LOS ANGELES (AFP) – Serbian Nikola Jokic scored 32 points, added 16 rebounds and nine assists and his team, the defending champion Denver Nuggets, suffered their sixth straight loss in the NBA with a 111-108 loss to the visiting Los Angeles Clippers on Tuesday. Competitions.
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In the new “in-season” competition, the 30 clubs are divided into six groups of five, and each team will play a total of four matches this month, with two teams joining to decide the six leaders. quarter final. All matches of this new trophy will count in the NBA league and regular season standings, except for the final on December 9 in Las Vegas.
In the second round of the Western Conference, defending champion Denver overcame a seven-point deficit midway through the fourth quarter against the Clippers to win and keep its undefeated streak at home.
The loss was another major blow to the Clippers, who have lost six games since signing James Harden last month.
The Clippers appeared to be on track to end the losing streak after a terrific performance by Paul George, who finished with 35 points and Harden added 21 points.
But Denver eventually imposed its superiority, scoring 19 points compared to 9 for the Clippers in the final minutes of the final quarter to secure the win.
“They lost five in a row, so we knew they were going to play really hard,” Jokic said after the match.
The Serbian continued, “But we are undefeated this season and we wanted to keep it that way.”
Jokic was assisted by Aaron Gordon with 20 points, while Reggie Jackson added 18 points.
The Golden State Warriors and the visiting Minnesota Timberwolves rallied from a 12-point deficit in the third quarter for a 104-101 win at Chase Center Stadium in San Francisco.
However, the result was overshadowed by a first-quarter scuffle in which Golden State stars Klay Thompson and Draymond Green were ejected with Minnesota’s Jaden McDaniels.
In an on-court confrontation with McDaniels, Thompson ordered the Warriors player off the court after his shirt was torn. Green was ejected for his role in the confrontation when he grabbed Minnesota star Rudy Gobert by the neck.
Warriors coach Steve Kerr expressed his anger at the decision to fire Thompson, insisting Green was only protecting his teammate.
“It was never okay to take Klay out of the game,” Kerr said, “and he was running down the field and the guy grabbed his shirt and Klay pulled him…it was ridiculous.”
Leads a team Spanish Barcelona Its rival Atletico Madrid, tonight at 10pm at the Montjuic Stadium, in a match that will bring them together in the 15th round of the Spanish League competitions.
Barcelona played 14 rounds in the Spanish league this season, with 9 wins, 4 draws and one loss, earning 31 points. Atleti played 14 matches in La Liga, split between 10 wins, one draw and two defeats. 31 in total.
Barcelona enter the match against Atlético Madrid after a disappointing 1–1 draw against Rayo Vallecano in the last round of La Liga, while Atlético Madrid beat Real Mallorca with a clean sheet in the same round.
Barcelona play the summit clash against the Rojiblancos today after beating Porto 2-1 in the fifth round of the group stage to officially qualify for the Champions League quarter-finals. -1 in the same round.
The referee for Barcelona’s summit clash against Atletico Madrid will be Sánchez Martínez, who will assist him in the referee’s room, the Spanish Football Federation’s Referees Committee has announced. VAR Referee Hernandez Hernandez.
Sánchez Martínez’s last game in charge was between Barcelona and Atletico Madrid at the Camp Nou, and Barca won 1-0 in the 30th round of the 2022-2023 Spanish League last season, in which the Catalan side won the title. .
“Euro 2024” draw: England skips the big ones… and Spain are in “hard iron”
The draw for the finals of the European Football Championship (Euro 2024) in Germany took place on Saturday at the Elbe Philharmonic Concert Hall in Hamburg, resulting in home team Germany in a balanced group and second. Very solid. It includes Spain, defending champions Italy and Croatia, France and the Netherlands in a group.
The first group includes Germany, Scotland, Hungary and Switzerland.
The second group includes Spain, Croatia, Italy and Albania.
The third group includes Slovenia, Denmark, Serbia and England.
As for the fourth group, it includes the winner from the first stage of the playoff along with the Netherlands, Austria and France.
