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Luka Doncic, Mavs demolish Jazz for 3-2 series edge


Luka Doncic scored 33 and grabbed 13 rebounds to ignite the host Dallas Mavericks to a 3-2 Western Conference first-round playoff series lead with a dominant 102-77 win over the Utah Jazz on Monday night.

The Mavericks, who never trailed and led by as many as 33, have a chance to close out the series in Salt Lake City in Game 6 on Thursday.

Jalen Brunson added 24 points for the Mavericks. Dorian Finney-Smith was the only other Dallas player in double figures with 13 points, but that was more than enough offense against Utah on this night.

The Mavericks held the Jazz to just 55 points through the first three quarters, blowing the game wide open in the third thanks to Doncic’s 19-point third period.

Jordan Clarkson scored 20 points and Rudy Gobert compiled 17 points with 11 rebounds, but the Jazz looked nothing like the energetic squad that tied the series up at two apiece at home Saturday.

Donovan Mitchell only scored nine points on 4-of-15 shooting, 17 below his regular-season average. He left the game in the fourth quarter due to an apparent left hamstring injury.

Mike Conley, who has struggled all series, had just four points for Utah. Even Bojan Bogdanovic, the Jazz’s most consistent offensive player this series, missed all five of his 3-point attempts and was 0-for-9 from the field. He managed just two points.

Dallas limited Utah to an almost-unbelievable 3-for-30 from 3-point range and 37.7 percent shooting overall.

Danuel House Jr. and Juancho Hernangomez hit back-to-back 3-pointers for the Jazz, bringing the visitors to within 30-28 early in the second quarter, but it was all Dallas after that.

The Mavericks scored seven straight, and then after a couple of Clarkson baskets, held Utah scoreless for nearly six minutes. The score went from 40-32 at the 6:19 mark to 52-32 during the Jazz’s drought.

Dallas led 52-36 at the break — the lowest-scoring first half of the year for Utah — shutting down the Jazz, who averaged 113.6 points a game during the regular season. Clarkson was the only Jazz player to score in the final nine minutes of the half.

Doncic then did his thing in the third quarter, hitting 6 of 9 from the field as the lead grew.

–Field Level Media

Bo Bichette’s slam powers Blue Jays’ win over Red Sox


Bo Bichette hit his first career grand slam to break a tie in the eighth inning and the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the visiting Boston Red Sox 6-2 Monday night.

Lourdes Gurriel Jr. and Matt Chapman hit solo home runs for Toronto in the opener of a four-game series.

Toronto starter Jose Berrios allowed two runs, five hits and one walk while striking out four in seven-plus innings.

Boston starter Nathan Eovaldi allowed two runs and five hits and struck out five in seven innings.

Boston loaded the bases with one out in the second on a double, a walk and a single, but Christian Arroyo bounced back to Berrios to start a home-to-first double play.

Toronto center fielder George Springer made a running, diving catch in left center on a drive by Kevin Plawecki to end the top of the fifth.

Gurriel led off the bottom of the fifth with a homer to left, his second of the season.

Chapman hit his third homer of the season with two out in the seventh inning.

After Xander Bogaerts led off the fourth with a single, Berrios retired 12 batters in a row until Bobby Dalbec and Arroyo led off the eighth with singles.

Adam Cimber (4-0) replaced Berrios. Plawecki sacrificed the runners to second and third and Enrique Hernandez hit an RBI single. Alex Verdugo tied the game with a sacrifice fly.

Matt Strahm (1-1) replaced Eovaldi and allowed a one-out single to Santiago Espinal and an infield hit on a bunt by Bradley Zimmer when Dalbec dropped the pitcher’s flip to first.

Tyler Danish took over and allowed Springer’s single to load the bases. Bichette hit his second homer of the season to right field and Toronto led 6-2.

Julian Merryweather pitched around a leadoff double in the ninth.

Toronto put Cavan Biggio on the COVID-related injured list on Monday and promoted right-hander Bowden Francis from Triple-A Buffalo.

The Red Sox put right-handers Kutter Crawford and Tanner Houck on the COVID-19 restricted list on Monday.

Boston added right-handers Danish and John Schreiber. Catcher Plawecki was reinstated from the COVID-related IL. Red Sox manager Alex Cora, who tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday, was not with the team.

