WORLD SPORT
Curry shines in
Warriors victory
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Gulf Daily News Sunday, 4th January 2015
OAKLAND, California: Stephen Curry
had 32 points and 12
assists and Draymond
Green got his first career
triple-double as the Golden
State Warriors rolled past
the Toronto Raptors 126105 on Friday in a matchup
of the NBA’s two conference leaders.
Green finished with 16 points,
13 assists and 11 rebounds, and
three others scored in double
digits to help the NBA-best
Warriors (26-5) wear down the
Raptors (24-9) in the second
half. Golden State started the
third quarter on a 23-5 run.
Toronto’s loss allowed Atlanta to move into first in the Eastern Conference.
Greivis Vasquez scored 25
points, and Kyle Lowry had 22
points and eight assists for the
Raptors, who lost consecutive
road games for the first time
this season. Toronto fell to 2-3
on its six-game trip, which ends
at Phoenix on Sunday.
Rajon Rondo had a season-high 29 points to lead Dallas past the Celtics 119-101 in
his return to Boston, Oklahoma
City reached .500 for the first
time this season with a 109-102
win over Washington, and surging Atlanta beat Utah 98-92 for
its 19th win in the last 22 games.
In Boston, Rondo had a career-high five 3-pointers and
also finished with six rebounds
and five assists in his first game
at TD Garden in an opponent’s
uniform. The rebuilding Celtics
traded the four-time All-Star to
n Warriors’ Curry
goes in for a
shot as Raptors’
Terrence Ross
defends
Canadiens
beat Devils
to post fifth
straight win
NEWARK, New Jersey: Michael Bourni-
val scored his first two
goals of the season and Carey
Price made 22 saves as the
Montreal Canadiens extended their winning streak to five
games with a 4-2 victory over
the New Jersey Devils in the
NHL on Friday.
Price got his 200th victory
in his 400th game as Montreal won for the eighth time in
the past nine games to grab a
share of the lead in the Atlantic
Division with Tampa Bay on
52 points. Max Pacioretty and
Tomas Plekanec also scored for
the Canadiens, while P.K. Subban had three assists.
The Devils are headed in
the opposite direction, with
only two wins in their past 12
games. Michael Ryder got a
goal in his return after missing
three games with the mumps.
In other games, Pittsburgh
won its ninth straight home
game against Tampa Bay 6-3,
Roberto Luongo got his 68th career shutout to lead Florida past
Buffalo 2-0, and NHL-leading
Anaheim hung on for a 4-3 win
over slumping St. Louis.
Twice
Dallas last month.
“Obviously, it was a special
day,” Rondo said. “I’m emotionally tired. I’m physically
tired, and I’m drained.”
Monta Ellis scored 22 points,
Dirk Nowitzki had 17 and Tyson
Chandler collected 16 rebounds
to help the Mavericks to their
fourth consecutive victory.
Kevin Durant scored 34
points to help Oklahoma City
get the win and improve to 1717 on the season. The Thunder
started the season 3-12 with
Durant sidelined by an injury.
Durant was 12 for 18 from
the field in just 32 minutes, including a 4-for-7 performance
from 3-point range. Russell
Westbrook had 22 points and six
assists for the Thunder. Bradley
Beal had 21 points, 10 rebounds
and six assists for Washington,
which has lost two in a row.
Atlanta (24-8) got its third
straight win overall and sixth
consecutive win over a Western
Conference opponent.
Jeff Teague scored 25 points,
Paul Millsap had 15 points and
11 rebounds, and Al Horford
scored 13 points for the Hawks.
Elsewhere, Kevin Love
scored 27 points and Kyrie Irving had 23 as Cleveland ended
a three-game losing streak with
a 91-87 win over Charlotte.
Tristan Thompson added 14
points and 14 rebounds as the
Cavaliers won their first game
since announcing LeBron
James would miss two weeks
with knee and back strains.
Russia pip US to reach hockey world junior semis
MONTREAL: Russia defeated
the United States 3-2 on Friday to reach the semi-finals
of the hockey world junior championships, while Sweden knocked out
defending champion Finland.
Ivan Barbashev and Sergei Tolchinski had power-play goals and
Alexander Sherov also scored for
Russia. Igor Shestyorkin provided
strong goaltending, with the Americans outshooting Russia 41-25.
“Before the game everyone said we
BASKETBALL
NBA matches on Friday:
Golden State 126 Toronto
LA Lakers
106 Memphis
Milwaukee
91
Indiana
Boston
101 Dallas
New York
81 Detroit
Phoenix
112 Philadelphia
Utah
92 Atlanta
New Orleans 111 Houston
Oklahoma City 109 Washington
Charlotte
87 Cleveland
Orlando
98
Brooklyn
Standings
Eastern Conference
Atlantic Division
W
L
Pct
Toronto
24
9
.727
27
105
109
94
119
97
96
98
83
102
91
100
Gb
-
are underdogs,” Russian coach Valeri
Bragin said.
