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MINNEAPOLIS -- The Minnesota Timberwolves inability to hold leads has caused a season that began with promise to fade away into another seemingly lost year waiting for further development of the teams young stars. Richard Sherman Jersey .After another lead washed away in a hurry at Toronto on Thursday night, Minnesota has a short turnaround for Friday nights home game against the Detroit Pistons.The good teams are 48-minute teams, Timberwolves coach Tom Thibodeau said. Were still not there...The fourth quarter is different. You have to understand that. The intensity of a fourth quarter is different. Your decision-making is different. We still have to figure that out.Minnesota (6-16) lost 124-110 at Toronto on Thursday, its ninth loss in 11 games. Detroit traveled but had a day off after losing 87-77 at Charlotte on Wednesday.The Pistons know trouble on the road. Detroit (12-12) has lost nine of its 13 road games this season. But the team had won three in a row on the road before the loss at Charlotte. The Pistons have also played more games on the road than at home this season.Detroit has won six of its past nine games. But the loss to the Hornets came with a minus-21 differential in free throws attempted that was frustrating to accept.We got to keep growing as team and, as you grow as a team and grow in status maybe a little bit, the calls start to go your way a little better, coach Stan Van Gundy told the Detroit Free Press. I thought Tobias (Harris) was doing a good job attacking and didnt get to the free-throw line a single time. That ones a little hard to stomach.Harris has developed into a consistent scoring option for the Pistons. He had 14 points against Charlotte but shot 7 of 19 from the field. Harris has scored at least 20 points in four of his last seven games.Andre Drummond had 26 points and 20 rebounds against the Hornets and point guard Reggie Jackson is working his way back into shape after missing the first 21 games while rehabbing a knee injury. Jackson, the teams leading scorer last season with 18.8 points per game, played in his first set of back-to-back games this season in Charlotte. He scored 10 points in 25 minutes.Just trying to find myself, Jackson told the teams website. Getting downhill, I feel like my footings off a little bit.The Timberwolves havent been able to find any footing. They havent won back-to-back games yet this season. Theyve lost four home games in a row.Its often been the third quarter that has let Minnesota down this season. The Timberwolves outscored Toronto in the third on Thursday only to be hammered 36-21 in the fourth.Zach LaVine scored 29 points, Anthony Wiggins added 25 and Karl-Anthony Towns recorded 17 points and 11 rebounds for the Timberwolves. That trio of young stars combined with new coach Thibodeau provided optimism unseen in Minnesota in years.Yet, the Timberwolves have allowed 105 or more points in six straight games. Torontos 124 points were the most Minnesota has allowed this season and the Timberwolves entered the game 19th in the league in giving up 105.6 points per game.To me, the defense, weve got to correct it, Thibodeau said. Weve got to get it better. Its costing us right now. Until we get that straightened out, its going to be a problem. Richard Sherman Seahawks Jersey . However, he did make them miss him a little less. Cundiff, who had the unenviable job of replacing Dawson last season, agreed Thursday to a one-year, $1. 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LONDON -- Usain Bolt looked in fine shape for the Olympics by winning his last race before Rio de Janeiro on his return from injury.Keni Harrison also looked more than ready for Brazil by breaking a 28-year record in the 100-meters hurdles in London on Friday.Only unlike Bolt, Harrison is not going to the Olympics.While Bolt is Rio-bound despite being forced to pull out of the Jamaican trials with a hamstring injury, Harrison failed to make the American track squad after a poor performance at her trials.Instead, Harrison will have to settle for her record-breaking night at the London Diamond League meet being her crowning moment of the summer.The 23-year-old Harrison ran 12.20 seconds on the site of the 2012 Olympics to surpass Yordanka Donkovas previous mark of 12.21 set in August 1988.Even sweeter for Harrison was finishing ahead of compatriots Brianna Rollins and Kristi Castlin, who both qualified for the Olympics ahead of her.Harrison will still be cheering on her teammates in Rio.MOSCOW -- Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a new anti-doping commission to be created to shape Russias future strategy, as the country faces possible exclusion from the Rio Olympics.Putin tells a meeting of Russias cabinet that the commission will provide rapid development and tough control for the effective realization of a national plan on the fight against doping.Putin proposed 81-year-old Vitaly Smirnov, an honorary International Olympic Committee member and a veteran of Russian and Soviet sports administration, to lead the commission. Putin said Smirnov has an absolutely unimpeachable reputation and the trust and respect of the Olympic family.It was not immediately clear if this was the same commission proposed on Thursday by Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko to consider a WADA report alleging state-sponsored doping and cover-ups in Russia.NBANEW YORK -- As the NBA looks for a new home for the 2017 All-Star Game, cities are lining up with open arms to welcome LeBron James, Stephen Curry and the hundred million or so dollars the festivities would brring to the local economy. Ugo Amadi Youth Jersey. New Orleans is the favorite, a person close to the situation told The Associated Press. The person said the league and city are deep in negotiations to stage the game there for a third time. The person spoke to AP on condition of anonymity because the details of the discussions have not been publicly announced.The league moved the game out of Charlotte on Thursday because of its objections to a North Carolina law that limits anti-discrimination protections for lesbian, gay and transgender people. The league also said it hoped to announce a new location for next Februarys events shortly and will reschedule the 2019 game for Charlotte if there is a resolution to the matter.Even before the announcement, the league had heard from cities that were available and interested in taking over the weekend -- which has grown into more like a week.Besides having open dates in arenas, cities would need to have necessary hotel space. Officials from several have expressed interest, including Boston and Atlanta.GOLFSTATELINE, Nev. -- Actor Jack Wagner had five birdies in a 27-point round to take a three-stroke lead over former hockey player Mike Modano in the American Century Championship.The 56-year-old Wagner won the celebrity event in 2006 and 2011. He also had a bogey at Edgewood Tahoe in the modified Stableford event. Players receive six points for eagle, three for birdie, one for par, none for bogey and minus-2 for double bogey or worse.Defending champion Mark Mulder was third at 23, tennis player Mardy Fish had 22, former NFL star Sterling Sharpe 21, and former NHL player Jeremy Roenick 20. Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers had 10 points, two-time NBA MVP Stephen Curry and father Dell Curry each had seven, Justin Timberlake finished with six.Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh had minus-8 points. Larry the Cable Guy had minus-20, and Charles Barkley was last in the 84-player field at minus-36. ' ' '