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SPORTS Tuesday 11 december 2018

This image provided by Sports Illustrated shows the cover of the
Dec. 17-24, 2018, issue featuring the Sportsperson of the Year,
the Golden State Warriors NBA basketball team.
Associated Press Milwaukee Bucks guard Eric Bledsoe (6) drives to the net as Toronto Raptors forward Kawhi Leonard
Warriors named (2) attempts to defend during first half NBA basketball action in Toronto on Sunday, Dec. 9, 2018.
Associated Press
Sports Illustrated’s Brogdon’s 3-pointers lift

Sportsperson of Year
Bucks past Raptors 104-99

By JOE REEDY
AP Sports Writer
The three-time NBA champion Golden State Warriors By The Associated Press the NBA. and 15 rebounds as San
are the fourth team to be honored as Sports Illustrated’s TORONTO (AP) — Malcolm Toronto’s Kyle Lowry shot 0 Antonio won its second
Sportsperson of the Year . Brogdon hit tying and go- for 5 and didn’t score for straight after dropping four
The Warriors join the 1980 U.S. hockey team, the 1999 U.S. ahead 3-pointers in the the first time this season. of five.
Women’s World Cup soccer squad and the 2004 Boston final 67 seconds and the Lowry led the Raptors with LaMarcus Aldridge scored
Red Sox as the other team honorees. Milwaukee Bucks held on seven assists. 20 points for the Spurs.
Sports Illustrated announced the winner Monday, and to beat the Toronto Raptors PELICANS 116, PISTONS 108 Donovan Mitchell scored
editor-in-chief Chris Stone said they have been thinking of 104-99 on Sunday night. DETROIT (AP) — Jrue Holi- 27 points, all in the sec-
some way to honor the Warriors during their run of three Brogdon scored 18 points, day scored 37 points and ond half, and Ricky Ru-
titles in four years. He also acknowledged that there were Giannis Antetokounmpo Julius Randle added 28 as bio added 26 for the Jazz.
a couple years where Steph Curry has been in the con- had 19 points and matched New Orleans dealt Detroit Rudy Gobert was the only
versation. a season high with 19 re- its fourth straight loss. other player in double fig-
“There is something transcendent about the team where bounds, and Brook Lopez Pelicans star Anthony Da- ures, with 12 points, as Utah
the sum of their parts was apparent from the beginning,” had 19 points for the Bucks, vis left with a right hip in- had its two-game winning
Stone said. “What they have built into a dynasty is a func- the first team to beat Toron- jury after a first-quarter streak halted.
tion of empirical success. They’re really a generational to twice this season. collision with Blake Griffin. HORNETS 119, KNICKS 107
team. I don’t know if, in my lifetime, there has been a Serge Ibaka scored 22 Davis returned early in the NEW YORK (AP) — Kemba
team where the pieces have blended so beautifully to- points and Kawhi Leonard third quarter, but finished Walker scored 25 points
gether.” had 20 for the Raptors, who with only six points — three and Jeremy Lamb added
Stone also said that the Warriors’ honor is more about the have lost two straight, the before the injury. He also 19 to lead Charlotte past
celebration of the organization doing something unique second time this season had five blocks and nine New York.
over an extended period while the other teams were they’ve suffered consecu- rebounds.Griffin scored 35 Tony Parker scored 16
honored for what they did in a certain year. tive defeats. Toronto, which points for Detroit, Andre points, Marvin Williams had
Alexander Ovechkin, who led the Washington Capitals to lost 106-105 at Brooklyn Drummond had 23 points 13 and Cody Zeller finished
their first Stanley Cup title, Tiger Woods and LeBron James on Friday, dropped three and 19 rebounds, and with 12 as Charlotte led by
also received consideration, but Stone said the Warriors straight from Nov. 12 to 16, Langston Galloway added as many as 28 points in a
felt like the favorite when they repeated as NBA cham- losing at home to New Or- a season-best 24 off the game it never trailed.
pions. leans and Detroit before an bench. Knicks rookie Kevin Knox
“In the same way they play, they seem to speak in a single overtime defeat at Boston. SPURS 110, JAZZ 97 tied a season high with 26
voice,” Stone said. “The unity of message with the War- Fred VanVleet scored 19 SAN ANTONIO (AP) — De- points and set a career high
riors is the same way we refer to LeBron and his answering points and Pascal Siakam Mar DeRozan had 26 points with 15 rebounds, while Tim
some of the hard questions. They did it forcefully, but also had 17 for the Raptors, and eight rebounds and Hardaway Jr. added 21
civilly, in a way that helps advance conversations.”q whose 21-7 record is best in Rudy Gay added 23 points points.q