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Johnson anota triples clave para Hawks y arruina regreso de Embiid en victoria 142-134
Associated Press
FILADELFIA (AP) — Jalen Johnson encestó triples consecutivos al final de la doble prórroga el domingo por la noche y terminó con 41 puntos y 14 rebotes para ayudar a los Hawks de Atlanta a arruinar el regreso de Joel Embiid en una victoria por 142-134 sobre los 76ers de Filadelfia.
Embiid anotó 18 puntos en 30 minutos en su regreso para los 76ers después de perderse nueve juegos debido a lesiones.
Johnson rompió un empate con su tercer triple del juego y encestó otro en la siguiente posesión para llevar a los Hawks a su cuarta victoria en cinco juegos.
Tyrese Maxey anotó 44 puntos para los 76ers y encestó un par de tiros decisivos, uno que forzó la prórroga y otro que les dio la ventaja tardía en la primera prórroga. Maxey, un tirador de tiros libres con un 88% de efectividad, falló dos desde la línea que podrían haber ampliado la ventaja a cuatro, pero en cambio le costaron a los Sixers en los últimos segundos de la prórroga.
Dominck Barlow de los 76ers fue sancionado con una falta con 1.1 segundos restantes. Nickeil Alexander-Walker encestó ambos para empatar a 126 y llevarlo a la segunda prórroga.
Alexander-Walker tuvo 34 puntos y ocho rebotes.
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Former NASDAQ-Listed Exec Sentenced To Life In Prison Over Murder-For-Hire Plot
Former NASDAQ-Listed Exec Sentenced To Life In Prison Over Murder-For-Hire Plot
The First Assistant U.S. Attorney for Vermont announced that on November 24, 2025, Chief Judge Christina Reiss sentenced Serhat Gumrukcu, 43, of Los Angeles—formerly the “scientific founder”, “inventor” and largest shareholder of publicly listed Enochian Biosciences, which eventually became Renovaro—to life in prison for the January 6, 2018, murder-for-hire of Gregory Davis in Barnet, Vermont.
Gumrukcu was first brought to the attention of market participants by former short seller Hindenburg Research back in 2022 who called his company a $600 million Nasdaq-listed scam “based on a lifetime of lies”.
A jury convicted him in April 2025 of murder-for-hire, conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, and conspiracy to commit wire fraud, according to the DOJ.
Gumrukcu had formerly been praised by Enochian (then Renovaro) CEO Mark Dybul – who once worked under Anthony Fauci at the National Institute of Health – with Dybul writing in November 2019 that he was “one of those rare geniuses that is not bound by scientific discipline or dogma”. Hindenburg then accused Dybul of turning a “blind eye to outrageous fraud” perpetrated by Gumrukcu in a stunning follow up report after the “inventor’s” death.
The Department of Justice press release says that his co-conspirators were sentenced in September 2025: Berk Eratay received 110 months of imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release; Aron Ethridge received 140 months followed by five years of supervised release; and Jerry Banks received 200 months followed by five years of supervised release.
According to prosecutors, Gumrukcu ordered Davis’s killing because Davis threatened legal action over a failed oil-commodities deal that was also the basis of Gumrukcu’s wire-fraud conviction. Gumrukcu also feared that Davis would interfere with a biotech merger involving his claimed HIV “cure.”
Evidence showed that Eratay enlisted Ethridge, who then hired Banks. On January 6, 2018, Banks posed as a Deputy U.S. Marshal and abducted Davis from his Vermont home; Davis’s body was found the next day nearby. Communications, financial records, and location data documented the dispute between Gumrukcu and Davis and tied Gumrukcu, Eratay, Ethridge, and Banks to the crime.
At sentencing, Melissa Davis, the victim’s widow, thanked investigators and prosecutors. She praised the Vermont State Police “for every call, every update,” the FBI for its “coordination across state lines” and “relentless pursuit of truth,” and the prosecution team whose “strength, commitment, and unwavering pursuit of justice…will stay with me for the rest of my life.”
She said she often felt proud in court, “knowing God had appointed each of you to pursue justice for Gregg,” and also expressed gratitude to her victim advocate, the U.S. Marshals Service, and Chief Judge Reiss.
