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MEMPHIS: Grizzlies (33) shoots over Jordan Hill (27) in the second half of an NBA game. — AP Raptors halt Magic spell

TORONTO: scored 19 points, quarter, including a fadeaway 3-pointer at the buzzer with 11 points and 10 rebounds. Memphis has won 17 buzzer that would have sent the game into overtime, had 17 and the erased an 11-point after the Mavericks had taken their first lead in their straight regular-season home games since a February but the refs reversed the call after a review. deficit in the fourth quarter to beat Orlando 104-100 21st straight regular-season win at home against loss to Dallas. LaMarcus Aldridge added 25 points and 14 on Tuesday night, their ninth consecutive victory over Sacramento. Nowitzki passed for rebounds for the Blazers, who have won four of their the Magic. ninth place on the all-time scoring list. The 7-foot BUCKS 85, THUNDER 78 last five games and improved to 5-1 at the Moda DeMar DeRozan had 16 points and Lou Williams German finished with 23 for 26,953 career points, seven OJ Mayo scored 19 points and Brandon Knight . Al Jefferson scored 22 points, while Lance scored eight of his 14 in the fourth as the Eastern more than the Nigerian-born former star of the added 16 as the Bucks held off a late ral- Stephenson had 14 points and 14 rebounds for the Conference leaders won their fifth straight game over- . Rudy Gay scored 26 to lead the Kings. ly to beat the Thunder. Hornets. all and improved to 7-1. Reggie Jackson had 29 points, nine above his season Ross grabbed the on a potential tying jump GRIZZLIES 107, LAKERS 102 average, for Oklahoma City. Serge Ibaka added 14 as SPURS 113, WARRIORS 100 shot by Tobias Harris with 2 seconds left. Toronto has Mike Conley scored 23 points and the Grizzlies final- the Thunder fell to 0-5 on the road. Tony Parker had 28 points and seven assists, and won its first five home games for the first time since ly got a strong effort from their struggling bench to The Bucks led by five after three quarters and scored 19 as the Spurs beat the Warriors. 2003-04. Evan Fournier scored 24 and Harris had 23 beat the Lakers. Kobe Bryant led the Lakers (1-6) with extended their lead to as much as 11 in the fourth. The defending NBA champions played their aging Big points and 13 rebounds for Orlando, which lost its sec- 28 points, but shot 10 of 26 from the field and sur- Oklahoma City cut the lead to four on two free throws Three - Parker, Manu Ginobili and Tim Duncan - on con- ond straight. passed great John Havlicek for the most by Ibaka with 31 seconds left but got no closer. secutive nights to pull off California’s most difficult back- missed field goals in an NBA career. to-back. The Spurs rallied past the Clippers 89-85 on MAVERICKS 106, KINGS 98 Reserve guard Wayne Ellington was not with the TRAIL BLAZERS 102, HORNETS 100 Monday in Los Angeles before cooling off one of the Dirk Nowitzki became the highest-scoring NBA play- Lakers after his father was killed in Philadelphia on Damian Lillard had 29 points and the Trail Blazers league’s hottest teams in Oakland. Klay Thompson scored er born outside of the United States, helping the Sunday night. Backup guard Beno Udrih had 16 points trailed by as many as 23 points in the first half before 29 points, and Harrison Barnes had 22 points and eight Mavericks rally from 24 points down to beat the Kings. for Memphis. scored 15 as six Grizzlies rallying in the fourth quarter to beat the Hornets. rebounds for the Warriors, who have lost two straight Monta Ellis scored 10 of his 16 points in the third finished in double figures, including Zach Randolph Charlotte’s Gary Neal made a layup at the final after a 5-0 start under new coach Steve Kerr. — AP Gypsy soccer team wins as opponents don’t show up

DECIN: The Roma Decin football club is having its The no-shows all deny that they sat out their added that Roma Decin agreed to boost security at best season ever, winning six of 10 matches and matches because they dislike Roma. Rather, they say, home matches, and that he expected matches to be climbing to fourth in the standings. But the team’s it was a 2011 post-match brawl involving members played as scheduled in spring. mainly Gypsy players have found little to celebrate: of Roma Decin that caused them steer clear of the The 2011 brawl between what was then named They keep winning because their opponents don’t team. “It has nothing to do with racism,” said FC Decin and cross-town rival Loko Decin was real. turn up. Rybniste’s coach, Josef Kucera. “We had a bad experi- Near the end of the game, a Roma player punched The succession of forfeits has stirred up painful ence with them and that’s why we don’t want to play the referee after he was sent off for protesting the red feelings among Gypsies - also known as Roma - who them.” card shown to his brother. That triggered a fist-fight have long suffered racism and discrimination in But Roma Decin coach Pavel Horvath calls that an among the two teams which continued in a locker eastern Europe and continue to face huge hurdles in excuse. “I will not change my opinion, I cannot room. As the home team, FC Decin was fined 28,000 employment and education. Now, they claim, the change my opinion. The clubs themselves know why koruna ($1,260) but failed to pay, and the team was stigma has extended to sports. they don’t want to play us,” he said after Sunday’s dissolved. Loko Decin was not fined. The Gypsy club “I don’t understand why clear racism is becoming match. “My opinion is it is because we’re Roma.” was allowed to return to competition only this year, part of the game,” activist Radek Drahomir Horvath Others appear to agree. In a gesture of support in under its new name and with some original players. wrote in an open letter to President Milos Zeman. “I September, diplomats from the embassies of Sweden, Goalkeeper Patrik Herak, the team’s undisputed was not able to explain that to my daughter and Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, the leader, is one of them. He played a major role in the son. Why do my children and I have to be confront- Netherlands, Norway, the United States and Britain 2011 fight - and also in Sunday’s victory. Herak saved ed with such an unbelievable insult to our dignity?” formed a team to play in Decin, a town of 50,000 peo- four clear goal opportunities and a penalty kick, and Five teams in the Czech Republic’s lowest official ple with a large Gypsy population. even scored a goal in the shootout. football league have failed to show this season for The diplomats’ jerseys bore the message: “We He admits he made a mistake in 2011 but said it’s matches against Roma Decin, preferring to take a show the red card to racism.” The Czech football feder- time to bury the past, noting that the five matches forfeit loss and a fine of $70. The team had lost all ation says it’s worried about the forfeited games but the Gypsy team has been able to play this year ended DECIN: Players of Roma Decin celebrate after winning a penalty shoot out during a match in four matches it actually played - until last week, insists an investigation proved “it is not a racism-relat- with no violence. Decin, Czech Republic, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2014. The Roma Decin football club is having its best when they got their first actual win in a penalty ed problem.” Federation spokesman Jaroslav Kolar “They think we come to the pitch with an aim to season ever, winning six of 10 matches and climbing to fourth in the standings. But the team’s shootout with Dolni Habartice before the league said clubs complained about rowdiness among Roma fight,” he said. “What we want is to show them we can mainly Gypsy players have found little to celebrate: They keep winning because their oppo- broke for the winter. Decin fans and “are afraid it might happen again.” He play football.” — AP nents don’t turn up. — AP