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NBA: Jazz top Kings to finish with best record in NBA

NBA: Jazz top Kings to finish with best record in NBA

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Utah Jazz guard Jordan Clarkson (00) passes the basketball while defended by Sacramento Kings guard Jahmi'us Ramsey (3) during the second quarter at Golden 1 Center. Neville E. Guard, USA TODAY Sports/Reuters.

Jordan Clarkson scored 33 points and made six 3-pointers and Bojan Bogdanovic added 18 to lead the Utah Jazz to a 121-99 victory over the Sacramento Kings on Sunday night.

Rudy Gobert added 13 points and 16 rebounds. Mike Conley chipped in 11 points, nine assists, and six rebounds. Utah (52-20) clinched the No. 1 seed in the Western Conference and will have home-court advantage throughout the playoffs after finishing with the league's best regular-season record.

Terence Davis scored 20 points to lead the Kings. Damian Jones chipped in 19 points. Buddy Hield added 13 points, nine assists and seven rebounds for Sacramento.

The Kings (31-41) rested several key players in their final game of the season. De'Aaron Fox, Tyrese Haliburton, Harrison Barnes, Marvin Bagley III and Richaun Holmes were all the sidelines but being short-handed did not faze Sacramento early in the game.

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Utah played sloppy to start the first quarter. The Jazz had six turnovers compared to only five baskets in the game's first nine minutes.

Sacramento took advantage, ripping off an 11-0 run to stake an 11-5 lead. Delon Wright assisted a basket to start the run and capped it off with a 3-pointer. Utah climbed back to within a point on a 3-point play from Clarkson.

The Kings answered with a 14-3 run -- highlighted by three straight baskets from Davis -- to extend their lead to 25-13.

Clarkson helped Utah erase the deficit before the first quarter ended. The Jazz scored on six straight possessions to mount a 15-0 run. Clarkson scored three baskets to help Utah reclaim a 28-25 lead going into the second quarter.

The Kings struggled to keep pace as the second quarter progressed. After Sacramento trimmed Utah's lead to 50-45 on back-to-back baskets from Wright and Jahmi'us Ramsey, the Jazz closed the half on a 14-4 run to take a 64-49 lead. Conley scored a pair of baskets and assisted another to fuel the run.

Utah put the game out of reach after opening the third quarter with a 20-6 run. Clarkson capped the run with a pair of 3-pointers that gave the Jazz an 84-55 lead.

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Asian Winter Games: PH pulls off upset vs China to enter curling gold medal match

Asian Winter Games: PH pulls off upset vs China to enter curling gold medal match

Kennedy Caacbay,

ABS-CBN News

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The Philippines is now assured of a medal in the Asian Winter Games.

This, as the men's curling team pulled off an upset against host country China in the semifinals of their event, 7-6, on Thursday night.

The Philippines will face South Korea in the gold medal match tomorrow at 9 a.m.

It's also a milestone for the country as this would be the first silver medal of any athlete hailing from the ASEAN region, Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) chairman Abraham "Bambol" Tolentino confirmed.

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"Sure of silver, first medal of the Philippines, first silver of an ASEAN athlete in Asian Winter Games," Tolentino said. "This is a great achievement that opens the door for our country’s first Winter Olympics."

The Filipino quintet of Marc Pfister, Enrico Pfister, Alan Frei, Christian Haller, and Benjo Delarmente bucked a 0-2 start during the first two ends of the match en route to the triumph.

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