BASKETBALL

Immanuel Quickley scored 21 points as the New York Knicks had six players score in double figures in beating the Boston Celtics 114-107 Monday night in an NBA preseason game at New York.

RJ Barrett was next with 12 points.

The Celtics were led by Payton Pritchard’s 21 points. Dalano Banton added 20.

Boston (1-1) has three more preseason games before the season opener on Oct. 25 at the New York Knicks.

HOCKEY

NHL: Sabres defenseman Rasmus Dahlin arrived in Buffalo from his native Sweden as a raw 18-year-old who could barely speak English, had little experience living away from home, and unprepared for the growing pains he’d face in maturing into a full-rounded player.

Some five years later, toughened by the adversity of spending his early years playing on a losing team that’s finally showing signs of contending, Dahlin can’t think of a better place to stay for the long-term future than Buffalo after signing an eight-year, $88 million contract extension.

The Sabres were more than happy to reward Dahlin’s emergence as a team leader and one of the NHL’s top offensive blue-line threats last season by making him their highest paid player in terms of annual salary. The Sabres placed such an emphasis on locking up Dahlin, the deal was completed with the player having one season left on a three-year, $18 million contract.

•  The Colorado Avalanche made a series of moves on the eve of the regular season, including a claim of goaltender Ivan Prosvetov on waivers from the Arizona Coyotes.

Prosvetov becomes a contingency plan with backup Pavel Francouz being placed on the injured, non-roster list. Starter Alexandar Georgiev will receive a bulk of the work after a season in which he won a career-best 40 games.

Colorado centers Jean-Luc Foudy and Chris Wagner were added to the injured, non-roster list along with captain Gabriel Landeskog. The 30-year-old Landeskog is slated to miss a second straight season as he recovers from cartilage replacement surgery on his right knee.

COLLEGES

FOOTBALL: Duke Coach Mike Elko said quarterback Riley Leonard is still recovering from an ankle injury suffered in the final moments of a loss to Notre Dame, leaving his status in question for the 17th-ranked Blue Devils’ game Saturday against North Carolina State.

Leonard was hurt in the final minute of the Sept. 30 loss when he was stripped of the ball by Howard Cross III while trying to throw, and Cross’ body rolled up on Leonard’s lower right leg. The play left Leonard withering in pain on the ground as Notre Dame began to celebrate a game-clinching takeaway, with Leonard having to be essentially carried off the field by two teammates and to the sideline medical tent.

SOCCER

U.S. MEN: Midfielder Malik Tillman will miss the United States’ exhibitions against Germany and Ghana because of an unspecified injury.

The 21-year old left PSV Eindhoven’s match Sunday at Sparta Rotterdam after 72 minutes.

The U.S. Soccer Federation said it did not have an immediate replacement.

The Americans play Germany on Saturday at East Hartford, Connecticut, and Ghana three days later in Nashville. Germany will be playing its first game under new coach Julian Nagelsmann.

TENNIS

BILLIE JEAN KING CUP FINALS: U.S. Open champion Coco Gauff was left off the American team for the Billie Jean King Cup Finals and second-ranked Iga Swiatek of Poland is skipping the event for the second year in a row.

Gauff and Jessica Pegula, the two highest-ranked American players, were both absent from the U.S. team announced. Madison Keys, Sofia Kenin, Danielle Collins, Sloane Stephens and Taylor Townsend will play for the U.S. at the Nov. 7-12 event in Seville, Spain.

The biggest team competition in women’s tennis starts only two days after the end of the WTA Finals in Cancun, Mexico, which will feature the top eight players on the tour — including Gauff, Pegula and Swiatek.

Swiatek, who was then ranked No. 1, skipped last year’s Billie Jean King Cup in Glasgow, Scotland, because of a similar scheduling situation. She said then that the “situation is not safe for our health” when players have to travel so far for the 12-team event — which is organized by the International Tennis Federation — right after the WTA Finals. She was left off the Poland team.

Gauff announced Sunday she was withdrawing from this week’s Zhengzhou Open tournament in China because of a shoulder injury that bothered her during a loss to Swiatek at the China Open semifinals last week. Swiatek won that tournament on Sunday for her fifth title of the year.

SHANGHAI MASTERS: Carlos Alcaraz had to rally from a break down in the first set to beat 30th-seeded Daniel Evans 7-6 (1), 6-4 and advance to the fourth round.

Alcaraz will next face 18th-seeded Grigor Dimitrov, who beat 13th-seeded Karen Khachanov 7-6 (6), 6-4.

KOREAN OPEN: Third-seeded Ekaterina Alexandrova advanced to the second round at Seoul by beating Mai Hontama 6-3, 6-1.

GOLF

EUROPEAN TOUR: Matt Fitzpatrick captured his first European tour title in two years by winning the weather-affected Dunhill Links Championship by three strokes at St. Andrews Scotland.

The 2022 U.S. Open champion shot 6-under 66 on the Old Course at St. Andrews to finish on 19-under-par overall for an event that was reduced to 54 holes after heavy rain wiped out play on Saturday and Sunday.

Play was only possible on Monday after remarkable efforts from the greenkeepers at the three storied Scottish courses hosting the pro-am event — St. Andrews, Carnoustie and Kingsbarns — to make them playable.

Large parts of Carnoustie, in particular, were unrecognizable on Sunday and there were still huge swathes of water on some fairways.

Ryan Fox, a recent winner at the BMW PGA Championship, shot 65 on the Old Course and was tied for second place with Matthew Southgate (66 at St. Andrews) and Marcus Armitage (66 at Carnoustie).