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BOSTON -- Kawhi Leonard had 25 points and 10 rebounds and Patty Mills scored 19 to lead the San Antonio Spurs past Boston 109-103 Friday for their eighth straight victory. Mills made a 3-pointer with 45 seconds left after the Celtics made it a one-possession game.David Lee had 15 points and 12 rebounds, and rookie Davis Bertans scored a career-high 15 to help the Spurs improve to 9-0 on the road this season. San Antonio beat Boston for the 10th straight time.Isaiah Thomas scored 24 points with eight assists and Avery Bradley had 19 points and eight rebounds for Boston, which had won three in a row. Al Horford had 12 points and 10 rebounds in his second home game since signing a four-year, $113-million contract with Boston this summer. Jae Crowder added 18 points for Boston.CAVALIERS 128, MAVERICKS 90CLEVELAND -- Kevin Love scored 27 points, Kyrie Irving added 25 and Cleveland led by as many as 45 points in a rout of Dallas.Love hit seven 3-pointers while Irving, who made his first 10 shots, scored 19 points in the first quarter. Irvings big quarter came two nights after Love scored an NBA-record 34 in the first against Portland.LeBron James, playing in his 1,000th regular-season game, had 19 points and 11 assists.The defending NBA champions faced little resistance from the team with the leagues worst record. Dallas scored the games first basket before the Cavaliers turned the game into a rout. Cleveland led 36-16 after one quarter and was ahead 68-28 late in the second.Dirk Nowitzki, who appeared in only his fifth game of the season because of an injured right Achilles, scored 15 points for Dallas.KNICKS 113, HORNETS 111, OTNEW YORK -- Carmelo Anthony scored a season-high 35 points, including the tiebreaking jumper with 3.1 seconds left in overtime, and New York beat Charlotte.Derrick Rose added 16 points and blocked Kemba Walkers 3-pointer that would have won it just before the buzzer. Kristaps Porzingis also scored 16 points in the Knicks sixth straight home victory.Former Hornets guard Courtney Lee finished with 12 points in the opener of a home-and-home series.Marco Belinelli scored 19 points, Nicolas Batum had 18 and Walker added 17 for the Hornets, who have lost four straight games.PISTONS 108, CLIPPERS 97AUBURN HILLS, Mich. -- Kentavious Caldwell-Pope had 16 points and a career-high 10 assists as Detroit beat Los Angeles.Detroit won its second straight and improved to 7-2 at home, as opposed to 1-7 on the road. The Clippers lost for just the second time in 13 games, falling to 7-1 on the road.Marcus Morris scored 17 points and Andre Drummond had 16 points and 10 rebounds, as the Pistons got at least 15 points from all five starters. Jon Leuer added 11 points and 11 rebounds off the bench.J.J. Redick and Blake Griffith each had 24 points for the Clippers, while Chris Paul had eight points to go with 15 assists.JAZZ 95, HAWKS 68SALT LAKE CITY -- Gordon Hayward scored 24 points as Utah beat Atlanta, which has lost four of five after starting the season 9-2.Hayward was unstoppable early and started the game making his first six shots. Utah used a 23-2 run early in the fourth quarter to put the game away as George Hill hit a pair 3-pointers and Rudy Gobert converted a three-point play.Hill finished with 23 and Gobert notched double-double No. 8 with 10 points, 10 rebounds and five blocks.Dennis Schroder scored a team-high 16 for the Hawks (10-6) and Paul Millsap added 11. Atlanta shot just 31.3 percent from the field.The Jazz (9-8) won the second quarter 24-11 to push its lead to 48-34 at halftime. They used a 20-3 run to build the cushion, highlighted by a behind-the-back dribble, pull-up jumper by Hill followed by a 3-pointer from the veteran.BULLS 105, 76ERS 89PHILADELPHIA -- Jimmy Butler and Dwyane Wade had 26 points apiece to lead Chicago over Philadelphia.Taj Gibson added 12 points for the Bulls, who finished a six-game road trip with a 4-2 record. Butler rested for the entire fourth quarter of the blowout.Chicago led from start to finish against the short-handed 76ers, who played without center Joel Embiid.A leading candidate for Rookie of the Year, Embiid missed his fifth game as part of his rehab plan for a foot injury that cost him the last two seasons. Embiid is averaging 17.8 points and 7.6 rebounds in just 22.6 minutes as he is on a minutes restriction.That restriction caused him to sit out the second overtime of Philadelphias 104-99 loss to Memphis on Wednesday night. Embiid could return for Sundays home game against the Cleveland