Highlights of Sunday's NBA games
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[February 06, 2017]
Feb 5 (Reuters) - Highlights of
Sunday's NBA games.
Celtics 107, Clippers 102
The emotion and admiration belonged to Paul Pierce. But the game
belonged to his old team, the Celtics, who fired up a club-record 52
three-point attempts in a 107-102 win over the Los Angeles Clippers
at TD Garden.
Pierce, making one final appearance as a player in Boston, started
and played the first 4:57. He knelt and kissed the leprechaun logo
at midcourt and then took the first shot of the game. It rimmed in
and out and he was gone after less than five minutes, all zeroes
except for the missed shot.
He re-entered the game with 19.8 seconds left to another major
ovation - and drained a 3-pointer with 11 seconds left, thus
avoiding what would have been his first scoreless game ever in the
building (630 games).
Thomas scored 28 points and added eight assists and his team hit
30.8 percent from behind the arc. Al Horford scored 13 points and
grabbed a season-high 15 rebounds while dishing out six assists.
Raptors, 103, Nets 95
Despite being ill and receiving four stitches after colliding with a
camera attached to a stanchion near a basket, Kyle Lowry recorded
his ninth career triple-double with 15 points, 11 assists and 11
rebounds as Toronto defeated Brooklyn.

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Many of Lowry's assists went to Jonas Valanciunas, who led the
Raptors with 22 points and played effective defense on Brook Lopez
at times. Valanciunas made 9 of 17 shots, highlighting his fifth
game with at least 20 points by getting four dunks.
Terrence Ross added 17 and DeMarre Carroll contributed 15 for the
Raptors, who led for the final 28:07 and won for the third time in
the last 11 games since Jan. 17.

Thunder 105, Trail Blazers 99
Russell Westbrook scored 42 points to lead Oklahoma City over
Portland.
Westbrook hit 16 of 34 from the field to go along with eight assists
and four rebounds. Victor Oladipo added 24 points and 13 boards.
Portland was led by Damian Lillard, who scored 29 points on 9 of 22
shooting. CJ McCollum posted 19 points and eight rebounds. (Compiled
by Peter Rutherford)
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