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PHOENIX (AP) — Even without Chris Paul, the Phoenix Suns did what they've done pretty much every time they've taken the court this year. Win a basketball game. Depending on the status of Paul's right hand, the Suns might have to figure out more ways to win without their star point guard following the All-Star break. Devin Booker scored 24 points, Deandre Ayton added 23 and the NBA-leading Suns extended their winning streak to seven games, rallying after Paul was hurt and then ejected to beat the Houston Rockets 124-121 on Wednesday night. Phoenix improved to 48-10 heading into the All-Star break, Mint Velvet Sale  but the main concern was the status of Paul’s hand. The 12-time All-Star was angry after getting his right hand jammed on a pass and argued for the fi...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Anthony Davis has missed over one-third of the Los Angeles Lakers games this season due to injuries. It looks like he will miss more time after another setback. Davis sprained his right ankle during the second quarter of Wednesday night's game against the Utah Jazz. He was down on the court for several minutes. The Lakers said an X-ray on Davis’ ankle was negative and that he would receive further treatment during the upcoming All-Star break. Coach Frank Vogel Oofos Shoes said after the Lakers' 106-101 win that Davis would get an MRI on Thursday to assess the severity of the sprain. “He was shaking his head about everything. He was frustrated because like it looks like he is going to miss some time,” said Vogel, who saw Davis in the locker room dur...

NEW YORK (AP) — Hollywood's Super Bowl weekend largely fizzled with the muted debut of Kenneth Branagh's long-delayed Agatha Christie whodunit, “Death on the Nile,” a tepid reception for the Jennifer Lopez romantic-comedy “Marry Me” and modest box-office bumps for Oscar nominees. “Death on the Nile,” Branagh's follow-up to the 2017 hit “Murder on the Orient Express,” led all films with $12.8 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. Produced under 20th Century Fox before its acquisition by the Walt Disney Co., Hey Dudes Shoes  “Death on the Nile” had been delayed by the pandemic and by scandal that engulfed one of its stars, Armie Hammer. Last March, Hammer was put under investigation by Los Angeles police in a sexual assault. Hammer has denied the allega...

The audience on NBC and Telemundo was a 6% increase over the 95.2 million TV viewers who saw the Tampa Bay Bucs crowned as champions in 2021, the Nielsen company said on Tuesday. The ratings improvement for what is traditionally the most-watched event of the year was no surprise, given the run of terrific playoff games leading up to it. Viewership for the NFL's divisional round was up 20% over last year, and the conference championships were up 10%, Nielsen said. Besides the good games, a sense — or hope —Hoka Running Shoes that the coronavirus pandemic may be winding down might have contributed to the increased audience, said Cole Strain, head of measurement for the research firm Samba TV. “We felt there was a little more freedom,” Strain said. The half...

Kors brought the sparkle in celebration of his Fall/Winter 2022 collection Tuesday night at live music venue Terminal 5. As models strutted down the catwalk in glittering gowns, neon-hued knits and statement outerwear, Grammy-winning artist Miguel performed songs from Prince including “Raspberry Beret” and “I Would Die 4 You.” After the past two years of the pandemic, Kors said he wanted to give his New York Fashion Week audience a live performance. And he certainly brought the glitz. “In this collection, there is not a tracksuit, flip flop or sneaker,” Kors said in an interview before the show. “This is really all about being polished, feeling glamorous Hey Dudes  and hitting the streets.” Many of the celebrities in attendance wore black, the designer's color of...

That's what former FBI supervisory agent Stanley Ruffin tells viewers in “RACE: Bubba Wallace," a Netflix docuseries that chronicles the only Black driver at NASCAR's top level and his professional rise and personal role in social justice issues. The series is targeted to a non-NASCAR audience unfamiliar with Wallace's emergence or the facts surrounding the noose found in his garage stall at an Alabama track. Wallace had successfully called on NASCAR to ban the Confederate flag at its events in June 2020. Two weeks later, NASCAR told Wallace a noose had been discovered in his assigned stall at Talladega Superspeedway. The incident occurred at the height of a national racial Hoka Sneakers reckoning following the murders of Black men George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery. Wall...