TUESDAY 18 FEBRUARY 2020 SPORTSPORT 07 FOOTBALL FOOTBALL Look, whatever league we are in, I will still be AFC Champions Atlético Madrid here. Even if they put us in League Two, I will League: Al Sadd vs vs Liverpool still be here: Guardiola says he will stick to Sepahan; Al Taawon Borussia Dortmund ACTION Manchester City despite ban. TODAY’S vs Al Duhail vs PSG Beaulieu’s 1st Kawhi Leonard wins goal of season lifts Jets over first Kobe Bryant Blackhawks All-Star MVP award AP — MANITOBA AP — CHICAGO Nathan Beaulieu’s first goal of the season early in the third Kawhi Leonard made it look period sent the Winnipeg Jets effortless, nailing one 3-pointer past the Chicago Blackhawks after another and nearly My mindset is always 3-2 on Sunday. matching an All-Star Game just to try to make Playing in his 27th game of record. my team the best an injury-riddled season, the The tough part came defenseman fired a one-timer afterward. Finding the right team at the end of from the point that hit a words to express how he felt the regular season: Chicago player and got by after becoming the first Kobe goalie Corey Crawford to give Bryant MVP award winner Kawhi Leonard the Jets a 3-2 lead. Beaulieu wasn’t so easy. also had an assist. Leonard scored 30 points Emeritus David Stern. But once Mason Appleton had a goal and hit eight 3-pointers to lead the game started, it didn’t take and an assist and Jack Roslovic Team LeBron to a 157-155 long for Leonard to make his Team LeBron reacts afterwinning during the 2020 NBA All-Star Game at United Center on Sunday. also scored for Winnipeg, victory over Team Giannis on presence felt. which was coming off two Sunday night. Leonard hit one just straight losses. Dmitry Kulikov He was presented the MVP seconds into the game. He added a pair of assists. trophy that the league renamed made all four 3s in the first Connor Hellebuyck made after Bryant on Saturday, three quarter - the only shots he took 31 saves for the Jets (30-25-5), Team LeBron tops weeks after the Lakers great while scoring 12 points. who were playing the fifth and his 13-year-old daughter Leonard was 7 of 10 in the game of a six-game homestand Gianna were among the nine first half, only to cool off a bit (3-2-0). people killed when their heli- after that. He missed a step- Patrick Kane had a goal copter crashed near Los back 3 that could have won it and an assist and Ryan Car- in All-Star Game Angeles. with his team up 154-153, but penter also scored for Chicago, “It’s very special,” Leonard was the runaway winner for which was coming off an 8-4 REUTERS — CHICAGO All-Star Game Giannis led 133-124 after three said. the game’s MVP honors with win in Calgary on Saturday quarters, starting the unusual “Like I said, I had a rela- seven votes. night. Crawford stopped 35 Anthony Davis made a walk-off Davis, the Los Angeles Lakers’ untimed final quarter. The tionship with him. Words can’t LeBron James got three and shots for Chicago (26-25-8), free throw and Team LeBron big man and first pick in the target final score of 157 was cal- explain how happy I am for it. Chicago product Anthony Davis which completed a 1-4-0 road defeated Team Giannis in the All-Star draft, missed badly off culated using Team Giannis’ Able to put that trophy in my and Chris Paul received one trip. The Blackhawks led 1-0 69th NBA All-Star Game on the back iron before sinking score total after three quarters room, in my trophy room, and apiece. after the first period. Sunday. the second for a 157-155 and adding 24 points. just be able to see Kobe’s name All that’s missing for Carpenter scored his third Davis, the Los Angeles victory in the unique, hotly A tightly contested third on there, it just means a lot to Leonard now is the league’s goal of the season after Kane Lakers’ big man and first pick contested showcase. quarter tilted to Team LeBron me. He’s a big inspiration in my regular season MVP award. sent a sharp-angled backhand in the All-Star draft, missed with a Nikola Jokic 3-pointer. life. He did a lot for me.” “My mindset is always just pass to the front of the net and badly off the back iron before The Nuggets’ 7-footer There were all sorts of to try to make my team the best Carpenter redirected the puck sinking the second for a 157-155 knocked down his shot with tributes to Bryant, his daughter team at the end of the regular past Hellebuyck at 15:44. victory in the unique, hotly con- basket