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The Spurs extended their winning streak to nine games Monday night with a dominant victory over Detroit, marking their fifth win this season against a team that entered the day with the NBA's best record. That's the most such wins by any team since the 1992-93 New York Knicks and the most in Spurs franchise history.

Marvin Bagley III scored 22 points, Naji Marshall had 21 and the Dallas Mavericks beat the Brooklyn Nets 123-114 on Tuesday night after both teams arrived in New York earlier in the day. Both clubs played road games on Sunday and neither was able to fly into the New York area because of a blizzard.

With a victory at longtime rival USC on Sunday, the Bruins will be just the fourth program to finish with a perfect regular season in Big Ten women's college basketball. The last to do it was Maryland in 2015, the season the Terps joined the Big Ten and advanced to the Final Four for the second year in a row. The others were Purdue in 1999, when the Boilermakers won the national championship, and Ohio State in 1985.

He looked like his old self. He didn't miss a beat. For that to be his first game, I felt him on both ends of the floor. ... He was fantastic. Really proud of him and just happy for him to embrace this moment.

X-rays taken Wednesday revealed the injury, which Harden suffered against the New York Knicks. Harden is currently listed as questionable for Wednesday night's matchup against the Milwaukee Bucks. He is expected to undergo treatment and further evaluation before a decision on his status going forward is announced.

The 2026 Winter Olympics have concluded, and the United States, unsurprisingly, did not place atop the medal table. The United States usually excels more at the Summer Olympics; the Americans haven't won the medal count at a Winter Games since 1932, but they have topped the medal table in seven of the past eight Summer Games. (China was the only exception at the 2008 Beijing Games.)

PHOENIX -- Portland Trail Blazers All-Star guard Deni Avdija left Sunday's game against the Phoenix Suns because of a lower back injury and the team said he wouldn't return to the game. Avdija was listed as questionable coming into the game but decided to play. He lasted just one minute before leaving the court and going back to the locker room.

So when he bounced around the Allen Fieldhouse court after Kansas upset then-No. 1 Arizona on Feb. 9, embracing his players as if the clock had just struck midnight on New Year's Eve, it shocked them. "That's three hugs in my career," sophomore Flory Bidunga said after the game. "He's giving hugs now? We've got to cut him off." Rare as it is, Self's celebration matched the moment: The Jayhawks had just handed the 23-0 Wildcats their first loss of the season.

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Entering the game, Towns had attempted 728 field goals in Brown's offense. At the same point last season? He had attempted 880. That's an average of three fewer shots a game than he averaged last season, which might go a long way toward explaining why he doesn't seem all that happy in Brown's offense. That unhappiness has reared its ugly head again and again, most recently in the Knicks' ugly loss to the Pistons on Thursday.

Indiana Pacers point guard Tyrese Haliburton has been diagnosed with shingles and will be away from the team for a few weeks, coach Rick Carlisle said Sunday. Haliburton hasn't played at all this season due to the torn Achilles he suffered in Game 7 of last year's NBA Finals, but he has still been on the team's bench during games.