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December 22, 2016 SPORT Cousins scores 55 points in his return from ejection PAGE | 25 Thursday 22 December 2016 Is Cook's goose cooked before Christmas? PAGE | 26 QSL: Record 10-0 win puts Lekhwiya on top The Peninsula Four minutes later, Lekhwiya Al Dossari was caught with the ball had a third from Yusef Msakni which was promptly passed to our time Qatar Stars who registered his fourth goal of Yusef El Arabi who grabbed his League (QSL) champions the season. Moez Ali added fur- 16th and possibly easiest goal of Lekhwiya trounced Al ther to Al Shahaniya’s misery, the season. Shahaniya yesterday picking up the fourth goal for his It was one way traffic and on evening, notching a QSL side on the 38th minute. Al Sha- the 70th minute Lekhiwya scored Frecord of a 10-0 scoreline. haniya tried to steady the ship in a sixth, with Yusef Msakni grab- Four goals in the first half, fol- the second half, but the goals still bing his second of the night. lowed by six in the second, saw came for Lekhwiya. On the 64th Moez Ali grabbed his brace the Red Knights make light work minute, Shahania keeper Khalifa moments later as Lekhwiya of Jose Fernando’s Oryxes. notched their seventh of the game, Lekhwiya ran rampant in the tapping in from close range from game which saw Yusef El Arabi Qatar Stars League a Yusef El Arabi cross. grab a hat-trick along with braces Yesterday's Results Two goals of quality in two for Moez Ali and Yusef Msakni. Lekhwiya 10 - 0 Al Shahaniya minutes, further cemented Barely two minutes had passed Al Wakrah 5 - 1 Al Sailiyah Lekhwiya’s dominance. On the and Djamel Belmadi’s team had Al Khor 2 -1 Al Rayyan 78th minute, Nam Tae Hee registered their first goal of the smashed in from close range fol- Today's Fixtures game. South Korean star Nam Tae lowing a neat back heel from Hee curled in a fine freekick which Al Arabi vs Umm Salal (16:05) Msakni. Substitute Ali Afif produced landed on the head of defender (Grand Hamad Stadium) a bicycle kick to notch his sides Chico Flores and promptly looped Muaither SC vs Al Ahli (16:05) ninth of the game moments later. into the back of the net for the (Thani Bin Jassim Stadium) Lekhwiya notched a 10th, and Spaniards first goal of the season. Al Gharafa vs Al Kharaitiyat (18:15) a QSL record in the process when Twenty minutes later, they dou- (Thani Bin Jassim Stadium) Yusef El Arabi hit a shot from out- bled their advantage thanks to side the box which flashed past Yusef El Arabi, who notched his fif- El Jaish vs Al Sadd (18:15) Khalifa Al Dossari with 83 min- teenth goal of the season. (Abdullah Bin Khalifah Stadium) utes on the clock. SPORT 22 DECEMBER 2016 THURSDAY 25 Significant 'Hoops' celebrates moments in basketball 125th birthday history New York Massachusetts toward a team mate or the bas- Reuters Reuters ket. Dribbling and other developments came over time. DREAM TEAM game drawn up to occupy The new game quickly In 1992, global interest in basketball some bored boys as win- I blew the whistle, caught on after Naismith's 13 soared as a star-laden US team of NBA A ter approached at a and the first game initial rules were spread by the players arrived at the Summer Olympics Massachusetts gymnasium cel- of basketball began: YMCA's newsletter. By 1894 in Barcelona and cruised to a gold ebrated its 125th anniversary basketball was being played in James Naismith medal with what is considered the most yesterday and basketball's sta- France, China, India and more dominant squad ever assembled in any tus as the world's second most than a dozen other countries. sport with the likes of Michael Jordan popular sport. It became a favorite in and Magic Johnson. Basketball began on schools, college campuses and December 21, 1891 at the Young playgrounds, and at the Olym- MICHAEL JORDAN Men's Christian Association Mohegan Sun Arena in pics and in professional leagues With basketball at a crossroads in the (YMCA) gym in Springfield with Connecticut. across the globe. United States and tepid interest aboard, rules made up by Canadian Naismith recalled the "NBA games and program- Jordan helped turn that around with his physical education instructor sport's primitive beginnings in ming can be seen in 215 signature (Air Jordan) line of shoes, ap- James Naismith. a New York radio interview in countries and territories in 49 parel, unique logo and resounding suc- Last year more than one 1939. languages, and last year more cess on the court that made him a huge billion people watched National "I called the boys to the than 1 billion people watched commercial hit and one of the most Basketball Association pro- gym, divided them up into NBA programming," NBA Dep- recognized Americans in the world. gramming, said NBA Deputy