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NBA

Bryant youngest to 20,000 points

Kobe Bryant became the youngest player in NBA history to reach 20,000 points when he made a 3-pointer Sunday early in the third quarter of the Los Angeles Lakers’ game against the Knicks at New York.

The basket gave Bryant 20 points and allowed him to reach the milestone at 29 years, 122 days. Before him, only Wilt Chamberlain (29, 134) and Michael Jordan (29, 326) had gotten there before turning 30.

Bryant needed 811 games to reach 20,000 points, 15th-fastest in league history. Chamberlain did it in 499 games.

BASEBALL

Clemens plans to go on ‘60 Minutes’

Roger Clemens posted a video Sunday repeating his denials of the steroids use alleged against him in the Mitchell Report and plans to be interviewed for a future episode of “60 Minutes.”

The seven-time Cy Young Award winner was accused in the report of using steroids, an allegation made by his former trainer.

In October last year, the Los Angeles Times reported Clemens was linked to steroids in the May 2006 sworn statement of a federal agent who cited former big league pitcher Jason Grimsley. At the time, the names of players in the public version had been blacked out. When the full affidavit was unsealed Thursday, Clemens’ name was not in it, and the paper issued a correction and an apology.

“I faced this last year when the L.A. Times reported that I used steroids. I said it was not true then, and now the whole world knows it’s not true, now that that’s come out,” Clemens said in the video, which was posted on the Web site of his foundation and on You Tube.

NBA

SuperSonics send Sene south

The Seattle SuperSonics have assigned young center Mouhamed Sene to the Idaho Stampede of the NBA Development League.

Sene has appeared in just nine games for the Sonics, averaging only 4.2 minutes and 1.7 points.

Sene was the 10th overall pick in the 2006 draft. He started his first NBA game a year ago, but has mostly been a disappointment, averaging 1.8 points in his two seasons.