–Field Level Media

Stanley Cup champion Lightning honored at White House


It was a long time coming, but the Tampa Bay Lightning finally celebrated their Stanley Cup championships at the White House on Monday.

Though the Lightning won the Stanley Cup three times, it was the first time the team was honored at the White House by a sitting president. The NHL’s lockout in 2004-05 kept the team from going to Washington after that title, and the pandemic pushed back Monday’s visit until after Tampa Bay claimed back-to-back championships.

In honoring the Lightning for their titles the past two seasons, President Joe Biden praised the team’s efforts amid the pandemic and noted that first lady Jill Biden had attended a vaccination event at the team’s arena last year.

“I’m not saying that the first lady being there at your arena during the playoffs is why you won,” Biden said. “But just saying that she was there during the election season, as well. She seems to show up when people win. Just something to think about.”

The majority of the last season’s team was in attendance Monday — there were no noticeable absences — and some players from the 2019-20 club made appearances.

“Pretty much everybody was on board, and everybody that could make it — former players and stuff — they all tried to make it here,” alternate captain Ryan McDonagh said. “It’s just a great tradition that we have: You become part of a championship team, you get to go to the White House and meet the president.”

“It was a long time in the making,” captain Steven Stamkos said. “We weren’t sure if we were going to get this opportunity, but it was certainly worth the wait.”

–Field Level Media

Raptors extend series with second straight win over 76ers


Pascal Siakam scored 23 points to help the visiting Toronto Raptors stave off elimination Monday courtesy of a 103-88 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers in Game 5 of an Eastern Conference first-round playoff series.

Siakam added 10 rebounds and seven assists for the fifth-seeded Raptors, who have won two in a row after losing the first three games in the best-of-seven set.

No team has overcome a 3-0 series deficit in NBA history.

Game 6 is Thursday in Toronto.

Precious Achiuwa made 7 of 11 shots to finish with 17 points for the Raptors. OG Anunoby and Gary Trent Jr. each had 16 points and NBA Rookie of the Year Scottie Barnes added 12 points and eight rebounds in the win.

Toronto, which played without All-Star guard Fred VanVleet (left hip flexor strain), shot 51.2 percent from the floor and enjoyed a 56-36 edge in points in the paint.

Philadelphia’s Joel Embiid collected 20 points and 11 rebounds as he battled through a torn ligament in his right thumb. Prior to the game, Embiid was fined $15,000 for criticizing the officiating following the 76ers’ 110-102 loss to the Raptors in Game 4 on Saturday.

On Monday, Embiid committed his fifth foul as Philadelphia trailed 88-79 with 5:38 remaining in the fourth quarter. Anunoby and Trent subsequently sank back-to-back 3-pointers to extend Toronto’s lead to a 15 points with 3:20 left, effectively sealing the win.

Tobias Harris added 16 points and James Harden added 15 for the fourth-seeded 76ers. Harden, however, made just 4 of 11 shots from the floor and offset hi seven assists with five turnovers.

Toronto scored the first 12 points of the second quarter to extend a two-point lead to 41-27. Chris Boucher had three baskets during that spurt for the Raptors, who held the 76ers to just 14 points in the quarter to take a 54-41 advantage into halftime.

Philadelphia scored six consecutive points bridging the third and fourth quarters to trim Toronto’s advantage to 75-68. The Raptors, however, exploited the interior with former Sixer Thaddeus Young and Achiuwa each sending home alley-oop dunks to up the lead to 81-70.

–Field Level Media

Bryce Harper goes deep to lead Phillies past Rockies


Bryce Harper had a solo home run and a sacrifice fly and Kyle Schwarber doubled and knocked in two runs for the host Philadelphia Phillies in an 8-2 victory over the Colorado Rockies on Monday night.

Rhys Hoskins added three hits and J.T. Realmuto had an RBI double and a single for the Phillies, who snapped a two-game losing streak.

Phillies starter Kyle Gibson (2-1) tossed 5 2/3 innings and gave up three hits and two runs to go along with four strikeouts and two walks.

Connor Joe and Randal Grichuk homered for the Rockies, who had won two straight entering this series. Colorado’s Ryan McMahon contributed two hits.

