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Yannis Antetokumbu scored 33 points to lead the Milwaukee Bucks to a 116-100 victory over the visiting Chicago Bulls and qualify for the Eastern Conference semifinals in the NBA.
The defending champion ended his victory 4-1 in the series, which is decided on the basis of the best in seven matches.
The Bucks qualified to face the Boston Celtics, who crushed the Brooklyn Nets 4-0, in the Eastern Conference semifinals.
The Bulls, who was missed by Zach Lavigne due to the health and safety protocol to combat the Corona virus, needed a miracle. 265 times in which a team was 3-1 behind in the playoffs before this season, the late win was won on only 13 occasions with a success rate of less than five percent .
After exchanging the lead at the beginning of the match, Antetokumbu presented an amazing performance, scoring 15 points, as the Bucks ended the first quarter in their favor, 34-18.
The defending champion seemed determined to settle the confrontation early and began the second quarter by scoring 15 points once morest two for its guest, bringing the difference to 29 points thanks to a strong defensive performance from Bobby Portes, who acquired 17 rebounds in the match.
The Bulls’ performance improved in the second half, led by Demar DeRozan, Nikola Vucevich and Patrick Williams, to reduce the score to 66-55, the lowest difference between the two teams in the match, regardless of the start of the match.
But Bucks quickly regained his focus thanks to the three-pointers from Pat Konton and finished the third quarter in his favour, 91-68, 12 minutes away from qualifying.
Despite Bulls’ attempts in the last quarter, he might not reduce the difference to less than 15 points before giving up completely in the last minutes.
Antetokumbu topped the Bucks’ list of scorers with 33 points and grabbed nine rebounds.
Conaton added 20 points, including six three-pointers.
And Patrick Williams was the most scored in the ranks of the Bulls, with 23 points.
New York’s West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures ended lower on Friday (April 22), pressured by negative factors such as weaker global economic growth prospects, lower interest rates. more and lockdowns in China to combat COVID-19 All of which are factors that will affect oil demand.
The WTI crude oil contract will be delivered in June. It fell $1.72, or 1.7 percent, at $102.07 a barrel.
The Brent crude oil contract (BRENT) will be delivered in June. It fell $1.68, or 1.6%, to close at $106.65 a barrel.
in this week WTI and Brent were down 4.1% and 4.5%, respectively.
Carsten Fritz, Energy Analyst at Commerce Bank. Research said on Friday that “The oil market has been pressured in part by demand concerns.”
“Bond Yields Soaring, Dollar Strengthening And the stock market crash also puts pressure on the oil market,” he added.
earlier this week The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has cut its forecast for global economic growth this year to 3.6 percent, raising market concerns regarding the outlook for global fuel demand.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has signaled that the Fed may raise interest rates by 0.50% at its May meeting. This will be the first time the Fed has raised interest rates by 0.50% since 2000.
Investors are also concerned regarding oil demand in China, the world’s largest oil importer. After Shanghai announced lockdown measures to curb the spread of COVID-19
The font of New York is still looking for the author of the subway shootout who did twenty injured, including ten by bullet. Investigators found a handgun and the keys to a recently rented van that was abandoned in the Brooklyn neighborhood at the scene. Tuesday morningat rush hour, a man wearing a gas mask detonated two smoke grenades before opening fire on a crowded subway train.
“The last time there was a mass shooting in our subway was in 1984, recalled the Governor of New York State Kathy Hochul. I don’t want to act like it’s normal. It’s something rare but a shooting like this is already one shooting too many.”
None of the injured people are in mortal danger according to local authorities. The question now arises of the identity of the shooter and his motive. A first track leads to the 62-year-old man who rented the van. According to several American media, he recently published videos criticizing the mayor of New York and referring to the homeless.
The United States is facing scourge of guns since many years. They did nearly 45,000 victims in 2021depending on the organization Gun Violence Archive.
Police and federal agents searched into the early hours of Wednesday for a man who set off smoke bombs and sprayed fellow passengers with gunfire aboard a New York City subway car, injuring more than 20 people before he fled the scene.
The attack erupted during the Tuesday morning commuter rush as the Manhattan-bound “N Line” train was pulling into an underground station in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park neighbourhood, the latest burst of seemingly random violence that has plagued the city’s transit system in recent years.
A photo of the van that police say is connected with the shooting at a subway station as law enforcement officers conduct an investigation in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, New York, US, April 12, 2022. (Archyde.com)
Police said 10 people were struck directly by gunfire, five of them hospitalised in critical but stable condition, while 13 others suffered respiratory distress or were otherwise injured in the crush of frantic riders fleeing the smoke-filled subway car. Some injured passengers collapsed as they poured onto the platform of the 36th Street station.
All of the victims were expected to survive their injuries, police said in an evening news conference, in which authorities also offered rewards totalling $50,000 for information leading to the arrest of a suspect they believed acted alone.
The manhunt initially centred around a U-Haul van found hours followingwards parked on a Brooklyn street, and on a “person of interest” identified by police as Frank James, who was believed to have rented the vehicle in Philadelphia. Police said they recovered the key to the van at the crime scene, and that James had addresses in Philadelphia and Wisconsin.