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ARAB TIMES, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2021 16

Juventus’ Cristiano Ronaldo (right), and Inter’s Alessandro Bastoni (left), vie for the ball during the Italian Cup, return- leg, semifi nal soccer match between Juventus and Inter Milan, at the Turin Allianz Stadium, Italy, on Feb. 9. (AP) – See Page 14 Sports Latest sports scores at — http://sports.arabtimesonline.com Curry, Warriors end Spurs’ win streak

Trail Blazers down Magic as Heat dig deep, hold off Knicks

SAN ANTONIO, Feb 10, (AP): Stephen Curry scored 32 points and the Golden State Warriors dominated San Antonio 114-91, snap- ping the Spurs’ three-game winning streak. Golden State ended a fi ve-game losing streak in San Antonio. Eric Paschall had 15 points and Andrew Wiggins added 14 for the Warriors. Rudy Gay scored 17 points, Trey Lyles had 15 and Keldon Johnson and Patty Mills had 13 apiece for San Antonio. It was the Spurs’ final home game before embarking on their annual nearly month-long road trip while the city’s Stock Show & Rodeo is held at the AT&T Center. The Warriors went on a 20-2 run in the third, capped by a 3-pointer by Kelly Oubre Jr. for a 73-55 lead mid- way through the quarter. Golden state extended the lead to 86-65 on Kent Bazemore’s 3-pointer off a Curry assist with 2:31 remaining in the period. Oubre finished with 12 points and Bazemore added 10. Trail Blazers 106, Magic 97 In Portland, Oregon, Damian Lillard scored 36 points and the Portland Trail Blazers extended their winning streak over the Orlando Magic to eight games with a 106-97 victory. BASKETBALL

