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SPORTSThursday 7 April 2016
Timberwolves shock Warriors with 124-117 win in overtime
The Associated Press are locked into the No. 3
seed in the West with four
OAKLAND, California (AP) games left.
Gary Harris led the Nuggets
— The Golden State War- with 17 points and rookie
Emmanuel Mudiay had 15.
riors hit an unexpected Denver has lost three in row
and six straight to Oklaho-
obstacle on their quest for ma City.
RAPTORS 96, HORNETS 90
a record 73 wins, blowing TORONTO (AP) — DeMar
DeRozan scored 26 points,
a 17-point lead and los- Kyle Lowry had 12 of his 21
in the fourth quarter and
ing 124-117 in overtime to Toronto handed Charlotte
back-to-back losses for the
the last-place Minnesota first time in more than two
months.
Timberwolves on Tuesday Jonas Valanciunas had 12
points and 12 rebounds
night. and Corey Joseph added
11 points, including two
Shabazz Muhammad key free throws in the clos-
ing seconds, as the Rap-
scored a career-high 35 tors won for the third time
in four games.
points and Andrew Wig- Charlotte, which lost at
Cleveland on Sunday, had
gins had 32 as Minnesota not lost consecutive games
since defeats at Utah and
prevented Golden State Portland on Jan. 27 and 29.
They Hornets had won 22
(69-9) from becoming the of 29 since.
Jeremy Lin matched a sea-
second team to win 70 son best with four 3-point-
ers and scored 21 points
games in a season. The for Charlotte, while Marvin
Williams had 15.
Warriors now must win their GRIZZLIES 108, BULLS 92
MEMPHIS, Tennessee (AP)
final four games to break — Zach Randolph had 27
points and 10 rebounds,
the single-season wins re- Vince Carter added 17
points and Memphis end-
cord of 72 set by Chicago ed a six-game losing streak
by beating Chicago.
in 1995-96. Memphis used a strong
defense missing in recent
Stephen Curry had a rare games to turn back the
Bulls, who had won three
off-shooting night as Gold- of four. q
en State took its third loss
against a team currently
in last place in its division,
following earlier defeats at Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry is surrounded by Minnesota Timberwolves defenders as he
drives to the basket during the second half of an NBA basketball game Tuesday, April 5, 2016, in
Milwaukee in December Oakland, Calif. Minnesota won 124-117 in overtime.
and last month at the Los Associated Press
Angeles Lakers.
But this one came at home,
where the Warriors had
won a record 54 straight a half-game behind Dal- ing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ver.
las for seventh place in the and Robert Parish. Duncan Westbrook has the highest
regular-season games be- Western Conference. T is the career leader in vic- total since Magic Johnson
he Jazz remained in the tories with one team. had 17 for the Los Ange-
fore falling to Boston last No. 8 slot and a half-game Hood finished with 23 les Lakers in 1988-89. West-
ahead of the Houston points, including 13 in the brook, who had seven in
Friday. Rockets. fourth quarter. March while winning West-
LaMarcus Aldridge and THUNDER 124, NUGGETS ern Conference player of
SPURS 88, JAZZ 86 Manu Ginobili each added 102 the month honors, has 35 in
14 points in the Spurs’ fran- DENVER (AP) — Russell his career, which is second
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — chise-record 65th victory. Westbrook had 13 points, behind LeBron James for
They visit Golden State on 14 rebounds and 12 assists most among active play-
Kawhi Leonard made the Thursday. to become the first player ers.
Duncan became the third with 17 triple-doubles in a Kevin Durant had 26 points
go-ahead jumper with 4.9 player with 1,000 victories in season in 27 years, helping and eight assists for Okla-
the regular season, follow- Oklahoma City beat Den- homa City. The Thunder
seconds left and scored 18
points as San Antonio beat
Utah, giving Tim Duncan his
1,000th regular-season vic-
tory.
Rodney Hood missed the
potential winning 3-pointer
at the buzzer as Utah fell
Venus Williams off to powerful start at Volvo Car Open
PETE IACOBELLI Alison Riske. Williams ad- waiting two weeks,” she qualifier Elena Vesnina 6-1, of Australia.Williams, the
AP Sports Writer vanced on a day when said. “So it’s four weeks 6-1. Safarova, a former seven-time Grand Slam
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — several other top seeds and only two matches finalist here, fell to Ameri- champion, is going for her
Venus Williams had not were upset at the year’s and you’re like, argh. So can wild-card entrant Lou- 50th WTA title — and got
played much winning first clay-court event. I usually don’t have that isa Chirico, 6-3, 6-3. Keys off to a strong start at the
tennis since capturing her Williams didn’t care what problem.” fell to Germany’s Laura clay-court event. She had
49th WTA title in February. surface she was on, the Williams won’t such trou- Siegemund, 6-7 (3), 6-4, consecutive serves of 121
She was more than ready 35-year-old simply wanted bles in Charleston, al- 6-4. Past champion Sabine mph and 119 mph to close
to show off her game at to wipe away bad memo- though several high seeds Lisicki of Germany, seeded out one game in the first
the Volvo Car Open on ries of first-match losses at will: No. 2 Belinda Bencic, 15th, was also ousted. set as fans in the stadium
Wednesday. Indian Wells and Miami No. 4 Lucie Safarova and Other seeded winners court marveled as the ball
The third-seeded Williams since winning a WTA event No. 8 Madison Keys all lost along with Williams were zoomed past Riske.
used her powerhouse in Taiwan two months ago. their first-matches here. No. 5 Sara Errani of Italy, Williams, 35, kept up the
serves and crisp ground- “I just came into the tour- Bencic of Switzerland, No. 7 Sloane Stephens attack throughout, win-
strokes for a 6-4, 6-2 vic- nament eager, just ready ranked 10th in the world, of the United States and ning the final four games
tory over fellow American to go, especially after was beaten by Russian 10th seeded Sam Stosur to advance. q
