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Ducks get past Dolphins Bruins ground Jets WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 201415 16 Welbeck eager to stay on winning track Page 18 PHILADELPHIA: 76ers’ Michael Carter-Williams (bottom) dunks the ball past San Antonio Spurs’ Aron Baynes, of Australia, during the first half of an NBA basketball game. — AP Spurs roll over slumping 76ers PHILADELPHIA: Kawhi Leonard scored a game- Friday against Oklahoma City. Rasual Butler scored 23, and Marcin Gortat added high 26 points and had a crucial three-point play in 15 points and 10 rebounds for the Wizards, who the final minute to help the San Antonio Spurs NUGGETS 103, JAZZ 101 never trailed and led by 21 in the first half and 25 in NBA results/standings defeat the winless 76ers 109-103, extending Ty Lawson had 15 points and made a double- the second. Chris Bosh led Miami with 21 points, San Antonio 109, Philadelphia 103; Washington 107, Miami 86; Denver 103, Utah 101; LA Philadelphia’s club-worst losing streak to start the pump jumper to beat the shot clock with 29.6 sec- and Dwayne Wade had 20 in his second game back Clippers 127, Minnesota 101. season to 0-17. onds left that boosted Denver over Utah. from an injured right hamstring. A night earlier, Eastern Conference Western Conference The Spurs (13-4) played without stars Tim The game heated up after Arron Afflalo was Wade returned after missing seven games and Duncan (rest) and Tony Parker (shoulder). Even with- ejected and the Jazz stormed back from a 22-point scored 27 points in a victory at New York. He played Atlantic Division Northwest Division out the duo’s more than 31 points out of the lineup, deficit to tie the game in the final minutes. 32 minutes in that game, and 27 on Monday. W L PCT GB Portland 13 4 .765 - San Antonio had little trouble dispatching Lawson, who also had 12 assists, made the game- Toronto 13 4 .765 - Denver 9 8 .529 4 Philadelphia. Aron Baynes scored 15 points and winner from the left wing between two Jazz defend- CLIPPERS 127, TIMBERWOLVES 101 Brooklyn 6 9 .400 6 Oklahoma City 5 12 .294 8 Manu Ginobili and Cory Joseph each added 14 for ers. Gordon Hayward was blocked and Trey Burke Blake Griffin and J.J. Redick each scored 23 points Boston 4 10 .286 7.5 Utah 5 13 .278 8.5 San Antonio, which won its eighth straight. Leonard missed a potential go-ahead 3-pointer on the other before sitting out the fourth quarter as Los Angeles NY Knicks 4 14 .222 9.5 Minnesota 4 12 .250 8.5 also had 10 rebounds while tying a career-high in end before Darrell Arthur clinched the game with returned from the most successful road trip in club Philadelphia 0 17 0 13 Pacific Division points. two free throws with 4.2 seconds remaining. Alec history with a rout of Minnesota. Central Division Michael Carter-Williams had 24 points and 11 Burks dunk at the buzzer completing the scoring. DeAndre Jordan had 13 rebounds and 11 points Golden State 14 2 .875 - Chicago 11 6 .647 - rebounds and Alexey Shved chipped in 19 points Wilson Chandler scored 10, Afflalo had 14 and for the Clippers, who won their fifth in a row follow- LA Clippers 12 5 .706 2.5 Milwaukee 10 8 .556 1.5 for Philadelphia. The 76ers also were short-handed, Arthur added 12 for the Nuggets, who have won ing their 6-1 trip and beat Minnesota for the 10th Phoenix 10 8 .556 5 Cleveland 8 7 .533 2 as leading scorer Tony Wroten (knee) missed his eight of their last 10 games. Hayward scored 25 straight time. Shabazz Muhammad had 18 points Sacramento 9 8 .529 5.5 second straight game and rookie first-round pick points, Burks had 22 and Burke chipped in 18, but and 10 rebounds for the Timberwolves, who beat Indiana 7 10 .412 4 Nerlens Noel (hip) sat after getting injured in Utah’s losing streak hit six games - the longest skid the Lakers 120-119 at Staples Center just three Detroit 3 14 .176 8 LA Lakers 4 13 .23510.5 Sunday’s practice. Philadelphia became just the since March 10-19 last season. nights earlier with the help of a missed 3-point shot Southeast Division Southwest Division fourth team in league history to open a season by Kobe Bryant at the final horn. Washington 11 5 .688 - Memphis 15 2 .882 - with 17 losses, joining the 1998-99 Clippers (0-17), WIZARDS 107, HEAT 86 Andrew Wiggins, the first overall pick in the draft, Atlanta 9 6 .600 1.5 Houston 13 4 .765 2 1988-89 Heat (0-17) and the 2009-10 Nets (0-18). John Wall had 18 points and 13 assists and scored all 14 of his points in the first half. Ex-Clippers Miami 9 8 .529 2.5 San Antonio 13 4 .765 2 The 76ers can tie the Nets for the worst start in Washington made its first seven 3-pointers to beat point guard Mo Williams, playing for his third differ- Orlando 7 12 .368 5.5 Dallas 13 5 .722 2.5 NBA history on Wednesday at Minnesota with a Miami. The Wizard held the Heat to 2 for 22 from ent club in three seasons since leaving Los Angeles, potential chance to break the record at home on beyond the arc for the game. had seven points and seven assists.— AP Charlotte 4 14 .222 8 New Orleans 7 8 .467 7 Bach sure Blatter will keep his word over Qatar WCup LONDON: There will be no clash between the 2022 either hosting the finals in January and February or Olympics dates. Winter Olympics and the controversy-plagued November and December, with UEFA president “Our dates, they are clear. We are committed to World Cup finals to be hosted by Qatar the same Michel Platini among those voicing a preference the future organiser (Beijing or Almaty) and the year, International Olympic Committee (IOC) presi- for the former. Winter Games in particular you need to adapt to dent Thomas Bach told the BBC on Monday. “A clash would be bad for the international the weather conditions in a country so there is no Bach, who was elected to succeed Belgian audience who would have two major sports pro- real room to manoeuvre,” said Bach. Jacques Rogge in September 2013, said he was grammes broadcast worldwide, so the public’s “There is a situation which is not easy for foot- confident FIFA president Sepp Blatter would stick attention would be divided,” said Bach. ball, and reading recent statements by the secre- to his pledge that the finals, which are due to be “Also for the sponsors, there are some that are tary-general and president of Fifa they realise that switched from the searing heat of June and July, common to Fifa and the IOC. To manage these their situation at this moment is not the easiest would not take place in January and February two kind of programmes at the same time would one, and I think they will address this and hope when the Winter Games are pencilled in for. be very difficult, so in the end there would be no they will address this at their next board meeting.” “I have no reason not to believe (Blatter),” the winners. Bach, who won a team fencing Olympic gold 60-year-old German told the BBC. “He made it very “The athletes and the players would not get medal in 1976 for the then West Germany, said clear that a clash of these two great events is in the attention they deserve, and for all the other FIFA needed to reach conclusions as soon as pos- nobody’s interest.”And therefore his clear commit- sponsors and broadcasters being involved it sible from the inquiry into corruption allegations, ment was, and is, that there will not be such a would be very, very difficult to manage. “It’s in the surrounding the awarding of the 2022 finals to clash.” mutual interest that this is not happening and we Qatar and the 2018 edition to Russia. Bach, whose 2020 programme for taking the have this commitment.” Despite numerous calls to publish the report Olympic Movement forward will be debated by Bach, who wants to make the Games more compiled by American Michael Garcia into the NEW YORK: Actors Catherine Zeta-Jones (far left) and Michael Douglas (third the IOC members in Monaco next week, said if affordable, and encourage more flexibility over allegations, FIFA have refused to do so claiming from left) join Bermuda’s Premier Michael Dunkley (second from left) for a photo there was a clash it would not be good for either bidding and choice of sports, said that it was vir- it would violate Swiss law, where they are with the America’s Cup trophy. Bermuda will host 2017 America’s Cup — AP the Olympics or football. FIFA have been eying tually impossible for them to move the Winter based. — AFP.