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Welcome to the Yahoo Sports NBA playoff tracker, your daily one-stop shop for all the latest game results from each NBA playoff series. Here’s a look at Sunday’s games. It took until Game 7, but Kawhi Leonard and the Los Angeles Clippers finally won a playoff game at Staples Center this season. The Clippers, thanks to a 28-point performance from Leonard and a massive run to close out the third quarter, finished off the Dallas Mavericks 126-111 to win the series 4-3 and advance to the Western… Source link

The Nets had hustle and star power in Game 1. (Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images) Even with only a big 2 (or big 14, according to Kevin Durant), the Brooklyn Nets are still formidable. The Milwaukee Bucks confirmed that for themselves on Saturday. The Nets defeated the Bucks 115-107 in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals, riding big nights from Durant and Kyrie Irving at home in Barclays Center. The game opened with a brutal turn of events for the Nets, as James Harden exited after… Source link

Alabama’s Montana Fouts pitches against UCLA in the first inning of an NCAA Women’s College World Series softball game Friday, June 4, 2021, in Oklahoma City. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki) Montana Fouts celebrated her birthday with some history. The Alabama junior threw the fifth perfect game in the history of the Women’s College World Series on Friday in a 6-0 win over UCLA. It’s the first perfect game in the tournament since May 25, 2000, nine days before Fouts was born. Here’s how the game… Source link

The Los Angeles Clippers live to fight another day. Behind another transcendent performance from Kawhi Leonard, the Clippers defeated the Dallas Mavericks 104-97 on Friday to stave off elimination and force a Game 7. Leonard, who was averaging 30.4 points per game in the series entering Friday, tied a playoff career high with 45 points (18-of-25 shooting, 5-of-9 from deep) with six rebounds and three assists. That included this dagger: That was Leonard’s biggest moment of the night, until he… Source link

Los Angeles Lakers team doctors cleared Anthony Davis to return for their critical Game 6 matchup with the Phoenix Suns on Thursday night. That decision, however, seems to have been premature. Davis lasted less than six minutes at the Staples Center on Thursday before he had to leave the game. The Lakers listed him as questionable to return initially, and then said at halftime that he was done for the night. Davis, according to Yahoo Sports’ Chris Haynes, didn’t actually injure his groin any… Source link

PHOENIX — While the Los Angeles Lakers were getting crushed coming out of a timeout in Game 5 against Phoenix, Anthony Davis looked over to an individual sitting courtside and nodded his head up and down to suggest everything is going to be OK. He flashed six fingers, as in a Game 6 return. Without Davis on the court, the Suns unleashed a lethal blitz that resulted in a 115-85 blowout victory to take a commanding 3-2 series lead. The injured Davis took to the court hours before Game 5 against… Source link

Joel Embiid won’t return in Game 4 due to right knee soreness originally appeared on NBC Sports Washington Philadelphia star center Joel Embiid won’t return in the second half of Game 4 against the Wizards in the first round of the NBA playoffs on Monday.  Embiid hit the floor hard after attacking the rim with some force, but Washington center Robin Lopez stood tall to his steam-rolling effort and blocked his shot before Embiid was sent backward to the ground, awkwardly bending his right… Source link

Anthony Davis didn’t come out for the second half. The Suns sure did. With Davis sidelined by a left groin strain suffered late in the second quarter, Phoenix opened the third quarter on a 14-4 run en route 100-92 Game 4 victory Sunday. Davis – who was already playing through a left knee sprain – is undergoing further evaluation, according to Lakers coach Frank Vogel. Game 5 of the 2-2 series is Tuesday. Suns guard Chris Paul – dealing with a shoulder injury – led the Suns with 18… Source link

Anthony Davis may have hurt his knee in the Los Angeles Lakers’ Game 3 win over the Phoenix Suns on Thursday night, but he said there is “no chance” that he sits out of Game 4 on Sunday. Davis hyperextended his left knee in their 109-95 win over the Suns in Game 3 on Thursday, which gave them a 2-1 lead in the series. “There’s no chance that I don’t play tomorrow,” Davis said on Saturday, via ESPN’s Dave McMenamin. “As a player, I’ve wanted to be in this moment. You want to… Source link

Associated Press Never any doubt: Cambage all-in for Australia at Tokyo Games In the end, there appeared to be never any doubt WNBA star Liz Cambage would suit up for her third Olympics for Australia. Cambage was included Wednesday in the 12-women Opals team for the Tokyo Games, ending an earlier saga in which she first threatened to boycott the games but later changed her mind. Two-time Olympian Jenna O’Hea will captain the squad and Rio Olympians Katie Ebzery, Cayla George, Tessa Lavey,… Source link