3/11/24 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Monday
11 March 2024 Sports
Damian Lillard’s 35 points helped the Milwaukee Bucks defeat a short-handed Los Angeles Clippers team 124-117 on Sunday.
Lillard hit three of his seven 3-pointers in the fourth, while Giannis Antetokounmpo added 34 points to help the Bucks rebound from back-to-back losses to Golden State and the Lakers by outlasting the Clippers, who played without Kawhi Leonard and Paul George.
James Harden had 13 points and 11 assists while playing without his two superstar teammates, who both sat out of the team’s second home game in less than 24 hours. The Clippers decided to rest both Leonard and George as they played extensively in their win over Chicago on Saturday.
Lillard and Antetokounmpo finally took charge down the stretch to avoid the Bucks’ first three-game losing streak in a month.
Neither team led by more than eight points all day until Lillard hit three free throws and a 3-pointer on consecutive possessions with less than two minutes to play.
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The Bucks travel to Sacramento on Tuesday night.
The Packers will release linebacker De’Vondre Campbell at the start of the new league year on Wednesday, according to a report by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Green Bay will create $10.5 million dollars in cap room by parting ways with the linebacker, per Tom Silverstein’s report.
The Packers save the most money by releasing him at the start of the league year and it allows them to designate him as a post-June 1 cut.
Green Bay is now projected to be more than $20 million dollars below the salary cap as the NFL’s legal tampering period kicks off on Monday.
The Packers extended Campbell following his First Team All-Pro campaign in 2021 and restructured his contract last offseason. The veteran linebacker finished with 75 tackles and played in just 11 games due to injury.
Campbell posted on social media that he would no longer play hurt after the week 15 loss to the Buccaneers and Matt LaFleur followed by giving Campbell time off from practice and games to ‘get his body back’.
There are still other key decisions looming for general manager Brian Gutekunst ahead of the start of the league year this week such as the future of tackle David Bakhtiari, who carries a $40 million dollar cap hit this season.
The Laconia girls’ basketball team had some clutch plays down the stretch that helped them defeat Cuba City 47-43 at the Resch Center to repeat as state champs.
Laconia, making its third straight state title game appearance, showed that experience matters.
When the game was tied 41-41 with less that one minute to go, Laconia’s Aubrey Leonord scored a layup off a side out of bounds play. Following a defensive stop Molly Duel hauled in a long pass from Tierney Madigan and scored another layup and added two free throws to seal the victory as Laconia won back-to-back titles.
“We went through four or five out of the top seven teams in Division 4, we’re battle-tested and just validates how good a team this is,” said Head Coach Chris Morgan
Laconia only shot 29 percent from the field as it took longer than six minutes to score to start the game, but their defense made up for the poor shooting by not letting the Cubans go on a run.
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