Basketball

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant combined for 68 points as the Golden State Warriors rebounded from an embarrassing loss to the Toronto Raptors two nights earlier to beat the Sacramento Kings 130-125 on Friday.

Unless it changes its mind at the last minute, Columbian Dyip is expected to make CJ Perez as its top pick in the annual PBA Rookie Draft today at the Robinson’s Place in Ermita, Manila before an expected huge Sunday crowd in the midst of a Christmas buying spree.

Harden, the reigning NBA Most Valuable player, added 11 assists and 10 rebounds for his second triple-double of the season and his second 50-point game of what has been a frustrating campaign for the Rockets so far.

BACOOR, Cavite -- The Davao Occidental Tigers added the Bacoor Strikers to their growing list of victims in the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League Datu Cup at Strike Gym here Thursday .

WESTMINSTER High School crushed Tiong Se, 95-43, and Philippine Cultural College humbled Chiang Kai Shek College, 84-77, in a pair of 50 years old and aboce action in the Tanduay Athletics-Metro Manila Tiong Lian alumni basketball tournament at the Tanduay gym last Wednesday.

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Kyle Lowry and Serge Ibaka combined for 43 points as the Toronto Raptors beat the two-time defending champion Golden State Warriors at home for the first time in 14 years with a 113-93 victory on Wednesday.

AFTER splitting the first four games of the PBA Governors’ Cup title series, Magnolia Pambansang Manok and Alaska Milk are ready to bring the action to the next level -- a best-of-three showdown.

The fleet-footed Magnolia shooting guard achieved a milestone in his professional cage career after he was adjudged best player of the conference for the PBA Governors’ Cup last night at the Smart Araneta Coliseum.

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - The Toronto Raptors shrugged off the absence of Kawhi Leonard to stretch their lead at the top of the Eastern Conference on Tuesday, breezing past the Los Angeles Clippers with a 123-99 victory.

DESPITE winning the pivotal Game 3 over Magnolia Pambansang Manok by a mile last Sunday, Alaska Milk prefers to treat Wednesday’s all-important Game 4 of the PBA Governors’ Cup at the Smart-Araneta Coliseum like “another elimination game.”

DILIMAN College is this year’s Universities and Colleges Basketball League (UCBL) champion.

M7-Coffee Mix pulled back-to-back victories over Madam Tess, 107-102, last Dec. 4 and Pioneers, 111-86, last Dec. 2 in the Seniors A action in the 2018 MariQuina Basketball League-Q Cup tournament at the Parang Playground Court in Marikina.

THE cast has been set as a total of 48 hopefuls made themselves available for the 2018 PBA Rookie Draft.

LOS ANGELES --The Milwaukee Bucks bounced back from a disappointing defeat with a big win in Toronto on Sunday, edging the Raptors 104-99 in a battle of the NBA's top Eastern Conference teams.