Sharpe and Avdija lead the Trail Blazers to a win over the Hawks

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Sharpe and Avdija lead the Trail Blazers to a win over the Hawks

2025-04-02 13:48 Last Updated At：14:00

ATLANTA (AP) — Shaedon Sharpe had 33 points and 10 rebounds and Deni Avdija finished with 32 points, 15 rebounds and 10 assists as the Portland Trail Blazers beat the Atlanta Hawks 127-113 on Tuesday night.

Toumani Camara scored 18 points and Donovan Clingan and Dalano Banton added 11 points apiece as Portland snapped a four-game skid.

Trae Young had 29 points and 15 assists for Atlanta. Dyson Daniels had 22 points and 10 rebounds, Vit Krejci scored 13 points and Onyeka Okongwu 12 in the loss.

KNICKS 105, 76ERS 91

NEW YORK (AP) — OG Anunoby scored 27 points and New York beat Philadelphia, sending the 76ers to their ninth straight loss.

Landry Shamet added a season-high 20 points with six 3-pointers for the Knicks, who won their third straight. Mitchell Robinson had 14 points and 14 rebounds on his 27th birthday in his second start of the season.

With the Knicks looking sloppy with All-Star Jalen Brunson and his two backup point guards sidelined, and Karl-Anthony Towns sitting out with left knee soreness, Anunoby picked up the slack with a series of strong drives to the basket — including one emphatic slam while the Knicks were blowing it open in the fourth quarter.

Former Knicks guard Quentin Grimes scored 26 points for the 76ers, who used their 52nd different starting lineup of their injury-wrecked season.

BUCKS 133, SUNS 123

MILWAUKEE (AP — Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 37 points and Milwaukee relied on a team-record shooting performance to snap a four-game skid by winning over slumping and short-handed Phoenix.

The Bucks shot 68.9% (51 of 73) from the floor to set a franchise record for field-goal percentage. The previous record was 66.7% on Dec. 15, 1985, against Sacramento.

Bucks coach Doc Rivers improved his career record to 1,155-816 and tied Phil Jackson for seventh place in NBA history in regular-season wins.

The Suns lost their fourth straight. They were playing without Kevin Durant, Bradley Beal and Royce O’Neale.

MAGIC 116, SPURS 105

SAN ANTONIO ( AP) — Paolo Banchero had 24 points and 10 rebounds, Franz Wagner added 24 points and Orlando rallied to beat San Antonio.

Kentavious Caldwell-Pope added 23 points as the Magic won for the fifth time in seven games. Orlando (37-40) moved ahead of Atlanta (36-39) and into seventh place in the Eastern Conference.

Harrison Barnes scored 24 points for San Antonio, which lost its fifth straight. Julian Champagnie scored 19 points, Stephon Castle 16 and Chris Paul 10.

Orlando outscored San Antonio 37-21 in the final quarter after trailing much of the game.

BULLS 137, RAPTORS 118

CHICAGO (AP) — Coby White scored 28 points, Talen Horton Tucker had 27 points and Chicago locked in a spot in the Eastern Conference play-in tournament with a win over Toronto.

Nikola Vucevic shot 9 for 12, including 2 for 3 from 3-point range to finish with 22 points, while adding 10 rebounds and seven assists.

The Raptors were led by Ja’Kobe Walter, with 17 points while Immanuel Quickley added 17 points and nine assists .

The Bulls took the lead with 1:22 left in the first quarter and never looked back. The score was 70-57 by halftime. Horton-Tucker led the way with a team-high 18 second-half points.

WARRIORS 134, GRIZZLIES 125

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Stephen Curry had 52 points, including 12 3-pointers, as Golden State held on for a victory over Memphis.

Curry was 16 of 31 from the field, making 12 of his 20 shots from distance, the dozen 3-pointers matching his season high. Jimmy Butler scored 27 points, and Draymond Green had 13 points, 10 rebounds and 12 assists as the Warriors moved into fifth place in the Western Conference.

Ja Morant led Memphis with 36 points and six assists, and Jaren Jackson Jr. finished with 22 points. Zach Edey had 10 points and 16 rebounds as Memphis dropped its third straight.

TIMBERWOLVES 140, NUGGETS 139, 2OT

DENVER (AP) — Nickeil Alexander-Walker hit two of three free throws with 0.1 seconds remaining and Minnesota overcame a career-best 61-point performance from Nikola Jokic to outlast Denver in double overtime.

The final play concluded a wild sequence as Russell Westbrook stole the ball on one end in the closing seconds, missed a layup and then fouled Alexander-Walker in the corner. The Timberwolves guard made two and missed the third one on purpose.

Anthony Edwards led Minnesota with 34 points.

Jokic’s 61 points were the most by a player in the NBA this season. He also had 10 rebounds and 10 assists as he played 52 minutes, 38 seconds. He didn’t leave the floor after halftime.

Overall ski champion Brignone also tore ACL along with broken bones in crash

2025-04-04 19:48 Last Updated At：19:51

MILAN (AP) — Surgeons found that overall World Cup skiing champion Federica Brignone also tore her ACL in a giant slalom crash in which she broke multiple bones in her left leg.

The discovery is a further setback for the 34-year-old Italian's hopes of competing at a home Olympics in 10 months. She was expected to be one of her country's stars of the Milan-Cortina Games.

“In the happiest moment of my career that was really the last thing I needed," Italian news agency ANSA quoted Brignone as saying. "There was still a month of work ahead of me and I couldn’t wait to do it.

“Instead I will have to face a new challenge into which I will put my all, as always.”

Brignone underwent surgery at La Madonnina clinic in Milan on Thursday night after a crash at the Italian championships earlier in the day.

The Italian Winter Sports Federation described the surgery as a “complete success,” but said the “rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament was also highlighted” and would be evaluated in the coming weeks.

The Italian star was diagnosed with multiple fractures in her tibial plateau and fibula bone, the federation said.

Surgeons also made a “ligament repair of the medial compartment of the knee,” the federation's statement said late Thursday.

The operation was led by federation medical chief Andrea Panzeri.

Brignone was the race leader at the Lusia ski area in Val di Fassa but in her second run she crashed through a gate and lost control, prompting her to tumble and crash through the next gate, too. She was flown by helicopter to a hospital in Trento before being transferred to Milan.

Before the surgery, Panzeri had estimated that Brignone would be out for “months.”

Brignone, who won the giant slalom at the world championships in February, also won 10 World Cup races across three different disciplines (five giant slaloms, three super-Gs and two downhills) this season. At 34, she became the oldest woman to win a World Cup race.

One of those World Cup wins came in a super-G on the Olympia delle Tofane course in Cortina that will host women’s Alpine skiing at the Milan-Cortina Olympics next February — her first career victory at the venue.

“I am sure she will be back on the slopes, in a month – and I’m talking from experience – she will already feel better,” said Italian former skier Deborah Compagnoni, who won two of her three Olympic medals after a serious injury.

“She has grit and character, she’s a tiger, she knows how to fight, she will give her all to return and manage this period as best as possible. I had some wonderful races after my injuries, and I wish that for her too.”

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