Rockies starter Kyle Freeland allowed six hits and four runs, one earned, in five innings. Freeland (0-3) struck out seven and walked one.

The Rockies quickly went ahead 1-0 when Joe homered to left field on the first pitch to lead off the game.

The Phillies loaded the bases with two outs in the bottom of the first, but Schwarber struck out swinging to end the threat.

Grichuk launched a solo homer for a 2-0 advantage to open the second and extended his hitting streak to 10 games.

In the third, Realmuto ripped an RBI double off the wall in left to close the Phillies within 2-1. Schwarber followed with a fly ball to right that dropped between Grichuk and Charlie Blackmon. Two runs scored and the Phillies took a 3-2 advantage.

Colorado had runners at first and second with one out in the fifth, but Jose Iglesias grounded into a double play.

Harper hit a 417-foot solo homer to center to open the bottom of the fifth for a 4-2 Phillies lead.

After putting runners on first and second again, Colorado’s Brendan Rodgers grounded into a double play to end the seventh.

Harper added an RBI sacrifice fly in the seventh to score Jean Segura, and Hoskins also scored on a wild pitch for a 6-2 advantage. Alec Bohm was soon credited with a fielder’s choice and an RBI on a two-run play that also included a fielding error by McMahon, producing a six-run lead.

–Field Level Media

49ers GM John Lynch: Deebo Samuel not on trade block


Deebo Samuel won’t be leaving San Francisco if 49ers general manager John Lynch has his way.

While the star wide receiver recently requested a trade, Lynch isn’t interested in dealing his team’s top offensive weapon.

“I can’t ever imagine wanting to move on from Deebo,” Lynch said Monday in a pre-draft press conference. “You put yourself through the exercises of even though we don’t have a first-round pick, you have to be thorough in this process and prepare for everything, and … you go through and do that. He’s just too good of a player.”

Lynch would not get into details of contract negotiations with Samuel, who is heading into the last year of his rookie deal and is due to make $3.99 million this year with a salary-cap hit of $4.89 million, according to Spotrac.com.

“I know you (reporters) have jobs to do, and everyone’s very curious about Deebo and what’s going on there. I would ask for your guys’ understanding and a little perspective that I’m not going to talk about that much today, because I don’t think that’s productive,” Lynch said. “I don’t want to speak on behalf of Deebo and his team, and I think it’s non-productive for us to be talking about things.”

Samuel, 26, made first-team All-Pro last season after proving to be effective as both a ball carrier and a pass catcher. He made 77 receptions for 1,405 yards (league-leading 18.2 yards per catch) and six touchdowns, and he added 59 carries for 365 yards and eight touchdowns.

In three postseason games this year, Samuel added 10 catches for 154 yards and a TD plus 27 carries for 137 yards and a score.

The 49ers selected Samuel in the second round of the 2019 draft out of South Carolina.

–Field Level Media

Ducks aim for more success vs. Sharks


The Anaheim Ducks will begin the post-Ryan Getzlaf era when they visit the San Jose Sharks on Tuesday night.

Getzlaf played his final game for the Ducks on Sunday in a 6-3 loss to the visiting St. Louis Blues, ending a 17-year-career with Anaheim that saw him become the only player in team history to play at least 1,000 games and score at least 1,000 points.

Getzlaf, the team’s captain since 2010, previously announced that he would not accompany the team on the final two-game trip.

“He’s a leader here, he’s the face of this organization,” Ducks forward Adam Henrique said. “There’s not enough good things you could say about him or his family, or what he means here, so it’s special to be able to be a part of it for the last few years.”

Anaheim (30-36-14, 74 points) hopes to finish its rollercoaster season on a high note.

The Ducks are 3-14-5 in their past 22 games, guaranteeing they’ll miss the playoffs for a fourth straight season.

Following the game against the Sharks, Anaheim will wrap up its season on Friday at the Dallas Stars.

The Ducks have just seven victories since the All-Star break, but two have come against the Sharks.

Anaheim beat San Jose 4-3 in a shootout on Feb. 22, and 3-2 in overtime on March 6. The Sharks came back with a 4-1 win in San Jose on March 26, backed by a Timo Meier hat trick.

