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Damian Lillard wins a record-tying 3rd NBA 3-point contest title. Team Knicks wins Shooting Stars

AP News INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Damian Lillard isn't playing this season. He still scored big anyway, winning the 3-point contest on NBA All-Star Saturday Night over Devin Booker.

Lillard tied Larry Bird and Craig Hodges with his third title, most in the contest's history. Defending champion Tyler Herro of the Miami Heat didn't compete.

Lillard scored 30 points in the final round, edging Booker, who got hot early but tailed off and finished with 27. Booker of the Phoenix Suns was the champion in 2018.

“I was praying for his downfall,” Lillard said.
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NBA's Adam Silver to consider changing draft lottery, revoking picks to stop teams from tanking

AP News INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — NBA Commissioner Adam Silver believes teams are tanking more aggressively this season than the league has seen in recent years, and he is considering many possible remedies to ensure real competition, from taking away draft picks to making wholesale changes to the draft and the lottery.

Silver immediately addressed the hottest topic in NBA circles Saturday in his annual address during All-Star weekend at Intuit Dome, making it clear that the NBA will do almost anything to make sure its teams earnestly compete.

Last Thursday, the league issued...
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Fans who raised Greenland's flag at US-Denmark Olympic hockey game say it was a pro-European gesture

AP News MILAN (AP) — Two fans who raised a flag of Greenland as the United States played Denmark in men's hockey at the Winter Olympics say they did so as a gesture of European support for the island and for Denmark.

Vita Kalniņa and her husband Alexander Kalniņš, fans of the Latvian hockey team who live in Germany, held up a large Greenland flag during warmups and again when the Danish team scored the opening goal of the preliminary round game against the U.S.

“We are Europeans and I think as Europeans we must hold together,” Kalniņš told The Associated Press. Read More

Crown prince urges the world to stand with the people of Iran as 250,000 rally in Munich

AP News MUNICH (AP) — About 250,000 people demonstrated on Saturday against Iran's government on the sidelines of a gathering of world leaders in Germany, police said, answering a call from Iran ’s exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi for cranked-up international pressure on Tehran.

Banging drums and chanting for regime change, the giant and boisterous rally in Munich was part of what Pahlavi described as a “global day of action" to support Iranians in the wake of deadly nationwide protests. He also called for demonstrations in Los Angeles and Toronto. Police said in a post on X that...
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Dogs parade at Rio Carnival as their owners protest against animal cruelty

AP News RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Dozens of dogs dressed as alligators, fairies and superheroes gathered Saturday at a Rio de Janeiro Carnival street party as their owners protested cruelty against pets. The canines wagged their tails to samba music, ate a delicious breakfast from several bowls and made new friends at the so-called Blocao, a traditional event during Brazil's biggest bash.

About 300 people and their pets gathered in the neighborhood of Barra da Tijuca, on Rio’s west side. They sang and danced to old-style Carnival songs as their pets kept their paws protected in the shade...
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  • Fans who raised Greenland's flag at US-Denmark Olympic hockey game say it was a pro-European gesture
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