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Young scored the final 14 points for Atlanta,
which was playing without the league-suspended Dejounte Murray
after he made contact with an official at the end of the
previous game. Young added 13 assists and a pair of steals. John
Collins contributed 22 points and Bogdan Bogdanovic had 18 to
support Young.
Boston's Jaylen Brown (35 points) posted his second straight
30-plus-point game and Jayson Tatum had 19 points, eight
rebounds and eight assists.
Nuggets 112, Timberwolves 109
Nikola Jokic had 28 points, 17 rebounds and 12 assists to lead
host Denver past Minnesota, closing out their first-round
Western Conference playoff series in five games.
Jamal Murray scored 35 points, Bruce Brown and Aaron Gordon each
had 14 and Michael Porter Jr. grabbed 10 rebounds for Denver.
The top-seeded Nuggets are headed to the Western Conference
semifinals for the fourth time in five seasons.
Anthony Edwards put up 29 points, Karl-Anthony Towns had 26
points and 11 rebounds and Rudy Gobert had 16 points and 15
rebounds for the eighth-seeded Timberwolves.
Suns 136, Clippers 130
Devin Booker scored 47 points, including 25 in the third
quarter, as Phoenix roared back from a double-digit, second-half
deficit against visiting Los Angeles and advanced to the Western
Conference semifinals.
Kevin Durant scored 31 points and Deandre Ayton added 21 points
and 11 rebounds for the No. 4 seed Suns, who recovered from a
Game 1 defeat to roll through the remainder of the series.
Phoenix is set to face the No. 1-seeded Denver Nuggets in the
second round, which starts Saturday in Denver.
Norman Powell scored 27 points, Mason Plumlee had 20 and Ivica
Zubac added 16 points and 10 rebounds for the short-handed
Clippers, who played without Paul George (knee) the entire
series and lost Kawhi Leonard (knee) following Game 2.
--Field Level Media
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