LOS ANGELES (AFP) – Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Durant will miss at least two games with a strained left hamstring, the NBA team said Sunday.
Durant scored 20 points in 33 minutes Saturday at Golden State – his first return to the home court of the Warriors team he helped to NBA titles in 2017 and 2018.
He suffered a torn Achilles tendon in the 2019 championship series and then departed Golden State for the Nets.
It wasn’t clear when he suffered the injury, which the Nets described in a statement as mild.
The team said he would miss Monday’s game at Sacramento and Tuesday’s game at Phoenix.
Serena not ‘obsessed’
MELBOURNE (AFP) – Serena Williams’ coach insisted she’s not ”obsessed” with equalling Margaret Court’s record of 24 Grand Slam titles, arguing her achievements could not be compared with titles won in the amateur era.
The 39-year-old, 23-time major winner has lost four Slam finals while chasing Court’s all-time mark since her last major victory at Melbourne Park in 2017 while pregnant.
Despite now having a three-year-old daughter, Olympia, in tow, Williams is still grinding away. But her coach Patrick Mouratoglou said she had nothing to prove.
”Does she need that validation (of winning a 24th Slam)? I don’t think she needs that validation,” he said.
”But, I mean, clearly she came back to tennis to win some other Grand Slams, so that’s for sure the goal.
”Now, she’s not as obsessed with the 24 than most of the people in the tennis world, but definitely she wants to win Grand Slams.”
Rowers join online meet
Seven athletes, led by Southeast Asian Games gold medalist Melcah Caballero, will see action in the 2021 World Rowing Indoor Championships to be held online on Feb. 23 to 27.
Caballero and her teammates were among the 935 finalists from 63 countries who earned berths in the said event following their performances at the Continental qualifiers recently.
The 2019 SEAG double gold medalist will action in the lightweight women’s 500 meters after ruling the recent Asian trials with the best time of one minute and 40.6 seconds.
Other Filipino bets are Joanie Delgaco and Mireille Qua in the under-23 women (500m), Joachim de Jesus in U23 lightweight men (500m), and Wylen Lu, Alyssa Go and Kyra Louise Sandejas in U23 lightweight women (500m). (Kristel Satumbaga)
Ex-PH boxer passes away
The Association of Boxing Alliances in the Philippines (ABAP) announced Monday that one of its former national athletes passed away Saturday evening in Baguio City.
Alexcel Dargantes, 24, was a member of the ABAP women’s team from 2013-2017.
She was from General Santos City but had stayed on in Baguio, where the Boxing Training Center was, until her untimely demise. ABAP president Ricky Vargas expressed sorrow at Dargantes’ passing and assured that the national association would take care of the arrangements and expenses of bringing the remains back to her hometown. tatic.adsafeprotected.com:443″:{“supports_spdy”:true}},{“pixel.adsafeprotected.com:443”:{“supports_spdy”:true}},{“smetrics.cnn.com:443”:{“supports_spdy”:true}},{“secure-us.imrworldwide.com:443”:{“supports_spdy”:true}},{“theguidon.com:443”:{“supports_spdy”:true}},{“ping.chartbeat.net:443”:{“supports_spdy”:true}},{“api.segment.io:443”:{“supports_spdy”:true}},{“i.clean.gg:443”:{“supports_spdy”:true}},{“events.bouncex.net:443”:{“supports_spdy”:true}},{“489d9e86d4e0ad1d0ced8cbafbe319ec.safeframe.googlesyndication.com:443”:{“supports_spdy”:true}},{“cdn.ampproject.org:443”:{“supports_spdy”:true}},{“hb.gammaplatform.com:443”:{“supports_spdy”:true}},{“prg8.smartadserver.com:443”:{“supports_spdy”:true}},{“cdnjs.cloudflare.com:443”:{“supports_spdy”:true}},{“cdn.izooto.com:443”:{“supports_spdy”:true}},{“assets.pinterest.com:443”:{“suppor\
