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UNDATED (AP) — The San Antonio Spurs and Atlanta Hawks have taken 2-0 leads in their respective NBA first-round series. Patty Mills had a team-high 16 points off the bench and the Spurs never trailed in beating the Memphis Grizzlies 94-68. Al Horford and Kyle Korver scored 17 points apiece as the Hawks downed Boston 89-72.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles Clippers guard Jamal Crawford has won the NBA's Sixth Man Award for the a record third time, two years after he was the oldest player to receive the honor. The 36-year-old Crawford claimed 51 first-place votes and 341 points from a panel of 130 sports writers and broadcasters in the U.S. and Canada. NBA Finals MVP Andre Iguodala (ihg-ah-DAH'-lah) of Golden State finished second with 288 points.
UNDATED (AP) — The St. Louis Blues, Anaheim Ducks, Pittsburgh Penguins and Tampa Bay Lightning won last night's Stanley Cup playoff games. Third-period goals by Jaden Schwartz and Alex Steen led the Blues past Chicago 4-3, while Frederik Andersen turned back 27 shots to carry the Ducks past Nashville 3-0. Matt Cullen scored the Pens' tiebreaking goal 4:16 into the third period of a 3-1 win over the New York Rangers, and the Lightning beat Detroit 3-2 on Ondrej Palat's (AHN'-dray pah-LAHTS') power-play goal with 2:59 to play.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The NHL has suspended Flyers forward Pierre-Edouard Bellemare for Game 4 of the team's Eastern Conference first-round series tonight against Washington. Bellemare was given a major penalty and a game misconduct for slamming Capitals defenseman Dmitry Orlov head-first into the boards with about eight minutes left in the Caps' 6-1 rout of Philadelphia on Monday. Orlov was slow to get up but was not injured and returned to the game.
UNDATED (AP) — Brian Hoyer has been released by the Houston Texans, a little more than a month after the Texans signed Brock Osweiler (AHS'-wy-lur) to a four-year, $72 million contract. Hoyer signed a two-year contract before last season, but his five-turnover debacle in a 30-0 playoff loss to Kansas City proved to be his undoing. Houston also cut quarterback B.J. Daniels.
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