Gervonta "Tank" Davis' history of slow starts nearly caught up to him Saturday night.

Davis' defense of his WBA lightweight championship against Lamont Roach Jr. ended in a majority draw in front of a stunned soldout crowd of 19,250 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Davis retained his title in a fight he would like to soon forget.

Two judges scored the fight 114-114 while a third judge scored it 115-113 in Davis' favor. ESPN scored the fight 114-114.

"Lamont is a great fighter," Davis said after the fight. "He got the skills, like I said before, he got punching power. It was a lesson. Hopefully, we can run it back."

In a strange scene that could have turn the tide of the fight, Davis inexplicably took a knee in the ninth round after getting touched by a jab, but referee Steve Wilkes decided not to score a knockdown for Roach. Davis suggested the reason he went to a knee was because grease from his hair had gotten into his eye. The fight resumed with no penalty, but the knockdown could have swung the pendulum in favor of Roach.

Had the knockdown been called, Roach could have won the ninth round by a 10-8 score. Instead, two of the judges scored the round 10-9 for Davis.

"I just got my hair done two days ago and she put grease in my hair," Davis said. "When I was sweating and things like that, it burned my eyes."

Roach didn't disagree with Davis' assessment of the situation. However, he made it clear that the rules are the rules and he should have been awarded a knockdown.

"If you take a knee and the ref starts counting, it should be a knockdown," Roach said. "If that's a knockdown, I win the fight. I'm not banking on that knockdown to win. I just thought I pulled it out."

Davis (30-0-1, 28 KOs) entered the fight as a massive -2000 betting favorite on ESPN BET and was expected by many to collect his 29th career knockout by stopping Roach, who was making his lightweight debut. Behind a pro-Davis crowd, "Tank" was unable to give the fans the highlight-reel finish they have come to expect from the Baltimore native.

Instead, Roach (25-1-2) stood in the line of fire, absorbed what the hard-hitting Davis had to offer and responded with shots that stunned not only Davis but those in attendance.

The notoriously patient Davis got off to a slow start in the early rounds as he waited for Roach to make a mistake that he could capitalize on. But Roach refused to give Davis the window to counter and pressed the action. Davis smiled and talked to Roach early in the fight but had to get serious once he realized that his opponent wouldn't wilt under the bright lights.

Roach Jr., 29, had faced Davis in the amateurs and fell short. Their careers went in different directions once they turned pro with Davis being one of boxing's biggest stars and Roach being known as a solid fighter who lost in his only other opportunity at a world championship in a defeat to Jamel Herring for the WBO super featherweight title in 2019.

Davis' ascent to stardom was punctuated by his knockout win over Ryan Garcia in 2023, where he laid claim to be the face of boxing. He almost let the title slip away in an underwhelming performance. Their history may have given Davis a false sense of confidence heading into the fight, but Roach was well prepared for everything "Tank" had to offer, including his renowned fight ending power.

By the middle rounds, Davis' smile dissolved, and he realized that the knockout he expected wouldn't come easy. The champion began to let his hands go to create openings, but Roach held his ground and caught the champion with counters and combinations. Davis worked almost exclusively to the body, banging away as Roach stayed on the front foot and pushed forward. Undeterred, Roach would sneak a counter in whenever Davis' assault stalled. In Round 8, Roach stunned Davis with a counter right hand. Although Davis was never in any real danger, the counterpunching signaled that he couldn't rumble in recklessly.

"I feel like I was breaking him down as the rounds were going on, but he kept coming, so I didn't want to make no mistakes," Davis said. "I kept it cautious."

Realizing the fight could be slipping away, Davis, 30, pressed the action in the championship rounds. Although he landed some big power shots, he never came close to hurting Roach. But the activity gave him the final two rounds on all three scorecards to salvage the draw and leave New York with the title.

Davis landed 103 of 279 punches in an extremely economic affair while Roach was more active, landing 112 of 400 punches.

"I'm just a little disappointed in the decision," Roach said. "I thought I pulled it out, but that's what two skilled fighters do. I definitely thought I won but we could run it back. ... Even though I didn't win tonight, I thought I did but it's a win for me in my book. We are not satisfied with that. We need a real 'W.'"

HOUSTON -- Sacramento's Domantas Sabonis left Saturday night's game against the Houston Rockets early in the first quarter with a hamstring injury and the team said he wouldn't return.

