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P18 3.E$S 4 Layout 1 THURSDAY, MAY 4, 2017 SPORTS King: Raptors coach says team can’t watch LeBron CLEVELAND: LeBron James dazzled with their 10th straight series opener and are soaring dunks, outside shots and even a beer again facing an uphill postseason climb. But chaser in Game 1. And he did it all - 35 Toronto has shown it can take a big shot and points, 10 rebounds, four assists and an deliver one. A year ago, the Raptors were amusing sideline exchange with the “beer blown out in the first two games of the lady”- at the expense of the Raptors, who Eastern Conference finals by Cleveland may have been guilty of admiring the latest before winning two straight at home. And royal performance by Cleveland’s hoops while they were eventually eliminated in six king. Toronto coach Dwane Casey has seen games, the Raptors don’t feel nearly as grog- this happen before - with Michael Jordan. gy as they did in 2016. A day after the Raptors fell into a familiar “The way we lost last year, it hit a lot hard- postseason hole with a 116-105 loss in the er,” said All-Star forward DeMar DeRozan, opener of the Eastern Conference semifinals, who scored 19 points while fighting off con- Casey was asked Tuesday if his players might tinuous traps in the opener. “This time be awed by James, the Jordan of this genera- around, we have kind of that confidence and tion on a mission to make his seventh understanding of how to get back on our straight NBA Finals. As an assistant coach feet. We’ve been here before and we know with Seattle, Casey recalled urging his play- what it takes, especially after Game 1, being ers not to bow to His Airness. down with our foot in a hole, so we’ve got to “We used to have to tell Gary Payton and go out there and leave it out there.” It starts those guys, ‘Hey, he puts his pants on one leg with figuring out a way to slow down James. (at a time),’” Casey said before the Raptors Best of luck. practiced inside an empty and quiet Quicken James nearly averaged a triple-double in Loans Arena in anticipation of Game 2 on the opening round against Indiana, and then Wednesday. “I think that’s natural. It’s human reminded the Raptors that it’s his crown and nature to watch a Michael Jordan or a Karl he’s not giving it up easily. The 32-year-old, Malone, spectate until they hit you in the with no visible signs of decline in his game, mouth. “When a guy hits you in the mouth a set the tone early on Monday by grabbing a few times - now what are you going to do? pass off the backboard from Kyrie Irving - “I That’s the mentality we have to have, they told him to throw it to the sky” - and dunking punched us.” it left-handed. Later, he playfully grabbed a beer bottle from a courtside server and con- ‘HIT A LOT HARDER’ sidered taking a swig before handing it back. The Cavs landed a vicious uppercut in It was all so sensational, so amusing. To BOSTON: Isaiah Thomas #4 of the Boston Celtics signals to the crowd during overtime of the Celtics 129-119 win over the Washington Wizards in Game 1, knocking back the Raptors, who lost everyone, that is, but the Raptors. — AP Game Two of the Eastern Conference Semifinals at TD Garden. — AP Curry, Warriors roll Thomas scores marvelous 53 past Jazz in Game 1 as Celtics beat Wizards in OT OAKLAND: Stephen Curry pulled off a raz- Thursday night back at Oracle Arena, where it BOSTON: It was his sister’s birthday. She would great players played well,” Wizards coach Scott could have won it in regulation. zle-dazzle spin move right around big Rudy was a night of nostalgia as Golden State hon- have been 23. Isaiah Thomas spent four or five Brooks said. “ Asked if he had ever been in a one- The game was only about a minute old when Gobert at the perimeter, went in for a layup ored its 2007 “We Believe” team that ended a hours in the dentist’s chair having work done on on-one scoring battle like that against another Morris threw Horford into the crowd under the and raised his hands, begging the sellout 13-year playoff drought and stunned Dallas in the tooth that was knocked out in Game 1, a day point guard, Wall shook his head: “Nah,” he said. Celtics basket. Late in the first, Wall had to shake crowd to do its thing. The Golden State the first round. Green insisted it might take after he was in oral surgery for six hours having “Nope. Nope. Nope.” it off after landing on a prone Kelly Olynyk. Warriors sure did theirs, using that up-tem- the Warriors a quarter or so to find their it repositioned in his mouth. His mouth was Thomas attended his sister’s funeral on Bradley sustained a hip pointer in a collision po, pass-happy style to run right by the rhythm as they finally got to play again. They swollen, and he could barely talk. Still, he never Saturday and returned to Boston early Sunday with 1:11 to play in the first half. And seconds Utah Jazz in Game 1 of the Western weren’t sharp from 3-point range while going considered not playing Tuesday night. morning - just hours before the Celtics won 123- later, Porter landed hard on his right wrist and Conference semifinals. 7 for 29, with Klay Thompson making three of “The least I can do is go out there and play for 111 and the diminutive point guard lost a tooth. elbow, but remained in the game. Curry scored 22 points in three quarters those on the way to 15 points. The methodi- her,” Thomas said after scoring 53 points - the Team doctors jammed it back in, but Thomas Thomas banged his face on the court in the of work and the top-seeded Warriors cal, slow-you-down Jazz team making its first second-highest total in Celtics playoff history - spent large parts of the next two days in oral sur- third and spent the next few minutes adjusting warmed up in a hurry after a weeklong layoff playoff appearance in five years couldn’t keep to lead Boston to a 129-119 overtime victory gery. “What else is there to say?” Celtics coach his teeth. Midway through the third, Porter and between playoff games, beating the Jazz pace in transition. over the Washington Wizards. “I knew once Brad Stevens asked. “There was a point today Thomas appeared to bang heads, and Porter 106-94 on Tuesday night. “I’ll keep enjoying “If you have those moments where you’re game-time came, my guys would get me going, where he was not feeling good at all. He’s had a headed to the locker room gushing blood from it. I feel like I have one of the better seats in not urgent enough, they just punish you for get me the energy to go out and win a game,” tough day and I thought he was going to really the nose. Thomas and Morris got into it, drawing the house and I’m not even paying for it,” fill- it,” Jazz coach Quin Snyder said. The Warriors Thomas said, ducking his face into his hands as have to gut this one out. Not only guts it out, he double technicals; Thomas appeared to be hav- in Warriors head coach Mike Brown said outscored the Jazz 29-6 on the break and he mentioned his sister, Chyna, who died in a car ends up with 50. Pretty impressive.” Al Horford ing words with someone on the Wizards bench, when asked about Curry’s slick moves. committed only seven turnovers, matching a crash on the eve of the playoffs. “There was no scored 15 points with 12 rebounds for Boston, and Morris tried to push him away. Draymond Green scored Golden State’s franchise playoff-low. “They’re a fast-breaking way I was sitting out.” and Avery Bradley and Jae Crowder scored 14 first six points of the fourth quarter and team and we’re basically not,” Utah’s Joe Fiddling with his new mouth guard through- apiece. Marcin Gortat had 14 points and 10 TIP-INS wound up with 17 points, eight rebounds, Johnson said. out the game, Thomas scored 20 points in the rebounds and Markieff Morris scored 16 for the Wizards: Wall’s 19 first-quarter points six assists and two more blocks to bring his Brown guided the Warriors as they are fourth quarter and nine in overtime to help the Wizards, but both fouled out in overtime. matched a career playoff high, as did his six first- remarkable five-game playoff swat total to missing reigning NBA Coach of the Year Celtics take a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven quarter assists. ... Gortat fouled out going for a 19. Kevin Durant added 17 points on an Steve Kerr, who wasn’t at the arena as he Eastern Conference semifinals. The 53 points WALKING WOUNDED rebound on Boston’s first possession of over- uncharacteristically cold shooting night at 7 deals with complications from two back were the most in an NBA playoff game since One game after the Wizards scored the first time. ... Wall’s 40 points in a playoff loss was the for 17 and had five rebounds and five assists.
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