teams of nine and gave them a uty Commissioner Mark Tatum SHOT CLOCK Commissioner Mark Tatum, little soccer ball," he said. said. Pace of play sometimes slowed to a who helps preside over the "I showed them two peach In 1898, an alumnus of the crawl in the early years when a team world's preeminent 'hoops' baskets I'd nailed up at each end University of Kansas, where holding a lead could pass the ball end- league. of the gym (about 10 feet above Naismith became its first bas- lessly to kill time off the game clock. In Yesterday, Springfield's the floor), and I told them the ketball coach, paid $4.3m at Naismith Memorial Basketball idea was to throw the ball into auction for the two pages of 1954, the Syracuse Nationals tried a Hall of Fame marked the anni- the opposing team's peach bas- typewritten rules that launched 24-second timer at a scrimmage, figur- versary with celebrations ket. I blew the whistle, and the the sport. Kansas built a $21.7m ing 60 shots a team made for an enjoy- including a Birthday of Basket- first game of basketball began." facility that connects to the The life-sized statue of able game and dividing 120 into 48 ball college doubleheader Running with the ball was Allen Fieldhouse to house the Dr. James Naismith minutes of play. The NBA adopted the featuring Auburn, Boston Col- not allowed, only passing or original two-page document which was unveiled in his 24-second clock from the 1954-55 sea- lege, Fairfield and Oklahoma at directing it with the hand and a student centre. hometown of Almonte, Ontario, son. Canada in July, 2011. GLORY ROAD At the height of the civil-rights era in 1966 the Texas Western Miners became the first team with an all-black starting lineup to win a national title in US men's college basketball. The Miners, who de- NBA to open academy in Africa feated an all-white Kentucky team, in- spired the book and film 'Glory Road,' New York Africa over the last year-and-a-half, hold- which explores racism, discrimination, AP ing an exhibition game in South Africa in and student athletics. August 2015, the first on the continent, and WIZARD OF WESTWOOD he NBA will open an academy in signing a new trans-African broadcast deal Peerless U.S. college basketball coach Africa next year, its latest move to in April. John Wooden became known as the Tunearth talent from outside the The new academy in Senegal will focus "Wizard of Westwood" while leading United States and extend the league's reach on elite talent development, said Amadou the University of California, Los Angeles into new territories. Gallo Fall, NBA vice president and man- to a record 10 national championships. The African academy will be based in aging director for Africa. For the last 15 YAO MING Thies, Senegal, and follows similar NBA years the NBA has laid the foundation, The towering center triggered NBA-ma- projects opened this year in China, which using its international Basketball without nia in China when he was selected first has three academies, and Australia. Borders camps to develop the game at a overall by the Houston Rockets in the Another academy in India is set to start grass-roots level in Africa and 2002 draft and is widely considered re- operating in April. The NBA aims to open elsewhere. sponsible for basketball's growth and the Senegal academy, its sixth, in May. Those Basketball without Borders popularity in his homeland. A record 26 international players were camps have already provided nine NBA selected in the 2016 NBA draft. Along with players from Africa, including Luc Mbah He became a national icon and a game the new players, the NBA's push into Asia a Moute of the Los Angeles Clippers, who featuring Yao against fellow Chinese and Africa, specifically, provides signifi- is from Cameroon. player Yi Jianlian in 2007 in China drew cant new audiences and marketing The NBA will begin scouting for the 200 million television viewers in one of opportunities for the league. African academy's first class of 12 young the most watched games in NBA history. The NBA has made two big plays in players this week, Fall said. Cleveland Cavaliers LeBron James (top) reaches for a rebound against Milwaukee Bucks' players during their NBA game at BMO Harris Bradley Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US, yesterday. Rose shines as Knicks overcome Pacers Cousins scores 55 points New York in his return from ejection Agencies hen the New York Knicks acquired point guard Der- Los Angeles James hit a 33-footer with 24 seconds rick Rose in the offseason they envisioned a AFP left in overtime en route to a 34-point W playmaker who could accelerate to the rim and night as the Cleveland Cavaliers beat become a secondary scorer to Carmelo Anthony.
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