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Basketball. NBA. Regular season . "New York" - "New Jersey" - 106:97, "Milwaukee" - "Cleveland" - 86:101, "Detroit" - "Washington" - 98:94, "Sacramento" - - Miami - 102:115, Lakers - Phoenix - 108:88.
Having defeated the guests from Phoenix at home, the Los Angeles Lakers won the ninth match. The guests were not saved by 18 points and eight rebounds from Amar Stoudemire. Kobe Bryant (pictured) scored for the home team with 26 points and seven rebounds.
New Jersey basketball players entered a new streak of losing, losing to a team from New York. Let us recall that in the previous match, the worst NBA club won its first victory of the season, defeating Charlotte and breaking a streak of defeats of 18 matches. However, the fuse for the New Jersey players did not last long.
Portland center Greg Oden, who broke his leg in Saturday's game against Houston, underwent surgery. The club confirmed that Oden is out for the rest of the season. The basketball player, who is in his second season in the league, averaged 11.1 points, 8.5 rebounds and 2.3 blocked shots per game. In a statement published on the club website, Oden thanked everyone for their support. “It's definitely a big disappointment considering how long I've worked to get into shape. But I will definitely return,” said the basketball player.
Skvortsova's condition remains serious
Russian bobsledder Irina Skvortsova, who received serious injuries on November 23 during a collision between two cars during training in Königssee, began to be taken out of an induced coma, RIA Novosti reports. As Lyudmila Kozlova, a representative of the press service of the Russian Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation, told the agency, a Russian doctor is involved in the process of recovery from an induced coma. “The body’s initial reaction is normal. Tomorrow another specialist is due to arrive in Traunstein - a trauma surgeon from Germany, after which a further treatment strategy will be determined,” said Lyudmila Kozlova. She added that the risk of amputation of the athlete's leg remains. The question of the possible transportation of the athlete to Moscow has not yet been raised.
Let us remind you that after the incident on the highway, Skvortsova was urgently taken by helicopter to a hospital in the Bavarian city of Traunstein. The Russian woman underwent a series of emergency operations and was put into an induced coma. To assist in the treatment of the athlete, a group of specialists from the Russian Federal Medical and Biological Agency arrived in Germany on December 1.
Datsyuk scored in the game against the Rangers
Hockey. NHL. Regular season. "Rangers" -- "Detroit" -- 1:3 -- Datsyuk "D" (1+0), "Anaheim" -- "Ottawa" -- 3:4 -- Kovalev "O" (0+1).
Detroit forward Pavel Datsyuk broke his seven-game goalless streak. In the second period of the match against the Rangers, the Russian restored the balance (1:1), and in the third period of the game his colleagues scored two more goals.
24-year-old Red Wings goalkeeper Jimmy Howard stopped 28 shots, including one shootout with the score 0:1. In another match of the day, Anaheim and Ottawa dotted all the i’s in a series of post-match free throws. In the end, luck smiled on the guests. It is curious that during regulation time Ottawa took the lead three times, but the home team managed to level the score each time. Russian Alexey Kovalev made one assist and also converted the post-match shootout.
CSKA lost to Zalgiris"
The capital's CSKA basketball players suffered their first defeat in the VTB United League championship, losing to the Lithuanian Zalgiris. The fourth round match in Kaunas ended in victory for the hosts - 67:63. Before this, Evgeny Pashutin’s team had a 100 percent result: three wins in three games. It is noteworthy that this time, before the last quarter, the army team was in the lead, but at the decisive moment they were unable to maintain the advantage. The most productive among the winners was ex-army player Marcus Brown, who scored 26 points.
“In Kaunas, Zalgiris always looks better - the support of their fans is simply excellent, it drives them forward. It was important for us to stop Brown and Shalenga, and for three quarters we coped with the task. But in the final four minutes, it was poor defensive play and four three-pointers from Marcus Brown that decided the outcome of the game. Our attacking game lacked balance. Zoran Planinic played great, but this is our team - any player can shoot in every match,” the official CSKA website quotes Evgeniy Pashutin as saying.
As for other results, the Ukrainian Azovmash beat the Estonian Kalev - 91:78. In Group A, Kazan UNICS beat the VEF team from Latvia - 85:61, and Khimki near Moscow defeated Ukrainian Donetsk - 78:68.
Gelfand reached the final of the World Chess Cup
Boris Gelfand from Israel will play in the final of the World Chess Cup, which is taking place in Khanty-Mansiysk. In the semi-final matches, Gelfand was twice stronger than Sergei Karyakin. Russian Vladimir Malakhov and Ukrainian Ruslan Ponomarev ended both of their classical games in a draw, and now the fate of this confrontation will be decided in a tiebreaker.