emma Navarro, in the quarter-finals. Alexandrova recorded her second win over Swiatek, following a 2021 victory in Melbourne. Swiatek had won their three matches since. “We played quite