Chris Paul makes NBA’s All-Defensive team

Clippers guard Chris Paul was selected Monday to the NBA All-Defensive team, and Lakers guard Kobe Bryant failed to make the list for the first time since 2005.

Paul led the NBA in steals per game (2.4) for the fifth time in six years and was joined on the first team by Miami’s LeBron James, New York’s Tyson Chandler, Oklahoma City’s Serge Ibaka, Memphis’ Tony Allen and Chicago’s Joakim Noah.

The second team consisted of Marc Gasol and Mike Conley of Memphis, San Antonio’s Tim Duncan, Indiana’s Paul George and Boston’s Avery Bradley.

Lakers center Dwight Howard did not make the All-Defensive team for the first time since 2007.

Noah and Chandler tied in voting at the center position, so each was granted first-team status.

The team was selected by the NBA’s 30 head coaches.

—Mike Bresnahan

Former Lakers forward Mark Madsen was hired to coach the Los Angeles D-Fenders, the Lakers’ Development League affiliate.

Madsen played for the Lakers for three seasons and was a member of championship teams in 2001 and 2002.

Madsen was an assistant coach with Stanford last season. He replaces Reggie Theus, who recently accepted the job as Cal State Northridge’s head coach.

—Mike Bresnahan

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Acevedo takes lead in Tour of California

Javier Acevedo of Colombia bolted to the front with about 700 yards left in the final steep climb, winning Monday’s second stage in scorching heat to take the overall lead in the Tour of California.

The 27-year-old rider completed the 124.1-mile Murrieta to Greater Palm Springs road race in 5 hours 7 minutes 40 seconds as the temperature approached 110 degrees.

Acevedo, who rides for American team Jamis-Hagens Berman, leads American Tejay van Garderen (BMC) by 12 seconds with six stages remaining.

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Venus Williams lost in the first round of the Italian Open to Laura Robson. Now sister Serena will get a chance to even the score.

Robson, a quickly improving 19-year-old British player, beat Venus Williams, 6-3, 6-2, at Rome to set up a second-round match with top-ranked Serena.

The 19-year-old Robson won the Wimbledon junior title at 14. At last week’s Madrid Open, she upset fourth-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska before losing in the third round to 16th-seeded Ana Ivanovic in a third-set tiebreaker.

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University of Colorado quarterback Jordan Webb and former Buffaloes offensive lineman Alexander Lewis are facing assault charges after witnesses said another man was knocked unconscious when Lewis shoved his head into a brick wall and both men pushed the victim to the ground and punched him.

According to a Boulder police report obtained by the Daily Camera newspaper, Webb and Lewis, both 21, were arrested Saturday on suspicion of second-degree assault.

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Former Jacksonville Jaguars receiver Jimmy Smith has been sentenced to six years in prison in Mississippi for drug possession and weapons charges.

The Mississippi Department of Corrections’ website says the 44-year-old Smith entered the prison system in late March.

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Manchester City fired coach Roberto Mancini, exactly one year after he delivered the club’s first English league soccer title in 44 years.