Carmelo Anthony added a season- high 23 points, including five 3-point- ers. It was Lillard’s 13th game with 30-plus points this season. Nikola Vucevic had 27 points and 15 rebounds for the short-handed Magic, who have lost six of their last seven games. Rookie Cole Anthony started but did not return for the sec- ond half because of a shoulder injury. Serbia’s reaches for a forehand return to ’ Frances Tiafoe during their second round match at the championship in Melbourne, Australia, Heat 98, Knicks 96 on Feb 10. (AP) In Miami, a Heat-Knicks game, down to the wire, just like old times. Thiem, Serena and Halep through Jimmy Butler and Bam Adebayo NBA Results/Standings made sure it wouldn’t get away from Miami. The duo did all of Miami’s scoring WASHINGTON, Feb 10, (AP): Results and standings from the NBA games on Novak holds off Tiafoe; Venus for much of the second half, Butler Tuesday. finishing with a game-high 26 points, Detroit 122 Brooklyn 111 Portland 106 Orlando 97 and the Heat beat New York 98-96 to New Orleans 130 Houston 101 Philadelphia 119 Sacramento 111 hobbles out at Australian Open finish off a sweep of a home-and- Miami 98 New York 96 Utah 122 Boston 108 home series. Golden State 114 San Antonio 91 MELBOURNE, Australia, Feb 10, Djokovic also agreed in his on-court, RJ Barrett had a chance to tie it on Eastern Conference Western Conference (AP): Frances Tiafoe had never played post-match interview that Tiafoe got a the game’s final play, but his layup Atlantic Division Southwest Division a No. 1, had never beaten anyone in tough call. It was hot and sunny - the bounced off the rim and Miami won W L Pct GB W L Pct GB the Top 5, and now he’d just won a temperature peaked at 32 degrees Celsi- Philadelphia 18 7 .720 - San Antonio 14 11 .560 - us (90 degrees Fahrenheit) - and Tiafoe three straight for the first time this Brooklyn 14 12 .538 4-1/2 New Orleans 11 12 .478 2 tiebreaker against Novak Djokovic to season. Kelly Olynyk scored 20 points Boston 12 11 .522 5 Memphis 9 10 .474 2 level their second-round match at the had just lost a long rally. for Miami, Adebayo had 19 and Tyler Toronto 11 13 .458 6-1/2 Houston 11 13 .458 2-1/2 Australian Open. Tiafoe later said he was glad Djoko- New York 11 15 .423 7-1/2 Dallas 11 14 .440 3 He nodded and motioned for more vic acknowledged it, but he still thinks Herro finished with 15 - including the Southeast Division Northwest Division W L Pct GB W L Pct GB noise before plonking down in his there needs to be “conversations” about 3-pointer with 1:04 left that put the allowing more time between points Heat up for good. Charlotte 12 13 .480 - Utah 20 5 .800 - courtside chair and saying what eve- Atlanta 11 12 .478 - Portland 13 10 .565 6 while COVID-19 pandemic restrictions Jazz 122, Celtics 108 ryone watching already knew: “I love Miami 10 14 .417 1-1/2 Denver 12 11 .522 7 this. ... I love it!” mean ballkids can’t hold the towels for In Salt lake city, Donovan Mitchell Orlando 9 16 .360 3 Oklahoma City10 13 .435 9 players. had 36 points and nine assists to lead Washington 6 15 .286 4 Minnesota 6 18 .250 13-1/2 That lasted right up until the piv- Central Division Pacifi c Division otal moment in the fourth set, serving Djokovic will play another American the Utah Jazz to their fifth straight W L Pct GB W L Pct GB Miami Heat forward Jimmy Butler in the third round after No. 27-seeded victory, 122-108 over the Boston at 3-all, 30-all, when he walked to the Milwaukee 16 8 .667 - LA Lakers 19 6 .760 - (22) drives to the basket as New York side of the court to get a towel, dry his who held off Celtics. Indiana 12 12 .500 4 LA Clippers 17 8 .680 2 Knicks center Nerlens Noel (3) and 4-6, 7-6 (6), 6-7 (4), 7-6 (5), 6-2. Joe Ingles scored a season-high 24 Cleveland 10 15 .400 6-1/2 Phoenix 14 9 .609 4 face, and didn’t resume play before the Chicago 9 14 .391 6-1/2 Golden State 13 12 .520 6 forward Obi Toppin (1) defend, dur- countdown clock ran out. He was given Dominic Thiem, who lost the fi nal points and added six assists for the Detroit 6 18 .250 10 Sacramento 12 12 .500 6-1/2 ing the first half of an NBA basketball a time violation by the chair umpire, last year to Djokovic but went one bet- Jazz. Rudy Gobert chipped in 18 points game, on Feb 9, in Miami. (AP) and docked a serve. ter to win the U.S. Open, took a short and 12 rebounds. Bojan Bogdanovic He lost that game, and didn’t win route to the third round with a 6-4, 6-0, added 16 points and eight rebounds. Jaylen Brown scored 33 points and time in four games. Los Angeles against the defending 6-2 win over Donimik Koepfer and 76ers 119, Kings 111 champion Lakers. The last-place another. Utah (20-5) has won 16 of its last Jayson Tatum added 23 for Boston. The 23-year-old American, quar- will next play unpredictable Australian 17 games. The Celtics (12-11) lost for the third In Sacramento, California, Joel Pistons handed Brooklyn its third Nick Kyrgios. straight defeat. terfi nalist here two years ago, threw Embiid had 25 points, 17 rebounds everything he could at Djokovic. But it Another U.S. Open champion, and helped the Philadelphia 76ers turn James Harden added 24 for Naomi Osaka, needed only an hour to Brooklyn, but it wasn’t enough for the wasn’t quite enough to beat the eight- up the defensive intensity in the fourth time Australian Open champion, who sweep Caroline Garcia 6-2, 6-3. quarter to beat the Sacramento Kings Nets to overcome a poor start. The Serena Williams kept her bid for a Pistons shot 66.7% from the field in won the 3 1/2-hour afternoon match 119-111. 