that would have made 22.2 seconds left and, after a and late NBA Commissioner season,” Leonard said. Jets forward Andrew Copp tested showcase. the score 156-153 after a review turnover, applied a full-court went in alone on Crawford Kawhi Leonard earned the showed Antetokounmpo press resulting in a foul and a about a minute later, but his Kobe Bryant MVP Award after cleanly blocked James’ layup pair of free throws for Russell shot missed the net. recording 30 points to lead initially called goaltending. Westbrook (Houston Rockets). Winnipeg outshot the Team LeBron, while Giannis James Harden (Houston He made 1 of 2. Blackhawks 14-10 in the Antetokounmpo (Milwaukee Rockets) made up for a missed Trae Young (Atlanta Hawks) opening period. Appleton tied Bucks) had 25 in a losing effort. set of free throws by making connected on a cross court lob it when he tipped in Beaulieu’s Neither team used a sub in two and putting Team LeBron with Rudy Gilbert (Utah Jazz), point shot at 6:38 of the the final quarter. up 154-152. tying the quarter 41-all with 2.2 second. Winnipeg appeared to With the winner being the Team LeBron mounted a seconds left. Westbrook missed go ahead at 9:05 on a goal by first team to 157, LeBron James comeback in the fiery final a shot at the buzzer. Kyle Connor, but it was (Los Angeles Lakers) gave Team quarter that included Team Team Giannis led 92-83 at reviewed and waved off LeBron a 156-153 lead. Giannis’ Kyle Lowry taking two halftime, with Young splashing because the puck went in off But on the ensuing Team charges and an official chal- a half-court shot at the buzzer. his arm. LeBron possession, Chris Paul lenge -- overturning a foul call Antetokounmpo lit up the Roslovic gave the Jets a 2-1 (Oklahoma City Thunder) opted to a jump ball and change of second quarter and brought lead at 15:37 when he tipped for a 3 and missed. At the other possession -- with the game hustle at both ends -- not Kulikov’s point shot, but end, Team Giannis closed the tied at 152. Harden made a 3 to exactly an All-Star Game staple Chicago tied it when Kane gap to 156-155 on two Joel tie the game at 146 and Davis -- putting up 14 points and five Team LeBron forward Kawhi Leonard of the LA Clippers is presented scored his 27th of the season Embiid (Philadelphia 76ers) brought it back to all square boards in the period. Team with the Kobe Bryant MVP trophy after the 2020 NBA All-Star with 53 seconds left in the free throws. after Team Giannis got two free Giannis won the second quarter period. James was denied an earlier throws from Embiid.Team 51-30. Game at United Center on Sunday. 'United by Emotion’ chosen as Tokyo 2020 motto REUTERS — TOKYO narrated the motto’s pro- Japan, which has long Games we want the Tokyo motional video. prided itself on being 2020 Games to be.” ‘United by Emotion’ was “We are each different, homogeneous, is becoming The motto will be dis- revealed as the motto for and all so much the same,” more ethnically diverse played on the iconic Tokyo the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Osaka says in the video, and Osaka, currently 10th Skytree, the Japanese cap- and Paralympics yesterday which showed her entering in the world rankings, is ital’s tallest landmark, from as organisers look to the newly-built National often held up as the face of Monday until March 25, the hammer home the Stadium surrounded by a these changing times. day before the torch relay message of diversity and diverse group of “Diverse groups of begins. inclusion. supporters. people, by sharing their Some 10,000 athletes People pose for photographs with the Olympic rings Tennis player Naomi “And in these moments emotions, will become from over 200 countries in front of the Japan Olympic Museum in Tokyo, Japan, Osaka, who was born in we experience and these one,” Tokyo 2020 CEO will gather in Tokyo for the Japan to a Haitian father emotions we share, we Toshiro Muto said during Olympics, which run from yesterday. and Japanese mother but change what we can the announcement. July 24 to August 9. raised in the United States, imagine together.” “That is the kind of Tokyo Marathon limited to elite runners because of virus AP — TOKYO The Tokyo Marathon 2020 world indoor track and field Olympics and the Interna- will be held only for the mar- championships and a tional Olympic Committee Tokyo Marathon organizers athon elites and the wheel- Formula One race in April.