A supposed mind-reading magician turned biomedical entrepreneur, Gumrukcu mingled with Hollywood elites and earned millions through unconventional medical ventures. But during his five-week trial in Burlington, he faced a far different spotlight—three days on the witness stand, denying involvement in the 2018 murder-for-hire of former business partner Gregory Davis.
Though he claimed innocence, Gumrukcu admitted under oath to lying to authorities and said he’d told “so many lies” in past deals he couldn’t remember them all. He acknowledged buying a fake medical degree from Russia, calling it “cheating,” and described his younger self as “arrogant,” advocating unorthodox treatments like leeches and mistletoe.
As part of their investigation into Enochian and Gumrukcu, Hindenburg Research ordered the very same degree to prove that it was fake back in 2022.
Way back when, @HindenburgRes published on Enochian Biosciences, now Renovaro $RENB. Their scientific genius, Serhat Gumrukcu, just took the stand this week to deny he hired someone to murder a dude he defrauded. But he DID admit, just as Hindenburg uncovered, that he bought a… pic.twitter.com/G7cfLCV1zB
— Codfish Johnny (@CodfishJohnny) April 17, 2025
Prosecutors argued Gumrukcu had Davis killed to prevent him from exposing fraud tied to a failed oil deal—one that could have derailed a lucrative biomedical contract with Enochian BioSciences.
“Gregg Davis was a problem for the defendant,” said prosecutor Paul Van de Graaf. “It was the defendant who paid for the murder.”
Van de Graaf outlined how Gumrukcu financed the $200,000 plot, with testimony from three co-conspirators, including former assistant Berk Eratay. Eratay claimed Gumrukcu told him he wanted to “get rid of a problem,” prompting Eratay to enlist others, including hitman Jerry Banks. Banks testified he posed as a U.S. marshal, kidnapped Davis, and executed him in rural Vermont.
Defense attorney Ethan Balogh argued it was Eratay who “ran the op,” not Gumrukcu. He said the funds were meant for a cryptocurrency project and portrayed Davis as untrustworthy. Balogh accused the three key witnesses—who took plea deals to avoid life sentences—of lying to save themselves: “These men were all going to die in the cage.”
Prosecutors countered that none of them had a reason to kill Davis—except Gumrukcu. As Van de Graaf said, even “peaceful” men can outsource their violence.
As Hindenburg noted in a subsequent report, the story of Gumrukcu’s rise and fall, up to awaiting trial was chronicled in a podcast produced by Amazon’s Wondery (Spotify, Apple).
Tyler Durden
Sun, 11/30/2025 – 21:35
Los guatemaltecos tienen miedo de ser criminalizados por la fiscalía, afirma relatora de la CIDH
Por SONIA PÉREZ D.
CIUDAD DE GUATEMALA (AP) — La población guatemalteca tiene miedo de ser criminalizada por la fiscalía, aseguró el domingo Andrea Pochak, relatora para Guatemala de la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, con sede en Washington, antes de la difusión de un informe sobre las condiciones de los derechos humanos en la nación centroamericana.
“Hay desafíos y deudas históricas, pero también hay situaciones que son urgentes de resolver porque está en peligro la democracia en Guatemala”, declaró Pochak a The Associated Press, al hablar de la cooptación de las instituciones y la criminalización de los defensores de derechos humanos, situación que “se prioriza en el informe”, puntualizó.
Pochak explicó que, luego de varios años de no poder realizar una visita oficial a Guatemala, el miedo y el pánico entre la población a ser criminalizada es algo que causó impacto en la comisión.
“Estamos acostumbrados en América Latina a que la gente le tenga miedo a la policía o al ejército, estos países que han sufrido dictaduras o conflictos armados, pero que la gente le tenga pánico a la fiscalía porque puedan ser criminalizado por cualquier razón o por defender sus derechos, eso es algo inédito y demuestra que no se confía en la justicia”, subrayó.
Asegura que la criminalización es “el uso arbitrario del derecho penal, y quien puede ejercer ese derecho es el Estado, y cuando se usa de forma arbitraria es una criminalización”.
Señaló que existen algunos patrones que ejemplifican el uso arbitrario del derecho penal en Guatemala, como usar figuras penales ambiguas para perseguir a personas, prisión preventiva de forma arbitraria, la reserva de los procesos judiciales o presentar denuncias con determinados jueces dispuestos a llevar esas causas.
