LeBron’s Cavs have their way with Raptors
CLEVELAND — Kyrie Irving scored a season-high 25 points, J.R. Smith had 24 on eight 3-pointers and the Cleveland Cavaliers defeated the Toronto Raptors 122-100 on Monday night.
Irving, playing his sixth game since returning from a broken left kneecap suffered in last year’s NBA Finals, was 10 of 16 from the field.
The three-time All-Star added eight assists and six rebounds.
LeBron James, who didn’t play in the fourth quarter, had 20 points and seven assists in 31 minutes as all five Cleveland starters finished in double figures.
Kyle Lowry had 23 points for the Raptors and DeMar DeRozan added 19.
Kennedy accepts apology
SWIFT CURRENT, Sask. — Former NHL hockey player Sheldon Kennedy, who was sexually abused by his junior hockey coach while playing in Swift Current, says he accepts an apology from the Saskatchewan city.
Kennedy said it needed to happen, but he’s already been long-focused on healing.
“I wasn’t sitting around waiting for an apology from the city of Swift Current,” Kennedy said Monday.
“The way I look at it is that ... Swift Current is in a position to show great leadership on how a community can take such a negative tragedy and turn it into something positive, and be leaders in our country around child protection.”
Kennedy revealed 20 years ago that he was abused by Graham James, his coach with the Western Hockey League’s Swift Current Broncos.
James served 31/2 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to sex offences against Kennedy and two others.
Linden to visit with students
Vancouver Canucks president Trevor Linden will be using his inspiration skills Wednesday when he visits students at the John Volken Academy, a long-term, residential addiction treatment facility and life-skills training centre in Surrey.
The Trevor Linden Foundation launched in 1997 with the goal of encouraging young people to discover their strengths and realize their potential.
Whitecaps lock up Techera
The Vancouver Whitecaps have completed a transfer for Uruguayan winger Cristian Techera from River Plate Montevideo.
Techera, the 5-foot-2 winger, arrived in Vancouver on loan with an option to transfer to the Major League Soccer club last April.
He scored seven goals and added five assists in 22 regular-season games.
The Caps have used targeted allocation money, or TAM, for the move.
MLS teams received $500,000 in TAM last season.
They have another $800,000 in TAM to play with in both 2016 and 2017.