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SPORTS Thursday 13 december 2018

NBA playoff teams
rolling out new
‘Earned’ jerseys

By TIM REYNOLDS
AP Basketball Writer
MIAMI (AP) — The Miami
Heat earned the chance
to wear fuchsia. And 15
other teams will soon be
getting bonus uniforms as
well.
The Heat unveiled their
latest uniform Wednes-
day, part of the “Earned”
collection that will be
rolled out by the NBA
and Nike as a perk for
the 16 teams that made
the playoffs last season.
Miami’s is “laser fuchsia,”
with white lettering and
numbers, trimmed with a
tiny bit of black and light
blue.
Miami plans to wear the
fuchsia three times, start-
ing with a game on Dec.
26. Some teams will begin
wearing them for Christ-
mas games. Toronto Raptors’ Serge Ibaka (9) dunks against the Los Angeles Clippers during the second half of an NBA basketball game,
“We tried some variations Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018, in Los Angeles.
and we tried some differ- Associated Press
ent colorways, and luck-
ily we were able to land Serge Ibaka, Raptors cruise past Clippers 123-99
some buy-in for some-
thing that is definitely By The Associated Press about half his 21.4 average Booker for the fifth straight bounds and 10 assists. Clint
unique to the NBA and LOS ANGELES (AP) — Serge — the Clippers were led by game, never led while fall- Capela added 13 points
pro sports in America in Ibaka had 25 points and a pair of reserves. ing to 4-24. and seven rebounds before
general,” said Brett Mau- nine rebounds, and the To- Boban Marjanovic had 18 T.J. Warren led the Suns with fouling out with five minutes
rer, who designed the ronto Raptors cruised past points and Tyrone Wallace 23 points and De’Anthony left, and Eric Gordon, who
uniform for the Heat. the Los Angeles Clippers added 15. Their fourth loss Melton added 17. Rookie started in place of James
“We were able to really 123-99 on Tuesday night in six games dropped them DeAndre Ayton was the Ennis, had 14 points for the
own this fuchsia color- without injured Kawhi Leon- into a tie for second with only other Phoenix player Rockets, who shot 49 per-
way.” The Heat are call- ard. the Lakers at 17-10 in the in double figures, scoring 12 cent from the field.
ing it “Sunset Vice,” and Kyle Lowry added 21 points, Pacific Division. points on 6-for-10 shooting. Houston’s bench played a
it follows the white “Vice” making four of the Raptors’ SPURS 111, SUNS 86 DeMar DeRozan was held key role in a 24-6 first-half run
uniform that was unveiled 14 3-pointers. SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Bryn to a season-low five points, that erased a 15-point defi-
last season as part of Leonard sat out with a Forbes had a season-high but the 6-foot-7 guard at- cit, and then led a charge
Nike’s “City Edition” and bruised right hip that he 24 points and a career-best tempted just six shots as he in the second half. Gerald
the black “Vice Nights” hurt against Milwaukee last 11 rebounds to lead San set up his teammates. Green had 13 points, and
uniform that came out Sunday. Antonio. ROCKETS 111, TRAIL BLAZ- Danuel House had 12 off
this season. He is day-to-day. San Antonio has won three ERS 103 the bench.
The Heat said the num- The Clippers endured their straight halfway through a HOUSTON (AP) — James Damian Lillard had 34
ber of Vice jerseys sold biggest loss of the season six-game homestand. Harden had 29 points and points, CJ McCollum
last season exceeded against the NBA’s best LaMarcus Aldridge added seven Rockets scored in scored 22 points and Ju-
the total of City Edition team (22-7). 18 points in 25 minutes. He double-figures as Houston suf Nurkic added 15 points
jerseys sold by the other Fred VanVleet had a ca- sat out the fourth quarter used a big second-half and 10 rebounds for Port-
29 NBA teams combined, reer-high 14 assists starting with San Antonio leading run and snapped a three- land, which shot 44 percent
and the Vice Nights cam- in place of Leonard. by as many as 25 points. game losing streak. after starting the game by
paign has projected to With leading scorer Tobias Phoenix, which was with- Chris Paul added a triple making seven of its first nine
be even bigger.q
Harris held to 10 points — out leading scorer Devin double with 11 points, 11 re- shots.q