Tommy Novak scores in OT to lift the Penguins past the Bruins, 5-4

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Tommy Novak scored 17 seconds into overtime to complete a wild comeback in the Pittsburgh Penguins' 5-4 victory over the Boston Bruins on Sunday.

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Anthony Mantha scored two third-period goals to help Pittsburgh — playing without franchise cornerstones Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin — snap a three-game losing streak. Second in the Metropolitan Division, Pittsburgh has points in 16 of its last 19 games.

Crosby is out a minimum of four weeks because of a lower-body injury and Malkin served the second of a five-game suspension for slashing Buffalo's Rasmus Dahlin in the head.

Egor Chinakhov added a power-play goal, Connor Dewar also scored and Arturs Silovs stopped 22 shots. Chinakhov has 14 goals this season and 11 goals in 25 games with Pittsburgh.

Pavel Zacha had his second career hat trick, and David Pastrnak also scored for Boston. The Bruins have lost five of their last eight. They have a three-point lead for the final wild-card spot in the East.

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Joonas Korpisalo made 34 saves for the Bruins.

Pittsburgh had its second three-goal comeback this season. The last time the Penguins had a three-goal comeback without Crosby and Malkin was February 10, 2001, against New Jersey.

Mantha became the first Pittsburgh player to score multiple game-tying goals in a third period since Alex Kovalev on March 23, 2002, against Philadelphia.

Pittsburgh trailed 3-1 in the third period, but Dewar and Mantha scored 33 seconds apart to tie it.

Zacha completed his hat trick at 8:34 of the third period, but Mantha tied it again for Pittsburgh with 8:42 to go when he tapped in a rebound from the left post.

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Winners and losers from the women's Power 4 conference tournaments

All four of the Power 4 Conference Women's Tournament champions from last season had a chance to defend their titles on Sunday.

Half got the job done asDukepushed past Louisville in overtime in the ACC and UCLA pummeled Iowa in the Big Ten. TCU fell to West Virginia in the Big 12 and South Carolina lost to Texas in a rematch of last season's SEC championship.

The Gamecocks' loss also likely knocks them down to the fourth No. 1 seed, having lost to the Longhorns ― who would move into the three after UConn and UCLA, respectively.

As winners of their conference tournaments, the Blue Devils, Bruins, Longhorns and Horned Frogs earn automatic bids into March Madness. While the runners-up in each Power 4 conference will also be shoo-ins, every other team will have to sweat it out on Selection Sunday on March 15 to see if they received at-large bid.

Here are the winners and losers from ACC, Big 12, Big Ten and SEC women's tournaments.

Winners

Texas coach Vic Schaefer

Vic Schaefer was 0-8 against Dawn Staley in the postseason entering this year's SEC Tournament. He put a tally in the win column on Sunday as his Longhorns led wire-to-wire in a double-digit win over the Gamecocks, giving Texas its first SEC Championship. The Texas victory will likely vault the Longhorns to the No. 3 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament, giving them a good chance to play in their home state — at Fort Worth's Dickies Arena — in the regional round during the second weekend of March Madness. With SEC Tournament MVP Madison Booker leading the way, few teams will want to land in Texas' quadrant of the bracket. In addition to two wins over South Carolina, Texas also already owns a win over fellow national title contender UCLA.— Mitchell Northam

More:Texas supplants South Carolina for SEC women's basketball championship

Dukeshowsresilience

Duke winning back-to-back ACC Tournament championships and punching its ticket to the NCAA Tournament is a massive win for head coach Kara Lawson and the program. The Blue Devils were gritty when it counted most, despite losing two of their last three games prior to the tournament. They grinded out wins against Notre Dame and Louisville to hoist another ACC trophy. Duke also started the season 3-6, something Lawson says she'll probably think about for the rest of her life. "It's very special for this group to kind of complete the journey in the ACC because everyone knows about our start, Lawson said. "But I'm very proud of that. I'm proud of where we started, even though it was hard, and I'm proud of where we got to. And when you look at this team, we had to figure out who we were. We didn't know that at the beginning."— Meghan L. Hall

