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Aug 8 '19
OAKLAND, Calif. Nike Just Do It Scarpe Bianche . -- Slow at the start of the series and strong at the end, the San Antonio Spurs wore out the Golden State Warriors the way they have so many other opponents. Tim Duncan had 19 points and six rebounds, Kawhi Leonard added 16 points and 10 rebounds and the Spurs held off a furious final rally to beat the Warriors 94-82 in Game 6 on Thursday night and advance to the Western Conference finals. "Theyve got great character. Theyre competitive. They know theres not a million chances to do this sort of thing. They wanted it," Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said. Tony Parker shook off a poor start to score 10 of his 13 points in the fourth quarter and Tiago Splitter added a career-playoff high 14 points for San Antonio, which had a 13-point lead in the third quarter dissolve to two in the final minutes. Stephen Curry shot 10 of 25 from the floor to score 22 points on a nagging left ankle, and Jarrett Jack had 15 points as the injury-saddled Warriors finally tired. The Spurs outshot Golden State 45 per cent to 39 per cent and outrebounded them 46 to 40. Second-seeded San Antonio will open the conference finals at home against Memphis on Sunday. The fifth-seeded Grizzlies eliminated Oklahoma City in five games. The Spurs lost to the Thunder in the conference finals in six games last season after going ahead 2-0. They havent been to the NBA Finals since 2007, when they won their fourth title with a sweep of LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers. The Spurs became the first team to win consecutive games in the series and hand the Warriors consecutive losses in the playoffs -- and they did it at just the right time. The Spurs quieted a standing-room-only crowd late in the third quarter and seemingly seized control for good. Instead, the Warriors roared back. Klay Thompson, who had 10 points on 4-for-12 shooting, made a 3-pointer early in the fourth quarter that sliced San Antonios lead to three. Then Currys pull-up jumper brought the Warriors within 77-75 with 4:52 to play. Parker was 1 for 13 before hitting a corner 3-pointer before Leonard followed with two free throws to put the Spurs up seven. Jack made a jumper and two free throws to bring the Warriors back again. Then Leonard hit another corner 3-pointer for the Spurs to go ahead 85-79. Curry and Thompson each had consecutive 3s rim out on the same possession that couldve kept Golden State close. But Parker hit another 3-pointer to put San Antonio up 88-79 with 1:15 remaining and send some of the yellow-shirted crowd of 19,596 heading to the exits. In the end, most still stuck around. Fans serenaded the home team with chants of "Warr-i-ors!" in the final seconds. Curry also grabbed the microphone after the game and thanked fans at half court, breaking the huddle with the crowd, "Just us!" The Warriors had only made the playoffs once since 1994 before this season and hadnt won two games after the first round since 1977. "Its inspiring to think of what we were able to accomplish this year and the foundation that has been laid," Warriors coach Mark Jackson said. The Spurs showed incredible ball movement and had the Warriors playing from behind most of the way. San Antonios first 10 field goals came on an assist, going ahead by 10 points in the second quarter and maintaining that cushion until late. Golden State stayed close despite more injury setbacks in a season full of them. Andrew Bogut walked gingerly to the locker room with 8:31 remaining in the second quarter to get his troublesome left ankle re-tapped. Upstart rookie Harrison Barnes fell awkwardly while leaping to contest a layup in the second quarter from Boris Diaw. Barnes hit the court hard and his teammates immediately called for the training staff to attend to him as the arena fell silent. He received six stitches above his right eye at halftime and ran on the court late to start the third quarter, bringing fans to their feet roaring once more. At least for a moment. Barnes left the game in the fourth quarter because of a headache, the team said. He finished with nine points and four rebounds in 31 minutes. The steady Spurs kept making the Warriors work for every shot and grinding out points on the other end. San Antonio took a 61-48 lead late in the third quarter before Golden State started its final surge. The Spurs made sure it wasnt enough. NOTES: NBA