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MINNEAPOLIS -- Ricky Rubio is gone, and he wont be back this season. Vince Wilfork Texans Jersey . It didnt take long for the lowly New Orleans Hornets to show the Minnesota Timberwolves just how much they will miss him. Chris Kaman scored 20 points and the Hornets snapped a four-game losing streak with a 95-89 victory over the Timberwolves, who found out earlier Saturday that Rubio is out for the year with a knee injury. Jarrett Jack had 17 points and seven assists for the Hornets, who won for the 10th time all season thanks to 28 assists on 39 buckets. Kevin Love had 31 points and 16 rebounds after missing the previous game with back spasms, but the Timberwolves couldnt shake the disappointment of losing their flashy sparkplug in time to beat the Hornets. "Its contagious, not only with the passing and the flair and everything but just being around him," Love said. "Hes great for the team. Were going to miss that. Thats not something you can replace as far as personality goes. But as far as play goes, we can have other guys play big." The score was tied at 74 with nine minutes to play when the Hornets went on an 11-0 run to pick up their fifth road win of the season. "Look, were in no position to look at any win as anything other than a jewel," coach Monty Williams said. "To come out and win on the road after a back-to-back says a lot about our young guys. We needed it, but we need them all." Missing their primary ball-handler and offensive sparkplug, the Wolves turned the ball over 17 times, which led to 25 Hornets points. Greivis Vasquez scored 12 points for New Orleans, which had dropped eight of its last 10 games. He scored five points and assisted on another bucket in the late surge that gave the Hornets an 85-74 lead with 4:55 to play. Love scored eight points during a 13-4 surge that cut it the deficit to two points with 18 seconds to play. But Jack and Marco Belinelli hit some clutch free throws down the stretch to seal the win. The Timberwolves just didnt have the sizzle that has made them one of the most entertaining watches in the league this season. That energy and buzz was taken away when Rubio hit the deck late in the game against the Lakers on Friday night and tore the ACL in his left knee. "Its devastating," Martell Webster said. "But weve got to bounce back from it." In their first game without their floor leader and tone setter, everyone seemed to be searching, for the right combinations on the floor, the right rotations on defence and the easy shots on offence that Rubio so often set up for them. They looked much more like the team that went 32-132 over the previous two seasons than the one that entered Friday nights game against the Lakers as the eighth seed in the West. "Its like we reverted back to a long time ago," coach Rick Adelman said. "Were not going to get it done that way." Adelman dug deep into his bench, playing Wayne Ellington more than 10 minutes for the just the second time in 15 games and second-round draft pick Malcolm Lee made his NBA debut after missing most of the first two months because of knee surgery. Luke Ridnour moved over to the starting point guard and Webster started at shooting guard. The backcourt combined to go 6 for 18 for the game. Kaman had his way with Nikola Pekovic early, hitting an array of soft jumpers and layups off of some beautiful interior passing. His jumper from the elbow capped an 8-0 run that gave New Orleans a 61-50 lead midway through the third quarter. The Wolves battled back to tie it at 74 three minutes into the final quarter, but Vasquez hit a teardrop in the lane, fed Gustavo Ayon for an alley-oop and hit a 3-pointer during the 11-0 run to bury Minnesota. The Hornets have had injury issues of their own, with key players like Eric Gordon, Emeka Okafor and Carl Landry missing big chunks of time this season. "If they had Ricky Rubio, who knows what it wouldve been like," Hornets coach Monty Williams said. "But I could say that same thing about us. If we had Eric Gordon, Jason Smith, Carl Landry and Emeka Okafor, wed be a different team, too. So you can do the ifs all day long." Pekovic finished with 21 points and 11 rebounds and Ridnour had 14 points and 10 assists for the Wolves. NOTES: The Timberwolves announced a crowd of 20,123, the first time in franchise history the Wolves have had back-to-back home crowds topping 20,000 fans. They have sold out eight times this season, the most since 2003-04. ... Ridnour missed his first free throw attempt of the night, snapping a string of 40 straight. Benardrick McKinney Youth Jersey . Down 2-0 in the series, the Kings host Game 3 against a Sharks team that simply dominated them in the first two meetings of the best-of-seven series at SAP Center. Los Angeles trailed 5-0 en route to a 6-3 loss in Game 1. Cecil Shorts III Jersey . - With Dwyane Wade in the locker room and Chris Bosh enduring a nightmare of a shooting night, the Miami Heat still found the defensive moxie to finish an unlikely Staples