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NEW YORK -- The Connecticut Suns playoff chances are setting.With just four games left, they sit in 10th place after an 89-82 loss to the New York Liberty on Friday night.We might need a little divine intervention, said Chiney Ogwumike, who scored 20 points for the Sun. We have to take care of business, handle business win games. This was a huge game for us, but we played hard.The Sun (11-19) are two games behind Phoenix for the final playoff spot and will need a lot of help even if they do win their final few games to avoid missing the postseason for a fourth straight year. To make matters worse, they traded their first round pick in the 2017 draft to Los Angeles to acquire Jonquel Jones before this season started.While Connecticut is on the outside looking in, New York has already clinched the No. 3 seed. The Liberty (21-10) hope to use the final few games to get healthy. They were down to eight healthy players against Connecticut with Shoni Schimmel (concussion), Tanisha Wright (knee), Kiah Stokes (hip) and Shavonte Zellous (back) all sidelined.Thats the most important thing to get healthy, said Tina Charles, who led the team with 23 points and 10 rebounds.The Liberty rebounded from a disappointing loss to Seattle on Wednesday when they were blown out at home.We need to find a level where were consistent, Charles said. We have to know how to get ourselves out of situations when things arent going our way.The Sun didnt go down without a fight. Every time that it seemed New York was in control, Connecticut would battle back. The Liberty led by six at the half, and opened up a double-digit advantage early in the fourth before the Sun got within 78-76 with 4:39 left.New York scored the next seven points, capped by a 3-pointer by Epiphanny Prince to finally put the game away.Courtney Williams scored a career-high 20 points.Charles, who played four years in Connecticut before being traded to New York before the 2014 season, has excelled against her former team. She matched her career-high 32 points earlier this season. She was well on her way to that mark again with 17 in the first half on Friday.After one basket where she also drew a foul, the Madison Square Garden fans, which included U.S. track star Tori Bowie, started chanting MVP. Charles dad led the cheers while holding up a sign with his daughters No. 31 on it.Im not all about that. Im not about all that flashy stuff, thats for his enjoyment, Charles said. I love that hes very supportive. He didnt do it any other season. He only did it in 2012 (when Charles won MVP). It just shows he knows my game and knows when Im playing at a certain level and thats the level of respect I have for my father. Thats one of the reason I wanted to play here. So that he could have those moments. Nike Air Force 1 Pánské Levně . Jeff Green scored 13 points and Kris Humphries 12 for the Celtics, who nearly blew an 18-point, second-half lead. Sullingers 20-20 was the first by a Celtics player since Kevin Garnetts first game in Boston in 2007. Garnett was dealt -- along with Paul Pierce -- to Brooklyn during the off-season. Nike Roshe One Pánské . The Dane followed up his first European Tour title last weekend with eight birdies and just a single dropped shot on Thursday for a one-stroke advantage over South Africas Allan Versfeld and Portugals Ricardo Santos. http://www.airforce1levne.com/ . Coach Tom Thibodeau says the former MVP will probably start travelling with the team in the next few weeks. 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LOS ANGELES -- The lawyer for an ex-girlfriend accusing NBA star Derrick Rose and two of his friends of rape said Friday he will call Rose to the witness stand after the defense finishes cross-examining his client.Attorney Waukeen McCoy said Rose would be the next witness in the lawsuit seeking $21.5 million in damages from the point guard for the New York Knicks.The woman who accuses Rose and the friends of gang raping her was under tough cross-examination during her second day of testimony.She said she sued Rose to hold him accountable and denied she is doing it for money.Lawyers for Rose presented text messages from the woman to a friend at a time when she was unemployed.I need a very wealthy man. We should go find one, one text stated.The woman also sent a text to a friend saying that since she had filed suit, they would return their TV and upgrade to a plasma screen.Rose, 28, and his friends Ryan Allen and Randall Hampton have denied the accusations in the lawsuit and claimed the woman willingly had sex with all three.The Associated Press is not naming the woman because it generally does not identify people who say they are victims of sexual assault.On Thursday, her vague recall and testimony that contradicted what she told lawyers during her deposition left her vulnerable to combative cross-examination by Roses lawyer as the Knicks player looked on with little reaction.In a soft voice that at times couldnt be heard by lawyers or jurors, the 30-year-old woman said she was intoxicated and felt like she had been drugged after a visit to Roses mansion in Beverly Hills in August 2013.As she began to connect a night of drinking at Roses place on Aug. 26, 2013, with the disputed incident early the next morning at her apartment, she took a long pausse in her testimony and wept quietly, hiding her face behind a computer screen at the witness stand.ddddddddddddRoses lawyer used a string of text messages as a timeline to question the womans story and whether she even drank enough to black out hours later. And he questioned how she had managed to send lucid text messages during that period -- several of which invited Rose to her apartment.Baute got her to concede she had lied to Rose in text messages earlier that day about plans she had and a stop at a sex shop she never made.The woman testified that she began dating Rose on and off over 20 months -- a relationship the defense has called friends with benefits -- after meeting him during the 2011 NBA lockout at a Hollywood nightclub.She thought they had a future together, though Baute cast doubt on that.He showed that until that night in August, Rose had never been to her place, she never attended any of his games and during a visit when he was playing in Philadelphia, she never left their hotel.After they split up in early summer of 2013, she hadnt been in touch with Rose until the morning of Aug. 26 when she texted him a photo of herself and said he was her inspiration.She said she didnt go to the police because she was embarrassed and feared her name would become public and her family would find out.Baute asked if she didnt report the incident because she didnt want to be responsible for inviting someone over to her apartment for sexual intercourse at 3 a.m. and falsely accuse them of rape.I never did any of those things, she said.She reported the incident to police after filing the lawsuit more than two years later. 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