The Sharks (32-35-12, 76 points) should enter the game against Anaheim feeling cheerful after rallying to beat the Vegas Golden Knights 5-4 in a shootout on Sunday night, ending an 11-game losing streak against the Golden Knights and putting them on the brink of playoff elimination for the first time in team history.

San Jose scored two goals in the final three minutes of regulation against Vegas with goalie James Reimer pulled for an extra skater, including the tying goal by Meier with 0.9 seconds left.

The Sharks then killed a penalty in overtime before Reimer stopped three straight attempts in the shootout and rookie Thomas Bordeleau ended it with a goal in the third round.

“I just thought that we were a team that never quit (Sunday) night,” San Jose coach Bob Boughner said. “It took us 59 minutes and 59 seconds to get the goal we needed, but it was a fun game. I know the guys are happy and enjoying themselves right now and feeling good about themselves.”

After the Sharks host Anaheim, they finish the season with road games against the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday and the Seattle Kraken on Friday.

San Jose hopes to ride the momentum of Sunday’s comeback win through the rest of this week.

“Being down two goals, two goalie pulls, two 6 on 5s, 0.9 seconds, killing a penalty at 4-on-3 in overtime, and then going into a shootout and having a kid get in there and step up at that moment,” Boughner said. “It’s a great story for us, and I know I’ve never seen the room as happy and as joyful.”

–Field Level Media

Net loss: Jayson Tatum, Celtics finish sweep of Brooklyn


Jayson Tatum scored 29 points before fouling out late in the fourth quarter as the Boston Celtics never trailed and completed a four-game sweep of the Brooklyn Nets in their Eastern Conference first-round series by holding on for a 116-112 victory Monday night in New York.

The second-seeded Celtics, who lost to the Nets in five games in this round last season, await the winner of the Milwaukee-Chicago series. The Bucks lead the Bulls three games to one.

In front of a number of Boston fans who made the trip to New York, the Celtics led by as many as 15 before sweating out the final minutes after Tatum was called for a pair of offensive fouls.

Tatum, who hit the buzzer-beating layup in the series opener and scored 39 points in Game 3, made 9 of 16 shots, including the tiebreaking 3-pointer early in the second quarter that gave Boston the lead for good.

Jaylen Brown added 22 points for the Celtics, who shot 47.2 percent and won each game in the series by single digits. Marcus Smart added 20 points and 11 assists, Grant Williams hit four 3-pointers and contributed 14 points and Al Horford chipped in 13.

Kevin Durant scored 39 for his best game of the series but missed two 3-pointers in the final minute as Brooklyn ended a season it had entered as an NBA title favorite. Seth Curry added 23 points, Kyrie Irving finished with 20 and the Nets shot 50.6 percent.

Despite never trailing, the Celtics sweated out some dicey moments in the fourth after Tatum picked up his fifth foul when he charged into Blake Griffin with 8:17 left. After Tatum went to the bench, the Nets cut the deficit to 102-99 when Goran Dragic hit a 3-pointer with 5:24 left.

The Celtics held a 109-103 lead when Tatum fouled out with 2:49 remaining and the Nets drew within 109-108 on Durant’s 14-footer with 1:28 left.

On the next possession, Brown hit a layup to make it 111-108 with 62 seconds left and Durant missed a tying 3-pointer seven seconds later.

After Brown missed a jumper with 29.6 seconds to go, Durant split two free throws with 22.2 seconds to make it 111-109. Smart missed a layup, but Horford swooped in for the putback with 13.7 seconds left and a 113-109 lead.

Following a timeout, Durant’s 3-pointer was long with 10.3 seconds remaining and Smart iced the game by hitting three free throws over the final 7.1 seconds left.

–Field Level Media

Luis Gonzalez’s first career homer lifts Giants over Brewers


Luis Gonzalez hit his first major league home run with one aboard in the top of the ninth inning to give the San Francisco Giants a 4-2 victory over the Brewers on Monday night in a one-game stopover in Milwaukee.

Wilmer Flores drew a two-out walk off Jake Cousins (2-1), who came on to start the ninth. Gonzalez then sent a 2-2 pitch over the wall in right. He was playing in his fourth big-league game of the season and the 13th of his career.

Camilo Doval, the eighth Giants pitcher used in a bullpen game, tossed a perfect ninth for his fourth save.

