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NEW ORLEANS -- Anthony Davis wore a supportive strap on his aching back and still managed to carry the New Orleans Pelicans on his shoulders until scrappy guard Tim Frazier could finish it off with clutch plays on both ends of the court.Davis had 25 points, 16 rebounds, four steals and two blocks, and the Pelicans won for only the second time in their first 11 games, 106-105 over the Boston Celtics on Monday night.Frazier made a crucial steal of Marcus Smarts inbound pass near New Orleans basket with 14 seconds left. He also drew a shooting foul from Kelly Olynyk with 2.5 seconds left, setting up his go-ahead free throw for the final margin.He plays big, Davis said of Frazier, who finished with 10 points. He went in there with all them trees down there and got that steal. ... And then, that was a great job, a high basketball IQ, to draw that foul.Langston Galloway scored a season-high 21 points for New Orleans, which began the season with eight straight losses. Fellow reserve Terrence Jones added 15 points and a season-high 10 rebounds.Celtics coach Brad Stevens said his concern coming into the game wasnt so much what Davis would do, but whether hed get more of the help hes been lacking.Anthony is going to be Anthony, said Stevens, whose team limited Davis to 7-of-22 shooting. You cant let Langston Galloway go off. Jones has had great games against us for as long as I can remember. ... They really hurt us tonight.Isaiah Thomas scored 37 for Boston, including a driving scoop that tied the game with 7 seconds left.Frazier then pushed the ball up the floor and the 7-foot Olynyk picked Frazier up defensively near the perimeter.I knew I had a big on me, so I tried to see if I could get him to go, and he went, Frazier said.Olynyk said he tried to challenge what initially looked like a shot attempt, and then Frazier jumped into me and I picked up the foul.In part because the Celtics were out of timeouts and unable to advance the ball, they failed to get a decent shot off in the final 2 seconds. Bostons first inbound attempt from its own baseline deflected off New Orleans along the sideline with a tenth of a second left.The Celtics then attempted a long pass in hopes of a tip-in, but the inbound hit the rim and Smarts attempted put-back in a crowd of players was off the mark.Bostons Avery Bradley had 19 points and 10 rebounds. Smart scored 15 points, but Bradley said the Celtics didnt play well and failed to give Thomas help.It cant just be Isaiah, Bradley said. Its got to be other players out there making shots. ... Everybodys upset about it.TIP-INCeltics: Al Horford missed his seventh straight game because of concussion symptoms and it remains unclear when hell return. I dont want to put a timetable on it because I think its about how he feels day to day, Stevens said. Stevens added that once the Celtics decided not to play Horford, they got him an early flight back to Boston so he could get more rest.Pelicans: Rookie shooting guard Buddy Hield made his first start in place of ETwaun Moore. After tip-off, the Pelicans announced coach Alvin Gentry had decided to give Moore the night off to rest a right big toe injury. ... The Pelicans win was their first at home, where they improved to 1-5.BACK PAINDavis could be seen lying on the court near the bench when he wasnt playing and said it was to ease stress on his back.Every time I sit down it just tightens up, so that was the best way for me to try to keep it loose, Davis said. Youve got to play through it, fight through and try to do whatever you can do to help your team win.SQUANDERED LEADNew Orleans led by as many as 14 points when Dante Cunninghams 3 made it 65-51 in the third quarter, but the Pelicans briefly lost the lead in the final minutes.Weve got to continue to eliminate some of the mental mistakes and putting ourselves in harms way, Gentry said. But Gentry also added that he was pleased his team hung in and found a way to win.UP NEXTCeltics: Hosts Dallas on Wednesday night.Pelicans: Visit Orlando on Wednesday night.Taylor Guilbeau Mariners Jersey . A forerunning sled crashed into the worker Thursday at the Sanki Sliding Center. The unidentified worker broke both legs and was airlifted to a nearby hospital. Yusei Kikuchi Mariners Jersey .com) - Manchester City midfielder David Silva is expected to miss the next four weeks because of a calf problem. https://www.cheapmariners.com/235k-juan-bernhardt-jersey-mariners.html . JOHNS, N. Lou Piniella Mariners Jersey . LOUIS -- Attorneys for the