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SPORTS Saturday 11 March 2017

Westbrook triple-double

leads Thunder over Spurs

The Associated Press since December, but Kevin start the second half and
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Love and Kyle Korver were were up by as many as
Russell Westbrook had his out, and the Cavaliers lost 21 Thursday night. A late
31st triple-double of the Andrew Bogut earlier in the Phoenix run made it a sev-
season to help the Oklaho- week with a broken leg. en-point game before Los
ma City Thunder beat the Cleveland led 80-73 after Angeles scored the final
San Antonio Spurs 102-92 in finishing the third quarter five points.
the NBA on Thursday night. with a 22-5 run, but the Pis- Devin Booker scored 23 for
Westbrook had 23 points, tons started strong in the the Suns. Marquese Chriss
13 rebounds and 13 assists fourth, and a tip-in by Reg- added 18, and T.J. Warren
to match Wilt Chamber- gie Jackson gave Detroit finished with 17.
lain’s 1967-68 campaign an 82-80 advantage. TRAIL BLAZERS 114, 76ERS
for the second-most triple- Kyrie Irving had 27 points 108 OT
doubles in a season. for Cleveland. PORTLAND, Oregon (AP)
Victor Oladipo scored 20 CLIPPERS 114, GRIZZLIES 98 — Jusuf Nurkic had a ca-
points, and Enes Kanter MEMPHIS, Tennessee (AP) reer-high 28 points and 20
added 14 points and 10 — Austin Rivers scored 20 rebounds as the Portland
rebounds for the Thunder. points and Chris Paul add- Trail Blazers beat the Phila-
They snapped a four-game ed 19 points and seven delphia 76ers in overtime. Oklahoma City Thunder guard Russell Westbrook (0) shoots in
losing streak. assists to lead Los Angeles Nurkic also had eight as- front of San Antonio Spurs guard Danny Green (14) during the
Kawhi Leonard scored 19 past Memphis. sists and six blocks in Port- first quarter of an NBA basketball game in Oklahoma City, Thurs-
points for the Spurs, who The Clippers solidified their land’s fourth straight win. day, March 9, 2017.
had won nine straight. hold on the fifth seed in the Damian Lillard finished with Associated Press
San Antonio dropped two Western Conference, while 24 points but did not make
games behind the Golden Memphis continued a a 3-pointer, snapping a Philadelphia rookie Dario ington added 24 in the
State Warriors in the race skid that has reached four streak of 42 games with at Saric had a season-best 28 76ers’ sixth loss in seven
for the best record in the straight. least one 3. points, while Robert Cov- games.q
NBA. J.J. Redick scored 15 points,
Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili Jamal Crawford and Blake Spurs star Leonard to miss
and Kyle Anderson sat out Griffin had 14 apiece, and
for the Spurs. Ginobili rest- Griffin added 12 rebounds.
ed, Parker had back stiff- Marc Gasol led Memphis Warriors game with concussion
ness and Anderson had a with 20 points, and Zach
sprained right knee. Randolph had 18 points
PISTONS 106, CAVALIERS and 11 rebounds. SAN ANTONIO (AP) — NBA
101 LAKERS 122, SUNS 110 All-Star Kawhi Leonard will
AUBURN HILLS, Michi- PHOENIX (AP) — D’Angelo miss San Antonio’s show-
gan (AP) — Andre Drum- Russell scored 28 points, down with the Golden
mond had 20 points and including six 3-pointers, State Warriors on Saturday
16 rebounds, and Detroit as the Los Angeles Lakers after suffering a concus-
scored the first 13 points of snapped an eight-game sion. Leonard was injured
the fourth quarter before losing streak by beating in the second half of the
holding off injury-plagued Phoenix. Spurs’ 102-92 loss to Okla-
Cleveland. Jordan Clarkson added 19 homa City on Thursday
LeBron James had 29 for the Lakers, who stopped night, which snapped the
points, 13 rebounds and 10 an 11-game skid in Phoe- team’s nine-game winning
assists — and threw down nix, where they hadn’t streak.The forward was
over a half-dozen tremen- won since Jan. 5, 2011. Los struck on the left side of his
dous dunks — but the Cav- Angeles lost 137-101 in its head by Victor Oladipo as
aliers have now lost three previous game in Phoenix the Thunder guard flailed
straight and five of their last on Feb. 15, the most one- San Antonio Spurs forward Kawhi Leonard (2) shoots in front of his arms after losing the ball
seven. J.R. Smith played for sided Suns win in the series’ Oklahoma City Thunder center Enes Kanter (11) during the third on a drive to the basket.
quarter of an NBA basketball game in Oklahoma City, Thursday,
Cleveland after a thumb history. March 9, 2017. Leonard exited and did
injury had kept him out The Lakers took the lead to Associated Press not return, finishing with 19
points in 26 minutes. q