Category: Wirenews
LOS ANGELES — Forward Dirk Nowitzki scored 26 points and pulled down 11 rebounds, and the Dallas Mavericks held off the Los Angeles Clippers 113-107 on Thursday night at Staples Center. The win put the Mavericks a half game ahead of the idle Phoenix Suns and Memphis Grizzlies and alone in the No. 7 spot […]
OKLAHOMA CITY — The San Antonio Spurs came into their matchup with the Oklahoma City Thunder trying to prove a couple of things. First, that the Thunder did not have the Spurs number and that their 19-game winning streak was for real. Unfortunately for the Spurs, they were unable to do either as they fell […]
NEW YORK — Make it two straight college basketball championships for a Pitino. Coach Richard Pitino guided the Minnesota Golden Gophers to a 65-63 win over Southern Methodist in the NIT title game Thursday, a year after his dad, Rick, led Louisville to the NCAA Championship. The 32-year-old Richard Pitino capped his first season at […]
OKLAHOMA CITY — Forward Kevin Durant scored 28 points to lead the Oklahoma City Thunder to a 106-94 win over the San Antonio Spurs on Thursday night at Chesapeake Energy Arena. The win gave the Thunder a 4-0 season sweep over San Antonio and ended the Spurs’ 19-game winning streak. Just as important, Oklahoma City […]
NEW YORK — Capping his first year as coach at Minnesota, Richard Pitino led the Golden Gophers to the NIT championship with a 65-63 win over Southern Methodist on Thursday at Madison Square Garden. Minnesota (25-13) won NIT titles in 1993 and 1998, though the latter championship was vacated due to NCAA violations. The Golden […]
North Carolina junior forward James Michael McAdoo will forgo his senior year in college and enter the 2014 NBA Draft, the school announced Thursday. The 6-foot-8 McAdoo averaged 14.2 points and 6.8 rebounds this season in leading North Carolina to a 24-10 record, a tie for third place in the ACC regular-season standings and the […]
Creighton’s Doug McDermott and Wichita State’s Gregg Marshall, were named the national player and coach of the year on Thursday by the Associated Press. McDermott, the nation’s leading scorer at 26.9 points per game, has reaped a bounty of postseason awards since the end of the regular season and after the Bluejays were ousted from […]
Boston College filled its head coaching vacancy on Thursday by hiring Ohio University’s Jim Christian. Christian takes over for Steve Donahue, who was fired after four years. In two seasons at Ohio, Christian guided the Bobcats to a 49-22 record (a .690 winning percentage) and a 25-9 regular-season record in Mid-American Conference play. His previous […]
PHOENIX — Winning Pacific Division titles is hardly old hat for the Los Angeles Clippers, but guard Chris Paul and his teammates have goals that involve hanging banners of a different kind. Paul scored 20 points and put his team ahead to stay on a 32-foot, 3-point bomb with 1:48 to play as the Clippers […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Ray McCallum is reaching new heights in an NBA career that is just starting to bloom. On Wednesday night, the Sacramento Kings rookie guard helped send the Los Angeles Lakers plummeting to a depth they haven’t reached in almost four decades. McCallum scored a career-best 27 points and committed only three turnovers […]
