Monta Ellis scored 20 points, Dirk Nowitzki added 15 and the Dallas Mavericks won their fifth straight game on Sunday, a 109-90 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers.
LeBron James, who is out with knee and back soreness, missed his fourth in a row and fifth of the season. The Cavaliers are 1-4 when the four-time MVP does not play and have dropped five of seven overall.
Kevin Love scored a season-high 30 points, but the Cavaliers could not stay with the Mavericks.
PISTONS 114, KINGS 95
Brandon Jennings scored 35 points as the Pistons beat the Kings for their fifth straight win.
Andre Drummond had 15 points and 14 rebounds, and Greg Monroe had 14 points and 11 rebounds for Detroit, who improved to 5-0 since Josh Smith was released last month. Detroit are 10-23.
DeMarcus Cousins scored 18 points and 15 rebounds.
HEAT 88, NETS 84
Chris Bosh scored 26 points, Dwyane Wade scored 10 of his 25 points in the final minutes and the Heat held off Brooklyn to snap a four-game losing streak.
Hassan Whiteside had 11 points, 10 rebounds and five blocks off the bench for Miami, who won for only the seventh time in 19 home games.
Joe Johnson scored 19, Brook Lopez added 16 and Mirza Teletovic had 14 for Brooklyn, who had won six of seven and were seeking to get back over .500 for the first time since Nov. 12 last year.
SUNS 125, RAPTORS 109
Eric Bledsoe scored 20 points, fellow guards Goran Dragic and Isaiah Thomas added 18 apiece, and the Suns handed the Raptors their second straight blowout loss.
Seven Suns hit double figures in the team’s highest-scoring non-overtime game this season.
The Raptors, who trailed by 19 points in the first half and 27 in the second, finished a season-long six-game road trip with their two most one-sided losses of the season.
Jonas Valanciunas scored 21 and Kyle Lowry scored 19 for the Raptors. Lou Williams and James Johnson added 17 apiece.
Phoenix won for the eighth time in 10 games.
BUCKS 95, KNICKS 82
Zaza Pachulia had 16 points and 14 rebounds as the Milwaukee Bucks handed the New York Knicks their 11th straight loss.
Tim Hardaway had 17 points for the Knicks (5-31), who lost a franchise-record 10th straight home game. They are one overall loss from matching the team’s 1985 record for most consecutive losses.
Giannis Antetokounmpo had 16 points and 12 rebounds for Milwaukee (18-17).
LAKERS 88, PACERS 87
Kobe Bryant scored 20 points and hit the go-ahead short jumper with 12.4 seconds to play to lead the Los Angeles Lakers to a comeback victory over Indiana.
Roy Hibbert missed a difficult jumper off a broken play as time expired to end the Lakers’ third win in 10 games.
Bryant scored nine points in the final 2:32 while the Lakers rallied past the Pacers, who blew a 13-point lead in the second half.
ANFIELD BLUES: Kylian Mbappe arrived at Anfield on a run of 21 goals in 17 games, but he managed just three attempts in the match, none of them hitting the target Kylian Mbappe has been nearly unstoppable this season, but he hit a roadblock in their UEFA Champions League match at Anfield on Tuesday. For the second year running, the Real Madrid forward had a night to forget at Merseyside as Liverpool won 1-0. Mbappe looked a shadow of the player who has been tearing defenses apart all season. “We were lacking that threat in the final third,” said Madrid coach Xabi Alonso, without naming Mbappe individually. The FIFA World Cup winner for France rarely looked capable of finding a breakthrough against a Liverpool team who have been so defensively fragile for much of the
For almost 30 minutes, Vitomir Maricic did not take a breath. Face down in a pool, surrounded by anxious onlookers, the Croatian freediver fought spasming pain to redefine what doctors thought was possible. When he finally surfaced, he had smashed the previous Guinness World Record for the longest breath-hold underwater by nearly five minutes. However, even with the help of pure oxygen before the attempt, it had pushed him to the limit. “Everything was difficult, just overwhelming,” Maricic, 40, told reporters, reflecting on the record-breaking day on June 14. “When I dive, I completely disconnect from everything, as if I’m not even there.
An amateur soccer league organized by farmers, students and factory workers in rural China has unexpectedly drawn millions of fans and inspired big cities to form their own, raising hopes China can grow talent from the ground up and finally become a global force. The nation of 1.4 billion people has about 200 million soccer fans, more than any other country, but it has failed to build world-class teams, partly due to a top-down approach where clubs pick players from a very small pool of prescreened candidates. The professional game is marred by a history of fixed matches, corruption, and dismal performances,
Amanda Anisimova on Wednesday pulled off a stellar comeback to get the better of Iga Swiatek 6-7 (3/7), 6-4, 6-2 and book her spot in the last four of the WTA Finals in Riyadh, while Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-wei won in the doubles at the women’s year-ending event. Making her tournament debut this week, the fourth-seeded Anisimova secured the runner-up spot in the Serena Williams Group behind Elena Rybakina. Rybakina completed round-robin play with a perfect 3-0 record, thanks to a 6-4, 6-4 success against Russian alternate Ekaterina Alexandrova earlier in the day. Anisimova improved her three-set record this season to an impressive
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