• Dallas Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki was suspended without pay for one game by the NBA for his hard foul on Utah’s Andrei Kirilenko on Monday night.
• The Boston Celtics activated forward P.J. Brown, but center Scot Pollard said he is done for the season because of an injured ankle.
• The Chicago Bulls suspended forward Tyrus Thomas for two games after missing practice.
• John Wooden was up and about and his medication was changed to alleviate an irregular heartbeat, six days after the former UCLA basketball coach was hospitalized after breaking his left wrist and collarbone in a fall.
• Perry Watson resigned as basketball coach at Detroit after compiling a 258-185, 15-year record.
• Paul Gebhardt took the lead at the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska, becoming the first musher out of Ophir — 609 miles from the finish line in Nome.