Cavaliers though coach Brett Brown was noncommittal prior to the game.HEAT 90, GRIZZLIES 81MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Tyler Johnson matched his season high with 22 points, Dion Waiters added 15 and Miami snapped its two-game losing streak by beating Memphis.James Johnson added 13 points and Josh Richardson finished with 12 for Miami in the game that matched Heat coach Erik Spoelstra against his former assistant, first-year Memphis coach David Fizdale.Mike Conley, who came off the bench, led Memphis with 16 points but shot only 5 of 15 from the field. JaMychal Green finished with 14 points for Memphis, which played without Zach Randolph following his mothers death and had its six-game winning streak snapped.Miami shot 12 of 31 outside the arc and forced 18 turnovers, leading to 23 points.RAPTORS 105, BUCKS 99MILWAUKEE -- DeMar DeRozan scored 26 points and Kyle Lowry added 19 to lead Toronto over Milwaukee.DeRozan again tormented the Bucks and Toronto hit 14 3-pointers to continue its dominance against Milwaukee. The Raptors have won 11 of the last 12 meetings.Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 29 points and added 11 assists, while Tony Snell had a season-high 16 points for the Bucks.With the game on the line, Lowry hit a 3-pointer and DeRozan knocked down a contested jumper with 16 seconds left to seal the victory.Two nights after the Raptors made 12 3-pointers in a win at Houston, they went 14 of 31 from behind the arc against the Bucks, who came in with the No. 1 defensive 3-point percentage in the league at 30.6 percent.PACERS 118, NETS 97INDIANAPOLIS -- Glenn Robinson III scored 20 points as Indiana beat Brooklyn.The Pacers opened the second half with a 20-5 run and led by as many 31 points.Rodney Stuckey scored 18 points, and Al Jefferson and Myles Turner each finished with 16. Robinson was one of six Pacers to score in double figures. Paul George sat out Friday night, nursing a sore left ankle.Brooklyn led by a point with less than 3 minutes to play in the first quarter when Indiana regained the lead for good with a 6-0 run. The Nets would pull within 39-35 during the second quarter, but it was the closest they would come to challenging Indiana. The Pacers closed out the first half outscoring Brooklyn 19-8, leading 58-43.Brook Lopez finished with 20 points for the Nets.WIZARDS 94, MAGIC 91ORLANDO, Fla. -- John Wall had 26 points and 10 assists to help Washington hold on and beat Orlando.Wall scored the Wizards last eight points as Washington held on after surrendering a 19-point, first-quarter lead. Otto Porter Jr. scored 19 for Washington and all five starters finished in double figures.Serge Ibaka led the Magic with 19 points, while Nikola Vucevic contributed 17 points and 17 rebounds. Elfrid Payton scored 15 points, all in the second half, as Orlando lost its third straight game. Brian Sutter Jersey . 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The Clippers were angry about blowing a big lead; the Kings didnt like being in that kind of hole and nearly digging themselves out only to lose. *This column contains spoilers.While watching episode three of Pitch on Thursday night, there was a particular part of the shows plot line that caught me completely off guard. It wasnt the bench-clearing brawl started by protagonist Ginny Baker (Kylie Bunbury), or the fact that the St. Louis Cardinals catcher was Bakers former minor league flame -- it was the depiction of Bakers San Diego Padres teammate, Woo-Jin Kim.Woo-Jin is first seen in last weeks episode as a player sitting on the Padres team bus. My initial reaction to seeing him, even just as an extra body used to portray another teammate of Bakers, was a smile -- there was an Asian-American ballplayer, something I never recalled seeing in a movie or television show, ever.As an Asian-American myself, the only representation of Asian athletes in movies or television from my generation came in the form of Isuro Kamikazi Tanaka from Major League II (1994) or the Japanese team that got bounced by the Purple Cobras in Dodgeball (2004). Oh, and we cant forget Olympic ice skater-turned ice hockey stud Kenny Wu from D2: The Mighty Ducks (1992). Otherwise, from my knowledge, thats about it.However, Fox decided to take Woo-Jins storyline down a disappointing path. Viewers quickly learn that he is an international player after being the butt of a you cant even speak English joke from characters Mike Lawson (Mark Paul-Gosselaar) and Blip Sanders (Mo McRae). The language barrier becomes a crucial part