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OKLAHOMA CITY -- Russell Westbrook is most dangerous when attacking the basket. Super Bowl Colts Jersey . Five fouls kept him from doing that late in Oklahoma Citys game with Portland, but his perimeter play was more than enough. Westbrooks three three-pointers in the final 5 1/2 minutes, including the clincher with 21 seconds remaining, carried the Thunder to a 99-90 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers on Sunday and clinched Oklahoma Citys second straight playoff berth. "You ask just about anybody, theyd rather have the ball in Westbrooks hands than (Kevin) Durants hands late in the game, but he made some big shots," said Portlands Gerald Wallace, who scored 40 points, two short of his career high. "Theyve got a great two-headed snake over there." Westbrook finished with 28 points and Durant had 21, but was he was just 5 of 18 from the field and scored only six in the second half. Wallace was unguardable at times in the second half as he carried the Trail Blazers back from a 14-point halftime deficit. But Oklahoma City made enough plays late to beat Portland for the third time in three tries. "Once youre in a zone like that, youre tough to stop," Durant said of Wallace, whom he guarded much of the night. "But I think we did a good job of helping each other out." Westbrooks three from the left wing gave the Thunder a 97-90 lead and, after Wallace missed a jumper with 16 seconds remaining, the Thunder could finally breathe easy. Their previous two victories had been by a combined three points. Oklahoma City won its third straight and ninth in the past 10. LaMarcus Aldridge scored 20 for Portland. Westbrook picked up his fifth foul with 6:18 remaining, but proceeded to hit back-to-back three-pointers to help the Thunder build a 90-82 lead with just over four minutes remaining. Wallace countered with consecutive baskets of his own to get Portland within 90-88 with 2:11 left. It was 92-88 when Wallace had his shot blocked by Kendrick Perkins on a drive to the basket, and Andre Millers follow attempt was blocked by Serge Ibaka. That led to Westbrooks breakaway for a 94-88 lead. Two free throws by Aldridge made it 94-90 with 43 seconds remaining, but Westbrook clinched it with his long three about 20 seconds later. Wallace scored 15 in the third quarter. The Blazers began the period by outscoring Oklahoma City 13-3, Wallace scoring six, and it stayed close the rest of the way. A late spurt by the Thunder, capped by James Hardens three-pointer, gave Oklahoma City a six-point edge heading into the fourth. Aldridge and Wallace combined to help the Trail Blazers turn an early nine-point deficit into a one-point lead. Durant hit a three-pointer to begin a Thunder second-quarter spurt that saw them outscore the Trail Blazers 19-7 for a 55-41 halftime lead. Notes: Thunder coach Scott Brooks received his first technical foul of the season. It came four minutes into the third quarter, for arguing a foul called against Durant. ... Portlands Nicolas Batum, who scored four points in the final second to beat San Antonio on Friday, saw his streak of 20-point games end at three. He scored 6. ... The Thunder wind up their six-game homestand, the longest in Oklahoma City history, Tuesday against Golden State. ... Oklahoma City recalled centre Byron Mullens from Tulsa of the NBA Development League. Pro Bowl New England Patriots Jersey . Not Leafs or Habs fans mind you, but diehard Flyers fans. Ken and Geoff Moyse, 40 and 37, brothers from St Johns, had an experience of a lifetime, and it will continue this coming week. Authentic Jaguars Jersey . Johan Santana (1-0) went the first 5 2/3 innings to earn the win for New York. He gave up one run on three hits with four walks and seven strikeouts. 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Riley Benock tallied 12 points for Mississippi State (12-10, 4-4 SEC), which got 10 points from Kodi Augustus. Andre Stringer scored 15 points in the heart-breaking loss for LSU (10-13, 2-6), which received 10 points from Aaron Dotson.LAS VEGAS -- The 6,494 players competing at the World Series of Poker main event are eyeing a piece of a US$61-million prize pool and hoping for $8.55 million for the title. Tournament director Jack Effel said after six hours of play of Monday that the top 648 players will win at least $21,365 in the no-limit Texas Hold em tournament. While the top 10 per cent of the field will make money on their $10,000 buy-in, the top nine finishers will be millionaires. Each of the nine players at the final table will take home $1.26 million on July 16 -- ninth place money -- when the tournament will break for four months before finishing in November. The funds will be placed in an account that will accrue interest before the tournament ends, giving the top eight finishers slightly more money. The players are not expected to reach the money until at least Friday, when all players in the tournament will play simultaneously for the first time. This years field has 350 fewer players than last year, though more than 500 angry players were turned away Monday because of space. "We are sorry, and I am sorry," said Jeffrey Pollack, World Series of Poker commissioner. "The last thing that we ever want to do is deny people entry into our events." Pollack and other series officials faced the rejected players in a hastily called meeting to explain why they would not be allowed to play. Among those rejected were some big-name professional poker players, including Patrik Antonius, five-time gold bracelet winner Ted Forrest and six-time gold bracelet winner T.J. Cloutier. Hundreds of hopefuls waited in the hallways at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas to see if they could get into the tournament, which had plenty of seats available during its first three opening days. On Monday, 2,809 players entered the tournament as officials packed tables into three modified conference rooms and lined 13 tables outside a seafood restaurant at the casino. Had all the rejected players been accommodated, the tournamennt likely would have eclipsed its total entries from last year, when Peter Eastgate won $9. Yadier Molina Jersey. 15 million for beating 6,843 others in the tournament. An added 500 players to the tournament would have meant an extra $4.9 million for the total prize pool. On Monday, the series went over $1 billion in total prize pool money for its 40-year history. Two-thirds of that sum has come in the past four years. "Poker is alive and well," Pollack said. Tournament officials warned Sunday that they expected the event to sell out on Monday, but many players complained anyway that their trips -- and chances at the $8.55 million crown -- had been ruined. "Doyle Brunson always said the saddest day of the year is getting knocked out of the main event of the world series," said Tyler Meierotto, a 39-year-old jeweller from Kansas City, Mo. "The saddest day of the year for me is not being able to play in the main event of the world series." "You look so forward to it as a player and for them to say that you cant play is just awful," he said. Tournament officials considered several options to accommodate more players but ultimately decided that no solution would have been fair to everyone playing in the tournament and those who were rejected. "Were disappointed about this," said Pollack, who vowed that the issue would be his top priority heading into next years World Series of Poker. "I wish that we could accommodate you, but we cant." Matt Clark, a spokesman for online poker site PokerStars, said employees of the site knocked on hotel room doors and left notes, sent e-mails and called players on Sunday to urge them to enter the tournament early. The site paid entry fees for roughly 1,100 players in the tournament, including satellite tournament winners, professional poker players and celebrities. Clark said five of its players were rejected on Monday. "We pretty much did everything we could to make sure people were bought in," Clark said. ' ' '
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