UCLA marches into tournament on hot streak

The one-loss Bruins will enter the tournament on a 25-game win streak after defeating Iowa, 96-45, in the Big Ten championship game. The No. 2 team in the nation went 21-0 in conference play, winning 20 of those games by double digits. The Bruins also have 18 Quad 1 wins this season. Led by its five upperclassmen starters (Gianna Kneepkens, Gabriela Jaquez, Kiki Rice, Charlisse Leger-Walker and Lauren Betts), UCLA has been on a mission to return to the Final Four. Coach Cori Close's team will have momentum on its side and redemption on its mind after suffering a blowout loss to UConn in the semifinal last year.― Josh Heron

More:UCLA blows out Iowa in the Big Ten championship for back-to-back-titles

West Virginia securing NCAA Tournament hosting duties

West Virginia's first Big 12 championship since 2017 all but secures its place in the top 16, which earns them the right to host the first and second rounds of March Madness in Morgantown. The Mountaineers entered the Big 12 Tournament teetering around the top 16 seeds due to their lack of Quad 1 wins, but West Virginia didn't leave the decision up to the selection committee. The Mountaineers took their destiny into their own hands and picked up a huge Quad 1 win against TCU on Sunday. West Virginia hasn't hosted at the NCAA Tournament since 2014. The team is 14-3 at home this season.

"Hopefully this got us over the hump," WVU coach Mark Kellogg said. "I can only imagine… how electric Hope Coliseum would be if we were able to host some NCAA Tournament games. So come on NCAA, do what you're supposed to do and get that thing to Morgantown for us."— Cydney Henderson

Arizona State coming off the bubble

Arizona Statewas one of the teams with the most to gain at the Big 12 women's tournament. The Sun Devils entered the tournament on the bubble as one of the first four teams out, according to USA TODAY Sports' bracketology, but they likely did enough to go dancing for the first time since 2019. Arizona State secured wins over Arizona and Iowa State before falling short against West Virginia in the quarterfinal round. The Sun Devils improved to 24-10 on the season, the team's most wins since the 2015-16 season (26). No power 4 conference women's basketball team with 24 or more wins has been left out of March Madness. "Out of all the bubble teams, we've had the most good wins. We've won 24 games … half of those games, 12 of them are top 100 wins and we've won nine on the road. So we can win anywhere," first-year head coach Molly Miller said.— Cydney Henderson

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Clemson's NCAA Tournament hopes

Before the ACC tournament, Clemson was a bubble team. After beating Virginia in the second round of the ACC Tournament, the Tigers effectively punched their ticket to March Madness. "We kind of took this as our season is on the line. We felt like a win [against Virginia] would get us in the NCAA Tournament no matter what happens the rest of the way out, " Clemson head coach Shawn Poppie said after the Tigers defeated the Hokies in the second round of the ACC Tournament." That's how they focused and fought and competed. But ultimately that's just basketball. How you start and how you finish quarters."— Meghan L. Hall

Kansas State and Jordan Speiser

Call Kansas State women's basketball the comeback kids. Kansas State pulled out a comeback upset win against Oklahoma State in the quarterfinals on Friday to become the first No. 12 seed to advance to the semifinals in Big 12 Tournament history.

One day earlier, Kansas State went on a 21-0 run to defeat Texas Tech 58-51 in the second round on Thursday. The day before that, Kansas State set a new Big 12 Tournament record with 17 made 3-pointers against Cincinnati on Wednesday.

They couldn't muster another comeback against No. 1 TCU, but Kansas State put the league on notice and freshman guard Jordan Speiser emerged as a breakout star. Speiser was 16-of 33 from the 3-point line through four games at the tournament.

