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DENVER (AP) — Nikola Jokic scored 47 points, including a go-ahead 3-pointer late in the second overtime, and the Denver Nuggets rallied to beat the Memphis Grizzlies 139-137 on Monday night. Jokic added 15 rebounds and eight assists, Will Barton scored 28 and Michael Porter Jr. 21 for the shorthanded Nuggets. 47 PTS | 15 REB | 8 AST Do we even have to say it? #MileHighBasketball pic.twitter.com/nkYGg8RNQl — Denver Nuggets (@nuggets) April 20, 2021 Denver played without its top two point guards — Jamal Murray , who has a torn ACL in his left knee and Monte Morris . Morris recently missed 11 games with a left quad injury but returned April 4 and played eight games. He hurt his left hamstring in Friday night’s win at Houston and will likely miss multiple games, coach Michael Malone said before the game against the Grizzlies. Memphis was without Dillon Brooks due to left thigh soreness and Jonas Valanciunas , who suffered a concussion Saturday night. … [Read more...] about Watch Jokic score 47, hit clutch buckets, to lift Nuggets past Grizzlies

KAPOLEI, Hawaii (AP) — Lydia Ko is golfing like she is a kid again. In other words, she’s tough to beat. No one came close at this week’s Lotte Championship. Ko torched Kapolei Golf Club and tournament records in the process. A final-round 65 Saturday left her at 28-under 260 and seven shots ahead of everybody. It brought back vivid memories of the teenager from New Zealand who became the youngest golfer — female or male — to rise to No. 1 the world in 2015. She is the LPGA’s youngest-ever winner, major winner, Rookie and Player of the Year. Ko, who turns 24 next Saturday, won 14 times in her first 81 starts, including twice as an amateur in 2012 and ’13. But she had only won once since — three years ago — until Saturday. “When it doesn’t happen you do doubt,” Ko said. “If I said I didn’t doubt myself at all it would be a lie. I wondered if I’d ever be back in the winners circle, but obviously I’m grateful for all that’s happened in my career so far. “It’s been a fun week in … [Read more...] about Lydia Ko untouchable at Lotte Championship, breaking tourney record

Everyone around the league knew James Harden had a max contract coming after his rookie deal and that with Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook under contract, the Thunder were going to have to pay the tax or move him. We all know how that ended. Now it is Reggie Jackson who is the emerging sixth man (who wants to start), the key third player on the Thunder up for a rookie contract extension — and GM Sam Presti said this time it will be different. In part because Jackson is not a max contract guy, but in part because they are not going to trade him. That is what he told Royce Young of ESPN.com . “We don’t look at [Jackson] as anything other than a core member,” Presti said. “We want to invest in Reggie. There’s not a lack of clarity in that regard. Figuring out how best we do that is my job. And I’m going to do everything I can because I believe that he’s a great example of a lot of things that we try to do here. He was drafted, he’s been developed by our coaches and our support … [Read more...] about Thunder work on Reggie Jackson extension, but they are not going to trade him like Harden

MADRID (AP) Florentino Perez, the founding chairman of the Super League, on Tuesday said the new competition is being created to save soccer for everyone, not to make the rich clubs richer. [ MORE: How to watch PL in the USA ] The president of Real Madrid, one of the 12 clubs behind the breakaway competition that would compete with the Champions League, said there was a campaign by those who would “lose their privileges” because of the Super League to make make the concept look bad. “We have to explain to everyone that this is not a league for the rich clubs,” Florentino Perez said in an interview broadcast after midnight on the Spanish television program El Chiringuito de Jugones. “It’s a league to save all the clubs. Otherwise, soccer will die.” Latest European Super League news European Super League issues statement, plans to “reshape the project” Tuchel: Chelsea ‘could not find best game’ amid week’s... Arsenal, Spurs apologize, Premier … [Read more...] about Florentino Perez: Super League created to ‘save soccer’