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                                                                                                       SPORTS Saturday 25 February 2017

             NBA Capsules

             Lou Williams helps Houston


             crush New Orleans 129-99




            The Associated Press         — Stephen Curry scored 17    troit to cut into the lead.
            NEW  ORLEANS  (AP)  —  Re-   of his 35 points in a 3-point   Walker  scored  34  points.
            serve Lou Williams hit seven  flurry  over  the  final  3:37  of   Tobias Harris had 25 for the
            3-pointers  and  scored  27  the  third  quarter,  and  the   Pistons.
            points in his Rockets debut  two-time reigning MVP also   TRAIL BLAZERS 112, MAGIC
            after a trade from the Lak-  had  seven  rebounds,  five   103
            ers,  helping  Houston  crush  assists and four steals as the   ORLANDO,  Florida  (AP)  —
            New  Orleans  129-99  on  Warriors used a big second      Damian  Lillard  scored  33
            Thursday night in DeMarcus  half to beat the Los Ange-    points, C.J. McCollum add-
            Cousins’ first game with An-  les Clippers.               ed  22  and  Portland  beat
            thony Davis.                 Curry’s four-point play with   Orlando  to  snap  a  three-
            Davis  had  29  points,  and  30.7 seconds left in the third   game losing streak.
            Cousins  finished  with  27  and  buzzer-beating  3  to   After  trailing  for  much  of
            points and 14 rebounds af-   punctuate  the  one-sided    the game, the Trail Blazers
            ter  he  was  acquired  from  period  propelled  Golden   rallied in the fourth quarter
            Sacramento  during  the  State. Curry and Kevin Du-       behind  Lillard’s  17  points.
            break.  But  New  Orleans  rant combined for eight of     Recently  acquired  center    New Orleans Pelicans forward DeMarcus Cousins (0) blocks a
            turned  the  ball  over  20  their team’s nine 3-pointers   Jusuf  Nurkic  also  had  12   shot by Houston Rockets guard James Harden (13) during the
            times  couldn’t  keep  pace  in the third.                points  and  12  rebounds     first half of an NBA basketball game in New Orleans, Thursday,
            with  the  firepower  of  the  The  Warriors  scored  50   during  the  much-needed     Feb. 23, 2017.
            Rockets, who hit 20 3-point-  points  in  the  quarter  after   win for the Portland.q                                          Associated Press
            ers.                         trailing 61-49 at halftime. It
            Eric  Gordon  scored  19  was the NBA’s first 50-point
            points and Ryan Anderson  quarter  since  the  Lakers
            added  17  in  both  players’  had  51  against  the  Knicks
            first  game  in  New  Orleans  on March 25, 2014.
            since leaving the Pelicans.  Durant  scored  15  of  his  25
            James  Harden  had  13  points in the third and also
            points and 14 assists.       contributed  15  rebounds
            Houston led by as many as  and  seven  assists  as  the
            35  points  when  Gordon’s  NBA-best  Warriors  (48-9)
            free throws made it 100-65  began the stretch run with
            late in the third quarter.   a downright dominant sec-
            CAVALIERS 119, KNICKS 104    ond half.
            CLEVELAND  (AP)  —  LeB-     PISTONS 114, HORNETS 108,
            ron  James  recorded  his  OT
            48th  career  triple-double  AUBURN      HILLS,   Michi-
            and  Kyrie  Irving  scored  23  gan  (AP)  —  Kentavious
            points,  leading  Cleveland  Caldwell-Pope       scored
            over  the  New  York  Knicks,  33  points,  including  three
            who  hung  on  to  superstar  3-pointers late in the fourth
            Carmelo     Anthony    and  quarter  during  a  pulsating
            Derrick  Rose  at  the  trade  Detroit rally, and the Pistons
            deadline.                    outlasted Charlotte.
            James  scored  18  points  Caldwell-Pope  scored  De-
            and had 13 rebounds with  troit’s last 11 points of reg-
            15 assists for his sixth triple-  ulation,  and  his  3-pointer
            double of the season.        with  18.2  seconds  to  play
            Anthony,  the  subject  of  tied the game at 100. Kem-
            trade  rumors  because  of  ba  Walker  scored  Char-
            a strained relationship with  lotte’s  final  nine  points  of
            Knicks  President  of  Basket-  the  fourth,  but  the  Pistons
            ball  Operations  Phil  Jack-  forced  him  to  give  up  the
            son,  scored  20  points,  go-  ball on the last possession,
            ing 9 of 25 from the field.  and Marco Belinelli missed
            Kyle Korver scored 20 points  a 3-pointer that could have
            for Cleveland, which is 8-1  won  it.  Detroit,  which  was
            in February and has beaten  behind  by  18  in  the  third
            New York 10 straight times.  quarter, never trailed in the
            Courtney Lee had 25 points  overtime.  Caldwell-Pope’s
            for  New  York,  which  has  3-pointer  with  55  seconds
            lost six of seven and is 12th  remaining  put  the  Pistons
            in  the  Eastern  Conference  up 110-102.
            playoff race.                Charlotte  led  85-70  at
            WARRIORS  123,  CLIPPERS  the  start  of  the  fourth  but
            113                          missed 14 of its first 15 shots
            OAKLAND,  California  (AP)  in the period, enabling De-
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