of the episode as general manager Oscar Arguella (Mark Consuelos) wants to send him down to the minor leagues, but doesnt initially communicate his thought, because Woo-Jins interpreter cant be reached -- despite the fact that the Padres are in the middle of playing a game. You would think the interpreter would be present for such an occasion, but ... Hollywood.After a bit of head-scratching throughout the episode as to why the players native tongue is constantly referenced, the answer becomes painstakingly apparent at the end of the episode. After Oscar spends nearly 35 minutes searching for an interpreter, it turns out that skipper Al Luongo (Dan Lauria) spoke Korean all along (what are the odds!). After delivering the news to Woo-Jin in broken Korean, Woo-Jin responds by saying Okay before bowing and walking away, likely never to be seen on the show again.Al then leans toward Oscar and says, People who underestimate me tend to be surprised.Really?In summary, Woo-Jins character on Pitch was created for the sole purpose of a punchline and a plot device to further highlight the complexity of Padres manager Luongo -- because an aged, seemingly Caucasian baseball manager speaking a foreign language apparently causes heads to explode.Heres why there is a problem with Woo-Jins portrayal on the show. In a Hollywood-climate where Asian-American actors and actresses continue to fight for visibility in the form of booking lead roles, the depiction of him as the inaudible foreign ballplayer, who is the butt of jokes and a pawn for plot lines, is yet another setback -- as minor as his role is on thee show.ddddddddddddFor a show that screams social consciousness and has done a great job in not only casting diverse actors but showcasing that diversity in the form of a black manager (Cardinals manager in episode 3), female and minority reporters, and diverse front office personnel -- all of which Major League Baseball desperately needs more of in reality -- Fox completely dropped the ball when it came to Woo-Jins character.While its the goal of Fox to inspire all genders to take up the sport of baseball, it missed an opportunity to shed light on another population that is underrepresented in professional ball clubs. I can probably count the number of Asian-American ballplayers in the majors on two hands.?While it could be seen as an unfair expectation of Fox to break every barrier in Hollywood, its disappointing to see they missed the mark with Kims character. Its also not to say that the depiction of an Asian-American ballplayer would have been unrealistic. Major Leaguers like Cardinals second baseman Kolten Wong and former San Francisco Giants first baseman Travis Ishikawa both played huge roles in the 2014 National League Championship Series.Was it wrong of Fox to use an international player in the show? Absolutely not -- international players have been some of the games bigger names in recent years. But the network shouldnt have done something as ridiculous as making Kims interpreter go MIA in the middle of a ballgame. In fact, in the real world, Major League Baseball implemented a new rule in 2016, requiring all teams to hire two full-time Spanish speaking interpreters to their clubs.Writers could have instead shed a small light on the struggles international players face -- there are sure to be similarities between their experiences and Bakers. Look no further than Tuesdays American League wild-card game where racial slurs (and a beer bottle) were hurled toward Orioles player Hyun Soo Kim, who happens to be a Korean outfielder.Before you draw the pitchfork, there is also the character of Elliot (Tim Jo), an Asian-American who serves as the social media managing sidekick to Amelia Slater (Ali Larter). Elliot, who is funny and energetic, is one of the more likable characters on the show. And of course, in the middle of Oscars interpreter scramble, he comes running to Elliott wondering if he speaks Korean, not before acknowledging how awkward and uncomfortable that request is. There is nothing controversial about Elliot, and his solid casting is not the problem at hand -- the portrayal of Elliot and Kim are mutually exclusive.No, this hiccup by Fox does not mean viewers should stop watching Pitch, the storyline is far too important and the networks execution up until this point has been commendable. This particular case simply shows that Asians in television and film, no matter how progressive the project, have a long way to go.Sean Hurd is a Digital Media Associate for ESPN. Follow him @seanahurd ' ' '