Devin Booker had 30 points and 10 assists, Jalen Green and Collin Gillespie each added 24 points and the host Phoenix Suns ran away from Charlotte in the second half for a 111-99 victory on Sunday to break the Hornets’ 10-game road winning streak.
Rookie forward Rasheer Fleming had career highs with 16 points and four 3-pointers for the Suns, who have won four of five. Booker made all 15 of his free-throw attempts, setting a season high in makes and tying a career high for most makes without a miss in a game. The Suns were 23 of 26 from the foul line.
LaMelo Ball scored 22 points and made four 3-pointers, Miles Bridges scored 16 points and Kon Knueppel added 15 points for the Hornets, playing the first of a four-game trip.
The Hornets, 16-5 in their last 21, had not lost on the road since a 136-116 defeat at Golden State on Jan. 17.
Celtics 109, Cavaliers 98
Jaylen Brown collected 23 points, nine rebounds and eight assists as Boston built a 26-point lead on its way to a victory over host Cleveland.
Jayson Tatum had 20 points on 6-of-16 shooting for the Celtics, who are second in the Eastern Conference behind the Detroit Pistons. Donovan Mitchell scored a game-high 30 points and Evan Mobley had 24 points and eight rebounds for Cleveland. The Cavaliers had their season-high home winning streak snapped at seven and are 22-9 since Dec. 29.
Boston received big games off the bench from Payton Pritchard, who had 18 points and seven assists and Baylor Scheierman, who had 16 points and 10 rebounds. Sam Hauser scored 15 points on five 3-pointers.
Lakers 110, Knicks 97
Luka Doncic scored 35 points as Los Angeles weathered some shaky moments in the fourth quarter, along with LeBron James sitting out, and recorded a wire-to-wire victory over visiting New York.
James sat out with a bruised left elbow he sustained in Thursday’s loss to the Denver Nuggets when he absorbed contact from Nikola Jokic. The Lakers also said the 41-year-old missed the game due to left foot arthritis. Austin Reaves added 25 and had a pair of key defensive plays against Jalen Brunson in the final minutes. Rui Hachimura started for James again and contributed 13.
Karl-Anthony Towns led the Knicks with 25 points, including 11 in the fourth, to go along with 16 rebounds. Brunson added 24 points, six rebounds and seven assists, but shot 8 of 19 from the field and committed seven of New York’s 19 turnovers.
Raptors 122, Mavericks 92
RJ Barrett scored a season-best 31 points and Toronto defeated visiting Dallas.
Scottie Barnes added 17 points for the Raptors, who had lost their two previous games and four of five. Jakob Poeltl had 16 points and 10 rebounds. Brandon Ingram and Ja’Kobe Walter contributed 11 points each while Sandro Mamukelashvili scored 13 points.
Daniel Gafford had a season-best 21 points on 10-for-10 shooting and grabbed a game-high 11 rebounds for the Mavericks, who have lost seven in a row. Rookie Cooper Flagg added 17 points, eight rebounds, six assists, two steals and three blocks.
Pelicans 138, Wizards 118
Trey Murphy III knocked down four of nine 3-pointers on the way to 24 points, Saddiq Bey recorded a 23-point, 10-rebound double-double, and New Orleans routed visiting Washington.
Murphy was one of five Pelicans scoring at least 18 points, a quintet that included Jeremiah Fears with 18 points. Zion Williamson scored 20 points in the win — the Pelicans’ 21st of the season to match their 2024-25 total — with eight coming on 11 free-throw attempts. His team-high at the charity stripe paced New Orleans to a Pelicans-record 37 points scored at the free-throw line.
Playing his second game for a Washington team that slipped to its eighth consecutive loss, Trae Young scored 17 points on 4-of-6 shooting from the floor and dished a game-high eight assists.
Trail Blazers 131, Pacers 111
Scoot Henderson scored a season-high 28 points on 10-of-15 shooting to lead Portland to an easy victory over visiting Indiana.
Jrue Holiday (five 3-pointers) and Jerami Grant (four) scored 21 points apiece as the Trail Blazers won for the second time in three games. Portland All-Star Deni Avdija (back) returned from a six-game absence and had 18 points, eight assists and five rebounds in 25 minutes for the Trail Blazers.
Pascal Siakam had 22 points, six rebounds and five assists as the Pacers lost their ninth consecutive game. Indiana has dropped its past six games by an average of 19.7 points.
Magic 130, Bucks 91
Paolo Banchero scored a game-high 33 points to lead Orlando to a victory over the Bucks in Milwaukee.
Jalen Suggs added 20 for Orlando, which won its fourth consecutive game. Desmond Bane scored 18 with a game-high nine assists.
The Bucks fell for the fifth time in their last six contests. Bobby Portis led Milwaukee in scoring with 18 along with a game-best 10 rebounds. Portis made history with his performance, pulling into second place in the all-time NBA ranks with his 87th double-double off the bench. Cam Thomas added 17 points with six assists for the Bucks.
Heat 121, Pistons 110
Tyler Herro scored 25 points as host Miami won its fifth straight game, defeating Detroit.
Miami, on its hottest streak since winning six in a row in November, also got 24 points and nine rebounds from Bam Adebayo. Jaime Jaquez Jr. added 19 points, seven assists and six rebounds off the bench. Cade Cunningham scored 26 points and dished 10 assists for Detroit, which has lost four straight games. Jalen Duren scored 24 points on 10-for-12 shooting.
The Heat, who improved to 21-11 at home, played without leading scorer Norman Powell (groin), starter Andrew Wiggins (toe) and role players Nikola Jovic (back) and Simone Fontecchio (groin). Miami got 16 points from Tyler Herro and 14 from Bam Adebayo, and the Heat dominated most every first-half statistic.
Spurs 145, Rockets 120
Four players scored 20 or more points, led by Victor Wembanyama’s 29, as host San Antonio rolled past up-and-down Houston.
The Spurs scored their most points in a game this season and have captured four straight outings and 15 of their past 16 contests. Stephon Castle added 23 points for San Antonio while De’Aaron Fox finished with 20 points and 10 assists, Keldon Johnson also scored 20 points, Dylan Harper had 19 and Julian Champagnie tallied 11.
Kevin Durant and Amen Thompson led the Rockets with 23 points each. Reed Sheppard and Jabari Smith Jr. scored 17 apiece while Alperen Sengun had 16 points. Houston has alternated wins and losses over its past six games and fell 7.5 games behind the second-place Spurs in the Western Conference standings.
Kings 126, Bulls 110
Malik Monk and Maxime Raynaud combined for 56 points, Russell Westbrook added to his unmatched triple-double total, and host Sacramento won for just the third time in its last 23 games by beating Chicago.
Monk led the way off the bench with 30 points and Raynaud added 26 for the Kings. Westbrook, the NBA’s all-time leader in triple-doubles, recorded his fifth of the season and the 208th of his career with 23 points, 11 rebounds and a game-high 12 assists.
Collin Sexton came off the bench to pour in 28 points for the Bulls. Teammate Josh Giddey had a triple-double of his own with 15 points, a game-high 12 rebounds and 10 assists. Nick Richards put up a double-double with 10 points and 11 rebounds.
–Field Level Media
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