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Jamal Murray shines, Nikola Jokic bounces back, Nuggets limp across finish line to snap losing streak in Atlanta

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:01:55 GMT

ATLANTA — Even MVPs need a little affirmation from their coaches sometimes, maybe. Or maybe the Nuggets’ last two games were just a brief glitch in the cheat code that is Nikola Jokic.After Jokic’s second consecutive poor shooting night Friday in Denver, Michael Malone checked on his star center “to make sure that he is not losing any confidence — which knowing him, I know he won’t,” Malone said. “But I want to make sure he’s not.”That conversation might as well represent the overall state of the defending NBA champs after their third consecutive loss. Jokic, Aaron Gordon and Jamal Murray have all faced setbacks or slumps early this season, but the full trio briefly resembled its 2023 playoff form Monday night during a 129-122 Nuggets win over the Hawks at State Farm Arena.Jokic bounced back from his 18-for-58 shooting stretch with 25 points, eight rebounds, eight assists, three steals and two blocks. Gordon, whose scoring has been down with 12.5 ...

Mother speaks on being targeted in anti-Mexican rant at Disneyland

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:01:55 GMT

A mother who was the target of a woman's anti-Mexican rant at a Disneyland bathroom recalls the startling confrontation as her toddler was with her.The bathroom exchange happened on Dec. 5 when Eva Ramirez filmed the woman’s racist remarks after she reportedly heard the mother and son speaking Spanish in the bathroom.  Ramirez was celebrating her 2-year-old son’s birthday at the park when the altercation allegedly started with a disagreement over a bathroom stall.She and her son were in a Disney parking garage bathroom outside of the park's front entrance when she suddenly became the target of the woman’s racist remarks.“As we were walking into the restrooms, the stalls were empty and so I went ahead and used the big stall with my child and also with my stroller,” Ramirez said.She heard two people outside the stall making rude comments but she was preoccupied with her son and didn't realize they were actually directed towards her. An unidentified woman at Disneyland c...

Oakland: Shooting near Castlemont High triggers lockdown

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:01:55 GMT

OAKLAND – Castlemont High School in Oakland was briefly locked down Monday after shots were fired near the campus, according to school officials and police.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | Motorist arrested on suspicion of DUI after Brentwood crash Crime and Public Safety | Pleasant Hill leaders defend police decision to ‘disengage’ with barricaded ex-detective Crime and Public Safety | Security guard slain at Oakland convenience store is remembered; suspect still sought Crime and Public Safety | Driver arrested after a three-county chase across the Bay Bridge Crime and Public Safety | Two shot in North Oakland residence early Saturday morning The shooting happened just before 3 p.m. in the 8600 block of MacArthur Boulevard, said Oakland police Officer Kim Armstead.Multiple vehicles and buildings were hit by the gunfire, and several people were injured by debris, Armstead said. Medic...

Medical facility in DC’s Ward 8 gets $22.5M in federal funding

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:01:55 GMT

Months after a ribbon-cutting at the new Whitman-Walker Max Robinson Center in D.C.’s Ward 8, the medical facility — and the community it serves — got more good news: the approval of $22.5 million in federal funding.The money, which comes from the U.S. Treasury Department’s Capital Projects Fund, will fund 40 exam and consultation rooms, eight dental suites, and 23 group and psychotherapy rooms that will provide expanded telemedicine services.D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced the funding Monday at the facility, which provides health care services to the Ward 8 community with a long-running focus on LGBTQ+ health and HIV care and prevention. Bowser said the investment would spur more investment and “create over 100 new jobs, provide training opportunities for our residents and create a pipeline of health care talent — which we know we need.”Bowser thanked her team and the District’s federal partners as well as President Joe Biden, saying he has “s...

Gilgeous-Alexander scores 30 in 3 quarters as Thunder top Jazz 134-120

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:01:55 GMT

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 30 points in three quarters, and the Oklahoma City Thunder defeated the Utah Jazz 134-120 on Monday night.Ousmane Dieng had a season-high 18 points on 6-for-7 shooting off the bench. He has played in 13 games this season and moved back and forth between the Thunder and the team’s G-League affiliate, the Oklahoma City Blue.Josh Giddey added 12 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists in just 24 minutes, and Chet Holmgren had 16 points and eight rebounds for the Thunder, who have won four of five to strengthen their hold on second place in the Western Conference standings. Keyonte George, a rookie from Baylor, scored a season-best 30 points for the Jazz. Collin Sexton had 20 and Simone Fontecchio added a season-high 19. Jordan Clarkson, Utah’s No. 2 scorer this season, had just eight points on 3-for-13 shooting.Jazz scoring leader Lauri Markkanen sat out for the eighth straight game with a strained left hamstring. Utah fell ...