Center sweep.If Sundays incredible 19-inning victory over the Detroit Tigers at Rogers Centre wasnt enough to convince the parent company Rogers to add some key pieces for the stretch run, nothing will. With 43 games remaining in the season, John Gibbons and company are five games back of the Baltimore Orioles in the East and are tied with the Seattle Mariners a game-and-a-half back of the Kansas City Royals for the second American League Wild Card slot as they get set to begin an eight-game road swing starting Monday night against Felix Hernandez and the Mariners. Hall-of-Famer Bob Elliot dropped a little nugget about midway through his "Bobs your uncle" column on Sunday. He claimed Rogers had relented in its tight-fisted policy and could allow GM Alex Anthopoulos to add a $10 million contract this week. To take it a little further, I went over the roster of every team, player by player, to pinpoint those making $10 million who might be available. Let me tell you there arent very many. In fact, I could only find one player making exactly $10 million who might help the Jays in Cincinnati Reds outfielder Jay Bruce. The thing of it is, the Reds are still very much in the race in the NL Central and for a Wild Card berth. Reds right-hander Homer Bailey is making $9 million on a long-term deal and, while Cincy is still in contention, moving him doesnt make any sense either. The Minnesota Twins have right-hander Phil Hughes at $8 million and outfielder Josh Willingham at $7 million. Hughes, the former New York Yankee, is having a solid year for a bad team. Hes the kind of pitcher the Twins should be building around, not trading. The Houston Astros might move right-hander Scott Feldman, whos making $12 million and has two years still left on his deal, but hes not much of an upgrade on what they already have. Chicago Cubs right-hander Edwin Jackson has a durable arm, but for his so-so production is over-priced at $13 million per season. Former Jays outfielder and current Texas Ranger Alex Rios is a possibility. Hes making $13.5 million and can play right field or centre, but his power has diminished  with age and he only has four home runs this season. New York Mets right-hander Bartolo Colon fits the bill at $9 million per season and he just won his 200th game, but he is 41-years-old and is under contract for next season. The Colorado Rockies have three possibilities in veteran lefty Jorge De La Rosa,  first baseman/designated hitter Justiin Morneau and left fielder Carlos Gonzalez. Jaelen Strong Jersey. Gonzalez is making $11 million, but you can scratch him, since he just went on the DL withtendonitis in his left knee and a right anke sprain. He could be shut down for the season. Morneaus bat would help and the Canadian-born left-hand hitter is only making $5 million, but when Adam Lind, who could be back as soon as Monday, and Edwin Encarncion return, it would be hard to see him getting enough at bats. De La Rosa would give the rotation a boost, but its difficult to see him passing through waivers in the National League without being claimed. There are at least four or five clubs in the Senior Circuit that could use pitching help. In my mind, that pretty well narrows the list down to one man - former Blue Jays second baseman Aaron Hill, whos making $11 million for the Arizona Diamondbacks. Hill is 32-years-old and is also under contract for the next two years at $12 million per season. With Brett Lawrie gone for three-to-six weeks and Ryan Goins sent back to Buffalo again, Hill would give the Jays some veteran stability at the keystone. Then, maybe for the short term good of the team, John Gibbons could convince Jose Bautista to move back to third base. Well see what happens as the week unfolds. - Cubs budding 2B prospect Javier Baez created quite a stir when he homered three times in his first three Major League games. The last time that happened was 60 years ago when Joe Cunningham turned the trick for the St. Louis Cardinals. Cunningham went on to have a decent career with the Cards, the Chicago White Sox and the Washington Senators. Though he hit .291 over his 12 seasons in the Show, he never became a prodigious home run hitter. He hit 64 homers in total - The Blue Jays may be lacking in developing position players, but their pitching pipeline is definately alive and well. In addition to Drew Hutchison, Aaron Sanchez and Marcus Stroman  on the big club, 21-year-old lefty Daniel Norris is starting to look like something special at Buffalo. After going 9-1 at Double-A New Hampshire with a 2.38 ERA, Norris was spectacular in his Triple-A debut. He struck out a career high of 10 on Sunday at Durham over six innings, giving up just two hits in a 3-0 victory in the opener of a double-header. It would be great to see those 4four leading the Blue Jays rotation for the next six or seven years, but the reality is at least one will probably be dealt to fill another hole. cheap nfl jerseys cheap jerseys cheap jerseys cheap jerseys cheap nfl jerseys wholesale jerseys ' ' '