Commissioner David Stern, Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson and prospective Kings owner Vivek Ranadive attended the game. ... The Spurs are 10-1 in closeout games since the start of the 2007 playoffs. ... Parkers worst shooting performance in the playoffs with more than five shot attempts came when he was 1 of 12 against New Jersey in the 2003 NBA Finals won by the Spurs. ... The Warriors fell to 4-1 after a loss in the playoffs. Nike Air Force 1 Just Do It Italia . Robredo, ranked No. 16, bounced back from an upset loss to Leonardo Mayer in the second round of the Royal Guard Open in Chile last week to down Carreno Busta in 1 hour, 25 minutes. On a day filled mostly with qualifying matches, fifth-seeded Marcel Granollers of Spain also entered the second with a 7-5, 3-6, 6-2 win over Aljaz Bedene of Slovenia, while Guido Pella of Argentina defeated Guillermo Garcia-Lopez of Spain 7-6 (6), 6-4 to advance. Air Max 270 Scontate . "Jeff is a hard worker who was an important special-teams contributor for us last season," said Stamps GM John Hufnagel. http://www.nikejustdoit.it/air-vapormax-scontate/vapormax-97.html . Woodson said during a radio interview Thursday that the Knicks Carmelo Anthony doesnt get the same calls as other superstars. CHICAGO -- They have more plotlines up their sleeves than Stephen King. They live life so far outside the box, they need GPS just to find the box.They might be trying to do something that hasnt been done since 1908. But if the 1908 Chicago Cubs ever spent like three days watching the 2016 Cubs, you would never, ever convince them they were playing the same sport as these guys.Were not your typical best team in baseball, 103-win team, catcher David Ross said Saturday, after another wacky evening at the Cubs October office had led them to an unlikely 5-2 win over the San Francisco Giants. And there were 42,392 eyewitnesses to verify that, yep, there wasnt even a trace of typical in this game.For the second night in a row, the Cubs beat the Giants, taking a 2-0 lead in their fascinating little National League Division Series. And maybe you saw that coming. But even if you did, we guarantee you never would have figured that Game 2 would have about as much in common with Game 1 as Usher has with, say, Johann Sebastian Bach.If youre not totally familiar with the work of the Professor of Madness, Joe Maddon, and his 2016 Cubs, then these past two nights should serve as an excellent refresher course in what they do and how they do it. They win and they win and they win some more. But do they ever win the same way twice? It sure doesnt feel like it.They win when their starting pitcher goes eight innings, as Jon Lester did so brilliantly Friday night. And they win when their starting pitcher gets smoked with a line drive in the fourth and then heads for the nearest X-ray machine, which is what happened to Kyle Hendricks on Saturday.They win when just about nobody hits, as they did when they got exactly three hits in Game 1 of this NLDS. And they win when even one their sweet-swinging relief pitchers hits, as Travis Wood did in Game 2, by whomping the first postseason home run hit by a reliever since 1924.They win with second basemen making pickoff tags at first base. They win with third basemen fielding ground balls in right field. They win with a starting pitcher who throws 89 mph. And they win with a closer who throws 99 mph -- though hard as he throws, that might just be Aroldis Chapmans changeup.I never knew there were so many ways you could win a ballgame, said Chicago rookie reliever Carl Edwards Jr., after watching the way the Cubs juggernaut had found to win this one. And to that, we can all reply: Hey, neither did we.Its safe to say it wasnt exactly Plan A for Hendricks to take a 94 mph ace-seeking missile off the right forearm, as Hendricks did in this game. And maybe, in some other year, with some other incarnation of the post-1908 Cubs, that would have turned into another Bartman-esque moment of darkness.But maybe what happened next sums up why this team doesnt feel like all those other teams, why this year doesnt feel like all those other years.In one of those star-crossed seasons from yesteryear, the reliever who replaced the fallen Hendricks undoubtedly would have staggered in and given up 12 consecutive hits, turned victory into defeat and transformed a celebration into a death march. Instead, Wood showed up for work, promptly struck out the first hitter