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Marcus Smart hits 8 of Grizzlies’ 23 3-pointers in 127-113 victory over slumping Lakers

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:53:09 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jaren Jackson Jr. hit five 3-pointers and scored 31 points, Marcus Smart added 29 points with a season-high eight 3-pointers and the Memphis Grizzlies extended the Los Angeles Lakers’ woes with a 127-113 victory Friday night.Desmond Bane had 24 points and 13 assists while Ja Morant scored 21 points for Memphis, whose starting lineup combined for 21 of a season-high 23 3-pointers on the way to just its second win in six games.Ziaire Williams added 10 of his 15 points in the fourth quarter while the Grizzlies pulled away from the Lakers, who lost their fourth consecutive game.LeBron James scored 32 points and Anthony Davis had 31 in the Lakers’ 10th loss in 13 games since winning the inaugural In-Season tournament.Los Angeles had won six consecutive home games over the Grizzlies in the past 12 months, including three straight in the Lakers’ first-round playoff upset of the second-seeded Grizz last spring.Austin Reaves had 19 points and a career-hig...

Banchero records 1st triple-double, hits go-ahead free throws as Magic hold off Nuggets 122-120

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:53:09 GMT

DENVER (AP) — Paolo Banchero was pleased with his first career triple-double. What made it even better was its central role in a stirring comeback. Banchero hit a pair of go-ahead free throws with 9.7 seconds remaining and the short-handed Orlando Magic rallied Friday night for a 122-120 win over the Denver Nuggets.The young Magic forward finished with 32 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists. He hit four free throws in the last 34.6 seconds in a game where the Magic trailed by as many as 18 points in the third quarter.“Just the power of just positive energy and just pushing each other,” said Banchero, who was 15 of 19 from the free throw line. “We just told each other, ‘We’re all we got. We’re going to live with the result, whatever it is, but we’re not just going to roll over and let these guys blow us out.’” With the game tied at 120, the Nuggets had a chance to take the lead. But Moritz Wagner stole a pass from Kentavious Caldwell-Pope and fed it to Banchero, who drew a...

Stephen Curry scores 26 points to help Warriors hold off Pistons, 113-109

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:53:09 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Stephen Curry scored 12 of his 26 points over the final 1:32 with a pair of 3-pointers, emphatically answering after Bojan Bogdanovic’s go-ahead 3 with 1:41 to play, and the Golden State Warriors held on to beat the last-place Detroit Pistons 113-109 on Friday night. Detroit’s Cade Cunningham made a driving reverse layup with 2:10 to play that tied it at 100 and wound up with 30 points. He also scored five straight points down the stretch to pull the Pistons to 95-94 at the 4:20 mark of the fourth.Klay Thompson had 19 points while carrying the scoring load until Splash Brother Curry got going. Dario Saric added 17 points off the bench.Curry shot 7 for 19 while missing eight of his first nine 3-point tries before hitting from the baseline with 2:58 remaining. Jonathan Kuminga had 11 points and six rebounds making his 12th straight start during Draymond Green’s indefinite league suspension after the third-year forward didn’t play the final 18 minutes during ...

Palo Alto turns back Los Altos as Jorell Clark scores 26 points to lead the way

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:53:09 GMT

LOS ALTOS — Palo Alto got off to a hot start, knocking down 8 of 10 shots in the first quarter, and was never seriously challenged Friday in a 61-49 victory over Los AltosPalo Alto (11-3) concluded the first week of Santa Clara Valley Athletic League De Anza Division play 2-0, in first place in a division that appears to be extremely balanced and competitive. All seven teams were at .500 or better in non-league play.Jorell Clark, a 6-foot-1 junior and the son of Stanford head track and field coach J.J. Clark, got Palo Alto off to the fast start, scoring 10 of his game-high 26 points in the first quarter, which ended with Paly up 17-10.“He’s a special player,” Palo Alto coach Jeff LaMere said. “I think he’s one of the better players in the section. He can score the ball, he can shoot it and drive. He’s a great athlete and a tremendous teammate. He not only leads us in points and rebounds, but also in assists. He plays the game the right way.&...

Warriors: How a frustrated Jonathan Kuminga cleared the air with Steve Kerr after playing time dispute

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:53:09 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO — Jonathan Kuminga said he got what he wanted out of his conversation with Warriors coach Steve Kerr on Friday.Both parties were feeling better after frustration boiled over about Kuminga’s playing time following the Warriors’ 130-127 heartbreaking loss to the Denver Nuggets on Thursday.Friday night, after Kuminga played a game-high 36 minutes in the Warriors’ 113-109 win over the Detroit Pistons, the 21-year-old said he and Kerr have patched things up.“There’s no beef,” he said. “We move on with better understanding, hoping we all can work with each other and help this team, and leave everything in the past.”It must be music to Kerr’s ears after he woke up on Friday to a story in The Athletic that said Kuminga has “lost faith in his coach.”The story quoted “sources close to Kuminga” that said Kuminga “no longer believes Kerr will allow him to reach his full potential,” adding that the Warriors’ loss on Thursday, when Kuminga sat the bench for the ent...

