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Facing the NBA’s top team and one of the league’s elite players, the Clippers needed to be at their best Sunday if they were to extend their winning streak to six games.

But they failed to deliver in the final seconds...Read more

Nikola Jokic was on the road this week with the Denver Nuggets, but he sat out all four games of their critical Western Conference trip, confronting the team with its fair share of adversity.

But Denver managed to return ...Read more

CLEVELAND — Michigan State is headed to the Sweet 16.

Despite a slow start and an off-night from freshman guard Jase Richardson, No. 2 seed Michigan State rallied for a 71-63 win over No. 10 seed New Mexico in Sunday’...Read more

LOS ANGELES — What’s ailing Mookie Betts remains a mystery — his inexplicable stomach illness has left him at a loss for words.

Down from 175 to 157 pounds, the usually joyful and cheerful Betts had a sullen look on...Read more

The Boston Bruins may have wanted to put up a fight with the Los Angeles Kings on Sunday night, but the hollowed-out roster is just not equipped to do that against a team that may yet prove to be a Stanley Cup contender.

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MILWAUKEE — Kentucky guard Koby Brea dribbled past teammate Brandon Garrison, losing Illinois guard Kasparas Jakucionis in the process. Suddenly, Brea’s view of the basket at Fiserv Forum was wide open, and one of the ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The Golden Knights swept their three-game homestand with a 4-2 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning at T-Mobile Arena on Sunday.

Centers Jack Eichel, Tomas Hertl and Nicolas Roy scored in the first period, and ...Read more

The St. Louis Blues are probably happy to be done with back-to-backs this season.

Sunday's 4-1 win over the Nashville Predators was the team's final one of the season, and St. Louis slugged through the evening on its way ...Read more

Bryan Rust scored two highlight-reel goals Sunday against the Florida Panthers. But the Pittsburgh Penguins winger will be kicking himself after he was unable to tuck in one more.

The Penguins lost, 4-3, in a shootout at ...Read more

The depth of the Boston Celtics’ roster was on full display Sunday in Portland.

Even with Jaylen Brown nursing a bone bruise in his knee and fellow starters Kristaps Porzingis and Jrue Holiday both sitting out on the ...Read more

MIAMI – Finally, an exhale.

For the first time since March 3, the Miami Heat tasted success, with Sunday night’s 122-105 victory over the Charlotte Hornets at Kaseya Center.

The 10-game losing streak is over.

The ...Read more

ATLANTA – By now, a lot of NBA fans know the Philadelphia 76ers will lose their first-round pick to the Oklahoma City Thunder if they don’t have a top-six selection in June’s NBA draft.

That’s why many have ...Read more

SEATTLE — Maryland men’s basketball’s return to College Park will be delayed for a little bit. And that’s a good sign.

Derik Queen’s running buzzer-beating bank shot allowed the No. 4 seed Terps to remain on ...Read more

CHICAGO — The Philadelphia Flyers have played well and failed to get results lately, but they simply struggled to find their game on Sunday.

It culminated in a sloppy, disconnected 7-4 loss to the Chicago Blackhawks, ...Read more

MILWAUKEE — After six long years, the Kentucky Wildcats are headed back to the Sweet 16. And it happened in Mark Pope’s first season on the job.

The Cats defeated Illinois 84-75 at the Fiserv Forum on Sunday night, ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — Unusually for a player who makes being in the right place at the right time look unfathomably easy, Cooper Flagg’s face was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Norchad Omier was going to come down ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — There were tears, because there are supposed to be tears in a moment like this. There was intense, excruciating pain written all over the faces and croaking in the voices because it’s supposed to hurt ...Read more

DETROIT — The Detroit Pistons began their three-game homestand with a 136-130 win over the New Orleans Pelicans on Sunday at Little Caesars Arena.

Due to injuries to Cade Cunningham and Tim Hardaway Jr., the Pistons ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The mandate was set the moment the dancing Dodgers flooded the Yankee Stadium field on that glorious, gutsy October night.

One is not enough.

The bar was set the minute the Dodgers squeezed past the San ...Read more