he faced and then headed for home plate to do his best Ron Santo imitation. Because, hey, of course, he did.He dug in to face Giants reliever George Kontos, saw an 86 mph cutter heading his way and squashed it halfway up the left-field bleachers. And bedlam wouldnt even begin to describe the scene at Wrigley as Wood was making his euphoric romp around the bases.The first thing you should know about Travis Wood is this: This dude can rake. This was the 10th home run of his seven-year career. Only one pitcher in baseball has gone deep more times over those seven seasons than he has -- a gentleman named Madison The Bumbino Bumgarner, with 14. But Wood actuallyy has a slightly better home run ratio than MadBum. Air Max 1 Just Do It Italia. So take that!He keeps giving me crap about my hitting, said Lester, who has pretty much earned all that sentiment from Wood by going 10-for-157 (.064) in his own glorious offensive career. But since hes been here, I think Ive outhit him. And now hes got a f---ing homer. So that means Ive got to listen to all his crap on the plane tonight. Weve already slipped duct tape all over his mouth so he cant talk about it.But thats not all you need to know about Travis Wood. Maddon called him a leader on this team, which wouldnt be typical, either, for a long reliever. In this nontraditional ensemble, however, Wood is a veteran and a multifaceted resource -- a guy who has done everything from play left field to pinch-hit to ride to the rescue in innings ranging from the third to the ninth. And because he does all of that so well and so cheerfully, hes a source of extreme amusement to his teammates.Hes that guy who thinks he can play first base as good as [Anthony] Rizzo, Ross said. And he thinks he can play third as good as [Kris] Bryant. And he thinks he should be batting fourth in the lineup when hes in there pitching. Hes that guy. And its just fun.But besides all the fun Wood provided for one and all on this night, are we allowed to mention that there was serious significance to the role he played in a pivotal postseason baseball game? When he showed up on the mound, a 4-0 Cubs lead had shrunk to 4-2, and the tying run was at the plate.So danger lurked. And since danger has been both lurking and pouncing on the Cubs for the past 108 fun-filled seasons, thats never good. But Wood just took charge, retiring all four hitters he faced. And that kicked off a beautiful Meet the Relievers bullpen parade that produced 5? innings of two-hit shutout baseball -- the most shutout innings by Cubs relievers in a postseason game since Game 4 of the 1945 World Series. (Wait. Did they even have actual bullpens then?)In all seriousness, Travis has done that all year, Lester said, in between trash-talking. Hes come in two or three times when something like that happens, when a guy gets hurt or a guy gets hit. Then he comes in and throws two innings and gets it to the next guy. And thats just how we did it tonight.After watching Maddon furiously maneuver every piece on his ivy-covered chessboard all season, his team now looks at nutty games like this as practically standard operating procedure. So no matter how upside-down some of these Cubs games might look to the untrained eye, up close they always feel as if the manager and his team have everything under control.So when the Cubs play a normal game one night, theyre ready for mayhem the next night. Its what they do.Last night, Ross said of Chicagos Game 1 win, we played pretty much your typical version of a postseason game. So we just figured that tonight wed get the other version.Oh, they got it, all right. They got the full-service, empty-the-roster Maddon special -- including the part where he purposely made Wood his first reliever out of the pen because he knew one of his pitchers had to hit in the next inning. So why not the slugger in their midst? And what happened? You know what happened.Travis Wood became the first reliever pitcher to hit a home run in a postseason baseball game since the fabled Rosy Ryan of the old New York Giants connected off Allen Rubberarm Russell of the Washington Senators in the 1924 World Series. Thats what happened. And this just in: 1924 was a really, really long time ago.That is a long time, said Lester, after the always-helpful media corps had delivered that news. Well, maybe well win the World Series -- because its been a long time since weve done that, too. ' ' '
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