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<\/p>\nJames Harden on Friday scored 31 points and came up big in overtime to help the Los Angeles Clippers erase a double-digit deficit on the way to a 121-117 NBA victory over the Toronto Raptors. <\/p>\n
Harden scored 16 points in the fourth quarter and overtime as the Clippers pushed their wining steak to five games despite the absence of star Kawhi Leonard with a sprained right ankle. <\/p>\n
The Clippers trailed by 11 entering the fourth quarter, but Harden drilled a pair of free-throws with 1:24 left in regulation to tie it and after misses from both teams, they went to the extra session. <\/p>\n
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Harden made four free-throws to open overtime as the Clippers pulled away, scoring eight of their 12 points in the decisive extra frame. <\/p>\n
Scottie Barnes scored 24 points to lead seven Raptors players to score in double figures. <\/p>\n
With their 12th victory in 14 games the Clippers have climbed into 10th place in the NBA Western Conference, thrusting themselves into the post-season picture after a disastrous start to the season. <\/p>\n
Evan Mobley threw down the game-winning dunk with 4.8 seconds left to play as the Cleveland Cavaliers edged the 76ers 117-115 in Philadelphia. <\/p>\n
Three days after they were blown out by the Cavs, the 76ers were unable to turn the tables despite leading by as many as 11 points with 8:47 left to play. <\/p>\n
Cleveland forward Jaylon Tyson, making a rare start with Darius Garland and Sam Merrill sidelined by injury, led all scorers with a career-high 39 points and fed Mobley for the game-winner. <\/p>\n
Mobley scored 15 and Donovan Mitchell scored 13 points with nine rebounds and 12 assists. <\/p>\n
Joel Embiid led the 76ers with 33 points. Tyrese Maxey added 22, but missed a half-court desperation heave at the buzzer. <\/p>\n
In Brooklyn, the Nets squandered a 20-point fourth quarter lead before clawing out a 112-109 victory over Chicago that snapped their five-game losing streak. <\/p>\n
The Bulls, trailing 92-72 with 11:20 remaining, had taken a 109-108 lead on Tre Jones\u2019s fastbreak layup with 11.4 seconds to go. <\/p>\n
Michael Porter Jr responded with a layup that put the Nets back on top, and Noah Clowney sank a pair of free throws to seal the victory. <\/p>\n
Porter led the Nets with 26 points, and Clowney chipped in 23 points and 11 rebounds. Center Nikola Vucevic led the Bulls with 19 points. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis is how a losing team becomes a winning team, learning how to win games like this,\u201d Porter said. \u201cWe\u2019re growing, we\u2019re getting better, so it\u2019s great.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Harden on Friday scored 31 points and came up big in overtime to help the Los Angeles…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3770],"tags":[7,6,681,3974,680,476,3820,3973],"class_list":{"0":"post-543331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-raptors","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-raptors","11":"tag-the-taipei-times","12":"tag-toronto","13":"tag-toronto-raptors","14":"tag-torontoraptors","15":"tag-3973"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115912127478736345","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}