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NBA: Clips fall in first LA game since Kobe death
De’Aaron Fox scored 34 points as the Kings defeated the Clippers 124-103 in the first game at Los Angeles’ Staples Center since Kobe Bryant’s death on Sunday.
All-Star forward Paul George narrated a 2-minute video tribute to Bryant before the game.
• Mavericks standout guard Luka Doncic has hurt his right ankle again and will miss the Mavericks’ game in Houston on Friday night. He missed four games after hurting the same ankle last month.
• The NBA released the list of players voted by the league’s head coaches as reserves for the All-Star game, including six who will be All-Stars for the first time.
Kyle Lowry of the Raptors is headed back to the game, as are the Heat’s Jimmy Butler, the 76ers’ Ben Simmons, the Bucks’ Khris Middleton, the Blazers’ Damian Lillard, the Nuggets’ Nikola Jokic, the Rockets’ Russell
Westbrook and the Thunder’s Chris Paul. The other reserves are all first-time selections: the Heat’s Bam Adebayo, the Celtics’ Jayson Tatum, the Pacers’ Domantas Sabonis, the Pelicans’ Brandon Ingram and the Jazz duo of Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert.
MLB: Baker to lead AL All-Stars
New Astros manager Dusty Baker will be invited to lead the American League in this year’s All-Star Game, Major League Baseball.
Baker was hired by the Astros to replace A.J. Hinch, who was suspended by MLB for the season on Jan. 13 for his role in the team’s sign-stealing scheme, then was fired by Houston, along with general manager Jeff Luhnow.
Hinch led the Astros to its second AL pennant in three seasons last year and had been scheduled to manage the AL.
ETC.: Reed returns to Hurricanes
Ed Reed has been hired as the new chief of staff for the Hurricanes’ football program. Reed will be tasked with helping Miami coach Manny
Diaz “in all aspects of the football program, including strategic planning, quality control, operations, player evaluation and player development,” the university said.
• New Grand Valley State offensive coordinator Morris Berger resigned following his suspension for referring to Nazi Germany’s Adolf Hitler as a “great leader.”
• In College Park, Md., Anthony Cowan Jr. scored a career-high 31 points and No. 15 Maryland beat 18thranked Iowa 82-72.
• In Elon, N.C., Eli Pemberton had 26 points as Hofstra routed Elon 86-63.
• In Staten Island, Kaleb Bishop had 13 points to lift Fairleigh Dickinson to a 68-63 win over Wagner.
• In North Andover, Mass., Juvaris Hayes had 19 points to lead Merrimack to a 61-50 win over St. Francis.
• In Scottsdale, Ariz., Wyndham Clark fired a 10-under 61 to grab a two-shot lead after the first round of the Waste Management Open. Billy Horschel was second after a 63.
• In King Abdullah Economic City, Saudi Arabia, Graeme McDowell and Gavin Green shared the lead after the first round at the Saudi International by shooting 6-under 64s. Five players were one shot behind at 5 under, including 2016 British Open champion Henrik Stenson.
Phil Mickelson, McDowell’s playing partner, shot a 66 and trailed by two shots, alongside five others.
• John Andretti, a member of one of auto racing’s most famous families and the first driver to attempt the Indianapolis 500 and NASCAR’s 600-mile race in North Carolina on the same day, has died. He was 56 and had spent the past three years battling colon cancer.