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                                                                                                                            Wednesday 8 March 2017

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Bogut breaks leg on debut for Cavs, who lose to Heat 

The Associated Press            Cleveland Cavaliers’ Andrew Bogut (6) grimaces after getting hurt in the first half of an NBA bas-                                    tal in helping the Pistons
CLEVELAND (AP) — Andrew         ketball game against the Miami Heat, Monday, March 6, 2017, in Cleveland.                                                             take control in a game
Bogut broke his left leg less                                                                                                                                         Monday that was tied at 79
than one minute into his                                                                                                                            Associated Press  after three quarters.
Cleveland debut and the                                                                                                                                               Detroit started the fourth
Cavaliers were outgunned        blocked Harden’s layup         held to 13 after a scoreless   hind Utah in the race for                                               with a 12-3 run and held
106-98 on Monday night          attempt from behind, pin-      first half. But Iguodala and   fourth place in the Western                                             Chicago to 16 points in the
by the surging Miami Heat,      ning the attempt on the        the Warriors bench picked      Conference.                                                             quarter. A hanging jumper
who beat the NBA champi-        glass before being fouled.     up the slack, outscoring the   Isaiah Thomas scored 31                                                 by Jackson from near the
ons twice in three nights.      Leonard then made a pair       Atlanta reserves 55-37.        points and Marcus Smart                                                 elbow turned into a three-
Dion Waiters scored 29          of free throws with “MVP!”     Schroder led the Hawks         added 21 for the Celtics,                                               point play when he was
points, Goran Dragic add-       chants raining down from       with 23 points — 19 com-       who put up one of their                                                 fouled, and that gave the
ed 21 and the Heat held off     sell-out crowd at the AT&T     ing in the first quarter, the  worst shooting performanc-                                              Pistons a 102-88 lead with
a late rally by the Cavs, who   Center.                        highest-scoring period of      es of the season, shooting                                              3:13 to play.
trimmed a 20-point deficit      WARRIORS 119, HAWKS 111        his career. But he went to     just 41 percent from the                                                Jimmy Butler scored 27
to 103-98 in the final minute.  ATLANTA (AP) — Andre           the bench with 8:41 left in    field after being in the high                                           points for Chicago.
It could have gotten tighter    Iguodala scored a season-      the third quarter after hav-   30s most of the game.                                                   JAZZ 88, PELICANS 83
but LeBron James missed a       high 24 points on a sub-       ing words with teammate        PISTONS 109, BULLS 95                                                   SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Gor-
long 3-pointer before Wait-     par shooting night for the     Dwight Howard, leaving         AUBURN HILLS, Michigan                                                  don Hayward scored 23
ers banked one in with 12.2     Splash Brothers, carrying      Curry open for a 3-pointer.    (AP) — Reggie Jackson                                                   points and Utah led from
seconds left.                   Golden State over the At-      CLIPPERS 116, CELTICS 102      scored 24 of his 26 points in                                           start to finish against New
Kyrie Irving scored 32 and      lanta Hawks, whose chanc-      LOS ANGELES (AP) — Blake       the second half, and De-                                                Orleans.
James had 30 points and         es were ruined by a dispute    Griffin scored 26 points,      troit pulled away down the                                              The Jazz pushed their win
17 rebounds as Cleveland        on the court that led to the   Chris Paul added 23 and        stretch for a victory over                                              streak to three games de-
dropped to 26-7 at home.        benching of Dennis Schro-      Los Angeles rallied to beat    Chicago.                                                                spite a choppy perfor-
Miami has won 19 of 23, in-     der.                           Boston.                        The Pistons climbed into a                                              mance on both ends.
cluding victories over Gold-    Bouncing back from their       Jamal Crawford helped lift     tie for the No. 7 spot in the                                           The Jazz led 43-34 at half-
en State, Houston and two       first regular-season losing    the Clippers in the second     Eastern Conference with                                                 time after leading by 18
over Cleveland, which now       streak in nearly two years,    half by scoring 17 of his 19   the Bulls, who were play-                                               following a dominant first
has to find another rim pro-    the Warriors won for the       points after halftime as Los   ing without injured Dwyane                                              quarter. Utah had a 20-6
tector after Bogut got hurt.    second day in a row with-      Angeles shot 58 percent        Wade and Rajon Rondo.                                                   run in which eight players
SPURS 112, ROCKETS 110          out Kevin Durant, who is out   over the final two quarters.   Jackson’s performance                                                   scored.
SAN ANTONIO (AP) —              indefinitely with a left knee  DeAndre Jordan added           has been spotty this sea-                                               Rudy Gobert posted his
Kawhi Leonard scored 39         injury.                        15 points and 12 rebounds      son, and at times backup                                                44th double-double of the
points, including 17 in the     Stephen Curry had 24           for the Clippers, who won      Ish Smith has seemed like a                                             season with 15 points and
fourth quarter, and made        points on 8-of-20 shooting,    their second in a row and      better option late in games.                                            15 rebounds.
big plays on both ends          while Klay Thompson was        remained 1 1/2 games be-       But Jackson was instrumen-                                              The Pelicans shot a season-
in the final 30 seconds as                                                                                                                                            low 35.7 percent. Anthony
San Antonio rallied to beat                                                                                                                                           Davis had 20 points and 12
Houston.                                                                                                                                                              rebounds, while DeMarcus
Leonard outscored James                                                                                                                                               Cousins added 15 points.
Harden 17-4 in the final                                                                                                                                              HORNETS 100, PACERS 88
quarter of a matchup be-                                                                                                                                              CHARLOTTE, North Caro-
tween two leading MVP                                                                                                                                                 lina (AP) — Kemba Walker
candidates as the Spurs                                                                                                                                               scored 28 points, Nicolas
won their eighth straight.                                                                                                                                            Batum added 21 and Char-
Harden finished with 39                                                                                                                                               lotte beat Indiana.
points and 12 assists in the                                                                                                                                          Returning home after their
final matchup of the sea-                                                                                                                                             victory Saturday in Denver,
son between the intrastate                                                                                                                                            the Hornets notched con-
rivals.                                                                                                                                                               secutive wins for the first
Harden hit one of two free                                                                                                                                            time since Jan. 20-21.
throws to give Houston a                                                                                                                                              Paul George had 36 points
108-107 lead, but Leonard                                                                                                                                             on 15-of-25 shooting for the
followed with a 3-pointer                                                                                                                                             Pacers (32-31), who were
over Nene for a 110-108                                                                                                                                               playing the final game of a
advantage. Leonard than                                                                                                                                               five-game road trip.q
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