"This team has had a knack for the dramatic wins," head coach Jeff Mittie said on Friday. It feels great to be playing basketball in March."— Cydney Henderson

Duke guard Taina Mair

If anyone was unfamiliar with Taina Mair's game before the ACC Tournament, she just put the whole country on notice. Mair was the go-to player for Duke in crunch time, often settling the team down or providing a much-needed score. She also crashed the glass, despite being one of the smaller players on the court, and she was a pest defensively, totaling eight steals in the tournament. Mair was rewarded with ACC Tournament MVP honors. "Before this conference [tournament], I knew I'd play a big pivotal role if we wanted to get to this championship, we wanted to win," Mair told USA TODAY Sports. "I was in the gym, early in the morning and late at night, just trying to get shots up and trying to be the player that I can for everybody."— Meghan L. Hall

Losers

Vanderbilt and Mikayla Blakes

The Commodores entered the SEC Tournament with a chance to play their way into a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. It was also an opportunity for Mikayla Blakes to make her case for National Player of the Year. Vanderbilt did neither of those things as they were blown out in the quarterfinals by Ole Miss, a game in which Blakes opened by shooting 0-of-10 from the floor before recovering in the second half to finish with 24 points. The Commodores didn't play with any fire until SEC Coach of the Year Shea Ralph was ejected early in the fourth quarter after delivering a curse-word-laced message to a referee. Vanderbilt will be stuck on the two-line in March Madness now, and their path to a Final Four will likely have to go through UConn or UCLA.— Mitchell Northam

Iowa without one of its 'main' threats

Iowa missed Taylor McCabe in its 96-45 Big Ten championship loss to UCLA on Sunday. The senior guard was averaging 8.1 points per game before she tore ACL in her left knee in a late January matchup against Ohio State. McCabe's 40.7% career 3-point shooting average is tied for the best in program history. Iowa shot 22% from beyond the arc against the Bruins. After Sunday's defeat, Iowa coach Jan Jensen acknowledged the impact of not having McCabe. "[McCabe] was my main outside scoring threat," Jensen said. "Every play call was pretty much designed around her."― Josh Heron

Louisville in the ACC title game

For the 12th consecutive season under Jeff Walz, the Cardinals reached the quarterfinals or better in the ACC Tournament ― something no other conference team has achieved. The overtime loss to Duke, in what would have been the program's first championship since 2018, is going to sting for a while. The Cardinals controlled Sunday's game but could not sustain their defensive consistency in the final two minutes of regulation, when the Blue Devils made them pay. The Cardinals ran out of steam in overtime allowing Duke to dictate the game. Riley Nelson sank a dagger triple to put the Blue Devils up five in the final moments. The Cardinals defense all honed in on one side of the court, leaving Nelson alone to end their title hopes. That has to feel like a gut punch for a team that expected to win the ACC Tournament championship.— Meghan L. Hall

More:Duke holds off Louisville in overtime for ACC women's championship

TCU and its chance at a No. 2 seed

TCU failed to defend its Big 12 title against West Virginia and missed a prime opportunity to snag a No. 2 seed in the 2026 NCAA Tournament. TCU was held to 53 points in the title loss, the team's second-lowest point total of the season, and some glaring concerns emerged. Ball security is one. The Horned Frogs committed 16 and 11 turnovers in the semifinal and final, respectively. The 11 turnovers against West Virginia led to 15 points for the Mountaineers. The Horned Frogs were also hampered by foul trouble. Olivia Miles picked up three fouls in the first half and Marta Suarez fouled out with 1:30 left in the final. TCU needs both players on the court during March Madness.— Cydney Henderson

Michigan State and Maryland home hopes

The Spartans and Terrapins entered the weekend looking like they would be among the top 16 seeds in the NCAA Tournament and host the first two rounds of March Madness. Instead both teams were upset in the second round of the Big Ten tournament, with No. 13 Maryland losing to Oregon and No. 17 Michigan State to Illinois. The early exits left the door open for West Virginia, in the finals of the Big 12 Tournament, and North Carolina, to host.— Heather Burns