“I agree with that because the
American team has a lot of skilled
players and is well organised, but
we capitalised on our chances in the
beginning of the game, and we had
solid goaltending. Our team showed
real team spirit.”
Defensemen Anthony DeAngelo
and Zach Werenski scored for the
Americans, who finished out of
the medals for the second straight
Brooklyn
Boston
New York
Philadelphia
16
16
.500
11
19
.367
5
30
.143
4
27
.129
Central Division
W
L
Pct
Chicago
23
10
.697
Cleveland
19
14
.576
Milwaukee
17
17
.500
Indiana
13
21
.382
Detroit
9
23
.281
Southeast Division
W
L
Pct
Atlanta
24
8
.750
Washington
22
10
.688
Miami
14
19
.424
Orlando
13
23
.361
Charlotte
10
24
.294
Western Conference
71/2
111/2
20
19
Gb
4
61/2
101/2
131/2
Gb
2
101/2
13
15
year after winning two years ago in
Russia.
Russia advanced to a semifinal in
Toronto against Sweden, a 6-3 winner
over Finland in Toronto on Friday.
In the other quarterfinals, Slovakia beat the Czech Republic 3-0 in
Montreal to set up a semifinal game
against the winner of the late game
between Canada and Denmark in
Toronto.
Sweden had three power-play goals
against Finland to push its tourna-
Northwest Division
W
L
Pct
Portland
26
7
.788
Oklahoma City 17
17 .5009
Denver
13
20
.394
Utah
11
22
.333
Minnesota
5
26
.161
Pacific Division
W
L
Pct
Golden State
26
5
.839
LA Clippers
22
11
.667
Phoenix
19
16
.543
Sacramento
14
19
.424
LA Lakers
10
23
.303
Southwest Division
W
L
Pct
Memphis
24
8
.750
Dallas
24
10
.706
Houston
22
10
.688
Gb
1/2
13
15
20
ment total to 12. Lucas Wallmark
scored twice for the Swedes.
“Our power play is working really
well,” said William Nylander, who
had two assists to tie teammate Oskar
Lindblom for the tournament scoring
lead with nine points. “We have a lot
of confidence now. We beat Russia
last time, so we just have to refresh
the bodies and get ready.”
In Game 1 of the best-of-three
regulation series, Switzerland beat
Germany 5-2.
San Antonio
New Orleans
20
17
14
16
.588
.515
5
71/2
ICE HOCKEY
Gb
5
9
13
17
NHL matches on Friday:
Anaheim
4 St Louis
Colorado
2 Edmonton
(Shootout)
Calgary
1 NY Islanders
Minnesota
3 Toronto
Buffalo
0 Florida
New Jersey
2 Montréal
Pittsburgh
6 Tampa Bay
Carolina
2 Philadelphia
Gb
1
2
French Top 14:
Racing Metro
12
Brive
25
3
1
2
1
2
4
3
1
RUGBY
Bordeaux-Begles
Bayonne
9
9
Pittsburgh’s Steve Downie
scored twice after missing five
games with the mumps as the
Penguins used a three-goal,
first-period lead to defeat the
Lightning.
Chris Kunitz scored a power-play goal, his 12th of the
year, and Sidney Crosby added
four assists for the Penguins,
who bolstered their depth at
forward earlier in the day by
acquiring left wing David Perron from the Edmonton Oilers.
Luongo had 30 saves to
move into sole possession of
13th on the NHL’s career shutout list. He now has shutouts in
his last three starts at Buffalo.
Brad Boyes and Nick Bjugstad
scored for Florida, which won for
the first time in three games.
At Anaheim, California, Matt
Beleskey scored the tiebreaking
goal midway through the third
period and Sami Vatanen had
two assists for the Ducks.
After St. Louis rallied three
times to erase a one-goal Ducks
lead in the first two periods,
Beleskey beat Martin Brodeur
with a vicious wrist shot for his
16th goal with 9:05 to play. The
Ducks got their ninth consecutive home victory over St. Louis since October 2009.
Ryan Getzlaf, Kyle Palmieri
and Andrew Cogliano also scored
for the Ducks, who are 2-1 on
their eight-game homestand.
Castres
Grenoble
Montpellier
30
33
16
La Rochelle
Oyonnax
Toulon
15
19
12
TENNIS
Mubadala World Tennis Championship in
Abu Dhabi:
Final
Andy Murray (GBR) bt Novak Djokovic
(SRB) by walkover
Third-place playoff
Rafael Nadal (ESP) bt Stan Wawrinka (SUI)
7-6 (7/1), 6-3
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