La Relatora Especial sobre la independencia de los magistrados y abogados de Naciones Unidas, Margaret Satterthwaite, cuestionó en 2024 al Ministerio Público guatemalteco por mantener una política de criminalización contra operadores judiciales, líderes sociales y periodistas que denunciaron actos de corrupción.
El Ministerio Público es dirigido desde 2018 por María Consuelo Porras, quien ha sido sancionada por 42 países, incluidos Estados Unidos y la Unión Europea. Las sanciones le prohíben a ella y a varios de sus fiscales ingresar a estos países, quienes los acusan de socavar la democracia en Guatemala y obstruir la lucha anticorrupción.
La comisión no realizaba una visita oficial al país desde hacía ocho años.
Pochak explica que no se pueden garantizar derechos humanos sin un Estado de derecho y que eso “está en peligro en Guatemala”.
Alrededor de 100 miembros del poder judicial, incluidos jueces, abogados y fiscales, así como defensores de derechos humanos y periodistas se han exiliado desde 2022, denunciado persecución por su trabajo anticorrupción y delitos de lesa humanidad.
“Cuando una persona tiene que abandonar el país porque está siendo perseguido de manera arbitraria está sufriendo violaciones a su proyecto de vida, dejar su casa, país, orígenes lo que provoca cambios fuertes en su situación anímica, moral, pero no sólo para las personas, también es un impacto para la sociedad porque tiene un impacto silenciador para la sociedad”, dijo Pochak.
Gilgeous-Alexander anota 26 y Thunder vencen 123-115 a Trail Blazers
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PORTLAND, Oregon, EE.UU. (AP) — Shai Gilgeous-Alexander anotó 26 puntos, Chet Holmgren sumó 19 puntos y nueve rebotes, y el Thunder de Oklahoma City venció el domingo 123-115 a los Trail Blazers de Portland para su duodécima victoria consecutiva.
Con esta victoria, el Thunder mejora a 20-1, siendo su única derrota contra los Trail Blazers el cinco de noviembre.
En su segundo partido tras la cirugía de muñeca, Jalen Williams consiguió 16 puntos y ocho rebotes en 34 minutos.
Deni Avdija terminó con 31 puntos, 19 rebotes y diez asistencias para Portland. Toumani Camara anotó 19 puntos y ocho rebotes, y Jerami Grant sumó 18 puntos.
Portland se acercó a dos puntos 107-105 con 2:58 restantes, pero el Thunder liderado por Gilgeous-Alexander utilizó su experiencia para cerrar el juego.
La ofensiva fluyó para ambos equipos en el segundo cuarto, con ambos lanzando más del 40% desde la línea de tres puntos y el 50% desde el campo. El triple de Grant con 9.2 segundos restantes le dio a Portland una ventaja de 55-54 al medio tiempo.
El Thunder no contó con Isaiah Hartenstein y Alex Caruso.
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Jugador de Titans afirma que pateador de Jaguars amenazó con ‘matarlo’ durante derrota de Tennessee
Por TERESA M. WALKER
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, EE.UU. (AP) — El corredor de los Titans de Tennessee, Julius Chestnut, dijo que el pateador de despeje de los Jaguars de Jacksonville, Logan Cooke, le dijo que lo iba a matar durante el partido del domingo.
Chestnut bloqueó a Cooke cuando el pateador levantó la pierna para hacer tropezar al regresador de patadas de los Titans, Chimere Dike, al final de una devolución de 47 yardas con 14:06 restantes. Cooke resultó lesionado y fue evaluado por una conmoción cerebral antes de volver a patear al final de la siguiente serie de los Jaguars.
Los Jaguars y los Titans tuvieron otro altercado al final del regreso de 13 yardas de Dike con 11:49 restantes, con Chestnut y Cooke enfrentándose.
Los oficiales se reunieron y repartieron un par de penalizaciones por rudeza innecesaria a cada equipo, y Cooke y el centro largo Ross Matiscik fueron sancionados para los Jaguars. El safety de los Titans, Mike Brown, fue expulsado.
Los Jaguars continuaron hacia una victoria de 25-3. Los equipos del Sur de la AFC combinaron 23 penalizaciones aceptadas para un total de 184 yardas.
“Solo estaba tratando de jugar duro, y él se me acercó y me dijo que me iba a matar”, dijo Chestnut. “Así que no sé qué lo llevó a hacer eso”.
