Wade’s buzzer-beater tops Pacers
NBA: Dwyane Wade’s jumper with 0.1 seconds left in overtime gave Miami a 93-91 victory over the visiting Indiana Pacers on Saturday night, extending the Heat’s home winning streak to 12 games.
Wade scored 28 points and LeBron James led two late comebacks by Miami, finishing with 27 for the Heat. James helped force regulation by hitting a game-tying 3-pointer with 10.2 seconds left in regulation, then not allowing Indiana’s Darren Collison to get a potential winning shot off at the other end.
Danny Granger’s runner with 2:01 left in the extra session gave Indiana a 91-86 lead. The Pacers didn’t score again, getting outscored 7-0 the rest of the way.
• Stuckey, Knight lead Pistons past Raptors: Rodney Stuckey had 20 points and eight assists and Brandon Knight scored 19 first-half points as the Detroit Pistons routed the Toronto Raptors 105-86 in Auburn Hills, Mich.
The Pistons, who are 11-6 since a 4-20 start, had six players in double figures and shot better than 50 percent for the second straight night.
Toronto, which beat Detroit by 20 in their first meeting this season, was led by DeMar DeRozan’s 15 points, but only two others reached double figures.
• Aldridge scores 30; Blazers end road losing streak: LaMarcus Aldridge had 30 points and 10 rebounds to lead the visiting Portland Trail Blazers to a 110-99 win against the Washington Wizards.
Aldridge was 12 for 15 from the floor and 6 for 6 from the free-throw line. He has scored more than 20 points in three straight games.
John Wall had 25 points and eight assists, JaVale McGee scored 15 points and Chris Singleton added 12 for Washington.
• Harden scores 33 as Thunder rout Bobcats: James Harden scored 22 of his career-high 33 points in the first half, Kevin Durant had 26 points, and Russell Westbrook added 23 as the Oklahoma City Thunder beat the visiting Charlotte Bobcats 122-95.
The Thunder improved to 18-2 at home, rebounding from a disappointing 96-90 loss to visiting Cleveland on Friday night in a game Oklahoma City coach Scott Brooks said his team didn’t play up to expectations.
Semin keys Capitals’ win over Bruins
NHL: Alexander Semin had a goal and set up Jay Beagle’s go-ahead score, lifting the visiting Washington Capitals to a 4-3 win over the Boston Bruins.
It was the second straight win for the Capitals after a three-game losing streak (0-2-1).
Washington moved two points ahead of Winnipeg and is in sole possession of eighth place in the Eastern Conference.
• Devils score two late goals to top Islanders: Marek Zidlicky and David Clarkson scored 14 seconds apart in the final 2 minutes of the third period to rally the New Jersey Devils past the New York Islanders 2-1 on in Uniondale, N.Y.
Clarkson tied it with 1:39 remaining, squeezing the puck past Nilsson for his 28th goal, and Zidlicky quickly gave the Devils the lead while New York’s P.A. Parenteau was in the penalty box for boarding.
• Crosby’s return to Penguins remains on hold: Sidney Crosby’s comeback could come on Broadway.
The Pittsburgh Penguins star ruled himself out for today’s game against Boston but is optimistic he could play for the first time since early December when the team travels to play the New York Rangers on Thursday.
The 24-year-old former MVP, who practiced with his teammates on Saturday, feels he needs a few more days of mixing it up with them before donning his familiar No. 87 for the first time since concussion-like symptoms resurfaced following a lost to the Bruins on Dec. 5.
American Ligety captures giant slalom
Skiing: American Ted Ligety won the season’s penultimate World Cup giant slalom in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia.
The GS champion in 2008, ’10 and ’11, Ligety trails leader Marcel Hirscher of Austria, who finished third, by 92 points with one race remaining next week in Schladming, Austria.
With a victory worth 100 points, Ligety must win the final race and hope Hirscher doesn’t score points.
• Hoefl-Riesch wins slalom; Vonn skis out: Maria Hoefl-Riesch of Germany won a World Cup slalom, while overall champion Lindsey Vonn skied out during her second run in Are, Sweden.
Hoefl-Riesch edged Veronika Zuzulova of Slovakia by just one-hundredth of a second. She finished in 1 minute, 49.85 seconds to win the 23rd World Cup race of her career. Canadian Marie-Michele Gagnon was third.
U.S. rider Horner takes overall lead
Cycling: Chris Horner of the United States took the overall lead after the fourth stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico race in Chieti, Italy.
The 40-year-old Horner holds a 7-second lead over Roman Kreuziger of the Czech Republic, with Cameron Meyer of Australian third.
• De Gendt wins stage of Paris-Nice: Thomas De Gendt of Belgium has won the seventh stage of the Paris-Nice race in a breakaway, and Bradley Wiggins of Britain kept the overall lead in Nice, France.
Djokovic earns victory over qualifier
Miscellany: Novak Djokovic opened his bid for a third BNP Paribas Open tennis championship by topping qualifier Andrey Golubev of Kazakhstan 6-3, 6-2 in Indian Wells, Calif.
The top-ranked Djokovic will face No. 29 seed Kevin Anderson of South Africa in the third round.
• USA’s Eaton, Gatlin, Richards-Ross win at worlds: Justin Gatlin’s fear of fading into obscurity disappeared in a sprint for gold at the world indoor track and field championships.
Shortly after teammate Ashton Eaton set a heptathlon world record on an all-American day in Istanbul, Gatlin earned his first gold medal since serving a four-year doping suspension, and Sanya Richards-Ross won the 400 meters. Gatlin chased down Nesta Carter to win the 60 meters in 6.46 seconds – 0.08 seconds better than his Jamaican rival.
• Creative Cause wins San Felipe Stakes: Creative Cause won the $300,000 San Felipe Stakes by three-quarters of a length over Bodemeister in the Kentucky Derby prep at Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif.