Victor Wembanyama put together one of the all-time stat lines in NBA history Monday -- 27 points, 14 rebounds, 10 blocks, 5 assists and 2 steals in a 122-99 win against the Toronto Raptors.

The San Antonio Spurs rookie is the fifth player in NBA history with 25 points, 10 rebounds, 10 blocks and 5 assists in a game since blocks became an official statistic in 1973-74, joining Hakeem Olajuwon, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, David Robinson and Ralph Sampson -- all members of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

Wembanyama is the fourth player in Spurs franchise history to have 10 blocks in a game and is now the first rookie since Tim Duncan (1998-99) to record at least 20 points, 10 rebounds and 5 blocks in a single game.

Only three rookies since 1973-74 have had a triple double with blocks: Robinson, Sampson and Mark Eaton.

Here's a look at more key numbers from Wembanyama's eye-popping performance.

28:59: Wembanyama's monster outing came during a quick night's work.

He played just 28 minutes and 59 seconds, becoming the first player in NBA history to total 10 blocks and five assists while playing under 30 minutes since 1973-74.

1: Even though he now has two triple-doubles in his career, Wembanyama's most recent one etched him in the record books.

He's the first player since 1973-74 to have a triple-double with blocks and multiple made 3-pointers -- he went 2-for-4 from deep -- and the first rookie to have a triple-double involving blocks and another involving assists since blocks became an official statistic (1973-74).

Wembanyama is also the first rookie to have 10 blocks in a game since Josh Smith in 2004.

150: There's been no shortage of blocked shots and dimes by the French center this season.

He has 152 assists and 153 blocks this season, the first rookie with 150 assists and blocks in a season since Pau Gasol in 2001-02. Gasol would go on to win Rookie of the Year that season.

Wembanyama's 50 steals also means he's the first rookie with 150 assists and blocks and 50 steals in a single season since Duncan. It took Wembanyama 48 games to reach 150 blocks and 50 steals, the second fewest career games since 1973-74, only trailing Robinson (47).

6: Much of Wembanyama's damage blocking shots came in the third quarter when he swatted six. That's the most by any player in a quarter this season, and tied for the most blocks in a quarter by a rookie in the past 25 seasons.

71.4%: Between rebounding the ball and getting assists, Wembanyama still managed to play an ultra-efficient game.

He shot 71.4% (10-for-14) from the field, a career best.

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Fresh off a family trip to Dubai during the Washington Capitals' bye week and the All-Star break, Alex Ovechkin has scored in all four games to extend his streak to five, his longest in nearly three years.

And after just eight goals through his first 43 games, the Russian superstar, captain and face of the franchise again has his sights set on Wayne Gretzky's career record that long seemed unapproachable.

Ovechkin now has 13 goals this season to give him 835 -- 60 back of passing Gretzky.

"Certainly not surprised by it," said Vancouver Canucks defenseman Ian Cole, whose club defeated the Capitals 3-2 in overtime on Sunday. "He is the gold standard for goal scoring in NHL history, in my mind. Obviously Wayne Gretzky, he's the 'Great One,' he's the best, but what Ovi's done in the time period that he's played is absolutely remarkable.

"His ability to continue to be a force in this league in more than one sense, but certainly the goal-scoring one, is amazing. His longevity, it's incredible."

On Saturday, Ovechkin set the table for the Gretzky Watch, popping in an empty-net goal in a 3-0 win over the Boston Bruins. It was the 57th empty-netter of his career, breaking a tie with Gretzky for the most in NHL history.

Now 38, Ovechkin is back to producing like in previous years. Last spring, he became the first player in NHL history to record 40 goals in a season 13 times, and he was scoring in his mid- and late-30s like no one since Phil Esposito in the 1970s.

"He's playing at a real high level," Washington coach Spencer Carbery said. "I feel like he's even skating a little bit more. I feel like there's a little bit more jump in his step."

Some of that jump seemed to be lacking before the break. As other elite athletes have found out, time remains undefeated, and hockey players rarely age gracefully.

With production not easy to come by on the team as a whole, the Capitals averaged just 2.3 goals through 46 games -- third lowest in the league. Since Ovechkin's goal streak started, they're scoring 3.6 a game.

"It's a positive, positive step because we need him," Carbery said. "These are positive things, and you can feel him gaining more confidence as each one goes in and as he gets on a little bit of a roll."

After an attempted pass from Ovechkin to him ended in a goal Sunday, longtime teammate T.J. Oshie smiled and said, "It's nice to see the big man rolling." He then pointed out that this run isn't about good fortune as much as Ovechkin playing a well-rounded style and reaping the benefits on the scoresheet.

"He's also doing a lot of little things that I think are helping us out defensively that are leading to offense and odd-man rushes," Oshie said. "He's coming back in the D-zone and stopping in a good area. It just sets our team up for success when all five guys are doing that. It's honestly the stuff he's doing away from the puck that letting his natural, phenomenal ability take over and start putting some points on the board."

Ovechkin, who last season passed Gordie Howe for second on the career NHL goals list, said "it's a good thing" when he can put the puck in the net. That's happening a lot, as this is his first five-game goal streak since March 2021.

"I try to do my job and just play the right style of game and be out there and help the team to win," Ovechkin said.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

The Chicago Blackhawks hope star rookie Connor Bedard can return to game action next week after missing six weeks with a fractured jaw.

Bedard, the No. 1 pick of the 2023 NHL draft, suffered the injury Jan. 5 when on the receiving end of a big hit from New Jersey Devils defenseman Brendan Smith.

The 18-year-old underwent surgery and returned to the ice just seven days later. Reports at the time said he would miss six to eight weeks of the season before being ready to return.

"We're hoping after that six-week mark [after surgery], so that will be a week from today, I guess," Chicago coach Luke Richardson told reporters Monday.

Richardson said Bedard was told he did not need to have imaging done on his jaw this week because "everything was on pace and looks to be on the same timeline that they thought."

Despite Bedard missing over a month with the injury, his 33 points and 15 goals still lead all rookies this season.

Information from Field Level Media was used in this report.

TORONTO -- The Toronto Maple Leafs are bracing to play their next several games without top defenseman Morgan Rielly, who could be facing a lengthy suspension.

He has an in-person hearing with the NHL's department of player safety scheduled for Tuesday in New York. An in-person hearing allows the league to suspend Rielly for six or more games.

Rielly cross-checked Ridly Greig up high in retaliation for the Ottawa Senators player firing a slap shot into an empty net with 5.1 seconds left in the teams' game Saturday night.

"I think it definitely deserved a reaction," teammate and fellow All-Star Auston Matthews said after practice Monday. "Morgan's not a malicious player and somebody that's dirty, by any means. I think him approaching him was something that was just bound to happen. Somebody was going to do it, especially after a play like that. I just don't think it's really necessary to go down there and 'hardest shot competition' into the net."

Toronto hosts the St. Louis Blues on Tuesday night and plays six games over the next 10 days. If Rielly gets six games, it would match the longest suspension handed out this season.

"I was expecting a fine, a one-game (suspension) max," Leafs enforcer Ryan Reaves said. "The kid got up after, (and he was) completely fine. I think that's got to be taken into account, too."

Reaves, 37, called Rielly's reaction "appropriate."

"A guy takes a clapper into our net, you going to go play paddy-cake with him? No, there's got to be a message sent," Reaves said. "The code's changed a little bit, the game's changed a lot and it's unfortunate that a young kid like that can get away with something like that, and then one of our best players is going to get suspended for it."

Rielly, 29, has no disciplinary history in his 11-year professional career. Greig, 21, the son of former NHL player Mark Greig, is in his first full NHL season.

Senators coach Jacques Martin said it didn't matter how Greig scored the empty-netter and was not happy with Rielly's actions.

"I think it's not a hockey play," Martin said after the game. "I don't know if it's frustration or something, but it's not part of the game."

Ottawa's Josh Norris said he understood Rielly's frustration, even though he wasn't a fan of the play.

"I loved it, but I'm sure obviously if we were on the other side, I don't know if we would've liked it, either," Norris said. "It's over with. I guess it was entertaining."

Veteran forward Claude Giroux said it was a product of an intense game.

"The emotions sometimes will get to you," Giroux said. "I obviously don't like to see him getting in the face there, but there's not much really to say. Sometimes that kind of stuff happens."

The fallout is the Leafs, who are trying to hold on to a playoff spot in the Eastern Conference, dealing with life without Rielly.

"We all got to pick up those minutes," defenseman Mark Giordano said. "Those are big minutes. He plays in every situation. He's been really underrated this year across the league. I think offensively, obviously we all know what he does, but I think in all areas of the game he's been really good this year. A big part of our team, obviously."

Carlo Ancelotti has backed his Real Madrid team to cope without the injured Jude Bellingham, after the star midfielder was ruled out of Tuesday's Champions League round-of-16 first leg against RB Leipzig with a sprained ankle.

Bellingham limped off in the 57th minute of Saturday's 4-0 LaLiga win over Girona -- a result which put Madrid five points clear at the top of the league table -- with sources telling ESPN the England international was expected to be absent for three weeks.

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Bellingham is Madrid's top scorer this season with 20 goals in all competitions, including four in five Champions League appearances so far as the LaLiga giants topped their group.

"We never think about those [players] who aren't here," Ancelotti said in a pre-match news conference in Leipzig on Monday. "It's more fair to think about those who are here. Without Bellingham, we've won four games out of four [this season]. Those who've replaced him have done well, whether it's Brahim [Díaz] or Joselu.

"Bellingham is a very good player -- like [Thibaut] Courtois,[Éder] Militão, [David] Alaba -- but tomorrow it's an opportunity to be even more motivated."

Madrid's midfielder Toni Kroos said he hasn't yet decided whether to extend his contract at the club beyond this summer, and whether to make a surprise return to the Germany national team for the Euros, after retiring in 2021.

"I always tell you the truth, and the truth is I don't know," Kroos said. "I'm thinking about what I want to do. I haven't decided anything yet. It makes me happy that people want me to play one more year, that's better than the other way around, wanting me to stop!"

Kroos, who has excelled for Madrid this season, earned 106 caps for Germany, winning the 2014 World Cup, before retiring after Euro 2020.

"It depends on a lot of things," Kroos said. "I want to end my career at the highest level possible. I'm enjoying the moment. I deserve a bit more time to take the decision, I want it to be the correct one... And the same for the national team. I'm thinking about it, but like with my renewal, I don't know."

"For me it's hard to say which is his best season, because he's always the best," Ancelotti said when asked about the Germán. "His percentage of [completed] passes is the same as he had ten years ago... His quality hasn't changed.

"He's playing in a team with a lot of energy, and his quality in managing the game with the ball stands out. The [Real Madrid] youngsters have a lot of energy and within that, he stands out."

"It's his decision and you have to respect that," Ancelotti added. "You have to go out on top. But you have to choose the right time. For Toni Kroos, this year could be the top, or it could be next year."

A strike by security staff at Leipzig airport saw Madrid forced to fly to Erfurt, around 90 miles from Leipzig, and complete their journey by bus.

The German newspaper Bild reported that Madrid's bus was involved in a minor collision with a car en route, although there were no reports of any injuries.

United States men's national team striker Daryl Dike has sustained a serious Achilles injury for the second time in two seasons, ruling him out for the rest of 2024, according to his club West Brom.

Dike left the team's game away at Ipswich on Saturday in tears on a cart after going down hurt 10 minutes after being introduced as a substitute.

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West Brom said it would "provide Daryl with all the care and support he needs to return to full fitness later this year" after the diagnosis of a rupture.

He previously suffered an injury to his left Achilles in April 2023, which he only returned from in January this year.

"Unfortunately I have been injured again," Dike wrote in a post shared on X, formerly Twitter.

"Over this past day, I have been trying to wrap my head around the situation and I honestly still can't, nor do I think I will be able to for a while.

"One thing I quickly realised however is how blessed I am to have so many supporters around me... The things that I have seen have filled my heart and my spirits so much. I have been brought to tears numerous times."

Dike has played 10 times for the USMNT, scoring three goals, with his last appearance coming against El Salvador in March 2023.

The Oklahoma native joined West Brom in January 2022 from Major League Soccer's Orlando City, but he sustained a season-ending hamstring injury in his first start for the club later that month.

"As many of you know I have been injured multiple times and it has made it easy for me to think negatively," Dike added later in his statement.

"Luckily this support has pushed many positive thoughts back in."

Serie A clubs voted to keep the number of clubs in the Italian top division at 20, the league said on Monday after their shareholders' meeting in Milan.

Only four clubs voted in favour of a reduction to 18 clubs in Serie A -- Juventus, Inter Milan, AC Milan and AS Roma -- and the number of clubs will remain at 20, as it has been since the 2004-05 season.

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The top clubs had pushed for the reduction in an effort to reduce the number of games played and increase the quality of football on offer but needed a majority of 14 in order to pass the reform.

The attempt by Juve, Milan, Inter and Roma to reduce the league size was criticised by directors from other teams.

"I think the attitude of [the clubs in question] was wrong," Urbino Cairo, Torino president, said to reporters after the meeting. "I would say what they wanted to do seemed like a super league."

Milan president Paolo Scaroni made the case for reducing the number of teams to reporters prior to the meeting and vote.

"In reality, clubs like us who play international competitions and who have many players called up by the national teams complain about too many matches," Scaroni said.

"The players play the continental tournaments, their national team matches, the Italian Cup and the league. All this leads to a load of matches that becomes unbearable and which is the cause of many injuries.

"We have already had 18 teams in the league before. In fact I also remember it at 16."

A proposal for reforms was also approved which will be presented at the Extraordinary General Assembly of the Italian football federation (FIGC) in March.

The Italian league is pushing for more autonomy from the FIGC, similar to the Premier League in England.

"Currently, the system does not give Serie A the autonomy and decision-making weight it should have with respect to economic weight," Serie A president Lorenzo Casini said after a meeting of Serie A clubs last week.

Milan's Scaroni added to the league president's message on Monday.

"We in Serie A, who finance the entire game of Italian football, have 12% of the power within the Federation, which creates an endless cycle of frustration," he said.

Mauricio Pochettino said match-winner Conor Gallagher is "priceless" to Chelsea after his two goals helped them to a 3-1 win at Crystal Palace in the Premier League on Monday evening.

Chelsea went into the break 1-0 down after Jefferson Lerma's wondergoal in the first half, but Gallagher scored just a minute into the second half and then a 91st minute winner to break Palace's resolve. Enzo Fernández added a third in the 94th minute of the match as Chelsea came away from Selhurst Park with three points.

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Gallagher's first saw him finish well off a Malo Gusto cross, while for the second he slotted home neatly from the edge of the box to give Chelsea the win.

"I think he's a player with a great commitment to the team, always trying to compensate every single situation," Pochettino said of Gallagher. "It's priceless to have a player like him. I'm so happy for him as it's a victory we needed."

Gallagher was linked with a move away from Chelsea in the January transfer window but he stayed put. With his contract up at the end of next season, Gallagher's long-term future is uncertain, but Pochettino says Gallagher never entertained any thought of moving away from the club last month.

"Always he decided, what he said to me was that he wanted to stay at Chelsea," Pochettino said. "But it's about him and the club. I am not [worried about] these types of things, he has another year on his contract. But that's a matter for him and the club."

Pochettino said the club would assess the severity of Thiago Silva's groin injury on Tuesday after he was forced off after 61 minutes, and said Malo Gusto was fatigued rather than injured later on.

Pochettino's side headed into this match in inconsistent form. In their prior three matches, they defeats in the Premier League to Liverpool and Wolves but their last match saw them put together an impressive 3-1 victory at Aston Villa in the FA Cup. The challenge on this trip to Selhurst Park was to play like they did against Villa, and not like they did in their last two Premier League outings.

Chelsea dominated possession in the first half but only managed one shot off target, but then found a clinical edge in the second half once Pochettino had shifted to two up front with Christopher Nkunku coming on at half-time for Noni Madueke.

From there they put together their match-winning performance, playing with the same type of intensity they did against Villa. The challenge for Chelsea is to continue searching for a 90-minute showing. "That's the consistency which we need to change," Pochettino said.

"We need to start the game a different way, we need to try to be consistent to play and perform always in the way how we performed against Aston Villa. It's not easy, but that's the challenge. We needed the three points and I'm very pleased."

Chelsea now travel to Manchester City on Sunday and then have the Carabao Cup final against Liverpool on February 25.

On the opposing side, the defeat left Hodgson downbeat. Crystal Palace sit in 15th in the league, five points off the relegation zone, and have star players Eberechi Eze, Marc Guehi and Michael Olise all sidelined.

"I'm not really in the mood if I'm being brutally honest of [talking about] positives and trying to find things to say that would cheer me up, because I don't know what could be said that would cheer me up," Hodgson said post-match.

"What can I say that will cheer the players up? I could possibly say, well, with the players we've got coming back and these guys doing so well, it bodes well for the future with the 14 games we have left.

"But of course we still don't know when Olise, Eze will be back, so we might be battling through like we've done tonight for a few more games before we can look at a team which will threaten the opposition a bit more than we did today."

But despite their poor run of form, Hodgson is adamant the team will survive the drop with January signing Adam Wharton impressing on Monday. Up next is a key match at Everton and then they are at home to Burnley. "It's a bad period but it's been caused by the injury situation," Hodgson said. "It's 14 games [left], a lot of matches and a lot of points and I think we've shown enough.

"So I don't have any concerns, but there is no complacency and points are very necessary to get away from the relegation zone. This group of players are good enough and tonight gave me even more faith and belief."

LONDON -- Chelsea made the short trip to Selhurst Park tasked with finding the consistency that has been missing all season, and injury-time goals from Conor Gallagher and Enzo Fernández answered manager Mauricio Pochettino's call, eventually. The 3-1 victory over Crystal Palace on Monday repaid a performance where Chelsea dominated possession but struggled to turn that into clear-cut chances until those two late hammer blows.

It was the ex-Palace loanee Gallagher who was the thorn in the Eagles' side. After Jefferson Lerma's first-half wondergoal, Gallagher's goal just 90 seconds into the second half drew things level, and he followed that up with his 91st-minute winner, leaving Fernandez's well-taken third to round things off. Those two late knockout punches would have hurt the vocal home fans as much as they delighted the travelling away support.

With Chelsea stuck mid-table and still looking to find a winning formula from their 1 billion outlay under owner Todd Boehly, and with Crystal Palace teetering near the relegation zone and manager Roy Hodgson under pressure, this was always going to be a nervy, tense match. Fans demanded statement performances, and both teams played with an intensity and urgency that underlined its importance. But it was Chelsea and Gallagher who came out on top as Pochettino's second-half substitutions helped produce an end product after a first half where they dominated possession but had no cutting edge.

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Chelsea's season to date has flitted between false starts and frustrating bumps in the road. They've at times threatened to go on a run of form, only to trip up. Their past three matches neatly summed up their erratic form: after shipping eight goals in their defeats to Liverpool and Wolves in the Premier League, they then put together a brilliant 3-1 victory away at Aston Villa in the FA Cup last Wednesday.

Gallagher summed the state of the team well after Monday's game: "There have been some games where we've been brilliant, and some games where we've been terrible, so it's been about getting that consistency." The win was a bit of both in each half, although the win gives Chelsea a chance to finally turn a corner if they can keep it up.

The Blues' erratic form highlights a lack of direction from ownership and the jumbled, young squad that Pochettino is juggling: somewhere in the middle of all their 28 signings since Boehly took ownership of the club is a young team capable of working its way up the table. Now, with back-to-back wins, the question is whether this latest string of form will too fizzle out.

"That's the consistency, which we need to change," Pochettino said after beating Palace. "We need to start the game a different way, we need to try to be consistent to play and perform always in the way how we performed against Aston Villa. It's not easy, but that's the challenge."

The pressure was hardly lighter on the hosts. Palace had won their past two in the league at home, but those were their only victories from their past 14 matches. They came into this also without star players Eberechi Eze, Michael Olise and Marc Guehi, who had all fallen to injury in the past fortnight. That's their three most influential players absent, alongside long-term absentee Cheikhou Kouyaté.

Hodgson said earlier this week he is enduring the "toughest period of [his] career" -- quite a statement given he's been managing since 1976. And the pre-match noise from those in the boardroom, and on the pitch was the need for the fans to stick by them despite their recent displeasure at the results, team selection and style of play. The fans made their thoughts clear with a banner in the Holmesdale Road end reading: "Weak club culture and direction."

Despite their misgivings, from the outset, the Palace fans were vocal, the smoke from red flares engulfing Dean Henderson's goal in the first half. It helped create the claustrophobic feeling of this match where resolves were being tested alongside the patience of those in the stands.

Chelsea started from the outset in trying to pick up where they left off from the Villa match, making just one injury-enforced change with Thiago Silva starting in place of injured Benoit Badiashile. But the first half saw Chelsea try the same thing repeatedly to no avail: they controlled the ball in the middle of the pitch, switched it wide, relied on the pace and invention of fullbacks Malo Gusto and Ben Chilwell to get the ball into the box and watched Palace clear the ball.

At the other end, Palace were far more inventive with their front three including new signing Matheus França profiting from the industry of midfielders Adam Wharton -- in his first Premier League start since his big-money January move -- Will Hughes and Jefferson Lerma in keeping Chelsea backpedaling. After Mateta had a great chance saved by Dorde Petrovic, their high press eventually paid off, with Lerma blasting home a brilliant 30-yard strike after Noni Madueke and Moisés Caicedo were caught in possession.

Chelsea trudged into the break 1-0 down with an expected goals, or xG, of just 0.06 -- their lowest in a first half since Liverpool humiliated them in January, per ESPN Stats & Information. Meanwhile, Chelsea's 420 completed passes without a shot on goal in the first half was the most in the Premier League since 2003.

But after halftime, it was Chelsea who emerged brighter from the slumber. With Christopher Nkunku a half-time substitute for the frustrated Madueke, the Blues shifted formation to playing with two up front, with Gallagher and Cole Palmer -- ineffectual as a false No. 9 in the first half -- just behind. It clicked immediately with Gusto's cross finding Gallagher in the middle of the box and he finished well to draw the game level.

From there Chelsea kept their stranglehold on the match as Raheem Sterling's introduction (despite a wasted finish off a brilliant through ball) helped bring further intensity leading to Gallagher breaking Palace's resolve with a late winner. Fernandez's injury-time goal as he toyed with Daniel Muñoz only served to rub salt into the wounds.

"The gaffer gave us more structure in their half of the pitch to try and create more chances," Gallagher said. "It was really good from the manager and helped us play better in the second half."

So, it's the second-half Chelsea that the away fans will take away with them. Despite all the possession in the first 45 minutes, it was the second-half group that delivered. Pochettino's tactical switch worked, the inventiveness of Enzo Fernandez was given space to shine and Palmer looked far happier playing slightly deeper off the front two. Gusto and Chilwell ran themselves into the ground while Caicedo grew into the game playing slightly deeper.

But once again, Gallagher -- the man who was constantly linked with moves away from the club -- is the one who stood up when it counted and converted the growing sense of inevitability about this match into reality. It was a potent cocktail and something Pochettino's group can take forward to their next task, a trip to Manchester City on Saturday.

"I think he's a player with a great commitment to the team, always trying to compensate every single situation," Pochettino said of Gallagher. "It's priceless to have a player like him. I'm so happy for him as it's a victory we needed."

The start of the second half was delayed as referee Michael Oliver was having technical issues with his mic and, to fill the void as the players kicked the ball around to keep warm, those in charge of the stadium playlist opted for Bob Marley's "Three Little Birds." Supporters from both sides sang it loud into the chilly south London sky. But out of the two sets of fans, it'll be Chelsea's supporters who are starting to believe that eventually, everything might just be all right.