Sheppard chipped in 12 points (4-6 FG, 4-6 3Pt), two rebounds, four assists and one steal in 33 minutes during Wednesday's 133-119 victory over the Pistons. With Bennedict Mathruin battling an illness ...

All-Star center Alperen Sengun (bruised calf) missed his first game of the season for the Rockets, who gave Steven Adams his first start.

Dylan Conway, from Queensland , Australia, had nine surgeries and spent 14 months in bed due to reoccurring pilonidal sinus disease - a skin problem that occurs in the buttocks.

Newly unemployed Jim Acosta appeared to know his days were numbered at CNN weeks before announcing he'd refused a demotion to midnight.