Rodney Stuckey of the Pacers drives to the basket against the Lakers on Monday night in Indianapolis Chris Godwin Buccaneers Jersey , Indiana. Photo: CFP It didn't take long for the Los Angeles Lakers to come down from their high of watching Kobe Bryant pass Michael Jordan for third place on the -all-time NBA scoring list.
Just 24 hours after Bryant hit a pair of free throws against Minnesota to pass Jordan, the Indiana Pacers compiled a 33-point halftime lead en route to a 110-91 thrashing of Los -Angeles on Monday night.
"We were just embarrassed with the way we played in the first half," said Lakers coach -Byron Scott. "We can't afford to do that. We have got to come out and be desperate as well."
The Lakers trailed 60-27 at the half as Bryant shot three-for-13 and the bench was two-for-19. The Lakers stumbled to a 16.3 percent shooting in the first 24 minutes.
The halftime score would have been much worse if the Lakers hadn't scored the final six points of the half.
Rodney Stuckey posted his second straight double-double for the Pacers, who snapped the Lakers' modest three-game win streak and their own eight-game losing streak.
C.J. Miles' layup at 2:22 of the first quarter gave the Pacers a 26-4 lead. Los Angeles scored 11 points in the final two minutes of the period but still trailed -34-15.
The second quarter was a repeat of the first as the -Pacers went on a 14-2 run to push their lead to 48-17 five minutes -before halftime.
The Pacers led by almost 40 points before Bryant and -Wesley Johnson hit back-to-back shots from beyond the arc to send the two teams into halftime.
Stuckey tallied 20 points, 10 rebounds and seven -assists and Miles came off the bench to score 20 for Indiana Justin Evans Buccaneers Jersey , who hadn't won a game since -November 28.
Bryant finished with 21 points on eight-for-26 shooting. Nick Young finished with 18 points on 12 shots and -Carlos Boozer had 13 points and 10 -rebounds.
"They jumped out to a quick lead on us and we just compounded it that we couldn't throw the ball in the ocean sitting on a boat," Bryant said.
"Sometimes you just have to pat yourself on the back for an atrocious job. We didn't have our legs at the start of the ball game. We just could not get ourselves activated."
"We had great energy, we were the more energized team tonight," Pacers coach Frank Vogel said. "We just have to understand that the game is going to change. They were going to pick up their pressure and inten-sity. We have to handle that better, clearly."
BEIJING O. J. Howard Buccaneers Jersey , Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- China's national anti-graft body will maintain a tough stance against corruption, consolidating and developing the "overwhelming momentum" in the fight against corruption.
"We will continue to see that there are no no-go zones, no stone is left unturned, and no tolerance is shown for corruption," said a communique adopted at the second plenary session of the 19th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) of Communist Party of China which was held from Thursday to Saturday.
The CCDI said the fight against corruption will focus on officials who have shown no restraint and continued their wrongdoing after the 18th CPC National Congress in late 2012.
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The CCDI will fight corruption in selection and appointment of officials, government approval and supervision, resource exploitation, finance, and other key areas prone to corruption.
The commission stressed efforts to address corruption that occurs on the people's doorsteps Donovan Smith Rush Jersey , especially in poverty relief. The fight against corruption at the grassroots level will be combined with that against criminal gangs. The "protection umbrella" behind the gangs will be removed, it said.
Officials working in discipline inspection and supervision should be loyal, resolute, responsible and maintain discipline and the law, ensuring that power bestowed by the Party and the people is not abused Noah Spence Rush Jersey , according to the communique.
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday posted anti-Muslim videos on Twitter that had originally been posted by a leader of a far-right British party.
As a candidate, Trump called for "a Muslim ban" and, as president, has issued executive orders banning entry from some citizens of multiple countries, although courts have partially blocked them from taking effect.
Jayda Fransen Vernon Hargreaves III Rush Jersey , a leader of the anti-immigrant Britain First group, posted the videos on Wednesday, saying that they showed a group of people who are Muslim beating a teenage boy to death, battering a boy on crutches and destroying a Christian statue.
Fransen, along with the fringe group's head Kendell Beckwith Rush Jersey , was arrested in September and charged with causing religiously aggravated harassment over the distribution of leaflets and posting online videos during the court trial involving the case of a number of Muslim men accused and later convicted of rape.
"Donald Trump himself has retweeted these videos and has around 44 million followers! God bless you Trump!" Britain First wrote in a post. Its account has about 24,000 followers.
(Agencies)
Clashes between the Houthis and former President Ali Abdullah Saleh aggravate the humanitarian crisis in Yemen. (AFP Photo)
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SANAA, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) -- The latest clashes between two former allies in Yemen, the Houthis and former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, are set to aggravate the humanitarian crisis in the war-torn country.
The two sides allied and seized power in late 2014 Chris Godwin Rush Jersey , triggering a civil war and a military intervention by a coalition led by Saudi Arabia.
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