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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8، 2018

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ORLANDO: Elfrid Payton #2 of the Orlando Magic shoots the ball against the Cleveland Cavaliers at Amway Center in Orlando, Florida. — AFP Cavs buried by Orlando ‘avalanche’ Harden bags 15,000th career point

LOS ANGELES: LeBron James and the Cleveland the third. A 41-point quarter is hard to come back Harden finished with 36 points as the Rockets bagged a 33 points against his former team. Draymond Green Cavaliers crashed to yet another humiliating defeat from.” James said Lue’s illness had also affected the fifth straight victory to improve to 39-13, two wins back was ejected for the third time this season after lobbing against the Orlando Magic on Tuesday as James Harden team. “Unfortunately he’s sick and that’s all we heard,” from the Warriors. the ball at an official. scored his 15,000th career point to extend Houston’s James said. “He’s the of our ship so it’s a tough Chris Paul had 25 points, with Clint Capela adding 18 In Toronto, Kyle Lowry scored 23 points as the winning streak to five games. blow.” The Cavs face the Minnesota Timberwolves on and Gerald Green contributing 16 points from the Raptors closed to within two games of the Boston In Orlando, James scored 25 points but it was not Wednesday back in Cleveland, who have already beat- bench. Harden was bombarded with chants “M-V-P!” Celtics at the top of the Eastern Conference with a 111- enough to prevent the Cavs from slumping to a 116-98 en the Cavs this season. during the game but said afterwards he was not think- 91 victory. Raptors ace Lowry made eight rebounds loss in a roller coaster game. Cleveland looked to be in “We’ve got a great ing about personal hon- with four assists while C.J. Miles came off the bench to the mood for an emphatic win after piling on a massive opportunity tomorrow ours.”Just want to win, score 20 points in 15 minutes on court. DeMar 43 points in the first quarter and powering to 67-51 at against a team that beat and put ourselves in the DeRozan had 15 points, with six assists and three half-time. But Orlando dominated the second half, us up pretty good best position that we can rebounds. Kyrie Irving had 17 points for the Celtics on outscoring the Cavs 65-31 in the final two quarters to before,” James said. “We Porzingis’ season for post-season and then his return from injury. Irving later shouldered blame for complete a crushing win before their home fans. A grim look forward to the chal- we’ll take it from there,” the loss. night for Cleveland also saw coach Tyronn Lue leave lenge. We’ve got to over as Knicks Harden said. “As one of the veterans on this team, I’ve got to be courtside midway through the second quarter with an come out and sustain the Golden State mean- better than that,” he said. “This one is on me. Kind of undisclosed illness. Lue did not reappear and reported- challenge.” suffer Bucks rout while were thumped just taking responsibility and trying to be better going ly watched the remainder of the game from the locker 125-105 by Oklahoma forward.” The Raptors’ win puts Toronto at 37-16, sec- room. Orlando were sparked by 34 points from HARDEN MVP? City Thunder. Paul ond overall in the East. Boston remain in top spot on Jonathon Simmons, on a night when all of Orlando’s In New York mean- George and Russell 39-16. In New York, Knicks star Kristaps Porzingis suf- starters cracked double digits. while, Rockets star Westbrook combined to fered a season-ending knee injury as his team were Cavs star James pinpointed a disastrous third quar- Harden brought up dismantle the Warriors downed 103-89 by the Milwaukee Bucks. Porzingis ter-when Orlando poured on 41 points-for the 15,000 career points on as Houston swept to a 123-113 defence. George finished with 38 points while landed awkwardly after a dunk and twisted his left loss.”They hit some big-time shots in the third quarter,” win over the Brooklyn Nets to maintain pressure on Westbrook added 34. knee. An MRI scan later confirmed a torn anterior cru- James said. “The snowball turned into an avalanche in Golden State at the top of the Western Conference. Kevin Durant led the scoring for the Warriors with ciate ligament. — AFP

take a 3-0 lead in the series. always looking for someone to bat until the end and it’s the first Indian -keeper to reach that mark. Kohli magic leads South Africa’s brittle lineup, without injured amazing if you do it as the captain,” Kohli said at the “Everything is disappointing about this. Yet again we stalwarts , AB de Villiers and Quinton de post-match presentation. were not up to the mark. We’ve only got ourselves to Kock, were stifled once more by the Indian spinners as “I was cramping towards the end but I knew I had to blame, we have to try harder,” Markram said. India to big win Kuldeep Yadav, who took career-best figures (4-23 in 9 stay until the end to get us to 300. These are the times “We’ve come across them (the spinners) before and overs), and Yuzvendra Chahal (4-46 in 9 overs) stran- you’re tested mentally as well as physically.” When if after all that time we’re still struggling to pick them, it over South Africa gled their innings. South Africa captain Aiden Markram (32) and innings speaks of their quality.” The fourth match will be played at the Wanderers in top-scorer JP Duminy (51) put on a rapid 78 for the CAPE TOWN: India captain Virat Kohli continued his Johannesburg on Saturday. The imperious Kohli now second wicket, the hosts were given hope. Scores in brief: excellent recent form by smashing a sparkling unbeaten has four centuries in his last six 50-over innings. He Yet the introduction of the excellent Chahal and India 303-6 in 50 overs (S. Dhawan 76, V. Kohli 160 not century to lead his side to a comprehensive 124-run survived being given out leg before wicket to Kagiso Yadav, who took eight for 69 runs between out). victory over South Africa in the third One-Day Rabada before he had scored when a review showed he them, pegged the innings back. South Africa 179 in 40 overs (J. Duminy 51; Y. Chahal 4- International at Newlands yesterday. had got the faintest of edges to the ball. Yadav had Markram by MS Dhoni and 46, Kuldeep Yadav 4-23). Kohli made 160 from 159 balls as India, who After that he was sublime as he put on 139 for the Chahal ripped through the middle-order, including the Result: India won by 124 runs. had been put into bat, posted 303 for six in their 50 second wicket with Shikhar Dhawan (76 from 63 balls) wicket of debutant Heinrich Klaasen (six). Dhoni’s Series: India lead the six-match series 3-0. overs, before restricting their hosts to 179 all out to to lay the platform for India’s sizeable score. “You’re stumping of Markram took him to 400 ODI dismissals, Toss: South Africa. — Agencies