Sabonis was running down the court about a minute into the game when he pulled up and grabbed his left hamstring. Interim coach Doug Christie took a timeout and Sabonis was lifted from the game and taken to the locker room.

The team announced that he had a hamstring injury and would miss the rest of the game.

Christie didn't have any details about the injury after the game.

"We'll see in the coming days," he said. "Probably tomorrow or the next day we'll have have an idea."

Sabonis entered the game averaging 19.9 points, 14.4 rebounds and 6.3 assists per game.

Christie raved about how the Kings team pulled together to make up for his absence in the 113-103 win where six players finished with at least 12 points.

"We're talking about Domantas Sabonis, who covers the stat sheet in a way that's difficult to do," he said. "A lot of guys stepped in and weren't trying to do too much. They were just trying to do what they do and that adds up to everyone pulling the rope in the same direction."

PHILADELPHIA -- With just over seven minutes left in the fourth quarter Saturday, Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry leaked out after seeing teammate Buddy Hield steal the ball.

Hield quickly passed it to Curry for what usually would be a breakaway layup. Except, for the first time since 2019, Curry threw down a one-handed dunk as Golden State fans at Wells Fargo Center roared.

At the 7:15 mark, Curry recorded his 27th career regular-season dunk. But he said after the 126-119 loss to the Philadelphia 76ers that it was the final slam of his storied career.

"That will probably be my last dunk," Curry said. "I'm calling it right now. That was the last one you're going to see."

Curry had 29 points and 13 assists as the Warriors' five-game winning streak ended with Jimmy Butler on the sideline because of back spasms.

But the Warriors fought to keep their streak alive. They trailed by 13 points with 10:34 left when they went on an 18-6 run, which included three consecutive dunks. The first was when Curry's breakaway jam.

The play happened near Allen Iverson, who was seated on the baseline; Curry arrived at the game wearing an Iverson jacket in honor of the Sixers legend.

Curry, 36, was asked if he remembered the last time he dunked in a game.

"Of course I do," Curry replied. "Six years ago. At home. Right wing. The right corner. A little back cut. I think it was a pass from KD [Kevin Durant]."

Curry's memory was precise. His previous dunk occurred Feb. 21, 2019.

"I was at Oracle. I never dunked at Chase [Center]. How about that?"

Curry explained that at the Warriors' morning shootaround Saturday, assistant coach Jerry Stackhouse told him he wanted to see the game's all-time leading 3-point shooter throw down a dunk.

After the dunk, he pointed toward Stackhouse as Curry walked to the Warriors bench during a timeout.

"He hadn't said that all year," Curry said. "And I haven't heard that in years and it happened tonight.

"It was a very random comment this morning and the fact that it happened, it was hilarious."

Curry said the dunk was a byproduct of how good his body is feeling after battling knee pain for much of the season. And he couldn't turn down "a cherry-pick opportunity."

"And you want to take advantage of a cherry-pick opportunity," Curry said. "That will probably be my last dunk though. ... For sure, I will only lay the ball up. It took everything out of me to get up there."

Stefanos Tsitsipas secured a maiden ATP 500 title with a straight-set victory over Felix Auger-Aliassime in the final of the Dubai Tennis Championships.

The 26-year-old Greek produced a strong performance to beat his in-form Canadian opponent 6-3 6-3.

The fourth seed had reached the final of the tournament twice before, losing to Novak Djokovic in 2019 and then again to Roger Federer a year later.

Saturday's win was world number 11 Tsitsipas' 12th tour-level title, and the biggest outdoor hard-court trophy of his career.

He defeated 24-year-old Auger-Aliassime - who is leading the ATP Tour this season with 16 match wins and two titles - in one hour and 28 minutes, and will return to the top 10 of the world rankings on Monday for the first time since May 2024.

Glasgow Warriors: Hastings, Cancelliere, Smith, Munn, Cordero, Weir, Afshar, Schickerling, Stewart, Richardson, Oguntibeju, Samuel, Ferrie, Venter, Mann.

Replacements: Matthews, McBeth, Talakai, Du Preez, Miller, Fraser, Kennedy, Johnston.

Ospreys: Walsh, Kasende, Boshoff, K Williams, Giles, Edwards, Hardy, Phillips, Parry, Botha, Ratti, Fender, Deaves, Tipuric, Morse.