The Belgium national team plays in the fifth group, next to the Slovak and Romanian teams and the winner from the second track of the playoff.
Group Six will feature Turkey, the winner from the third playoff track, Portugal and the Czech Republic.
In the opening game, the German national team will take on Scotland on June 14 at the Allianz Arena in Munich.
The tournament will feature 24 teams, divided into 6 groups, and their matches will be held at 10 stadiums in 10 different cities.
Germany will host the tournament from June 14 to July 14, 2024, with the opening match at the Allianz Arena in Munich and the final at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin.
This edition of the European Nations Cup is the 17th since it was launched in 1960, and all its editions have been held regularly every 4 years, except for the last edition, which was postponed to 2021 due to “Corona”. pandemic, and the 17th edition is scheduled to take place in 2024, returning the tournament to its normal frequency.
Only the identity of the 21 teams was announced during the ceremony, while the identity of the last 3 teams to qualify for the tournament will be determined by a playoff in March 2024, less than 3 months before the tournament begins.
The German national team competes as the host nation’s representative, while qualifiers held in the past have led to the qualification of 20 teams divided into six groups.
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The European Football Union (UEFA) revealed four tiers of qualified teams, with 6 teams in each tier. During the draw, one team from each level is selected to place in one of the six groups in the first round of the tournament.
The declared positions are as follows:
First stage: Germany – Portugal – France – Spain – Belgium – England
Second stage: Hungary – Turkey – Denmark – Albania – Romania – Austria
Fourth stage: Italy – Serbia – Switzerland – three teams qualified through playoffs
The teams were distributed in four stages according to the results of the qualifying rounds, except for the German team, which represented the host country, which was placed in the first stage teams, in addition to the first group.
Each of the three teams expected to qualify are referred to as qualified teams in the playoff tracks (1, 2, and 3), as the first includes teams from Poland, Wales, Finland, and Estonia, while the second includes teams. Israel, Bosnia, Iceland and Ukraine, while the third track consists of Georgia, Greece, Kazakhstan and Luxembourg.
Competitions for each track are held in a semi-final and final round format, with one team from each track qualifying and competing directly in the finals.
The Elbe Philharmonic Hall in Hamburg hosted the Lottery Festival (TBA).
During the finals, the four teams in each group compete in a single-round league format, and the first and second-placed teams qualify directly for the Round of 16, and the top 4 teams in third place in their groups join the Round of 12. Teams.
The first round of matches (group stage) will be held from June 14 to 26, 2024, followed by the elimination rounds from June 29 to the end of the Round of 16 proceedings on July 2. The quarter finals will be held. The semi-finals will be held on the 5th and 6th of the same month, the semi-finals on the 9th and 10th of the same month and the final on 14 July.
Germany is hosting the continental championship for the second time in its history after hosting the 1988 edition won by the Netherlands.
Germany has previously won the continental title three times in 1972, 1980 and 1996, making it the most successful team on the same level with the Spanish national team who topped the podium in 1964, 2008 and 2012 editions.
Italy and France have won the title twice and once
The Arabic version of “GOAL” website today, Saturday, December 2023 AD second, tracks the most important news about the Saudi Federation and what is happening around the team.
Marcelo Gallardo of Argentina decided; Al-Ittihad’s technical director today rested the team’s players from training, 48 hours before they face Iran’s Sebahan Isfahan in the final round of the AFC Champions League group stage tomorrow, Monday.
The rest of the players are coming in light of the fact that the Asian tournament is a foregone conclusion as Dean has already decided to qualify for the next round from the fifth round.
But with the Tigers currently leading the pack with 12 points and Sepahan second with 10 points, it is strange that this is not an achievement in deciding the top spot in the group.
Today, Al-Ittihad is expected to sign a new sponsorship deal with Tatweer Al-Balad at the company’s headquarters in historic Jeddah.
The company is owned by the Public Investment Fund, which acquired 75% of the Al-Jedawi Club as part of the privatization of the Big Quartet.
The deal is the fifth sponsor of the federation in the current season after Roshan, Saif Security, NOAA and SRC.
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