The Indians fell one-half game behind Oakland, which beat Baltimore 7-4, in the wild card chase.
The Royals fell one and a half games behind idle American League Central co-leaders Chicago and Minnesota.
Instead of putting the Heat in a must-win situation, the Knicks fell one and a half games behind second-seeded Miami.
The Bobcats, fighting for the final playoff spot in the East, blew leads in the last 30 seconds of regulation and in both overtimes and fell one and a half games behind Chicago.
"They're a championship-caliber team, and what they showed us today is how far away we are," said Coach Jeff Van Gundy, whose team fell one and a half games behind Miami for the Atlantic Division lead.
The Raptors, now tied for eighth, fell one and a half games behind the Knicks and have lost 11 of 12. "You can't misplace things," said Wilkens, who was roused from retirement when the Knicks hired him to replace Don Chaney on Jan . 15
Minnesota stopped its first three-game losing streak of the season and avoided falling one and a half games out of first for the first time this season.
The heavily cratered surface of Phobos is covered with a very dark gray regolith (unconsolidated rocky debris) that reflects only about 6 percent of the light falling on it about one-half that of the Moon's surface.
At 49 games the run was a magnificent achievement, albeit one tinged with the bittersweet pain of falling one match short of an historic half- century not out, and to a dodgy penalty to boot.
That night falls exactly one half-century after the Beatles first landed in America.
Its share price, which had fallen by almost one half since the company bought the Dutch software maker Baan last August, rose 6percentt.
