CHICAGO -- Jimmy Butler scored 26 points, Dwyane Wade had 24 and the Chicago Bulls beat LeBron James and the slumping Cleveland Cavaliers 111-105 on Friday night.Taj Gibson added a season-high 23 points and 11 rebounds for Chicago. Rajon Rondo had 15 points, 12 assists and 11 rebounds as the balanced Bulls handed the Cavaliers their third straight loss.James showed up in a Cubs uniform to honor a World Series bet with his buddy Wade, then scored 27 points. Kyrie Irving added 20 points and eight assists, but the Cavaliers matched their longest losing streak in a year.Chicago dominated Cleveland 78-60 in the paint and came out on top despite hitting shooting 3 of 18 on 3-pointers.The Bulls used a strong third quarter to turn a one-point halftime deficit into an 88-80 lead. And they withstood several pushes in the fourth to knock off the defending NBA champions.KNICKS 118, TIMBERWOLVES 114NEW YORK -- Carmelo Anthony scored 29 points, Derrick Rose had 24 and Kyle OQuinn added 20 points and 13 rebounds as the Knicks defeated the Timberwolves.Zach LaVine scored 24 points and Karl-Anthony Towns had 20 for the Timberwolves.Despite trailing 98-88 after three quarters, the Timberwolves went on a 12-2 run to start the fourth, aided by five Knick turnovers in the first four minutes, and took their first lead of the game, 102-101, on LaVines dunk with 6:33 remaining.OQuinn got the Knicks lead back with consecutive baskets, and after Minnesota got within one, Rose scored the next five points to give New York a 110-104 lead.Andrew Wiggins converted a layup with 2:11 left, but Anthony answered with a dunk off of a full court pass from OQuinn to make the score 112-106.Rose made two free throws with 31 seconds left for a 114-106 lead and the Timberwolves got no closer than four the rest of the way.CELTICS 97, KINGS 92BOSTON -- Al Horford scored 26 points and blocked six shots, Isaiah Thomas scored 14 of his 20 points in the second half and the Celtics held off the Kings.Jae Crowder added 24 points and Avery Bradley had 15 points and nine assists for Boston, which needed a 10-0 run in the fourth quarter to pull away and finish off the Kings.Sacramento outrebounded Boston 51-44, but hurt itself in the final period with turnovers, missed shots and a technical foul called on Matt Barnes as Boston surged ahead.DeMarcus Cousins led Sacramento with 28 points and nine rebounds.The Kings were playing for the first time since Monday. Sacramentos six-game road trip was interrupted when Wednesdays game at Philadelphia was postponed because of condensation on the floor.MAGIC 104, 76ERS 88,PHILADELPHIA -- Aaron Gordon scored a season-high 20 points, Nikola Vuvevic had 12 points, 11 rebounds and five assists and the Magic cruised by the 76ers in a matchup of slumping Eastern Conference teams.Serge Ibaka, Evan Fournier and Jeff Green all added 16 points for the Magic (8-12), who had lost five of six coming in. Bismack Biyombo had 13 rebounds.The Sixers (4-15) lost their fifth straight despite 25 points and 10 rebounds from rookie Joel Embiid. It was his fifth double-double of the season.Jahlil Okafor, who saw extended action with Embiid for the first time this season, also had a double-double with 16 points and 13 rebounds.RAPTORS 113, LAKERS 80TORONTO -- Kyle Lowry had 24 points and seven assists and the Raptors rolled past the Los Angeles Lakers for their fifth straight victory.The Toronto point guard tied his season high for 3-pointers, going 6 of 9 from beyond the arc as the Raptors beat the Lakers for the fourth straight time with their biggest win of the season. The 33-point victory surpassed the 27-point win over Philadelphia on Oct. 28.DeMar DeRozan and Norman Powell both added 16 points for Toronto.Brandon Ingram had 17 points for the Lakers, while their bench, the top scoring unit in the NBA, chipped in with Jordan Clarksons 14 and former Raptor Lou Williams 13.PISTONS 121, HAWKS 85ATLANTA -- Kentavious Caldwell-Pope scored 23 points, Tobias Harris added 18 and the Pistons beat the reeling Hawks.The Pistons, who tied a team record with 17 3-pointers, have won five of six and are 3-1 on a trip that included stops at playoff contenders Oklahoma City, Charlotte and Boston.Andre Drummond finished with 14 points and 14 rebounds and Ish Smith had 13 assists as seven players scored in double figures for Detroit.The Hawks, losers in eight of their last nine games, were 9-2 and tied for the Eastern Conference lead after beating Milwaukee on Nov. 16. Now they are one-half game behind eighth-place Detroit and headed to play Toronto, the Easts second-best team, on Saturday.Dennis Schroder had 17 points and 13 assists for Atlanta. 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With the amount of money given to players by their clubs these days, it is a wonder that so many of those teams allow the sport to continue to take away many of their assets so they can play for a different team in the middle of their season. EnglishESPA?OLPortuguêsThe Perfect 100The first competition in the first modern Olympics in 1896 was the 100-meter dash, with American Thomas Burke winning gold in a time of 12 seconds. More than a century later, the 100 meters remains one of the more popular events at the Olympics, and the winning times have steadily improved. At the 2012 Games in London, Jamaican Usain Bolt won gold with an Olympic-record time of 9.63 seconds, nearly 2.5 seconds faster than Burke ran in 1896. (Bolt also holds the world record of 9.58, set at the 2009 world championships.)The 100-meter dash may be the fastest event at the Olympics, but there is so much that goes on during those 10 seconds. Heres a look at the science and technique in the race, along with the sprinters views of those 100 meters.By Jim Caple ? ESPN.comTHE STARTING BLOCKSWhen getting