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SPORTSFriday 24 April 2015

Spurs win in OT at Clippers to square series

The Associated Press San Antonio Spurs forward Tim Duncan, right, shoots over Los Angeles Clippers center DeAndre Jordan during the first half of Game
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tim 2 of a first-round NBA basketball playoff series in Los Angeles, Wednesday, April 22, 2015.
Duncan scored 28 points,
Kawhi Leonard added 23 Associated Press
and the defending cham-
pion San Antonio Spurs ference playoff series. open 15-foot jumper that day. GRIZZLIES 97, TRAIL BLAZERS
beat the Los Angeles Clip- Squandering an early would’ve tied it with about Millsap, who missed five 82
pers 111-107 in overtime 12-point lead, the Hawks 10 seconds to go. Kyle Kor- games near the end of MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) —
Wednesday night, tying fell behind before half- ver rebounded, was fouled the season with a sprained Mike Conley and Courtney
their Western Conference time and spent the rest of and made two free throws right shoulder, ditched a Lee each scored 18 points,
playoff series at 1-1. the game struggling to put to clinch Atlanta’s win. pad that he felt restricted and Memphis beat Port-
The Spurs blew 10-point away the No. 8 seed. The best-of-seven shifts to his shooting motion. He re- land to grab the franchise’s
leads in the third and It went down to the wire. Brooklyn for the next two sponded by hitting 7 of 11 first 2-0 lead in a playoff
fourth quarters, and got Deron Williams missed an contests. Game 3 is Satur- shots. series.q
into overtime on a pair of
free throws by Patty Mills
with 8 seconds left in regu-
lation. Duncan scored four
straight points in the extra
session while playing with
five fouls.
His jumper snapped a 101-
all tie, Mills followed with a
fast-break layup off Leon-
ard’s long pass, and Leon-
ard scored on a layup for
a 107-101 lead with 56 sec-
onds left.
Mills finished with 18 points
off the bench after starting
point guard Tony Parker
departed early with an in-
jury. Boris Diaw had 12.
The series, the only one
of the eight in the first
round that is tied after two
games, moves to San An-
tonio for Game 3 on Friday
night.
Blake Griffin had his first ca-
reer playoff triple-double
of 29 points, 12 rebounds
and 11 assists, but a costly
turnover late in regulation.
DeAndre Jordan had 20
points and 15 rebounds for
the Clippers.
HAWKS 96, NETS 91
ATLANTA (AP) — Paul Mill-
sap scored 19 points and
top-seeded Atlanta again
survived a tougher-than-
expected test from Brook-
lyn, holding on for a 2-0
lead in their Eastern Con-