Chestnut dijo que nunca recibió una explicación de por qué Cooke estaba tan enojado.
“Eso fue sorprendente para mí. Nunca había visto algo así antes”, dijo Chestnut.
No se le preguntó específicamente a Cooke después del juego sobre lo que Chestnut dijo que el pateador le dijo. Se dejó un mensaje el domingo por la noche buscando un comentario de los Jaguars.
Cooke dijo justo después de la derrota que le gusta golpear a la gente. Dijo que Chestnut lo superó en un juego “movido”.
Cooke habló con el árbitro en el medio tiempo después de patear desde su propia zona de anotación al final del segundo cuarto con un centro largo suplente.
“Puede que haya dicho algunas cosas que sonaron groseras, así que quería aclarar las cosas”, dijo Cooke sobre su conversación con el árbitro. “No me gusta que la gente tenga rencores contra mí. Así que le conté la situación y también averigüé su opinión sobre lo que sucedió en esa jugada en la zona de anotación”.
El entrenador de los Jaguars, Liam Coen, dijo que le gustaría que Cooke fuera más inteligente en lo que respecta a su sanción por rudeza innecesaria, pero estaba orgulloso de sus jugadores por competir.
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Pritchard anota 42, Jaylen Brown logra triple-doble y Celtics vencen 117-115 a Cavaliers
Associated Press
CLEVELAND (AP) — Payton Pritchard anotó 42 puntos el domingo, su máximo de la temporada, Jaylen Brown logró el cuarto triple-doble de su carrera y los Celtics de Boston apenas lograron vencer 117-115 a los Cavaliers de Cleveland por la noche después de perder la mayor parte de su gran ventaja.
Los Celtics lideraban por 21 puntos en el tercer cuarto y aún estaban arriba por 11 con menos de dos minutos restantes antes de que Donovan Mitchell de Cleveland encestara triples consecutivos para acercar a los Cavs a 114—112 con 20.5 segundos por jugar.
Pritchard, quien anotó varias canastas importantes en los momentos finales, luego hizo dos tiros libres para poner a Boston adelante 116-112 con 5.9 segundos restantes.
El guardia de los Cavs, Darius Garland, encestó un triple con 1.2 segundos por jugar, y Cleveland cometió una falta sobre Brown en el pase de entrada siguiente tras un tiempo muerto. El guardia All-Star de Boston solo pudo encestar uno de dos tiros libres, dando a los Cavs una última oportunidad.
Pero el tiro de Evan Mobley fue corto en el último segundo, permitiendo a los Celtics escapar con la victoria.
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Subastan pintura perdida de Rubens sobre la crucifixión de Jesús en 2,7 millones de dólares
VERSALLES, Francia (AP) — Un cuadro del maestro barroco Peter Paul Rubens, el cual permaneció oculto por más de cuatro siglos, fue vendido el domingo en 2,3 millones de euros (2,7 millones de dólares) en una subasta en Versalles.
El cuadro, que representa la Crucifixión de Jesucristo, fue encontrado recientemente en una residencia privada en París.
La pintura formaba parte de una colección francesa y en un principio se pensaba que provenía de uno de los muchos talleres que existían de Rubens en ese momento. La obra rara vez se valuó en más de 10.000 euros (11.500 dólares).
“De inmediato tuve una corazonada sobre este cuadro e hice todo lo posible para tratar de autenticarlo”, dijo el subastador Jean-Pierre Osenat a The Associated Press. “Y finalmente, logramos que fuera autenticado por el Rubenianum, que es el comité de Rubens en Amberes”.
Nils Büttner, un experto conocido por su investigación sobre Rubens, explicó antes de la subasta que el maestro a menudo pintaba crucifixiones, pero rara vez representaba “a Cristo crucificado como un cuerpo muerto en la cruz”.
“Así que este es el único cuadro que muestra sangre y agua saliendo de la herida lateral de Cristo, y esto es algo que Rubens sólo pintó una vez”.
La casa de subastas Osenat dijo que la autenticidad y procedencia del cuadro fueron confirmadas tras un análisis científico. Indicó que el examen microscópico de las capas de pintura no sólo reveló pigmentos blancos, negros y rojos en las áreas que representan carne, sino también pigmentos azules y verdes que Rubens solía usar al pintar la piel humana.
