Basketball
James guides Cavaliers
CLEVELAND — LeBron James didn’t wait for the last play. He did all he needed to do before the clock got anywhere near zero.
James had 32 points, nine rebounds and nine assists in the most important game of his young NBA career, helping Cleveland to an 88-82 victory over the Detroit Pistons on Sunday night to pull the Cavaliers within 2-1 in the Eastern Conference finals.
James, rising to the occasion with a hometown crowd hanging on his every move, scored 12 points in the fourth quarter and rookie Daniel Gibson came up with several key plays down the stretch to help his more celebrated teammate.
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Jazz get comfortable
SALT LAKE CITY — Back in the comfort of home, the Utah Jazz found some things they didn’t have the first two games of the Western Conference finals: Confidence, defense and scorers other than Carlos Boozer and Deron Williams.
Williams and Boozer still led the way, but it was the play of their teammates that carried Utah past San Antonio 109-83 on Saturday night,
