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Boston beat Denver
Chronicle of sporting events
Basketball. NBA. Regular season. “Toronto” – “Orlando” – 96:105, “Philadelphia” – “Charlotte” – 94:63, “Boston” – “Denver” – 119:93, “Seattle” – “Memphis” -- 98:105, "Utah" -- "Cleveland" -- 103:101, "Indiana" -- "Clippers" -- 89:104, "Atlanta" -- "Phoenix" -- 105:96, "Sun" -Antonio" - "Miami" - 88:78, "Portland" - "New Orleans" - 93:90.The central match of the game day was the confrontation between the best teams in the league of the last two seasons - the 2006 playoff winner Miami and the current NBA champion San Antonio. Miami basketball players have suffered their fourth defeat in a row since the start of the tournament and, together with Chicago, are outsiders in the Eastern Conference. As part of the Spurs, the leading roles were played by foreign players - Olympic champion of Athens, Argentine Manu Zhinobili (25 points) and MVP of the spring super final, dark-skinned Frenchman Tony Parker (23). The South American demonstrated excellent sniper qualities and delighted the audience with four accurate long-range shots.
Boston inflicted a complete defeat on Denver. In the middle of the meeting, the Celts' advantage exceeded 40 points. The guests, despite the presence of such stars as Allen Iverson and Carmelo Anthony, were only able to slightly reduce the gap in the second half of the match. “Charlotte almost set a new club anti-record for team performance in one match, but still the previous achievement with a minus sign, dated December last year (62 points in a meeting with Houston), remains in the history of the Bobcats for now.
Messina's first defeat
Basketball. Euroleague ULEB (men). 3rd round. Group "A". Olimpia (Slovenia) - CSKA - 74:72, Montepaschi (Italy) - Zalgiris (Lithuania) - 89:64. FIBA Euroleague (women). 1st round. Group "A". CSKA -- TTT (Latvia) -- 82:56. Group "B". UMMC -- USK (Czech Republic) -- 85:43. Group "C". "Spartak" MO - "Kosice" (Slovakia) - 62:60.
The capital's army team suffered their first defeat in official matches this season. At the same time, “Olympia” was not initially considered one of the favorites of the eight “A”. The best scorer of the match for the “red-blues” in his home country was Slovenian forward Matjaz Smodis (18 points). The holder of a Bosnian passport, Jasmin Hukic, caused the most trouble for the Muscovites - six hits from behind the six-meter line out of ten attempts, while the Olimpia sniper made only one shot from mid-range. It is also unusual for CSKA fans that our team lost the rebound - 23:28.
Most of the match was an even fight, but in the fourth minute of the final period the guests achieved a significant advantage - 62:54. The army team got tightly involved in the defense of the Ljubljana team several times and in 1 minute. 45 sec. before the siren, Hukić managed to equalize the score. He then flawlessly executed two free throws, then the hosts fouled Smodis, and the Slovenian did not flinch either. Olimpia regained the lead thanks to Marko Milic's hit, but Holden managed to restore equality after a personal remark to the Ljubljana player. Ettore Messina's team lacked just a little bit to send the match into overtime - at the last second, Milic brought a sensational victory to the Slovenian club. “The opponent used their strengths at the right moment, with the right set of players on the court,” the official website of PBC CSKA quoted Messina as saying. “In the last three minutes we didn’t control the game and lost the small advantage we had.”
The Women's Euroleague has started. Let us note the return to the tournament after a two-year break of the 1992 Olympic champion, mother of two children, Elena Baranova. Now she defends the colors of the Spanish “Ros Casares”, and in company with another basketball player of the “golden” Barcelona squad, Elena Tornikida. The club from Valencia defeated Faenza (Italy) at home - 71:52, Baranova scored 11 points.
Record day in the overseas league
Hockey. NHL. Regular season. “Pittsburgh” — “Philadelphia” — 1:3 — Malkin “P” (0+1), “Tampa Bay” — “Florida” — 3:1, “Chicago” — “Columbus” — 5:2 -- Zherdev "K" (1+0), "Anaheim" -- "Phoenix" -- 5:6 (OT), "Buffalo" -- "Boston" -- 2:1 (OT) -- Afinogenov "Buf" (0+1), "Detroit" -- "Nashville" -- 3:2 (bullet) -- Radulov "N" (0+2), "Colorado" -- "Edmonton" -- 4 :3 (bulls.), “San Jose” - “Dallas” - 1:3 - Zubov (0+1) .
Alexander Radulov twice assisted his partners when scoring the opponent's goal in the third period, but was unable to convert the post-match shootout, but Pavel Datsyuk from Detroit outwitted the Nashville goalkeeper.
37-year-old Dallas center Mike Modano scored a double in the fourth minute of the first period and set a new scoring record in the NHL regular championship for players from the USA - now the veteran’s personal account includes 1233 (511+722) points according to the “goal plus” system pass". The previous achievement (1232 points) belonged to defenseman Phil Housley, who played in the overseas league in 1982-2003 for Buffalo, Winnipeg, St. Louis, Calgary, New Jersey, and Washington. and "Chicago".
Modano's record was not the only one that day. The Swedish striker of Detroit, which won its eighth victory in a row, Henrik Zetterberg scored points in the scorers' standings in all 15 matches from the start of the championship - only 12 goals and 13 assists. The Scandinavian surpassed Norm Ullman's club record in the 1960-61 season by one game.
Haas's accusations are not confirmed
German tennis player Tommy Haas believes that he was unable to continue his participation in the Russia-Germany Davis Cup semi-final that took place on the court of the Olympic sports complex (3:2) due to food poisoning due to the fault of the host side. Let us recall that then Haas lost to Igor Andreev in the first meeting (2:6, 2:6, 2:6), and then felt unwell, and in the next two days he was replaced in the German team by the little-known Philipp Petzschner.
Haas is going to New York to undergo blood and hair tests to understand the situation. At the same time, the German Tennis Federation denies the possibility of Tommy being poisoned in the Russian capital. The doctor of the German team, Erich Rembeck, who worked with the Bundesteam at the Davis Cup semi-final in Moscow, also did not find any medical grounds for the accusations.