Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James appeared to explode on head coach Darvin Ham during the team’s 119-108 victory in Game 4 to avoid the sweep against the Denver Nuggets on Saturday.

The Lakers were up 15 points early in the fourth quarter. The ball went to Nuggets guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope. James knocked the ball away from him, and it went out of bounds. James insisted the ball didn’t go out of bounds off of him.

He appeared to yell at Ham to challenge the play, but none was called. James was furious on the sideline as the Nuggets inbounded the ball.

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Cooler heads seemed to prevail and Los Angeles pulled off the win. James led Los Angeles with 30 points, five rebounds and four assists. Anthony Davis added 25 points and 23 rebounds.

“We’ve given ourselves another lifeline, and it’s a one-game series for us. Monday’s game is the most important game of the season for us, and we understand that,” James said.

Lakers’ LeBron James dunks against the Denver Nuggets during their first-round playoff game on April 27, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

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Nuggets center Nikola Jokić scored 33 points, grabbed 14 rebounds and doled out 14 assists. It was his 18th career triple-double and helped bring the lead down to seven with 1:25 left.

But Austin Reaves was able to bring it back to nine late.

“Of course we want to [start faster], but I learned in horse racing, it’s not how you start, it’s how you finish,” Jokic said. “We didn’t finish today really well, so hopefully we can do a better job. But yes, we want to be up and control the game, but it seems like that didn’t happen to us.”

Lakers forward LeBron James knocks the ball away from Nuggets center Nikola Jokić on April 27, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Game 5 is set for Monday.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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You couldn’t have written a better final chapter. UCLA and Arizona, two of the nation’s powerhouses, two blue bloods in softball, meeting one last time as Pac-12 Conference rivals on Senior Day with Glendale, Ariz.,-born freshman pitcher Kaitlin Terry in the circle for the Bruins and Arizona transfer Sharlize Palacios hitting a tying grand slam to put an exclamation point on a seven-run fifth inning.

Despite going into the fifth staring down a 7-0 hole while being no-hit by Wildcats starting pitcher Aissa Silva, Palacios and the Bruins never lost faith they could pull out a win.

“Honestly, the Bruins don’t sweat that,” Palacios said. “Our mentality is we’re going to come back. That’s the Bruin magic, the mental process with everything that we do. We just believe in ourselves and we’re going to bet on ourselves every time.”

Right fielder Megan Grant led off the bottom of the fifth with a solo home run to end Silva’s perfect game and finally put UCLA on the board. Taylor Stephens and Ramsey Suarez followed up with back-to-back singles. Thessa Malau’ulu then produced a walk to load the bases for senior Maya Brady, who capitalized with a two-run double to trim the Bruins’ deficit to 7-3 with two outs in the inning.

“I feel like it was never really about seven or tying the game, it was really just about getting one,” Brady said. “And I think it just shows that when we bind to a plan and we’re all super committed, and we’re all working towards one goal, we can really accomplish anything.”

The rally didn’t stop there. Infielder Jadelyn Allchin took first after being hit by a pitch to load the bases again. That’s when Palacios completed the comeback against her former team and tied the score with one swing of the bat, sending Easton Stadium into a frenzy that hadn’t been heard since the first inning.

“I think I just lock in a little bit more against them. But it’s definitely just the same game and I just try my best to stay composed and stay Sharlize,” Palacios said. “All the teams that we play are gutsy, they’re a really great team and we all gut it out. But at the end of the day, I’m happy that the Bruins were able to come out on top and just give it all we had.”

The rivalry between UCLA and Arizona in softball can best be described as a clash of titans. In the 40 years of NCAA Division I softball championships, these schools have combined for 20 of them. UCLA notably beat Arizona in the 2010 Women’s College World Series to clinch their 11th national title. Every time the Bruins play the Wildcats, coach Kelly Inouye-Perez, who has been with the program since her freshman year in 1989, knows it’s going to be a dogfight, and she wouldn’t have it any other way.

