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JaVale McGee contributed 16 points and eight rebounds and
Cameron Payne added 16 points and seven assists for Phoenix,
which snapped a two-game slide.
In the first quarter, Booker (25 years, 60 days) became the
seventh youngest player in NBA history to reach 10,000 career
points. He finished the game with 10,034.
Ty Jerome established career bests of 24 points and eight
rebounds for Oklahoma City, which dropped its second straight
contest. Aaron Wiggins added 22 points and eight boards
Kings 95, Mavericks 94
Chimezie Metu connected on a buzzer-beating 3-pointer on an
inbounds play that began with 3.8 seconds remaining, giving
Sacramento a win over visiting Dallas.
De'Aaron Fox paced a balanced Sacramento attack with 16 points.
Barnes and Davion Mitchell followed with 14 each, Tyrese
Haliburton had 12 to go with a game-high 10 assists, and Metu
and Marvin Bagley III scored 11 apiece.
Jalen Brunson had a game-high 25 points to go with a team-high
six assists and Kristaps Porzingis chipped in with 24 points to
complement a team-high seven rebounds for the Mavericks, who
will stay in Sacramento and get a rematch Friday night.
Knicks 94, Pistons 85
Alec Burks poured in a season-high 34 points off the bench as
visiting New York rallied in the fourth quarter to defeat
depleted Detroit.
Immanuel Quickly had 18 points and RJ Barrett tossed in 15 for
New York.
Detroit's Saddiq Bey had a career-high 32 points and Hamidou
Diallo supplied 31 points and 13 rebounds for the Pistons, who
had 12 players listed as out, including eight in league
protocols. They used six players who were signed to 10-day
contracts in the past week.
Jazz 120, Trail Blazers 105
Rudy Gobert scored 22 points and grabbed 14 rebounds and Rudy
Gay netted 21 points to lead visiting Utah past Portland.
Six Jazz players scored 15 or more points and the team shot 52.9
percent from the field to win its fifth straight game overall
and its eighth in a row on the road.
Damian Lillard and Norman Powell each fired in 32 points for the
Trail Blazers, who have dropped three games in a row. Portland,
which never led and trailed by as many as 22 points, was without
two coaches, including head coach Chauncey Billups, and seven
players who are all in the NBA's health and safety protocols.
Hornets 116, Pacers 108
Terry Rozier poured in 35 points, including a hot stretch late
in the game, as Charlotte Hornets defeated Indiana at
Indianapolis.
Three times in the last six minutes when the Pacers made runs,
Rozier answered with jumpers. His 3-pointer stretched the edge
to 111-103 with 2:33 to play. He had 13 points in the fourth
quarter.
Charlotte has a three-game winning streak. Caris LeVert led the
Pacers in scoring for the sixth time in the last eight games,
racking up 27 points.
Bulls 131, Hawks 117
Zach LaVine scored 25 points and Nikola Vucevic and Coby White
registered double-doubles as host Chicago stretched its winning
streak to five games with a victory against Atlanta.
A 12-point winner at Atlanta on Monday, the Bulls swept the
home-and-home series while sending the short-handed Hawks to
their third straight defeat and fifth loss in six games. Vucevic
contributed 16 points and 20 rebounds for his third straight
double-double and fourth in five games. White added 17 points
and 12 of Chicago's season-best 38 assists.
Trae Young scored a game-high 26 points to go with 11 assists
for Atlanta in the opener of a six-game road trip. Beset by
numerous absences due to the NBA's health and safety protocols
for COVID-19, the Hawks fielded a roster that included just four
regular rotation players and had numerous additions who signed
10-day hardship contracts.
Grizzlies 104, Lakers 99
Ja Morant made a career-high six 3-pointers and scored a
season-high 41 points as Memphis rallied for its third straight
win, beating visiting Los Angeles.
Desmond Bane scored 20 points and Jaren Jackson Jr. had 15 for
Memphis, which trailed for nearly all of the first three
quarters before outscoring the Lakers 26-16 in the final period.
LeBron James tied his career high with eight 3-pointers and
finished with 37 points, 13 rebounds and seven assists for the
Lakers. Russell Westbrook recorded his eighth triple-double of
the season with 16 points, 10 rebounds and 12 assists.
Clippers 91, Celtics 82
Marcus Morris Sr. finished with 23 points and 10 rebounds
against his former team to lead short-handed Los Angeles past
host Boston.
Luke Kennard, Eric Bledsoe and Terance Mann added 17 points
apiece for the Clippers, which had lost two straight and five of
its previous six games.
Jaylen Brown had a game-high 30 points on 13-of-36 shooting for
the Celtics. Boston suffered a third straight defeat and its
eighth in 11 games. The Celtics shot 34.7 percent (35-of-101)
from the field and made just 4-of-42 3-pointers (9.5 percent).
--Field Level Media
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