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A look at the two semifinal games Sunday in the Las Vegas Summer League:TIMBERWOLVES 93, SUNS 83Tyus Jones fought through an injured left wrist and thumb to lead Minnesota to the final of the tournament with 29 points, six assists and three rebounds. Jones had 18 points in the first half, but was injured when he landed hard on the court before halftime. The 2015 No. 24 pick came out of the break heavily bandaged, but continued to play as the Timberwolves outscored the Suns 24-18 in the third quarter to take a 67-66 lead. Jones floater kicked off a 12-3 run to start the final quarter that effectively put things away.Adreian Payne, the 2014 No. 15 pick, had a double-double with 18 points and 10 rebounds for Minnesota. Troy Williams led the Suns with 24 points and six rebounds, and Askia Booker had 19 points off the bench. Tyler Ulis was held to 11 points on 5-for-21 shooting after hitting the winner Saturday night.No. 4 pick Dragan Bender and All-Rookie first-team Devin Booker did not play for the Suns.BULLS 85, CAVALIERS 79Denzel Valentine banked in a 3-pointer that started an 8-0 run to go to give Chicago an 80-75 lead with 1:14 remaining that the Cavaliers never recovered from. The 2016 No. 14 pick finished with 13 points, eight rebounds, three assists and two steals.Cristiano Felicio led the Bulls with 18 points, and Bobby Portis added 16 points, nine rebounds and three assists. Chicago needed a 10-1 run in the third quarter to get back in the game after trailing 46-36 at halftime.Kay Felder continued to impress with 22 points on 8-for-14 shooting as he pushes for a backup spot being Kyrie Irving. He did a little bit of everything throughout the game, including handing out five assists, but got out of control and missed a wild layup trailing 80-77 with 27.9 seconds remaining, forcing the Cavs to foul to extend the game. Jordan McRae was the only other Cavs player to reach double digits. He ended the night with 16 points and five rebounds, but shot 6 for 16 from the field. . Thousands of fans at Mosaic Stadium will be cozying up to each other in an effort to stay warm in chilly temperatures and block the Prairie wind that locals say can knock your socks off. . Hazard cut in from the left and scored with a swerving right-footed shot for ninth goal of the season, which proved to be enough for the victory despite Chelseas forwards again lacking a cutting edge up front. .Y. - Nelson Mandela will be honoured by the New York Yankees with a plaque in Monument Park. . -- Team after team passed on Andre Ellington in the draft. . "Were just throwing s--- at the wall hoping something sticks," said Tortorella about the possible line combinations for Fridays game against Columbus. The Canucks have lost five straight games and six of their last seven, leaving them in a logjam in the Pacific Division, currently sitting fifth - good for ninth in the Western Conference. Heavyweight titleholder Deontay Wilder has had one surgical procedure already on his broken right hand and will have another one on it -- as well as his torn right biceps -- probably later this week, trainer and co-manager Jay Deas told ESPN.com on Monday.Wilder broke his hand and tore his biceps in a dominant eighth-round knockout of Chris Arreola to retain his world title for the fourth time on July 16 in front of a home state crowd at Legacy Arena in Birmingham, Alabama.Wilder suffered the injuries in the fourth round, during which he dropped Arreola and nearly knocked him out but then stopped using his right hand, his best weapon, for the rest of the fight.Deas said Wilder had a very minor surgery this past Tuesday in which the doctor inserted temporary pins his hand and lined up his bones to help speed up the time it takes for the severe swelling in the hand to go down.They secured his hand so the swelling will go down and when it has gone down sufficiently they can go in and correct what needs to be corrected in another surgery, Deas said.Deas said the tentative schedule is for Wilder to have hand surgery on Thursday or Friday. At the same time, the plan is also to have the needed surgery on his damaged biceps.We are trying to coordinate both surgeries at the same time so Deontay is not in a cast for three or four months while his hand heals and then needs to still get his biceps done after that, Deas said.dddddddddddd. Having them both at the same time is a way to cut down on the recovery time he needs.The blessing in disguise is that even though the hand surgery is much more complicated than the biceps surgery the biceps takes longer to heal. So Deontays hand will be well before his biceps, which will give his hand even more time to rest because he will have to wait for the biceps to be clear before he can use the hand. The hand will be better than it will have been in years.Wilder (37-0, 36 KOs), 30, of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is almost surely out for the rest of 2016. This is at least the third time Wilder, a devastating puncher, has broken his right hand. After a first-round knockout of Travis Allen in 2009 (Wilders seventh professional fight), Wilder had right hand surgery during which pins were inserted to stabilize it. The shots he landed on Arreola were so powerful that he bent those pins.Wilder also suffered a stress fracture in the same spot during his world title victory against Bermane Stiverne in January 2015, although he did not require a second surgery. ' ' '
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