6-3, 6-7 (3), 7-6 (2), 6-3. 24th singles title on track, Tobias Harris and Seth Curry each the first quarter and led by 12 at the making only 11 unforced errors as she end of the period. The lead reached 20 Tiafoe shook his head after fi nish- added 22 points as the Sixers used a ing the match with a double-fault, then defeated Nina Stojanovic 6-3, 6-0. 10-0 run to take control of the game in in the second. But a 21st trip to Melbourne Park Pelicans 130, Rockets 101 jogged to the net to embrace Djokovic. the fourth and win for the sixth time in He’ll take plenty from this. He said he ended painfully for her older sister, Ve- seven games. In New Orleans, Pelicans reserve nus Williams. Josh Hart went from being question- knows he can compete at this level. De’Aaron Fox led the Kings with Djokovic served 26 aces, Tiafoe 23. 34 points and 10 assists. Buddy Hield able to play with back spams to scrap- ping for 40 minutes because of Zion Djokovic had the edge in terms of win- TENNIS added 21 points and Marvin Bagley Williamson’s early foul trouble. ners (56-49). III had 17. Hart scored 20 points and grabbed a After assessing the stats, Djokovic Pistons 122, Nets 111 said he couldn’t remember serving The 40-year-old Williams, a seven- career-high 17 rebounds, and the Peli- time major winner making her 88th In Detroit, Jerami Grant equaled a cans beat Houston 130-101 to extend more aces, or seeing more serves pass him, in a match in a long time. Grand Slam main draw appearance, career high with 32 points and the their winning streak to four games. was down 5-1 in the opening set against Detroit Pistons took advantage of Brandon Ingram scored 22 and Wil- Sara Errani when she landed awkward- ’s absence, beating the liamson added 20 points, seven assists, ly on her ankle as she approached the Brooklyn Nets 122-111. fi ve rebounds and a steal despite be- net for a volley. She fought back tears Detroit snapped a four-game losing ing limited to 20 minutes on the court, before receiving treatment on the an- Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry (30) drives past San Antonio streak and showed the same type of which might prove benefi cial with kle, and gamely continued, hobbling Spurs forward Keldon Johnson (3) during the second half of an NBA bas- spirit that was on display in its previ- New Orleans playing on back-to-back between points, before losing 6-1, 6-0. ketball game in San Antonio, on Feb 9. (AP) ous game, a double-overtime loss in nights. Two top 10 players went out of the women’s draw: 2019 U.S. Open cham- pion Bianca Andreescu, coming back from 15 months out with injury, was beaten by Hsieh Su-wei of Taiwan and Pandemic shakes up Olympic gymnastics qualifi cation ninth-seeded Petra Kvitova, a two-time Wimbledon champion and the 2019 LAUSANNE, Switzerland, Feb 10, for the postponed Tokyo Games, help- the men’s and women’s competitions. “Despite the organizers’ best efforts, Australian Open runner-up, lost to (AP): The United States, Russia and ing the top nations to compensate after Of the four planned all-around World the reinforcement of entry bans in Eu- Sorana Cirstea China were each given an extra entry Olympic teams were reduced in size Cup events, only one has taken place, in rope in recent weeks has drastically Second-seeded Simona Halep nar- to the Olympic women’s gymnastics from fi ve athletes to four. Milwaukee last year. Events in Germa- reduced the ability of foreign athletes rowly averted an early exit, rallying competition in Tokyo on Wednesday FIG is going back to 2019 world ny and Britain were canceled, leaving to take part in events in the continent,” from 5-2 down in the third set to beat after the coronavirus pandemic forced a championship results to determine FIG said in a statement. No. 72 Ajla Tomljanovic 4-6, 6-4, 7-5. shake-up in qualifying. those places. That means the United OLYMPICS Despite that setback, FIG said it will Romania’s Simona Halep cel- champion Iga Swiatek, The International Gymnastics Feder- States, Russia and China get one extra proceed with plans to offer Olympic ebrates after defeating Australia’s seventh-seeded Aryna Sabalenka ation said it was canceling its all-around women’s spot each, and that Russia, spots through other World Cup events Ajla Tomljanovic in their second and runner-up World Cup series of events because of China and Japan each receive an extra the series below the minimum number focusing on the individual apparatus round match at the Australian Open Garbiñe Muguruza all advanced, along the pandemic. Those events were sup- men’s spot. All of those countries had of three events required to be a valid events and through continental cham- tennis championship in Melbourne, with Ann Li, a 20-year-old American posed to offer countries one extra spot already qualifi ed a four-person team for Olympic qualifi er. pionships. Australia, on Feb 10. (AP) who beat Alize Cornet 6-2, 7-6 (6).

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