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night for a 2-1 lead in their first-round series.
Cleveland was 39-0 during the regular season when leading after three quarters and kept that perfect mark intact with a Game 2 win.
The incredible second-half charge came exactly one year after Indiana blew a 26-point halftime lead in a historic playoff collapse against the Cavs.
This time, the Pacers delivered a devastating blow to the three-time defending Eastern Conference champs – on a night LeBron Jones joined Michael
Jordan as the only players in playoff history to record 100 double-doubles.
James finished with 28 points and 12 rebounds, but it wasn’t enough to prevent
Cleveland from losing its first game this season after leading following the
third quarter.
WIZARDS 122, RAPTORS 103
WASHINGTON (AP) – Bradley Beal heeded his coach’s plea to ”do his job” by scoring 21 of his 28 points in the first half, his All-Star backcourt running
mate John Wall delivered 28 points and 14 assists, and Washington beat Toronto
in an occasionally heated game to cut its Eastern Conference first-round playoff
series deficit to 2-1.
After letting the Raptors grab the first 2-0 series lead in franchise history, the Wizards came home and checked off every box coach Scott Brooks
presented. They got Beal more involved after he made only three shots in Game 2;
they actually led after the first quarter
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Add it all up, and it was a rare recent victory for Washington, which had lost seven of eight games dating to the regular season.
DeMar DeRozan led Toronto with 23 points on 10-for-22 shooting one game after scoring 37, and Kyle Lowry had 19 points and eight assists.
BUCKS 116, CELTICS 92
MILWAUKEE (AP) – Khris Middleton scored 23 points, Giannis Antetokounmpo added 19 and Milwaukee used a dominating first half to overwhelm
Boston
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Eric Bledsoe and Jabari Parker each added 17 for the energized Bucks, who held the Celtics without a field goal for nearly an 11-minute stretch of the
first half.
Backup center Thon Maker scored 14 points and blocked five shots. Pesky guard Matthew Dellavedova, a veteran of a championship run with the Cleveland
Cavaliers, helped hold young Celtics point guard Terry Rozier to nine points on
2-of-7 shooting.
Al Horford scored 16 for the Celtics, who fell behind by 23 at halftime and got no closer than 76-62 with 3:06 left in the third quarter on Jayson Tatum’s
3-pointer.
The San Francisco 49ers traded right tackle Trent Brown on Friday to the New England Patriots a day after drafting Mike McGlinchey as his
replacement in the first round.
The 49ers dealt Brown and the 143rd overall pick to New England for the 95th overall pick.
Brown is coming off season-ending shoulder surgery that has sidelined him for the start of the offseason program. But when healthy, he is considered one of
the top pass blockers in the league at right tackle.
The Patriots also used a first-round pick on Georgia's Isaiah Wynn on Thursday night as they try to shore up their blocking in front of quarterback
Tom Brady.
The 49ers weren't ready to commit to Brown after this season when he will be eligible to be a free agent and chose his replacement instead in the draft.
San Francisco took McGlinchey ninth overall out of Notre Dame to step in immediately as starting right tackle and possibly transition to the left side in
the future. Joe Staley holds down that spot for now and is under contract for
two more years.
"I was picked by the 49ers to compete and play football and that's what I'm going to do," McGlinchey said. "I'm not the one in charge of shaping the roster.
I'm not the one in charge of making those kinds of decisions. They brought me
here to play offensive line and that's what I'm going to do
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The 49ers also announced they signed safety Jaquiski Tartt to a two-year extension through 2020. Tartt is one of only nine draft picks remaining on the
team selected by former general manager Trent Baalke.
Tartt was a second-round pick in 2015 and has played in 39 games with 23 starts in his career. He has 181 tackles, nine passes defensed, 3? sacks, two
interceptions and one forced fumble.
Tartt is projected as San Francisco's starting strong safety and the 49ers opted against taking Derwin James in the first round Thursday night in part
because of their belief in Tartt.
"Since we arrived last year, Jaquiski has impressed us with his play, his work ethic and the kind of teammate he is," general manager John Lynch said. "We
believe he's a natural fit in our defensive system
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who are dedicated to their craft, this team and our community."
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