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SPORTS Saturday 1 april 2017
Bulls top Cavs 99-93, James moves to 7th on scoring list

The Associated Press and nine rebounds. day night, pulled within a
CHICAGO (AP) — CHICA- TIMBERWOLVES 119, LAKERS game of Utah (46-29) for
GO (AP) — Nikola Mirotic 104 the No. 4 playoff spot in the
tied season highs with 28 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Ricky Western Conference.
points and six 3-pointers, Rubio had a career-high 33 Booker, three games re-
Jimmy Butler scored 25, points, 10 assists and five re- moved from his 70-point
and the Chicago Bulls beat bounds and Karl-Anthony outburst in Boston, missed
the Cleveland Cavaliers 99- Towns scored 32 points to Tuesday’s game in Atlanta
93 on a night when LeBron lead the Minnesota Timber- with a sore right ankle.
James moved into seventh wolves past the Los Ange- Rookie Tyler Ulis, who also
place on the NBA’s career les Lakers. played for Calipari, had
scoring list. Rubio shot 4 of 5 on 3-point- 16 points and matched his
James moved past Sha- ers and Andrew Wiggins career best with 12 assists.
quille O’Neal, finishing with scored 27 points for the Marquese Chriss scored
26 points and giving him Timberwolves (30-44), 20 for the Suns and Jamal
28,599 for his career — three who have now won more Crawford had 19 for the
more than O’Neal. But the games than they did last Clippers.
big night by the four-time season. Minnesota had PISTONS 90, NETS 89
MVP couldn’t prevent the 30 assists and only 11 turn- AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) —
Cavaliers from matching a overs. Marcus Morris had 28 points
season high with their third Jordan Clarkson scored and 13 rebounds, and Ish
straight loss. 18 points and D’Angelo Smith hit the go-ahead
That dropped them a half- Russell had 14 points and 3-pointer late in the fourth
game behind Boston for seven assists for the Lakers quarter, helping the Detroit
the Eastern Conference (21-54), who have lost 17 of Pistons beat the Brooklyn Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James, left, shoots against
lead and left them with a their last 19 games. Bran- Nets. the Chicago Bulls guard/forward Jimmy Butler during the first
6-10 record in March. don Ingram missed his third Smith, who finished with 21 half of an NBA basketball game Thursday, March 30, 2017, in
Chicago.
For Mirotic, it was his sec- straight game with patellar points, six rebounds and Associated Press
ond straight game with 28 tendinitis in his right knee. five assists, gave the Pis-
points and six 3s. He also CLIPPERS 124, SUNS 118 tons an 87-86 lead with 30
had 10 rebounds, finishing PHOENIX (AP) — Blake Grif- seconds left. Brook Lopez mian Lillard had 31 points the end of the first quarter
a strong March. Rajon Ron- fin scored 31 points, Chris missed a 3-pointer on the and 11 assists, leading the gave the Rockets 1,078 3s,
do added 15 assists, Robin Paul added 29 points and Nets’ ensuing possession, Portland Trail Blazers past an NBA single-season re-
Lopez had 10 points and 11 10 assists and the Los An- and Detroit sealed it at the the Houston Rockets. cord.
rebounds, and the ninth- geles Clippers held on to free-throw line. Jusuf Nurkic had a team- Portland held a 96-85 lead
place Bulls moved within hand the Phoenix Suns their Sean Kilpatrick scored 15 high 11 rebounds to go into the fourth, but Hous-
a game of Miami and Indi- 10th loss in a row. and Rondae Hollis-Jeffer- along with 19 points for ton made a run early in
ana in the Eastern Confer- Devin Booker returned to son and Jeremy Lin each the Trail Blazers, who have the quarter. Trevor Ariza’s
ence standings. the Suns’ lineup and scored had 14 points for the Nets. a season-high five-game dunk tied the game at 105
They also finished 4-0 33 while playing in front of Lopez added 11 points and winning streak and a 1 with 2:29 left, but Nurkic’s
against Cleveland to com- his former college coach, nine rebounds. ½-game lead over the post-up gave Portland the
plete their first sweep of the Kentucky’s John Calipari, Detroit, the No. 10 seed in Denver Nuggets for the lead right back with 2:05
Cavaliers since they took and matched his season the Eastern Conference, eighth seed in the Western remaining.
all three games during the high with nine assists, but kept its dwindling playoff Conference. Allen Crabbe sealed the
2011-12 season. fouled out with 4:45 to play. hopes alive. James Harden finished win with steal on Harden,
Kyrie Irving scored 20 for The Clippers (46-31), com- TRAIL BLAZERS 117, ROCK- with 30 points and eight taking it coast-to-coast to
the Cavaliers, while Tristan ing off a home win over ETS 107 rebounds to lead the Rock- give the Blazers a 113-105
Thompson added 15 points Washington on Wednes- PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Da- ets. Harden’s 3-pointer at lead with 1:12 left.q
Brian Oldfield, brash shot put

star, dies at 71

The Associated Press feet, and he kept building cigarettes between throws
Brian Oldfield, the brash, on that mark. He was also and once told Sports Il-
bearish shot put star who the first to reach 73, 74 and lustrated that “When God
helped popularize the spin 75 feet. His 75-foot throw invented man, he wanted
technique, has died. He in 1975 still ranks fourth in him to look like me.”
was 71. the world. He finished sixth He also competed in the
He died Sunday in his in the shot put in the 1972 Highland Games and the
hometown of Elgin, Illinois, Olympics. World’s Strongest Man
USA Track and Field said on Oldfield was 6-foot-5 and competition. Oldfield
its website. about 275 pounds during starred in college at Middle
Oldfield was the first to his prime. He had long hair Tennessee in the 1960s.q
throw the shot put over 72 and occasionally smoked

In this April 2, 1973, file photo, Brian Oldfield, a Munich Olympian, is all smiles as he is congratu-
lated after he bettered the world indoor shot put record with a heave of 69 feet, 11.5 inches at the
International Track Association’s athletics meet at the Cow Palace in San Francisco.
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