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Pacers Outduel Grizzlies WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2013 SPORTS Pacers outduel Grizzlies INDIANAPOLIS: Paul George scored 23 points and Lance Stephenson had the first triple- double of his career, leading the Indiana Pacers to a 95-79 victory Monday over the Memphis Grizzlies. Indiana became the NBA’s seventh team to open 8-0 since 2000 - two more wins than the franchise’s previous best start. And they fol- lowed a familiar script in the battle between last season’s conference runner-ups by domi- nating the glass, dominating the second half and divvying up top honors. Stephenson finished with 13 points, 11 rebounds and a career-high 12 assists. George Hill scored 13 points and Roy Hibbert added five more blocks to his NBA-leading total. Memphis was led by Marc Gasol with 15 points and Zach Randolph with 12. SPURS 109, 76ERS 85 MUMBAI: Indian artist Ranjit Dahiya works on a mural of cricketer Sachin Tendulkar Danny Green scored 18 points and Tony on the wall of a sports club building in Mumbai. Sachin Tendulkar is set for an emo- Parker had 14 as San Antonio rolled to an easy tional farewell when he plays his 200th and final Test at home in Mumbai from Nov victory. The defending Western Conference 14, exactly 24 years after he began his record-breaking career. —AFP champions are off to a 7-1 start following con- secutive wins in New York and Philadelphia. Evan Turner scored 20 points and Spencer India set for emotional Hawes had 17 for the Sixers, who couldn’t give coach Brett Brown a better effort in his first finale for ‘Little Master’ game against his former team. Brown spent 11 years in San Antonio, INDIANAPOLIS: Indiana Pacers forward Paul George (left) and Memphis Grizzlies guard Mike NEW DELHI: Sachin Tendulkar is set for an the back pages. Billboards and murals of including seven as an assistant under Gregg Conley go for a loose ball in the second half of an NBA basketball game. —AP emotional farewell when he plays his 200th Tendulkar have been sprouting across India Popovich and was part of the team’s four CLIPPERS 109, TIMBERWOLVES 107 NUGGETS 100, JAZZ 81 and final Test at home in Mumbai from as the country prepares to bid goodbye to championships. The Spurs didn’t even need Blake Griffin had 25 points and 10 Andre Miller scored nine of his season-high tomorrow, exactly 24 years after he began a man whose off-pitch humility as well as Tim Duncan, who was given a rest in the sec- rebounds and Chris Paul added 21 points as 15 points in the fourth quarter as Denver his record-breaking career. his on-field achievements are a source of ond of back-to-back games. Los Angeles held off Minnesota after Nikola defeated winless Utah. Ty Lawson had 17 Former team-mates, one-time oppo- national pride. Pekovic missed a tip-in at the buzzer. points and Kenneth Faried added 15 points nents and even his mother will join fans at Such has been the clamour for tickets HAWKS 103, BOBCATS 94 Kevin Love missed first and Pekovic came and 13 rebounds for the Nuggets, who the Wankhede stadium to acclaim the that the main online vendor collapsed Al Horford scored 24 points as Atlanta up just short to end the Wolves’ two-game outscored the Jazz 30-13 in a dominant final world’s leading Test and one-day batsman, within minutes of sales opening on handed Charlotte coach Steve Clifford a loss in winning streak. Paul had 11 assists, Jamal period. Utah dropped to 0-8 and remained his first game back since undergoing a heart and the only one to score 100 international Monday. Organisers say they could have Crawford scored 18 points and DeAndre the only winless team in the NBA. centuries. Speaking at a function on sold out many times over. procedure. Jordan had 14 points and 11 rebounds to help Miller hit a 3-pointer and Faried added an Monday to celebrate his career, Tendulkar “Basically Sachin means everything to Clifford missed Charlotte’s game last Friday the Clippers improve to 3-0 at home. emphatic dunk to power a 10-1 run that gave gave some insight into the famous work me because cricket has been my life,” said night against the New York Knicks after having Kevin Martin scored 30 points for the Denver an 82-74 lead with 7:13 to play. John ethic that has enabled him to play on to Yatin Joshi, a self-styled “Sachin Superfan” two stents placed in his heart. Lucas III drove for a layup but Miller respond- the age of 40, long beyond his contempo- who lives in Tendulkar’s