El experto en arte Eric Turquin dijo que el cuadro prácticamente había desaparecido a principios del siglo XVII. Se sabe que perteneció al pintor clásico francés del siglo XIX William Bouguereau antes de ser heredado en la familia.
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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.
Escape Velocity: Why America’s 1963 Poverty Math Is Broken
Escape Velocity: Why America’s 1963 Poverty Math Is Broken
Authored by Peter Earle via the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER),
In a recent analysis gone viral, financial blogger Michael W. Green traced how modern American families can earn anywhere from $40,000 to $100,000 and still fall further behind. The argument is devastatingly simple: the mathematical parameters defining “poverty” are built upon a benchmark drawn in 1963, multiplied by three, and only lightly adjusted for inflation. Everything else—childcare, healthcare, housing, transportation, and the structural design of the welfare state—has transformed beyond recognition. The result is a system in which the official poverty line tells us less about deprivation than it does about starvation. And once you trace the math, the inescapable metaphor emerges: America’s working households require escape velocity to break free from the gravitational well of modern costs of living.
In physics, escape velocity is the minimum energy needed to break free from a body’s gravitational pull. Below that threshold, every burst of energy merely bends the trajectory and drops the object back into orbit. The same dynamic now governs mobility in the United States.
Using conservative assumptions, a bare-bones “participation budget,” the minimal cost necessary for a household to work, raise children, and avoid freefall, is roughly between $136,000 to $150,000. That figure doesn’t represent luxurious living; it’s the updated application of Mollie Orshansky’s original method, which assumed food was one-third of a household’s budget. Today, food is closer to 5 to 7 percent, and the real multipliers reside in the unavoidable costs of existing in a post-industrial service economy. The system still uses the original 1963 architecture, so the “poverty line” is measured as if housing, childcare, and healthcare still operated like they did during the Kennedy administration.
Below this new-era threshold, income gains are eaten by benefit cliffs: the loss of Medicaid, SNAP, childcare subsidies, and at that same point a sudden, full exposure to market prices in sectors that the United States has spent decades distorting through subsidies, mandates, and regulatory sclerosis. A family can leap from $45,000 to $65,000 and end up poorer, because the system confiscates more than 100 percent of that incremental income. From that perspective, it’s not irrational to stay put rather than aggressively seek higher earnings that will only bring more hardship and deprivation.
Using the 1963 poverty line today is like measuring the distance from Earth to the moon with a yardstick whose markings have been sandblasted away. It ensures two outcomes.
First, because the benchmark is too low, benefits are means-tested too early.
The ladder gets sawed off halfway up. The poor face marginal tax rates that would make a hedge fund blanch, and the working poor find that one extra dollar of income can trigger thousands of dollars in lost benefits. The mathematics are inherently punitive, punishing upward mobility and the productive instincts that animate it.
Second, persistent inflation, especially in non-discretionary categories, reshapes the spending basket faster than the poverty formula can adjust.
This is not purely the result of supply-and-demand fundamentals. It is a direct consequence of decades of monetary expansion, financial repression, interest-rate suppression, and regulatory barriers that choke off the supply in housing, healthcare, education, and childcare. When the Federal Reserve aims to stabilize macroeconomic aggregates, it also inadvertently distorts the production of essential goods that determine whether a family can remain afloat. Price levels matter for survival even if economic science has come to prefer analyzing rates of change.
A similar mismatch between past prices and present reality—the real versus nominal divide—haunts the financial system. The $10,000 reporting requirement for bank transfers was created in the early 1970s, when $10,000 represented a down payment on a house. Today it represents two or three months’ rent in many cities—or a single dental emergency. Inflation has quietly turned an anti-money-laundering threshold into a mass-surveillance dragnet for normal people performing normal transactions. That same inflation, coupled with outdated benchmarks, now pushes American families into poverty by statistical invisibility and brutally repels attempts at upward mobility.
When escape velocity is $140–$150k, and the effective marginal tax rate is 80–120 percent, buying scratch-off tickets ceases to be obviously irrational. One needs a tremendous economic leap of roughly $100,000 a year to continue living without disruption. In a nonlinear system with cliffs and arbitrary phase changes, a low-probability high-payout gamble can be mathematically defensible. Tilting at heavy-tailed payoffs is not illogical; it is a response to a payoff structure policymakers engineered.
