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The Australian mens basketball team have been buoyed by the return of star center Andrew Bogut, who had his first hit out in more than six weeks in the Boomers 82-53 Olympic Games warm-up win against China.Bogut took straight to the court with his knee heavily strapped against the Chinese and played the first six minutes of the match in a good sign hell be right to participate in the Boomers Olympic campaign.And it didnt take long for the newly minted Dallas Maverick to be in the thick of the action, the 31-year-old remonstrating with Chinas NBA draft pick Qi Zhou for apparently elbowing him in the face.Bogut went on to play nine minutes and finished with three rebounds and an assist.Joe Ingles led the way for the Boomers and looked in fine touch with a game-high 21 points on nine of 12 shooting as well as six rebounds.Coach Andrej Lemanis used 11 players in the Australians final warm-up fixture, though point guard Patty Mills sat out the match.Assistant coach Luc Longley was happy to see Bogut back on court.I think his first game back from an injury is always difficult. Were fairly happy with how he moved, how he looked on the court and will build from that, he said.Former NBA No.1 draft pick Bogut had been under an injury cloud but was named in the Boomers squad for the Games, the Australians desperately seeking his defensive nous and physicality to improve their chances of a maiden mens Olympic basketball medal in Rio.Bogut had sustained a knee injury after a heavy fall during the fifth game of the NBA Finals, in which his Golden State Warriors fell to the Cleveland Cavaliers, and had not played since mid-June.He was subsequently traded to the Mavericks for the 2016-17 season.A championship winner with Golden State, Bogut has spoken little about his injury over the past month, and has instead been in the headlines more for a Twitter feud with Australian womens player Liz Cambage.The Boomers offered up a mixed bag in their past four matches, book-ending the clashes with wins over world No.4 Argentina and China but suffering substantial losses to Brazil and Lithuania.Australias Olympic campaign starts with a match against France on Aug. 6, the U.S. also featuring in their group.Were ready [but] we havent played great yet, Longley said. 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Edwin Encarnacion had a two-out, bases loaded two-RBI double in the third inning. SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A man took a coconut cream pie from a grocery bag, grabbed Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson from behind and smacked him in the face with it at a charity event, leading the former NBA star to start swinging and then tackle the man who was left battered and facing assault charges.The pie wielder and local activist, Sean Thompson, 32, said Thursday that the mayor overreacted, sending him to the hospital for nine stitches before he went to jail. He said he was angry Johnson devoted so much political energy to an arena for the citys basketball team and not to other needs such as education and homelessness.The mayor was greeting people eating at an outdoor charity dinner Wednesday night at Sacramento Charter High School when Thompson pulled Johnson back and shoved the pie in his face, said Johnsons chief of staff, Crystal Strait.There was no throwing of the pie, said Erika Bjork, who works for a professional soccer team in Sacramento and saw the encounter up close. This was a direct assault. It just happened that he had a pie in his hand.Bjork, whose boss is a major donor to Johnson, said the mayor looked shocked and swung at Thompson multiple times, but she didnt see him land any punches.Thompson had red and blue bruises and a roughly 1-inch line of stitches under his left eye when he spoke to The Associated Press in jail.When I threw the pie at him, right at that moment, I shouted at him. I said, `You need to better represent me, Thompson said.He said the mayor turned and hit him at least twice and pretty hard. Thompson said he covered his face and started to move away but was quickly surrounded by people and kept taking hits. He couldnt tell who delivered the blows.Thompson said he expected to be tackled by police but was caught off guard when the punches came from the mayor. He said he has no regrets but was surprised to be facing a felony, assaulting a public official.He was held on $100,000 bail and was expected to be formally charged Friday.Johnsons signature achievement in office was getting a $550 million arena built for the Sacramento Kings, which Thompson said took attention away from other issues.Cres Vellucci, who organizes legal supporrt for activists at the National Lawyers Guild in Sacramento, said people in the social justice community are concerned about Thompsons safety and Johnsons physical response.ddddddddddddProsecutors will review the case, including the mayors reaction, after receiving the police reports, likely on Friday, district attorney spokeswoman Shelly Orio said.Whether youre hit in the face with a pie or a fist, youve been assaulted and youre generally allowed to respond with similar force, said Rory Little, a former litigator and professor at University of California Hastings College of the Law.Johnsons response probably is not a disproportionate reaction, though it might not be the reaction we want our public officials to have, Little said.Vellucci wrote in an email that he met Thompson five years ago and described him as a nonviolent person who participated in some of the first Black Lives Matter protests in Sacramento in 2014 and in Occupy Sacramento rallies before that.Police and Johnsons chief of staff said Thompson was not previously known to the mayor and his staff. In an interview with local TV stations, Thompson said hes interacted with Johnson many times during city meetings for activists and that the mayor often appears disinterested and unengaged in community members concerns.Johnson is well-known for his efforts to revitalize Oak Park, a predominantly African-American neighborhood.Hes a graduate of the high school where the event was held Wednesday and brought it back from the brink of dissolution in the early 2000s by incorporating it in a system of charter schools he founded to help disadvantaged communities.Johnson, who had a long career as an NBA All-Star with the Phoenix Suns and a brief stint with the Cleveland Cavaliers, has about two months left as mayor. He decided not to seek a third term.---Associated Press writer Jonathan J. Cooper contributed to this report.---This story has been corrected to show that the first name of Cres Vellucci was misspelled Chris and that Thompson had injuries around his left eye, not his right. ' ' '