into the blocks, author Warren Doscher writes in The Art of Sprinting, the strongest leg should be in the forward pedal of the starting block [1]. The fingertips should be set just behind the starting line (not touching it) [2] with the arms mostly straight but the elbows unlocked [3].In addition to listening for the starters gun, sprinters are keen to have their feet properly set in the blocks. Bill FrakesListen for the gun Apart from the men wondering how they might beat Bolt, there is one thing sprinters say they are focused on after they position themselves in the starting blocks.Listen for the gun, says English Gardner, Americas top female sprinter. Nothing else matters but that. You cant do anything else until the gun goes off. The worst thing you can do is false start. Its one and done in our sport. I just try to listen for the gun and react.The rules used to be that you could false start once and be given a second chance. That was changed in 2003. You can even be disqualified if you start too soon after the gun fires. Research has shown that a person cannot hear the gun and react in under a tenth of a second. Therefore, if you start sooner than a tenth of a second after the gun, it will be considered a false start. And youre done.A lot of races are won and lost because a sprinter does not react properly to the gun, says two-time Olympic 100 medalist Ato Boldon of Trinidad and Tobago. You dont want to anticipate the gun; you want to react to it. Theres a difference. If you anticipate it and youre wrong, youre going to be out.You dont want to anticipate the gun; you want to react to it. Theres a difference. If you anticipate it and youre wrong, youre going to be out.In addition to listening for that starters pistol, Warren Doscher writes in The Art of Sprinting, sprinters must make sure their feet are properly set and that the balls of their feet, ankles, knees and hip joints are in alignment. Their head should be down. They should take a deep breath and hold it.And then, they must react to the gun.When getting into the blocks, author Warren Doscher writes in The Art of Sprinting, the strongest leg should be in the forward pedal of the starting block [1]. The fingertips should be set just behind the starting line (not touching it) [2] with the arms mostly straight but the elbows unlocked [3].THE FIRST 10 METERSThere are various types of starts, including the jump and the get up and go starts that may put you out front initially but wont help you. Writes Doscher: One can only accelerate forward when the foot is on the track applying backward force to it. During acceleration out of the blocks, a sprinter will drive out in a 45-degree angle [1], moving his arms in opposite directions in a large range of motion [2] with one arm driving forward and the other driving backward. After the starting gun fires, sprinters have to be careful too not straighten up too quickly. Ian Walton/Getty ImagesLike blinking, like breathingAmerican Justin Gatlin says the start is all about instinct.Im like, All right, Im waiting for the gun and getting set, says Gatlin, the 2004 Olympic 100 gold medalist. If youre thinking, Are my arms too wide, are my arms too close together? its over for you. You just have to go on instinct. Its like blinking, like breathing.Less experienced runners might try to rise up quickly and take quick steps to put themselves into an early lead, but two-time Olympic 100 gold medalist Carl Lewis differs. He says the key is not to take immediate quick steps, but to take longer, more powerful strides because that will help you farther along in the race.If your car runs out of gas, you dont go ahead and pull it, Lewis says. You get behind and push it. And when you push it, you stay on the first step and extend all the way until the next step. And all the way until you extend to the next step. And thats how you get out of the blocks.Thats exactly what I tell my young kids, says Boldon, now a track and field analyst for NBC Sports who also does some coaching. If you have to push something heavy, youre not going to push it from a 180-degree angle. You have to get some relative angle to the back of that car. Youre trying to overcome inertia and gravity in the first part of that race.There are various types of starts, including the jump and the get up and go starts that may put you out front initially but wont help you. Writes Doscher: One can only accelerate forward when the foot is on the track applying backward force to it. During acceleration out of the blocks, a sprinter will drive out in a 45-degree angle [1], moving his arms in opposite directions in a large range of motion [2] with one arm driving forward and the other driving backward. 20 METERSIn 2012, Jamaicas Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, center, quickly kicked it into high gear while winning her second consecutive Olympic gold in the 100. Mark Ralston/AFP/GettyImagesSlowly but surely stand upBy now, the sprinters have pushed hard to get themselves moving, and hopefully they are more of a Ferrari than a Ford F650 truck. Its time to start speeding up without standing up too tall, too quickly.You dont want to rush your transition and snap your head up, because you have all this good momentum going forward, Boldon says. You want to slowly but surely stand up to your upright running position.You want to relax your head and stay low in a pushing position so your first 10-15 steps, which will get you to 20-25 meters, will be low, efficient and powerful.The total strides in the 100 range from 40-41 for Bolt to around 50 for the top women. Doscher writes that to lessen the braking effect of the foot when runners step on the ground, they should have their knees slightly bent when doing so. In Sprinting, author Ryan McGill says the run