A likely response, politically, is to suggest simply lifting eligibility all the way up to the true cost-of-living threshold. But indexing benefits to the real cost of American life would balloon federal outlays by trillions. Extending Medicaid, SNAP, housing subsidies, and childcare credits to households making $140,000 would produce deficit dynamics that would make the 2020–2021 stimulus era look mild and restrained. The welfare state is already actuarially fragile; expanding it to cover half the U.S. population would collapse it.
On the other hand, three somewhat simple reforms could help restore a sane poverty escape velocity:
Use a modern participation-budget approach, not a 1963 grocery multiple. If there is to be a social safety net, it should be driven by means testing which phases out smoothly, not falls off cliffs.
Deregulate housing, healthcare, childcare, and education: the sectors where supply is most strangled by regulation. Deregulation—particularly zoning, certificate of need laws, licensing, and insurance mandates—would create downward price pressure far more powerful than subsidies.
The Federal Reserve’s century-long experiment with cheap money has inflated asset prices, destroyed purchasing power, raised the cost of entry into middle-class life, and widened the gap between wages and participation requirements. A quick fix could be rendered by shifting from discretion to a rules-based monetary regime (whether Taylor-style, commodity-linked, or another transparent, market-tested anchor) to stabilize prices and reduce the boom-bust cycles that erode household stability.
America’s primary poverty crisis is not moral failure, laziness, or poor financial literacy. It is math. A system built on 1963 assumptions cannot function in a 2025 reality.
Until the parameters shift, which is to say until lawmakers acknowledge the true cost of participation, that escape velocity will remain impossibly out of reach for tens of millions. The tragedy is not that people are failing; it is that the system is calibrated for a world that has not existed in over three generations.
There is no reform, no genuine improvement in the condition of the poor, no revival in the living standards of consumers—or of any American who works—without monetary reform beginning at the very top, with the Federal Reserve.
Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of ZeroHedge.
Tyler Durden
Sun, 11/30/2025 – 21:00
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/escape-velocity-why-americas-1963-poverty-math-broken
Knicks vencen 116-94 a Raptors para hilvanar su cuarta victoria consecutiva
NUEVA YORK (AP) — Josh Hart consiguió 20 puntos, 12 rebotes y siete asistencias, Karl-Anthony Towns añadió 22 unidades y ocho rebotes, y los Knicks de Nueva York vencieron 116-94 a los Raptors de Toronto el domingo para su cuarta victoria consecutiva.
Jalen Brunson consiguió 18 tantos, siete asistencias y seis rebotes, y Mikal Bridges y Miles McBride anotaron cada uno 14 puntos. Los Knicks mejoraron a 10-1 en casa y 13-6 en general. Están perfectos desde que Hart se unió a la alineación titular la semana pasada.
Immanuel Quickley tuvo 19 tantos y ocho asistencias para Toronto contra su antiguo equipo, y Scottie Barnes añadió 18 unidades. Los Raptors cayeron a 14-7, una noche después de que su racha de nueve victorias consecutivas terminara en Charlotte.
Los Knicks y los Raptors se enfrentarán en las semifinales de la Conferencia Este de la Copa NBA en Toronto el 9 de diciembre.
Los Knicks casi desperdiciaron una ventaja de 24 puntos en la primera mitad ante los resilientes Raptors, quienes redujeron la ventaja de Nueva York a tres en 70-67 a mitad del tercer cuarto.
Pero Hart y Bridges lideraron una racha de 16-1 en un lapso de 4:20 para ayudar a los Knicks a alejarse nuevamente. Hart tuvo ocho puntos, con dos triples, y Bridges anotó seis unidades en la racha y asistió en cada uno de los triples de Hart.
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Chicago Blackhawks score 5 unanswered goals to defeat Anaheim Ducks 5-3 and snap 5-game winless streak
The Chicago Blackhawks came into Sunday afternoon’s game winless in their last five. The team’s confidence had taken a hit, and the Anaheim Ducks made the Hawks pay early.
Within 47 seconds of the puck dropping, Cutter Gauthier and Olen Zellweger had scored. The Ducks had a three-goal lead after Chris Kreider’s goal at 10:25 in the first period, and you could hear hear a pin drop in the United Center.
