Basketball, NBA: LeBron James led the Los Angeles Lakers to a clear victory at the end of the year. At 139: 106 the Lakers against the Portland Trail Blazers, James excelled with his personal best of the season of 43 points and was by far the most successful thrower on the floor. He also got 14 rebounds. With 18 wins from 37 games, Los Angeles is eighth in the Western Conference.
One place ahead are the Dallas Mavericks after a 112: 96 with the Sacramento Kings. The Texans missed the German national player Maximilian Kleber, as did top star Luka Doncic. Both are in the corona protocol of the North American professional league.
This also applies to Dennis Schröder (Boston Celtics) and Isaac Bonga (Toronto Raptors), whose teams achieved successes even without the Germans. Isaiah Hartenstein missed the Los Angeles Clippers at 108: 116 in Toronto again due to an ankle injury, Daniel Theis was again absent for the Houston Rockets (110: 120 against Miami Heat).
Winter sports, tobogganing: The German two-seaters Tobias Wendl / Tobias Arlt (Berchtesgaden / Königssee) celebrated their first win of the season at the Luge World Cup in Winterberg and took third place overall. The Olympic champions won on Saturday in difficult conditions ahead of the Austrians Thomas Steu / Lorenz Koller and Yannick Müller / Armin Frauscher. Robin Geueke / David Gamm from Winterberg came in eleventh.
The world champions Toni Eggert / Sascha Benecken were disqualified after a fall, the overall World Cup winners Andris and Juris Sics only finished 18th. At temperatures of almost ten degrees it was not easy for the athletes and there were a number of falls. “The feedback from the ice wasn’t there. The track was unpredictable today,” said Arlt.
International football, Italy: The Italian soccer club US Salernitana is to be sold to the entrepreneur Danilo Iervolino and thus avert the exclusion from Serie A. On New Year’s Eve shortly before midnight, the trustees of the association announced, according to media reports, that Iervolino (43) should be awarded the contract. The Ansa news agency wrote that the deal should become official on Monday.
It must have been a last-minute agreement. The club from Salerno south of Naples, where the former Bayern player Franck Ribéry plays, had until December 31st to find an owner, otherwise he would have been excluded from the highest Italian league. So far, Claudio Lotito, President of SS Lazio, has been one of the owners. According to the statutes, however, it is not possible for one person to hold a managerial position at two clubs. Salernitana has 45 days to officially complete the sale.
“I will try everything to keep Salernitana in Serie A,” said Iervolino loudly Corriere dello Sport. It will also be difficult in terms of sport: the club is bottom of the table with just eight points. On the last matchday of the first half of the season just before Christmas, the game of the southern Italians at Udinese Calcio was canceled because the guests could not compete in the team after several Covid-19 cases.
.