hometown. The Hawks trailed by nine at halftime but Wolves, who lost their sixth straight against the Clippers. Pekovic added 25 points, and ed with a pair of nifty baskets in the lane, and raries. “I think every step was different, “And as we say cricket has been my reli- outscored the Bobcats 34-16 in the third quar- the Jazz couldn’t get within nine the rest of every tournament required different type gion and Sachin is my God. So everything ter behind 72 percent shooting to take control Love had 23 points and 19 rebounds. They ended a 22-game series losing streak against the way. Gordon Hayward had 22 points but of preparations,” he said in Mumbai. revolves around Sachin, so any, all happi- of the game. Horford had 13 points in the didn’t score in the final period. Derrick Favors the Lakers on Sunday, and nearly stopped “Without preparations, things wouldn’t ness, sadness, you know, go along with third quarter to help turn the tide for the added 21 points and 13 rebounds for the Jazz, their skid against Staples Center’s other NBA have been the same.” Since making his how he does on the field and off the field,” Hawks. who extended their worst start to a season debut as a 16-year-old in Karachi in 1989, he told AFP. Jeff Teague had 14 points and 12 assists, team. since moving to Utah in 1979. Tendulkar has become almost a deity for Even Britain’s Prince Charles, currently while Cartier Martin chipped in with 16 points. the billion-plus population of India, helping visiting India, has been caught up in the Josh McRoberts led the Bobcats with 19 points ROCKETS 110, RAPTORS 104 TRAIL BLAZERS 109, PISTONS 103 the country win the 2011 World Cup and hype. “He is a master. I wish him a very hap- and seven assists. Michael Kidd-Gilchrist had Jeremy Lin scored 31 points, and Dwight Damian Lillard bounced back from a miser- reach the top of the world rankings. py retirement,” Charles responded when 16 points, but none in the second half. Al Howard had 18 points and 24 rebounds as able shooting night with 25 points, making After racking up a staggering 15,847 asked by reporters about Tendulkar’s final Jefferson had 10 points and seven rebounds in Houston outlasted Toronto to snap a two- five 3-pointers, as Portland held off Detroit. runs in his 199 Tests, even his rivals Test. Tendulkar’s aged mother, Rajni, will be his first game back from an ankle injury. game losing streak. LaMarcus Aldridge added 18 points and 12 acknowledge that Tendulkar is second only watching her son for the first time after Lin shot 10 of 17 from the field and hit 8 of rebounds for the Blazers, who led by as many to Sir Donald Bradman in the pantheon of organisers built a special ramp to accom- CELTICS 120, MAGIC 105 9 from the free throw line. James Harden fin- as 13 points in the second half. Brandon batting greats. modate her wheelchair at the Wankhede. Avery Bradley scored 24 points as Boston ished with 26 points and 10 assists. Howard Jennings had 28 points and four rebounds for In his final interview before he died in The superstitious Rajni has previously beat Orlando for the second time in four days. was just 4 of 12 at the foul line. Chandler Detroit. Acquired by the Pistons in an offsea- 2001, the Australian said that Tendulkar worried that her presence at a match Kelly Olynyk, Jordan Crawford and Jeff Green Parsons had 18 points, five rebounds and five son sign-and-trade with Milwaukee, Jennings was the one modern player who came clos- would bring Sachin bad luck. For all his each had 16 points for Boston, which has won assists for the Rockets, who could not hold a came into the game the game needing one est to his own legendary batting style. record-breaking feats, it has not gone four straight after opening the season with double-digit, second-half lead for the second rebound for 1,000 in his career, and one point “It was just his compactness, his stroke unnoticed that Tendulkar has struggled for straight game. for 5,000. It was Portland’s sixth straight victory production, his technique, it all seemed to form in recent years. four losses under first-year coach Brad Stevens. The Celtics shot 60 percent (51 for Rudy Gay led the Raptors with 29 points at home over the Pistons. Lillard, last season’s gel as far as I was concerned,” Bradman said The last of his 51 Test centuries came and 10 rebounds but shot 11 of 37 from the NBA Rookie of the Year, was 1 of 15 from the in the 1996 interview.
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