Needing a win before a West Coast trip, the Hawks answered the bell and bounced back.
The Hawks (11-9-5) scored five unanswered goals to complete a home sweep of the Ducks with a 5-3 victory. The teams play again Dec. 7 in Anaheim, Calif.
Connor Bedard had four points, including the last two goals — both unassisted. He made easy work of Ducks goaltender Ville Husso — who subbed in for an injured Petr Mrázek, the former Hawks goalie — to score the go-ahead goal at 9:55 in the third period.
“Everyone took it upon themselves to up their game (in) a game that we needed,” Bedard said. “Five games straight without being able to get a win, so we all took initiative after the first.”
Clawing out of a three-goal hole isn’t how the Hawks want to play consistently, but it’s a confidence booster for a young team to do that against a quality Ducks team (15-9-1). The Hawks needed the uplifting performance.
“I don’t want to make a habit of that being how we get wins,” alternate captain Jason Dickinson said. “But it’s crucial for the group to know that we can play in those games, we can play in those moments and it doesn’t consume us.
“There’s going to be lots of highs and lows in the season, even within a game. To ride the wave and be able to stick with it and get the win, it creates a lot of confidence and a sense of accomplishment amongst the group that we can do it.”
Frank Nazar started the scoring for the Hawks by sending a snipe that Tyler Bertuzzi redirected for their first goal. Nazar still is looking for his first goal in a month, but the center has an assist in the last two games and his shots have had a notable increase in power.
On the top line, Ryan Greene may have found his finishing touch. The rookie forward out of Boston University has scored in his last two games and had even more scoring chances set up by Bedard.
“If you play with Connor, you’re going to get opportunities, (and) to his credit, (Greene’s) really smart about finding spots,” Hawks coach Jeff Blashill said. “He can shoot the puck, (has) a legit shot and a legit ability to pass.”
Added Bedard: “He’s been playing unbelievable. He’s always in a spot where one of us can find him and he can get a look. He’s been hitting posts, sticks and everything you can hit.
“(If) you keep getting those looks, they’re going to go in. He’s been such a great player for us and will keep getting better. Good to see someone like that succeed.”
Ducks coach Joel Quenneville looks on against the Blackhawks during the first period Sunday, Nov. 30, 2025, at the United Center. (Michael Reaves/Getty Images)
Former Hawks coach Joel Quenneville made his second appearance at the United Center since becoming the Ducks coach. He had a 452-249-96 record with three Stanley Cups as the Hawks coach from 2008-19.
This is Quenneville’s first season behind the bench since returning from a lengthy NHL ban for his part in the Hawks’ mishandling of sexual abuse allegations by a former player in 2010. He’s an early favorite for the Jack Adams Award as coach of the year, an honor he won in 2000 with the St. Louis Blues.
Blackhawks center Connor Bedard and Ducks center Mason McTavish fight during the third period Sunday, Nov. 30, 2025, at the United Center. (AP Photo/David Banks)
Ducks center Mason McTavish and Bedard got into a scuffle after the final horn. The two youngsters skated together for Team Canada in the 2022 World Juniors, so it was competitive juices flowing rather than bad blood.
“We’re pretty close, but that’s who he is, someone that always wants to compete,” Bedard said. “I was roommates with him and was teammates with him for a couple of years, and everything we do, he’s trying to make it a competition. It’s fun to play guys like that.”
After his second goal of the third period, Bedard and the Anaheim bench exchanged words. The Hawks center doesn’t hide his own competitive spirit, and Blashill prefers it that way.
Blackhawks center Connor Bedard yells at the Ducks bench after scoring a empty-net goal during the third period Sunday, Nov. 30, 2025, at the United Center. (Michael Reaves/Getty Images)
“I don’t know any great players who aren’t hypercompetitive,” Blashill said. “I don’t think he’s always demonstrative about it, but the best ones … want to win at everything they do (and) he’s certainly got that trait.”
The comeback win could be the get-right game that Friday’s loss to the Nashville Predators should’ve been. It will need to be with games against current playoff teams coming up.
“These games are played for 60 minutes for a reason, (and) you play 82 for a reason,” Blashill said. “One game doesn’t make a season, one period doesn’t make a season (and) a minute of hockey doesn’t make a game.
“Let’s just grind through it and keep doing it the right way.”
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