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Skidding Blackhawks bid to 'push back' vs. Flyers
Losses and injuries are mounting for the Chicago Blackhawks, but with that reality comes a spike in self-awareness.,"Of course, it's frustrating," Chicago forward Ilya Mikheyev said. "But we need to learn how to play. Because the best teams play a whole 60 minutes. We're growing up, and it takes tim...

Magic eager to raise intensity level vs. Trail Blazers
The Orlando Magic will attempt to put up an improved performance when they conclude a four-game road trip with a visit to the Portland Trail Blazers on Tuesday night.,Orlando is 1-2 on the trip and fell apart in the second half on Monday night when it lost 120-97 to the Golden State Warriors. The 23...

Mavericks face tall task vs. Nikola Jokic, Nuggets
A couple weeks ago, it looked as if the Dallas Mavericks were starting to turn their season around after a tumultuous start. ,The Mavericks won five of six games, including victories against contenders such as the Denver Nuggets and Houston Rockets. ,Since then, however, the Mavericks have lost thre...

Teams on losing streaks collide as Bucks face Pacers
A pair of sinking foes will meet up in Indianapolis on Tuesday when the Indiana Pacers face the Milwaukee Bucks.,Milwaukee dropped its third straight game and fifth in its past six tries on Sunday when a 40-point second half doomed the Bucks in a 103-100 setback against the Minnesota Timberwolves. W...

Cavs' Darius Garland rediscovering form ahead of Pelicans' visit
The past two games are too few to declare that Darius Garland is back to his All-Star form, but the Cleveland Cavaliers are optimistic that is the case.,The 25-year-old point guard has put together a stretch where he looks like his pre-toe-surgery self, averaging 31 points and nine assists over 31.5...

LSU fights off scrappy Prairie View A&M in comeback win
Tai'Reon Joseph posted 34 points for Prairie View A&M, but six LSU players scored in the double digits in a come-from-behind 104-90 win against the Panthers on Monday in Baton Rouge, La.,Dedan Thomas Jr. scored 21 points and Marquel Sutton had 21 points and a team-high 11 rebounds for the Tigers (11...

Creighton romps past Utah Tech for third straight blowout win
Austin Swartz made five 3-pointers en route to 19 points and Creighton never trailed while cruising to a 92-69 victory over Utah Tech on Monday night in nonconference play in Omaha, Neb.,Josh Dix had a stellar all-around game with 17 points, six rebounds, five assists and a career-high five steals f...

Caleb Wilson's 21-point night carries No. 12 UNC past East Carolina
Freshman phenom Caleb Wilson scored 21 points to tie a 50-year-old North Carolina record and lead the No. 12 Tar Heels to a 99-51 victory over visiting East Carolina on Monday in Chapel Hill, N.C.,The 6-foot-10 Wilson reached the 20-point plateau for the fifth straight game. He is the first North Ca...

Jalen Duren's sharp shooting helps Pistons take down Trail Blazers
Jalen Duren scored 26 points on 11-of-15 shooting and collected 10 rebounds to help the Detroit Pistons post a 110-102 victory over the host Portland Trail Blazers on Monday night.,Ausar Thompson recorded 18 points, 12 rebounds and three steals as the Pistons notched their eighth victory in the past...

Jordan Eberle's heroics send Kraken past Ducks
Jordan Eberle tallied twice in the third period as the Seattle Kraken defeated the host Anaheim Ducks 3-1 Monday night.,Freddy Gaudreau also scored for Seattle, which won consecutive games for the first time in a month, and Kaapo Kakko had two assists. Goaltender Philipp Grubauer made 38 saves as th...

Blue Jackets net 3 power-play goals, dump Kings
Mason Marchment scored two power-play goals in the first period and the visiting Columbus Blue Jackets finished off a 3-1 victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Monday.,Krill Marchenko added a power-play goal and Jet Greaves made 23 saves as the Blue Jackets won for just the second time in nine games...

Stephen Curry, Warriors blow out Magic to avenge earlier loss
Stephen Curry went for a game-high 26 points, Quinten Post contributed three hoops to a 19-2 flurry bridging the third and fourth quarters, and the Golden State Warriors ran away from the Orlando Magic for a 120-97 victory Monday night in San Francisco.,Jimmy Butler III chipped in with 21 points and...

Hannes Steinbach scores 21 as Washington rolls over San Diego
Hannes Steinbach had 21 points and 14 rebounds for Washington in an 86-56 win against San Diego in a nonconference game on Monday night in Seattle.,Zoom Diallo scored 17 points and Desmond Claude added 13 points for Washington (8-4), which shot 1-for-15 from 3-point distance in a 70-66 loss to Seatt...

Thunder brush aside Grizzlies, maintain perfect home mark
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 31 points as Oklahoma City remained the NBA's only team with a perfect home record, as the Thunder posted a 119-103 win over the Memphis Grizzlies on Monday.,The Thunder improved to 14-0 at home while shake off a season-worst run of two losses in three games. The Grizz...

Top-ranked Arizona spreads the wealth in blowout of Bethune-Cookman
Brayden Burries had 20 points to lead a balanced scoring effort for No. 1 Arizona, which dominated Bethune-Cookman 107-71 on Monday night at Tucson, Ariz.,All eight of Arizona's rotation players scored at least nine points, and seven of them scored in double figures.,Motiejus Krivas, who had 14 poin...

Nuggets match team mark with 24 treys, crush Jazz
Jamal Murray scored 27 points for the host Denver Nuggets, who opened the game with a 19-0 run on their way to a 135-112 win over the Utah Jazz on Monday night.,Nikola Jokic contributed 14 points, 13 rebounds and 13 assists for the Nuggets, who shot 24-for-46 from deep to tie a franchise record for ...

AJ Dybantsa's triple-double leads No. 10 BYU past Eastern Washington
AJ Dybantsa scored 33 points, collected 10 rebounds, and dished out 10 assists to lead No. 10 BYU to a 109-81 victory over Eastern Washington in Provo, Utah, on Monday night.,Dybantsa was the first BYU player to record a triple-double since Kyle Collinsworth posted one against UAB on March 16, 2016....

Brock Purdy's 5-TD night powers 49ers past Colts
Brock Purdy threw a career-high five touchdown passes, two to running back Christian McCaffrey, and the San Francisco 49ers remained in the thick of the NFC West title chase with a 48-27 road victory over the Indianapolis Colts on Monday night.,McCaffrey rushed for 117 yards and hauled in TD passes ...

Oklahoma sets field-goal percentage mark while stomping Stetson
Derrion Reid scored 16 of his 22 points in the first half as Oklahoma set a single-game school record for field-goal percentage and cruised to a 107-54 win over Stetson in a nonconference game on Monday in Norman, Okla.,The Sooners (9-3) finished 40 of 59 from the floor, 67.8%.,Xzayvier Brown added ...

Dominant Avalanche host Mammoth in pre-Christmas matchup
The NHL is starting its three-day holiday hiatus on Wednesday, and the Colorado Avalanche can head into the break on a high note when they host the Utah Mammoth on Tuesday night in Denver.,Colorado has won five in a row -- one behind Buffalo's league-leading six-game winning streak -- and has just t...