Willy Adames, who entered the day hitting .190, brought the Brewers even at 2-2 in the eighth with his second homer, a two-out solo shot to left-center off Jake McGee (1-1).

The Giants finished their 11-game road trip 8-3, their best winning percentage on a trip of 10 or more games since going 8-2 from July 14-24, 1994.

After managing just two hits and no runs in 6 2/3 innings against Brewers starter Corbin Burnes, Joc Pederson put the Giants up 2-1 in the top of the eighth with a two-run homer off Trevor Gott. Curt Casali lined a two-out double to left, and Pederson followed with his sixth home run, sending a 1-0 pitch 435 feet to right-center.

Burnes, the reigning National League Cy Young Award winner, allowed a first-inning single and then exited after giving up a two-out single to Gonzalez in the seventh. He walked two and hit a batter, while striking out 11 — his 14th career game of 10 or more strikeouts — as he lowered his ERA to 1.75.

Keston Hiura manufactured a small-ball run in the second to put Milwaukee up 1-0. Hiura beat out an infield single to third and took second on Lorenzo Cain’s sharp groundout to short. Hiura moved to third on an errant pickoff throw by Dominic Leone, then scored on Mike Brosseau’s two-out infield single to short.

The Giants’ single-game stop in Milwaukee was one of three rescheduled games from a series that was postponed due to the delayed start of the season following the lockout. The other two games from that series will be made up in a doubleheader on Sept. 8.

The Brewers head to Pittsburgh for three games against the Pirates starting Tuesday, while the Giants continue home for a two-game series against the Oakland A’s.

–Field Level Media

Phil Mickelson files request for first LIV Golf event

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Phil Mickelson has filed a request to play in the first leg of the LIV Golf Invitational Series, a Saudi-funded event that has drawn scrutiny.

Mickelson has not committed to play in the tournament from June 9-11 in London. But his representatives completed the formal request ahead of the PGA Tour’s April 25 deadline for competing in conflicting events.

“Phil currently has no concrete plans on when and where he will play,” said Steve Loy of Sportfive, which represents Mickelson. “Any actions taken are in no way a reflection of a final decision made, but rather to keep all options open.”

The Telegraph reported that Sergio Garcia is seeking to play in the first LIV tourney. Lee Westwood, Ian Poulter and Louis Oosthuizen also have been linked to the event.

Mickelson also registered for the PGA Championship in May and the U.S. Open in June, according to Loy. The 51-year-old is the defending champion of the former, and winning the latter would give him the career grand slam.

Meanwhile, LIV Golf announced Monday it will hold its season-ending Team Championship at Trump National Doral in Miami.

The Team Championship will feature a $50 million purse and conclude an eight-tournament series that kicks off in London in June.

The Saudi-backed series, previously referred to as the Super Golf League, plans to dole out more than $250 million in total purses.

Doral hosted a PGA Tour stop from 1962 until 2018. Former president Donald Trump has owned the property since 2012, when his organization purchased it out of bankruptcy.

“There could not be a more perfect location to host our biggest event of the year at a course with such a long history with professional golfers, and we are excited to add another piece of history to this famed destination,” Greg Norman, CEO & Commissioner of LIV Golf, said in a statement. “I am very much looking forward to October to watch these teams go head-to-head to compete for the largest prize purse in tournament history. As we continue to select locations for our events in world-class cities, we knew Miami had to be included in the rota, and the Blue Monster is a fan favorite and a perfect place to end our inaugural season.”

The dates and locations of the first seven tournaments were announced last month. Another Trump property, Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in Bedminster, N.J., was previously announced.

Five of the eight events will be contested in the U.S. and two will be in Asia.

The full schedule:

June 9-11: Centurion Golf Club, London
July 1-3: Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club, Portland, Ore.
July 29-31: Trump National Golf Club Bedminster, Bedminster, N.J.
Sept. 2-4: The International, Boston
Sept. 16-18: Rich Harvest Farms, Chicago
Oct. 7-9: Stonehill Golf Club, Bangkok, Thailand
Oct. 14-16: Royal Greens Golf & Country Club, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Oct. 28-30: Team Championship at Trump National Doral, Miami

–Field Level Media