“The best part about the rivalry, or just being in the Pac-12, is exactly that: the memories, the stories,” Inouye-Perez said. “There’s so many epic battles and today was a perfect example of that. … Every time we play Arizona, it’s an offensive battle. And you got to keep watching. We’ve been down, they’ve been up, and the history speaks for itself.”

The rivalry has been one of Brady’s favorite things about softball in general, predating her Bruins career.

“They’re two of the greatest programs in college softball,” Brady said. “So just to be a part of that, and especially getting to be a part of the last one, it’s just such an honor and they always have great players. … It’s just a super historic rivalry that’s sadly coming to an end.”

Malau’ulu’s experience with the rivalry goes back further than her softball career: Her father, George, played quarterback at Arizona, so she has grown up around it all of her life. To her, it felt meant to be that her last home game would be against the Wildcats.

Malau’ulu also left her mark in the bottom of the sixth inning, when she zipped a two-out RBI single to give the Bruins the lead and eventually the win. The icing for her? Seeing her Wildcat dad in the stands decked out in UCLA gear.

The Bruins added a few more runs to secure an 11-7 comeback win, the last one in this historic matchup as conference realignment — and the end of the Pac-12 as we know it — looms in the horizon. Next year, the Bruins will be playing in the Big Ten while the Wildcats take play in the Big 12. It was a final chapter fit for a storied matchup.

As Jalen Brunson stood at the free throw line at the end of the New York Knicks’ Game 4 win over the Philadelphia 76ers on Sunday, a roar of “MVP” chants filled Wells Fargo Center. 

A large contingent of Knicks fans traveled about two hours south of Madison Square Garden to support their New York team, and they were rewarded with a 47-point performance from Brunson as the series returns to the Big Apple 3-1 in the Knicks’ favor.

And some of those fans leaving Wells Fargo Center stood in the lobby and were heard chanting, “F— Embiid,” referencing the 76ers’ reigning MVP, Joel Embiid. 

Speaking with reporters after the loss, Embiid was not happy with the Knicks’ presence in the building.

“Disappointing. I love our fans,” Embiid said, per SNY. “Think it’s unfortunate, and I’m not calling them out, but it is disappointing. Obviously, you got a lot of Knicks fans, and they’re down the road, and I’ve never seen it, and I’ve been here for 10 years.”

“Yeah, it kind of pi—s me off, especially because Philly is considered a sports town. They’ve always shown up, and I don’t think that should happen. Yeah. It’s not OK.”

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It wasn’t just when Brunson took his final free throws of the game that Knicks fans started getting rowdy in enemy territory. All game long, Knicks fans were heard shouting, chanting and urging their team on as they tried to match the home Sixers fans.

Joel Embiid (21) of the Philadelphia 76ers fights for the ball with Isaiah Hartenstein of the New York Knicks during the second quarter in Game 4 of the first-round playoff series at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia on April 28, 2024. (Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images)

“This Philadelphia fan base – I’ve said this before – is very relentless, very passionate. I’m an Eagles fan, I would know. Seeing the Knicks here, hearing the Knicks here was pretty cool, and it’s awesome,” Brunson said. 

“The fans are special,” Knicks center Isaiah Hartenstein said. “It’s probably the closest you’ll ever get to European fans.”

Embiid, who finished with 27 points and 10 rebounds, shot 7 of 19 from the field, though he was 12 of 14 from the charity stripe. He had his home fans screaming in the first quarter when he dropped 10 of the team’s 27 points to take an early lead against the Knicks.

However, the Knicks battled back, and Brunson was the one leading the way. OG Anunoby had 16 points and 14 rebounds, while Miles “Deuce” McBride dropped 13 points off the bench.

Joel Embiid of the Philadelphia 76ers is shown during the fourth quarter in Game 4 of the first-round playoff series at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia on April 28, 2024. (Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images)

New York was able to win one on the road as it heads back to MSG, where their fan presence will be even louder in hopes the Knicks can end the series on Tuesday night.

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