Highest Baseball Salaries

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:01:55 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Baseball contracts with average annual values of $35 million or more. Figures were obtained by The Associated Press from player and management sources and include all guaranteed income but not income from potential incentive bonuses. There is no distinction for deferred money:Player, ClubYearsAvg.SalaryShohei Ohtani, LAD2024-33$70,000,000Max Scherzer, NYM-Tex2022-24$43,333,333Justin Verlander, NYM-Hou2023-24$43,333,333Aaron Judge, NYY2023-31$40,000,000Jacob deGrom, Tex2023-27$37,000,000Gerrit Cole, NYY2020-28$36,000,000Mike Trout, LAA2019-30$35,514,667Stephen Strasburg, Was2020-26$35,000,000Anthony Rendon, LAA2020-26$35,000,000Marcus Semien, Tex2022-27$35,000,000Source

Murray scores 29, Jokic adds 25 as Nuggets end 3-game skid, beat Bogdanovic, Hawks 129-122

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:01:55 GMT

ATLANTA (AP) — Jamal Murray scored 29 points, Nikola Jokic rediscovered his shooting touch to score 25 and the Denver Nuggets ended their three-game skid, holding off the Atlanta Hawks 129-122 on Monday night.Bogdan Bogdanovic set career highs with 40 points and 10 3-pointers in the Hawks’ fourth consecutive loss.Bogdanovic sank three 3s in the final two minutes but the defending NBA champion Nuggets, who had a 20-point lead early in the fourth quarter, held off Atlanta’s comeback.Rookie Julian Strawther scored a career-high 22 points while making six 3-pointers for Denver. Aaron Gordon had 18 points and 12 rebounds.Murray rolled his left ankle and left the court midway through the opening quarter. Already dealing with a sore right ankle, Murray returned and finished with nine rebounds for Denver.The Hawks’ Trae Young scored 19 points before he was ejected when he picked up two technical fouls with 25 seconds remaining in the third quarter. Young was upset no foul ...

Mathurin and Haliburton star as Pacers hand Pistons their 20th straight loss with 131-123 victory

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:01:55 GMT

DETROIT (AP) — Bennedict Mathurin scored 30 points and the Indiana Pacers handed the Detroit Pistons their 20th straight loss, winning 131-123 on Monday night.Tyrese Haliburton had 14 points and 16 assists for Indiana in its first game since Saturday’s 123-109 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA In-Season Tournament final.“This is one of the most difficult games you can have, coming off the emotions of last week, the game on Saturday, the travel and everything else,” Pacers coach Rick Carlisle said. “I just thought our guys did a great job of staying together, keeping their composure and their aggression.“Detroit is in an all-out attack mode because of their situation.”Detroit’s losing streak is the longest single-season slide in franchise history and matches the NBA’s longest since the Houston Rockets lost 20 straight in 2020-21. Detroit lost 21 straight between the end of the 1979-80 season and the start of 1980-81.“As much as this losing hurts us, and it h...

Knicks beat Raptors 136-130 behind a balanced effort in their first game without Robinson

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:01:55 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Julius Randle scored 34 points, Quentin Grimes had a season-high 19 and the New York Knicks shook off some bad injury news to beat the Toronto Raptors 136-130 on Monday night.RJ Barrett added 27 points and Jalen Brunson had 21 points and nine assists for the Knicks, who had a new starting center for the first time this season after Mitchell Robinson sustained a stress fracture in his left ankle. The injury will require surgery for the NBA leader in offensive rebounds and a recovery of at least two months.New York broke open the game in the fourth quarter behind two of its bench players. Grimes, who has struggled to find a rhythm this season and recently lost his starting job to Donte DiVincenzo, had a 3-pointer and Josh Hart also scored during a 7-0 run that turned a tie game into a 115-108 lead.Grimes made another 3 with the Knicks holding a four-point lead with 3:36 to play, and a 3-pointer followed by another basket by Hart made it 129-119 about a minute later. Ha...

Teal, Jones rally South Carolina State over Jacksonville 86-85 in OT

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:01:55 GMT

ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) — Michael Teal came off the bench to score 17 points and Drayton Jones had a go-ahead dunk with 27 seconds left in overtime to rally South Carolina State to an 86-85 victory over Jacksonville on Monday night.Jones’ dunk for the Bulldogs (3-8) came 11 seconds after Robert McCray V sank two free throws to give the Dolphins (6-4) a one-point lead. Atiba Taylor sank a 3-pointer with 12 seconds left in regulation to pull the Bulldogs even at 80-80 and force overtime.Teal made 6 of 7 shots, including all three of his 3-pointers, for South Carolina State. Caleb McCarty finished with 14 points and 14 rebounds, both career highs, for his first double-double. Freshman Mitchel Taylor had 14 points. Shaman Alston pitched in with 11 points and four assists, while Taylor scored 10 off the bench.McCray finished with 22 points, six assists, five rebounds and five steals for Jacksonville. Jarius Cook made four 3-pointers and scored 21. Marcus Niblack had 13 points before ...