Replacements: Lewis, C Jones, Warren, Spencer, Morris, Whitlock, Florence, Hopkins.

Referee: Andrew Brace (IRFU).

Saracens have reached the Premiership Women's Rugby final by defeating Harlequins 32-24 in a thrilling semi-final at StoneX Stadium.

England wing Jess Breach, who returned to the Saracens side last week after sustaining a hip injury in November, was the standout player.

The 27-year-old's try, alongside two from Alysha Corrigan and tries from Marlie Packer and May Campbell, were enough to put the home side into the final on 16 March.

Gloucester-Hartpury face Bristol Bears in the other semi-final on Sunday, live on the BBC Red Button, BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport website from 15:00 GMT.

Breach told TNT Sports after the match: "Last year was really horrible to lose in the semi-final [against Bristol Bears].

"To come out here, on our home turf, and win - we really fought for the win.

"It's been a long season for me to get back on the pitch; I feel like I really performed back to the best of my ability today and I'm just so glad it was in a semi-final that helped the team get to a final."

Saracens finished second in the PWR table, while Harlequins were one place behind in third.

Quins opened the scoring inside two minutes through Spain full-back Claudia Pena, but were 20-12 down by half-time.

A smart set-play by the visitors in the second half led to a try for Lauren Torley, cutting the gap to three points with 20 minutes to go.

But tries from Corrigan and Campbell, plus a conversion from Zoe Harrison, put Saracens back in control, before Babalwa Latsha grabbed a late try for Quins.

Alan O'Connor's 79th-minute try proved crucial as Ulster edged past Scarlets for a 30-28 win at Kingspan Stadium.

The Irish province, who had fallen to 15th in the United Rugby Championship (URC) prior to kick-off, were 28-23 behind in the closing stages but O'Connor's close-range score and Nathan Doak's subsequent conversion saw them narrowly avoid a third league loss in succession.

In a back and forth game, Scarlets had led 12-0 early on and 15-13 at half-time but were left to rue having to settle for just three points rather than a try during their final attack of the game when Ulster went up the other end and snatched victory.

The win lifts Ulster only up to 14th in the table but just two points off the top eight and the play-off places.

In what had been called a "must-win" game by their head coach Richie Murphy, Ulster made a disastrous start and conceded twice in the opening 11 minutes.

There were only five minutes on the clock when Scarlets first took the lead.

With scrum-half Gareth Davies alert to a lack of backfield cover, his kick over the top of the ruck was gathered by wing Macs Page for a simple opening score.

Finding and exploiting plenty of space in the Ulster defence, Page then got around Jacob Stockdale on the outside and fed Ioan Nicholas for Scarlets' second try five minutes later.

Ulster got on the board after Scarlets were pinged for infringing at the ruck. The hosts went to the corner from the penalty and Timoney dotted down at the tail of a powerful maul.

Buoyed by the score, Ulster enjoyed a spell of pressure but when next awarded a penalty, opted to go for the posts and reduce the deficit rather than try their maul again.

It was the same policy only minutes before half-time when, only a metre into Scarlets' half, Jack Murphy again called for the tee and his lengthy effort just crept over the crossbar to put his side ahead for the first time.

Ulster could not carry their advantage into the turn, however, with Ioan Lloyd kicking his side back in front after an offside penalty in the final passage of the half.

Leinster: Jimmy O'Brien; Tommy O'Brien, Hugh Cooney, Charlie Tector, Andrew Osborne; Ross Byrne, Luke McGrath (capt); Jack Boyle, John McKee, Rabah Slimani, Diarmuid Mangan, Brian Deeny, Alex Soroka, Will Connors, Max Deegan.

Replacements: Stephen Smyth, Ivan Soroka, Rory McGuire, RG Snyman, Scott Penny, Oliver Coffey, Liam Turner, Rob Russell.

Cardiff: Cameron Winnett; Gabriel Hamer-Webb, Rey Lee-Lo, Rory Jennings, Harri Millard; Callum Sheedy, Johan Mulder; Dany Southworth, Liam Belcher, Rhys Litterick, Josh McNally, Rory Thornton, Ben Donnell, Thomas Young, Alun Lawrence.

Replacements: Efan Daniel, Rhys Barratt, Will Davies-King, Seb Davies, Alex Mann, Ellis Bevan, Tinus de Beer, Regan Grace.

Referee: Andrea Piardi (FIR)