Iowa State and Audi Crooks

Iowa State got bounced in its Big 12 tournament opening matchup by Arizona State, a team the Cyclones soundly  defeated 90-64 just two weeks prior. Iowa State was held to 68 points in the loss, nearly 15 points below their average, and shot a dismal 7-of-36 from the 3-point line (19%), well below the team's 34.7% average. Arizona State's suffocating defense deserves credit. They held Audi Crooks to four first-quarter points and forced the Cyclones into 14 turnovers, which could serve as a playbook for the rest of the nation. Crooks said the Cyclones wanted to be monsters in March, but they looked toothless against the Sun Devils.— Cydney Henderson

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Jon Rahm breaks title drought at LIV Hong Kong

Jon Rahm captured his first individual tournament win since September 2024 on Sunday, carding a 64 for a three-stroke victory at LIV Golf Hong Kong.

Tied with Harold Varner III and Belgium's Thomas Detry entering the round, Rahm took over on the back nine with birdies on four consecutive holes, giving himself enough cushion to withstand a bogey at No. 18. His final round put him at 23-under for the event at Hong Kong Golf Club in Fanling.

Also breaking a long title drought was the Dustin Johnson-led 4Aces, who grabbed their first team win in 974 days with their 58-under showing.

Rahm started the season with back-to-back runner-up finishes before hoisting the Hong Kong trophy.

"Very relieving," said Rahm, who has won the past two season-long individual titles. "That's the only way I can describe it. I've been very ecstatic for wins in the past. This one just feels like a big weight off my shoulder. That's all I can say."

Detry shot a 67 on Sunday to finish 20-under and in sole possession of second place. Fellow Belgian Thomas Pieters (66) was a stroke behind Detry in third place, and Varner (69) finished in fourth at 18-under. Matthew Wolff (65) was fifth.

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With the victory, Rahm snapped a streak of 26 events without an individual win, despite the success of his Legion XIII team.

"It's very fun when you can stand on that podium and celebrate with your teammates," Rahm said. "But as far as obviously being a competitor and as myself goes, I wanted to get this done. It feels different. I think I would be way more ecstatic if I was celebrating with my teammates for the win, like the Aces did today, but there's a sense of self-accomplishment and pride that goes with doing it myself."

The 4Aces won the team championship in 2022 and two event titles in 2023 but hadn't managed a win since. But buoyed by Detry and Pieters -- along with solid finishes by Johnson and Anthony Kim -- this week was different.

The group was 16-under on Sunday, led by a 65 from Johnson and a 66 from Kim.

"It's been a while since we've won, especially with the way we started, dominating, pretty much winning every single event, or if we didn't win, we were finishing second for the first couple years," Johnson said.

"Obviously since then, LIV as a whole, the players have gotten a lot stronger, a lot better. The teams have gotten stronger. So it's a lot harder to win. That's a little bit of a factor. I think this year we've put together a really good team, so I think we're going to be competing each and every week. So, I'm very happy with that."

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Major airports grapple with hourslong security wait times and TSA staffing shortages amid partial government shutdown

Travel at major U.S. airports turned into a nightmare Sunday, with up to three-hour long security wait times and a shortage of TSA workers at the start of spring break travel amid the partial government shutdown.

Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Lauren Bis said travelers are facing missed flights and massive delays. She blamed the chaos on congressional Democrats' refusal to fund DHS, which has led to the partial shutdown.

"These political stunts force patriotic TSA officers, who protect our skies from serious threats, to work without pay," she said. "These frontline heroes received only partial paychecks earlier this month and now face their first full missed paycheck, leading to financial hardship, absences, and crippling staffing shortages."

DHS fundingexpired on Feb. 13, with lawmakers locking horns over Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection policies after federal agents killed two Americans in Minneapolis. Democrats are seeking reforms to rein in those agencies, but Republicans have argued that changes were already made in response to the killings.

The impasse triggered the partial shutdown impacting DHS, which affects the Transportation Security Administration, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Coast Guard.

TSA officers, who are considered essential employees, must work without pay while the funding bill is stalled in Congress.

