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Resurgent Hawks rout Hornets 103-76 for 4th straight victory

The Associated Press season. Nowitzki scored 21 scoring all of his points in
ATLANTA (AP) — ATLANTA for Dallas. the second half, thrilling
(AP) — Dwight Howard had THUNDER 100, TIMBER- his younger teammates
19 points and 12 rebounds WOLVES 98 and setting off chants of
as the resurgent Atlanta MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Victor his name from the Staples
Hawks won their fourth Oladipo scored 20 points Center crowd. Although
straight game, routing the and hit a jumper with 6.3 he hasn’t announced his
listless Charlotte Hornets seconds to play to lift Rus- retirement, the 37-year-old
103-76 on Tuesday night to sell Westbrook-less Oklaho- veteran of 17 NBA seasons
wrap up the No. 5 seed in ma City over Minnesota. got several standing ova-
the Eastern Conference. With Westbrook resting for tions down the stretch.
The Hawks will face the the first time this season, Cheick Diallo scored 19
Washington Wizards in the Oladipo also had nine re- points for the Pelicans, who
opening round of the play- bounds and six assists, and lost their fifth straight while
offs. the Thunder outrebounded playing without big men
A week ago, Atlanta’s Minnesota 54-35. Starters Anthony Davis and DeMar-
playoff hopes were in jeop- Taj Gibson and Andre Rob- cus Cousins.
ardy after a dismal stretch erson also sat out as the KINGS 129, SUNS 104
that included two losses to Thunder prepare for a first- SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP)
Brooklyn, the worst team in round series against Hous- — Buddy Hield scored a
the NBA. ton. Domantas Sabonis career-high 30 points and
Then, in a sudden turn- added 19 points and nine Ty Lawson had his first ca-
around that epitomized rebounds. reer triple-double, getting
the team’s maddening in- Karl-Anthony Towns had 22 points, 12 assists and 11
consistency this season, the 26 points and 12 rebounds, rebounds as Sacramento
Hawks knocked off East- while Andrew Wiggins over- beat Phoenix.
leading Boston and record- came a 1-for-11 start to The Kings never trailed,
ed two straight stunning finish with 18 points for the scoring the game’s first
victories over the defend- Atlanta Hawks center Dwight Howard shoots against the Char- Minnesota. But the Timber- nine points, leading by 19
ing NBA champion Cleve- lotte Hornets during the first half of an NBA basketball game, wolves again struggled to at halftime and keeping a
land Cavaliers, including Tuesday, April 11, 2017, in Atlanta. Atlanta won 103-76. get stops down the stretch double-digit lead the entire
Sunday’s comeback from Associated Press and Wiggins missed a second half.
a 26-point deficit. a lost season that will be he could play, but Romo 3-pointer at the buzzer as Ben McLemore, Willie
This one was never in the worst for Dallas (32- wasn’t on the roster or un- they lost their fifth straight Cauley-Stein and Geor-
doubt. Charlotte played 49) since going 20-62 in der contract. game. gios Papagiannis all had
its regular-season finale al- 1997-98, the Mavericks fol- After breaking a bone in LAKERS 108, PELICANS 96 13 points for the Kings. Skal
ready eliminated from the lowed through with an idea his back last preseason, the LOS ANGELES (AP) — Met- Labissiere and Anthony Toll-
playoffs and without its best hatched in part by star Dirk career passing leader for ta World Peace scored a iver had 12 points apiece.
player, Kemba Walker. Nowitzki weeks ago when it the storied Cowboys fran- team-leading 18 points dur- The Kings snapped a two-
NUGGETS 109, MAVERICKS was clear Romo wasn’t re- chise lost the starting job he ing what might have been game losing streak, beat-
91 turning to the Cowboys. held for 10 years to rookie his final home game for the ing the Suns for the third
DALLAS (AP) — Gary Harris Romo was honored exactly Dak Prescott and decid- Lakers, and Los Angeles ex- time in four games this sea-
scored 20 points and Den- a week after announcing ed not to play for another tended its late-season win- son.
ver beat Dallas with the he was leaving football to team. ning streak to five games Tyler Ulis had 27 points and
Mavericks honoring retir- become the No. 1 NFL ana- Mason Plumlee and Malik with a victory over New Or- Marquese Chriss scored 22
ing Cowboys quarterback lyst at CBS. Beasley scored 16 apiece in leans. for Phoenix. Leading scorer
Tony Romo as a ceremo- The soon-to-be-37-year-old the first game for the Nug- World Peace made his Devin Booker was given the
nial player. had the crowd on its feet gets (39-42) since getting 840th career NBA start and night off as the Suns finished
With nothing at stake in in the final minute hoping eliminated from the post- hit four 3-pointers while 24-58.q

St. Louis sues NFL, teams

over Rams relocation to LA

JIM SALTER joined in the lawsuit by St. until purchasing it outright
Associated Press Louis County and the re- in 2010, two years after the
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The city gion’s sports authority. death of longtime majority
of St. Louis filed a lawsuit The NFL says there is “no le- owner Georgia Frontiere.
Wednesday against the gitimate basis” for the law- The suit claims that it
National Football League suit. A spokesman for the wasn’t long afterward that
over the Rams’ reloca- league, The Rams moved Kroenke began plotting a
tion to Los Angeles, alleg- from Los Angeles to St. move, despite public com-
ing the league violated its Louis prior to the 1995 sea- ments from him and team In this Jan. 14, 2016, file photo, championship banners are re-
moved from the Edward Jones Dome, former home of the St.
own relocation guidelines son, lured in part by a new executive Kevin Demoff Louis Rams football team in St. Louis.
and enriched itself at the taxpayer-built domed that the Rams hoped to re- Associated Press
expense of the community stadium. Stan Kroenke, a main in St. Louis for the long
it left behind. The move real estate billionaire and term. “In the years leading cided to move the team interested in exploiting any
comes 15 months after the native of Missouri, was mi- up to the Rams relocation and confidentially deter- opportunity to do so,” the
team departed. St. Louis is nority owner of the team request, Rams officials de- mined that they would be lawsuit states.q