Daly, who coached U.S., Pistons, is dead
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Chuck Daly, who coached the Dream Team to the Olympic gold medal in 1992 after winning back-to-back NBA championships with the Detroit Pistons, died Saturday morning in Jupiter, Fla., with his family by his side. He was 78. The Pistons announced in March that the Hall of Fame coach was being treated for pancreatic cancer. Daly was renowned for creating harmony out of diverse personalities at all levels of the game, whether they were Ivy Leaguers at Pennsylvania, Dream Teamers Michael Jordan and Charles Barkley, or Pistons as dissimilar as Dennis Rodman and Joe Dumars.
SUNS: : Phoenix removed the interim tag attached to coach Alvin Gentry's job title since he took over the club in February.
Anthony sinks Mavs; Yao done for playoffs
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Carmelo Anthony (Towson Catholic) broke free of a defender trying to foul him and nailed a three-pointer that gave the Denver Nuggets a 106-105 victory over the host Dallas Mavericks, giving them a 3-0 series lead that has been insurmountable in NBA history. Denver trailed 105-101 with 31 seconds left, but got a quick dunk from Anthony and forced Dirk Nowitzki to miss a 13-footer with about eight seconds left. After a timeout, Anthony took an inbounds pass and Dallas' Antoine Wright tried to foul him - twice - since the Mavericks had a foul to give. Anthony, who scored 31 points, lost his dribble the first time, then bounced off the second bump and made the three from right in front of the Dallas bench.
CAVALIERS 97, HAWKS 82: : LeBron James, the league's Most Valuable Player, scored 47 points in his best game of the 2008-09 playoffs, leading visiting Cleveland to the brink of its second straight postseason sweep.
ROCKETS: : All-Star center Yao Ming is out for the rest of the playoffs with a hairline fracture in his left foot. He limped off the court late in the Los Angeles Lakers' 108-94 victory over the Rockets on Friday night. Yao is expected to need eight to 12 weeks to recover.
Woods tied 5 shots behind Cejka at TPC
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Alex Cejka made a 5-foot birdie putt on the final hole to end a wild and steamy Saturday at The Players Championship in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., that left yet another surprising development: Tiger Woods in the final group. Cejka kept out of the water over the closing holes and wound up with an even-par 72 to build a five-shot lead, the largest after three rounds in the 36 years of this prestigious event. Woods, who struggled most of the day, is tied for second after two-putting for birdie on the 16th and making an 8-foot birdie on the island-green 17th.
