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(SportsNetwork.com) - The Phoenix Suns hope to regain their winning trend when they host the Indiana Pacers Tuesday at US Airways Center. The Suns have lost two straight and three of four games after winning four in a row, and closed out November with Sundays 93-90 loss to the Orlando Magic. Goran Dragic led the Suns with 22 points and Markieff Morris supplied 18 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists in the loss. The Suns turned a 16-point hole (74-58) in the fourth quarter to a one-point difference on Gerald Greens 3-pointer with 2.9 seconds to go, but Orlando held off the hosts. Phoenix shot 40 percent for the game and struggled beyond the arc, making only 7-of-26 3-pointers. Orlando played hard for 48 minutes, you have to give them credit, said Suns head coach Jeff Hornacek. Morris is averaging 16.0 points and 6.5 rebounds over the past eight games, while the consistent Dragic has posted an average of 15.4 ppg in his last 13. Eric Bledsoe had 13 points and six assists in the recent loss for Phoenix, which is 5-4 at home The Suns are sixth in the NBA with 104.5 ppg, but they are 25th in opponents scoring at 103.3 points. They will try to shoot 50 percent or better versus the Pacers and have won 24 straight games when reaching that mark. After hosting Indiana, Phoenix will open a three-game road trip against Dallas, Houston and the Los Angeles Clippers. Suns guard Isaiah Thomas (ankle) is questionable Tuesday. Indiana has alternated wins and losses over the previous six games and opened a four-game jaunt with Saturdays 109-97 loss to LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers. James had 19 points, but Kevin Love led the way with 28 points and 10 rebounds. Kyrie Irving scored 24 points in the win. James, Love and Irving all made nine shots for the Cavs, who finished at 52.6 percent shooting from the floor and stormed out to a 27-8 lead. The Pacers were led by David Wests 14 points. West was playing his second game after returning from injury. Solomon Hill had 13 and Chris Copeland netted 11 for the visitors. Indiana shot 39.3 percent and managed to connect on 7-of-22 3-pointers. They just imposed their will on us, Pacers head coach Frank Vogel said. Their starters outplayed our starters tonight. Indiana is 26th in scoring (93.4 ppg), but still plays tough defense as evidenced by the 95.3 ppg from the opposition. Pacers center Roy Hibbert has missed four straight games with a sprained ankle and is questionable against the Suns. Hibbert is averaging 13.1 points and 7.8 rebounds. The Pacers will also visit Portland and Sacramento on this western portion of the road swing and are 3-5 away from home. Weve got to find a way to get some wins, Vogel said. Weve got a tough stretch of the schedule coming up that were in the midst of, going out west right now and then some tough ones when we come back home. So we cant be pleased with our effort. Weve got to get wins. Phoenix and Indiana recently played on Nov. 22 at Bankers Life Fieldhouse, where the Suns recorded a 106-83 victory. Green and Thomas scored 23 and 16 points, respectively, in that one for the Suns, who have won three in a row and 15 of the past 20 meetings between the teams. Indiana has lost 11 of the past 14 encounters in Arizona. china jerseys . - First-timer Chris Harris Jr. fake jerseys china . Fabio Fognini pulled off a surprise 6-3, 6-3, 6-4 victory over two-time Grand Slam champion Andy Murray to level the best-of-five quarterfinal at 2-2 before Andreas Seppi defeated James Ward 6-4, 6-3, 6-4 in the decisive match. https://www.chinajerseysreplica.us/ . The Blue Jackets got goals from Cam Atkinson, Nick Foligno, Boone Jenner and R.J. 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The Slam Dunk Contest - the pride and joy of All-Star Saturday Night - adopted a team concept this year, pitting the three participants from the East against the Wests trio in a two-round showcase. It was, for all intents and purposes, a bust. In the final round, a head-to-head session, the team from the East - consisting of Ross, John Wall and Paul George - defeated the West in a clean sweep. It was an unorthodox victory for Ross, who only threw down one dunk, outside of the initial freestyle round. "Hey, a wins a win," the sophomore said, elated after the competition came to an end, not unlike most in attendance and watching from home. "Im gonna take it either way. Ive never lost a dunk contest at this point so Im happy." The real champion, assuming anyone can really be considered a winner after that performance, was John Wall, who was awarded the fan vote for Dunker of the Night. Wall capped off an anticlimactic evening with the only real jaw-dropping dunk, leaping over Wizards mascot G-Man, taking the ball out of his hands and completing a two-hand reverse jam to seal the Easts victory. Off the top, each team had 90 seconds to work together and complete as many dunks as they could. The team dynamic, allowed the dunkers to collaborate and be creative in their attempts. Ross and the East took advantage, while the West - with Damian Lillard, Harrison Barnes and Ben McLemore - ate up nearly a third of their allotted time before converting a notable slam. To call it organized chaos would be putting it mildly. Mostly, it was a disjointed mess with an occasional highlight, a couple from Ross, who put down a reverse to open the contest. The battle round had promise but lacked any semblance of rhythm or flow, as actual dunks were few and far between. Just as it started to come around, it ended abruptly. Lillard led off the proceedings - competing in his third event of the night - facing Ross, who brought along a friend and colleeague for assistance.ddddddddddddWith last years trophy in hand, Raptors global ambassador Drake accompanied Ross on the floor to the tune of Started from the Bottom. Ross, wearing a boxing robe as he entered, would miss his first two attempts before eventually taking the ball from Drake, putting it through his legs and throwing it down with the opposite hand. As it turns out, Drake was a late substitution for Ross teammate and original assistant. "At first I knew the dunk I wanted to do and then I was like, DeMar (DeRozan) is going to do it," said the Raptors sophomore. "And then I was like, let me ask Drake because that would be a little better fit with him being the global ambassador, so I said that might work. I had fun with it, he was willing to help in any way he could." In the end, Ross was happy with the format change and embraced the chance to team up rather than go at it alone. "We got to throw off the shot clock, the backboard, bounce it off the ground," he said. "It was fun, everybody loved it." Ross maintained the team concept allows participants to be more creative, giving each of them a greater opportunity to come up and execute something new. For that reason, he believes the format should be here to stay. "It was fun, just coming up with certain things. I was trying to see if we could throw it off the jumbotron and see if we could do something like that but they said that would probably break it." Format changes encapsulated the entire night, certainly not what the league was going for. The Skills Challenge also had participants competing in teams for the first time. DeRozan - who was paired with Bucks rookie Giannis Antetokounmpo - more than held his own, sinking the chest pass on his first attempts and nailing the jump shot from the top of the key in two tries. His partner needed three tries to complete the pass and as a result, they were eliminated in the opening round, bested by Michael Carter-Williams and Victor Oladipo by 1.7 seconds. That pair would go on to lose to Lillard and Trey Burke by a tenth of a second in the finals. Former Raptor Marco Belinelli, the eventual winner of the Three-Point Contest, would not have made it past the first round if not for a new twist which allowed for one entire rack filled with money balls. He went on to defeat Wizards guard Bradley Beal in a tie-breaking round. ' ' '