Sunday's delays come as this week marks the start of the bustling spring break travel period.

William P. Hobby Airport in Houston was experiencing a wait time of 2 hours and 45 minutes just before noon Sunday, according to federal officials.

The Airportwarned on Xthat TSA wait times may exceed three hours. "Due to the federal government shutdown, passengers should arrive 4-5 hours before their flight to allow extra time for TSA screening," the airport said.

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One Southwest Airlines travelershared a photo showing packed linesat the airport. She said she was in an hour-and-a-half line to check her baggage and her flight was due to leave in 2.5 hours.

"TSA isn't working so security is basically shut down!! They say the security line is at least four hours long right now," she wrote.

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport had wait times of an hour, while George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston had a wait time of 51 minutes and Charlotte Douglas International Airport a delay of 47 minutes, officials said.

Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport also warned ofa shortage of TSA workers at security checkpointscausing "longer-than-average lines." Travelers were asked to arrive at least three hours before departure.

Airlines for America, a trade association whose members include American, Delta, United and Southwest, on Sunday decried what it characterized as the use of transportation security workers for "political leverage" and the subsequent delays and strain on the aviation system.

"We are in spring break travel season and expecting record numbers of people to take to the skies," A4A President and CEO Chris Sununu said in a statement. "Airlines have done their part to prepare; now Congress and the administration must act with urgency to reach a deal that reopens DHS and ends this shutdown."

The White House and Senate Democrats have traded offers back and forth in past weeks but have thus far failed to reach a funding breakthrough.

Republicans sought to usethe Iran war to pressure Democratsto relent on their demands, but Democrats have refused.

It's been an embattled year for TSA workers, who already went weeks without pay during the43-day shutdownthatended in November.

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Israeli strike kills six Palestinians in Gaza, medics say

By Nidal al-Mughrabi

Aftermath of an Israeli strike in Gaza City

CAIRO, March 8 (Reuters) - An Israeli air strike and tank shelling killed six Palestinians, including two girls, in Gaza City on Sunday in two separate attacks, the deadliest ‌incidents in Gaza since Israel and the U.S. launched their war against Iran a week ‌ago, health officials said.

Mohamed Abu Selmia, the head of the Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, said the three men were ​near Al-Azhar University in western Gaza City, and included a paramedic Mohammad Hamduna, and two others named as Mohammad Abu Shedeq and Ahmed Lafi.

The strike hit near crowded tent camps where Gazans were sheltering, and wounded several other people, the medics added.

Such attacks have declined since the start of the U.S.-Israeli campaign against Iran, although Israeli ‌forces have killed several Palestinians over ⁠the past week.

The Israeli military issued a statement on Sunday about the strike saying they had killed two Hamas members who had been preparing to attack Israeli ⁠soldiers, without providing evidence.

No militant group has claimed any of the men as members.

The Israeli military declined to comment in response to Reuters' request for evidence connecting the men to a potential attack.

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A little after midnight in the ​central Gaza ​Strip, Israeli tank shelling killed at least three people, ​including two girls, and wounded 10 other ‌people, some of them children, according to health officials at Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat camp.

Medics said the tank shells hit a tent encampment, housing displaced families in the western Nuseirat area. Two years of war turned most of the enclave into a wasteland, and internally displaced most of the territory's over two million population.

There was no immediate Israeli comment on the reported tank shelling incident.

Israel and Hamas agreed to a U.S.-brokered Gaza ‌ceasefire deal that kicked off last October, but violence has ​continued on a near-daily basis. Both sides have blamed the ​other for the violation of the truce ​agreement.

The Gaza health ministry said at least 640 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli ‌fire since October. Israel says four soldiers have ​been killed by militants ​in Gaza over the same period.

Gaza has been devastated by more than two years of an Israeli onslaught that killed over 72,000 Palestinians, according to local health authorities, and left much of ​the enclave in ruins.

The war was ‌sparked by Hamas' October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, where the militants killed 1,200 people ​and took over 250 hostages, according to Israeli tallies.

(Reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi and Pesha Magid; ​Editing by Helen Popper, Alexandra Hudson and Stephen Coates)

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Kansas City airport resumes operations after 'potential threat' prompts evacuation

Parts of the Kansas City International Airport in Kansas City, Missouri were evacuated March 8 as authorities investigated apotential threat, according to the airport.

Kansas City Aviation Department spokesperson Jackson Overstreet said in an email to USA TODAY that sections of the terminal were evacuated as a "precaution."

"Airport Police are working with the FBI to substantiate any potential threat," Overstreet said.

FBI DirectorKash Patelsaid in a post on X thatthe threat"was reviewed and determined not to be credible."

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Airport officials told USA TODAY the threat was received around 11:15 a.m. CT. Several hours later, Transportation SecretarySean Duffysaid in a post on X that thesecurity incident"is now clear and normal operations are resuming." Video posted to social media by Krista Tatschl of KMBC-TVshows passengers returning to the terminalfrom the tarmac.

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Photos of the scene published by Kansas City television station KCTV showtravelers on the tarmac.Eyewitnesses told the station that agents opened the gates onto the tarmac and advised passengers to line up between Terminal A and Terminal B around 12:05 p.m. CT.

USA TODAY has reached out to the FBI for further comment.

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Sixers star Tyrese Maxey out for at least 2 games with sprained finger sustained in loss to Hawks

Philadelphia 76ers All-Star Tyrese Maxey has a sprained right pinkie and will miss at least two games.

The76ers announced Maxey's diagnosis on Sunday,a day after he sustained the injury in a loss to the Atlanta Hawks.

The injury will require further testing, and the 76ers didn't rule out an extended absence for their star guard.

"Tyrese Maxey suffered a sprain of the right fifth finger," the 76ers' statement reads. "He will undergo additional testing and consultation in the coming days to determine a treatment plan. He is out for the next two games and further updates will be provided after the back-to-back."

The 76ers are scheduled to play the Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday and the Memphis Grizzlies on Tuesday. From there, they'll face the Eastern Conference-leading Detroit Pistons Thursday night.

The 76ers were already playing without Joel Embiid, VJ Edgecombe and Paul George on Saturday night in Atlanta. Then, with less than a minute left in a125-116 lossto the Hawks, Maxey suffered the injury that head coach Nick Nursereportedlysaid called for X-rays.

With less than 30 seconds to go, Maxey went for a steal and collided in the paint with teammate Adem Bona, a 6-foot-10, 235-pound big man.

Immediately, Maxey grabbed his right hand in pain.

The two-time All-Star guard walked off the floor with 16.2 ticks remaining, tucking his hand under his jersey as he headed toward the locker room.

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The Athletic's Tony Jonesreported Saturday night that Maxey will receive additional testing on Sunday.

"Nothing conclusive tonight,"Jones wrote on X.

Maxey came into the game leading the team and ranking fourth in the NBA with a career-high 28.9 points per game.

He scored 31 points on 12-of-22 shooting in Atlanta for a short-handed Sixers squad. With the loss, Philadelphia dropped to 34-29. The Sixers are now eighth in the Eastern Conference and just 1.5 games ahead of the ninth-place Hawks, who improved to 33-31 with Saturday's pivotal victory.

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Atlanta got 35 points, 10 rebounds and 7 assists from All-Star forward Jalen Johnson. Nickeil Alexander-Walker chipped in 24 points and went 4 of 9 from deep.

Embiid missed his 30th game this season, including his fourth straight. His latest issueis an oblique strain. The Sixers are 21-12 in the games Embiid has played in this season. They are 13-17 without him.

They were also missing Edgecombe, as the rookie guard was sidelined by a lumbar contusion he sustained when he fell hard on his lower backafter being fouled from behind on a 3-point attempt in a lopsided defeat to the San Antonio Spurs on Tuesday.

George still has nine games remainingon the 25-game suspension he received from the league on Jan. 31 for violating the league's anti-drug program.

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