Warriors G Chris Paul breaks hand, needs surgery

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:53:09 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- The Golden State Warriors will be without Chris Paul for the foreseeable future. The veteran guard suffered a fractured left hand in the Warriors' win over the Detroit Pistons on Friday and will need surgery, the team confirmed. Paul appeared to suffer the injury in the third quarter when running into Pistons guard Jaden Ivey. He came out of the game shortly afterward while flexing his hand. Giants acquire former Cy Young winner Robbie Ray in trade with Mariners The Warriors traded for Paul in the offseason, and he has started 11 games in the 2023-24 season. He had eight points in 24 minutes Friday before leaving the game. Paul, who has been plagued by injuries throughout his career, has appeared in all but three of the Warriors' first 35 games. He is averaging 9.0 points and 7.3 assists per game this season.Paul has had a decorated career that includes 12 NBA All-Star nods. He has led the league in assists five times. The injury punctuates a tumultuous we...

600-pound metal sculpture in San Jose gets stolen and destroyed

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:53:09 GMT

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KRON) – A San Jose artist is in shock after someone stole and destroyed his 600-pound metal art sculpture on New Year’s Day. “How can I say this? It was a shock. I was definitely upset,” said the artist, Edo Rosenberg. Rosenberg says when he pulled up to his studio in San Jose Tuesday morning, his 600-pound metal sculpture bolted to the concrete was gone. 66-year-old woman beaten and robbed near Oakland’s Temescal neighborhood Surveillance camera footage caught a white truck pulling up to the studio in broad daylight. Its driver removed the bolts and used a chain hoist to lift the sculpture into his truck.  Rosenberg says he went to a local scrap yard in hopes of finding his sculpture. That’s when he says he found out his art piece is gone forever.“They have a receipt to this guy for $120 dollars for 1,200 pounds of metal… and your piece is gone, that was it,” he said.Rosenberg says he left the sculpture outside overnight to treat the metal with ac...

66-year-old woman beaten and robbed near Oakland's Temescal neighborhood

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:53:09 GMT

OAKLAND, Calif. (KRON) – A 66-year-old woman was pushed to the ground and kicked repeatedly in the head in Oakland on Wednesday evening. The assault happened near the MacArthur BART Station. Police say two suspects stole the woman's purse, phone, and shopping bag. Residents evacuated after Pleasant Hill car crash leads to ‘significant’ gas leak "It's shocking because I walk here all the time for my lunch. It's definitely scary,” said Nancy Fernandez, who works in the neighborhood.Fernandez was shocked after hearing about the robbery and bearing on 40th Street near Clarke Street near her daily walking route."For me it's safe. A lot of my co-workers do talk about, ‘Oh be careful. Don’t walk.’ But for me so far it's been safe, so it is scary something like that happened,” Fernandez said.According to Oakland police, just before 7 p.m. Wednesday, the woman was walking alone when she was pushed to the ground and kicked in the head repeatedly by two suspects who then stole her belongings...

Alaska Airlines flight makes emergency landing in Oregon after midair blowout of window

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:53:09 GMT

An Alaska Airlines flight made an emergency landing in Oregon on Friday after a window and chunk of the fuselage blew out shortly after takeoff and the gaping hole caused the cabin to depressurize. Flight data showed the plane climbed to 16,000 feet (4,876 meters) before returning to Portland International Airport. The airline said the plane landed safely with 174 passengers and six crew members. Alaska Airlines provided no information about whether anyone was injured or the possible cause. In a short emailed statement, the airline said Flight 1282 from Portland to Ontario, California, experienced an incident soon after departure and that more information would be provided later. The plane was diverted about about six minutes after taking off at 5:07 p.m., according to flight tracking data from the FlightAware website. It landed at 5:26 p.m.The pilot told Portland air traffic controllers the plane had an emergency, was depressurized and needed to return to the airport, according to ...

Myanmar confirms that a key northeastern city near China has been seized by an armed ethnic alliance

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:53:09 GMT

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government has acknowledged that it withdrew its forces from a key city on the northeastern border with China after it was taken over by an alliance of ethnic armed groups it has been battling for months.The Three Brotherhood Alliance took control of Laukkaing late Thursday after Myanmar military forces laid down their arms and were allowed to withdraw, both sides said Saturday.Photos and videos on social media showed a vast amount of weapons that the alliance claimed to have captured.Laukkaing is the capital of the Kokang Self-Administered Zone, which is geographically part of northern Shan state in Myanmar.The Three Brotherhood Alliance is comprised of the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army, the Ta’ang National Liberation Army and the Arakan Army. The MNDAA is a military force of the Kokang minority, who are ethnic Chinese. The capture of the city was a primary goal of the alliance’s offensive launched on Oct. 27.Myanmar government spokespe...