St. Floyd Bannister Jersey . Defencemen Drew Doughty, Shea Weber and forward Ryan Getzlaf also scored for the Canadians, who started their gold-medal defence 2-0. Goalie Roberto Luongo, getting the call in place of Game 1 starter Carey Price, was solid when needed in making 23 saves for the shutout.Dane Swan was an old-school footballer, a one-off in the modern, professional context. His method of preparation came from the 1980s, with a barrel of beer on Sunday mornings and no sleep on a weekend full of trawling in the night clubs.His indifference to training (at least on the track) is legendary at Collingwood, although he would smash 500-metre runs on the treadmill in the altitude room at the Holden Centre when no one was watching, so he could run taggers off their legs on the weekend.He had no interest in watching his edits with the line coaches on a Monday and not much love for the tactics and numbers that swamp the game now. He ran with a waddle and his kicking was problematic (although ironically, he would rarely miss when near goal).When he arrived at Collingwood at the end of 2001 at the bargain pick of No. 58 in the super draft, he had just completed a week of drinking at schoolies on the Gold Coast, and was fearfully hungover. Famously, he had declined the clubs offer to fly him home early to join training, preferring to stay with his mates, revealing a pattern that stayed with him to this day.Nothing about him suggested he could become what he did. But in time, Collingwood learned that if you put a footy between him and an opponent on match day, he would most often get it. In that sense, Swans greatness is simple. He ran to the ends of the ground like few others, and he could find the football (27 times a game over his 258 game career). Later, they realised that he could mark overhead and kick goals and that on big occasions, he was nerveless, a great match-day performer.It was an impressive package, and his record speaks for itself. Three Copeland Trophies (and four other top-three finishes) through a period when Collingwood won a flag, lost another grand final and was generally thereabouts, a Brownlow Medal, and an AFL MVP award are not to be sniffed at. He has a claim to be in top 10 Collingwood players of all time, along with Nathan Buckley, Bob Rose, Peter Daicos the Coventrys and Co.As Mick Malthouse has observed, his game spoke for itself, and he never needed to shout about it. In fact, Swan perpetrated a con act on the football world over mmore than a decade, convincing it that he did not care for the game.dddddddddddd The unchanging facial expression, the deadpan commentary on a rare occasion when he appeared in the media, they all were part of his cunning plan. The Illusionist one newspaper headline writer called him a few years ago, and it was spot on, although over time, people woke up to how good he actually was.Swan never took himself too seriously, never pretended the game bigger than what it was. Once, he loaned his Brownlow to a mate so that he could surprise people by showing it, and for a time, did not know where it was. To him, family and friends came way before football, and he sought means of expressing himself, mainly through his tattoos.Nothings ever my fault - just ask my grandparents, he observed at his retirement media conference at Collingwood on Tuesday, a production in itself.His sporting hero was Allen Iverson, the NBA superstar who popularised full-body tattoos among athletes a decade or more ago, and who had endured a brush with the law that was all too familiar to Swan, whose Federation Square fisticuffs with some security guards in 2003 almost cost him his career before it had really started. By the time he won his Copelands he was painting himself with tattoos, one of the first of Australian sportsmen to do so, and among the first was the Swan family motto: CONSTANT AND FAITHFUL. Later, he had the words G-o-o-d L-i-f-e inked on his knuckles. He bought a tattoo shop, and a pub, still giggles at the irony of those particular purchases, and called his clothing label Rat Bagg.Then before he could blink, he went to the SCG in Round 1 this year and Zak Jones of the Swans fell hard on him in a marking contest, Swans right leg twisting up underneath him. An hour later he was sitting in a medical room at the adjacent Sydney Football Stadium, waiting for an x-ray and wondering where his future was. Collingwood were smashed in his absence. Soon enough, the medical reports would come through.It was the end of an entertaining road. Thats footy. Thats life. ' ' '