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Jarrett Allen went down hard against Oklahoma City Wednesday night, exiting in the first quarter after a knee-on-knee collision with Jared McCain while setting a screen. The Cavaliers were already trailing by nineteen when it happened, and losing Allen only deepens the concern for a Cleveland team with serious title aspirations this season.
Shifting to the hardwood in Atlanta, Nickeil Alexander-Walker put on a show against his former teammate Trae Young, dropping twenty-six points on six three-pointers as the Hawks rolled past the Wizards one hundred twenty to one hundred five. Alexander-Walker has now hit fifteen threes over his last two games, and Atlanta looks like a team quietly building something real.
And in college football, Northwestern is sweating the health of quarterback Aidan Chiles heading into a critical Big Ten showdown with Iowa. Chiles is listed as questionable after taking damage in the Oregon loss, and this one matters. Northwestern's momentum this season has been built around his arm, and without him at full strength, that Iowa defense could make it a very long afternoon in Evanston.
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