Hawks defeat Thunder for 15th win in row

NBA: Paul Millsap scored 22 points, Jeff Teague added 17 and the Atlanta Hawks eclipsed the franchise record with their 15th straight victory, beating the visiting Oklahoma City Thunder 103-93.

The Hawks won for the 29th time in 31 games to extend their Eastern-best record to 36-8.

Russell Westbrook led the Thunder with 22 points, but it wasn’t enough to extend their four-game winning streak.

• Rose, Butler score 20 each as Bulls top Mavericks: Derrick Rose scored 20 points, Jimmy Butler had 14 of his 20 in the second half and the visiting Chicago Bulls beat the Dallas Mavericks 102-98.

The Bulls beat a Western Conference playoff contender for the second night in a row after losing six of their previous eight games. They handed defending champion San Antonio its most lopsided loss of the season in Chicago on Thursday.

Dirk Nowitzki scored 24 points to lead the Mavericks.

• James scores 25 as Cavaliers rout Hornets: LeBron James scored 25 points and the Cleveland Cavaliers put on a dominant performance by routing the visiting Charlotte Hornets 129-90 for their fifth straight win.

J.R. Smith had 21 on seven 3-pointers, and Kyrie Irving added 18 in Cleveland’s biggest win of the season. Al Jefferson led Charlotte with 22 points.

• Kobe to be re-examined before deciding injury fate: Kobe Bryant’s torn right rotator cuff will be re-examined Monday before the Los Angeles Lakers decide whether the superstar guard needs potentially season-ending surgery. He tore his rotator cuff Wednesday in New Orleans. The third-leading scorer in NBA history was injured while throwing down a two-handed dunk in the Lakers’ loss to the Pelicans.

Mark Martin selected for Hall of Fame

Motorsports: Retired NASCAR driver Mark Martin and former motocross star Ricky Carmichael are among the 2015 inductees into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America.

The seven-member class also includes off-road racer Walker Evans, six-time NHRA champion Warren Johnson and four-time Trans-Am Series champion Tommy Kendall. It also includes two deceased drivers, Duke Nalon (sprint and midget cars) and Lloyd Ruby (USAC).

• Ogier leads after Day 2 of Monte Carlo rally: World rally champion Sebastien Ogier of France holds a commanding lead after the second day of the season-opening Monte Carlo rally in Monoco, while nine-time champion Sebastien Loeb’s hopes of upstaging his countryman ended when his Citroen hit a rock on Friday’s last stage.

Ogier leads Finland’s Jari-Matti Latvala by 1 minute, 45.4 seconds and is 2:34.8 clear of Norway’s Andreas Mikkelsen, boosting Volkswagen’s hopes of a 1-2-3 finish.

Palmer misses chance for 59 on scorecard

Miscellany: Ryan Palmer missed a chance to shoot 59 or lower in the Humana Challenge in La Quinta, California, settling for an 11-under 61 after playing an eight-hole stretch in 10 under.

After opening with two pars, Palmer had two eagles and six birdies on the next eight holes to match the longest eagle-birdie streak in PGA Tour history.

Needing to play the final eight holes in 3 under to shoot 59, he bogeyed Nos. 2 and 3. He birdied the fourth, sixth and eighth holes and closed with a par.

The Texan eagled the par-4 12th to start the streak on PGA West’s Jack Nicklaus Private Course. He birdied the next three, eagled the par-5 16th and added three more birdies.

Palmer was at 12-under 132, leaving him three strokes behind leader Matt Kuchar.

• Paris wins super-G, Pinturault takes combined: Italian skier Dominik Paris won his first career World Cup super-G, and Alexis Pinturault of France dominated the combined event for his eighth victory in Kitzbuehel, Austria.

Paris beat Austrians Matthias Mayer by 0.06 seconds and Georg Streitberger by 0.34, two years after his victory in the classic Hahnenkamm downhill on the same course.

Pinturault defeated overall World Cup leader Marcel Hirscher of Austria by 0.69 and Ondrej Bank of the Czech Republic by 0.94. • Chock-Bates lead ice dance at nationals over Shibutanis: New U.S. ice dance champions will be crowned today in Greensboro, North Carolina, as Madison Chock and Evan Bates hold a slim lead over fellow Olympians Maia and Alex Shibutani after the short dance, their 73.95 points putting them just .11 ahead of the brother-sister duo.

Chock and Bates won silver and the Shibutanis bronze the last two years at nationals behind six-time U.S. champions Meryl Davis and Charlie White, who are taking a break after becoming the first American Olympic ice dance gold medalists.