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MILWAUKEE (AP) \u2014 Bennedict Mathurin<\/a> scored 28 points, John Collins<\/a> 22 and Kawhi Leonard<\/a> 20 as the Los Angeles Clippers<\/a> got past the short-handed Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> 127-113 on Sunday for their fifth consecutive win. <\/p>\n

Darius Garland<\/a> added 15 points and 11 assists and Derrick Jones Jr.<\/a> 13 points for Los Angeles, which made 45 of 77 shots (58.4%).<\/p>\n

Gary Trent Jr.<\/a> had a season-high 36 points to pace Milwaukee, which had only eight players available. Taurean Prince<\/a> added 18 points and AJ Green<\/a> scored 15 for the Bucks, who have lost 10 of their last 12 games.<\/p>\n

PACERS 135, HEAT 118<\/p>\n

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Pascal Siakam<\/a> scored 30 points and Micah Potter<\/a> added 21 and tied a career high with five 3-pointers to help Indiana get past Miami for a rare victory.<\/p>\n

Siakam also had 11 rebounds and six assists for short-handed Indiana. Potter scored 19 points and made all of his 3s as part of a flurry of 13 first half 3-pointers for the Pacers. Kobe Brown<\/a> was one of five other Indiana players to score in double figures. He had a career-high 18 points as Indiana won for just the second time since the All-Star break. <\/p>\n

The Pacers finished with 18 3s in their 17th win, matching Brooklyn and Washington for the fewest victories in the NBA this season. <\/p>\n

Miami\u2019s loss was yet another potentially damaging blow to its fading hopes of avoiding the play-in tournament and earning a top-six seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs. The Heat have lost seven of their last eight games.<\/p>\n

NETS 116, KINGS 99<\/p>\n

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Ochai Agbaji<\/a> scored 18 points in 25 minutes off the bench and Brooklyn snapped a 10-game losing streak with a win over Sacramento.<\/p>\n

Agbaji led five Nets in double-figure scoring as Nolan Traore<\/a> had 17, Drake Powell<\/a> 16, Noah Clowney<\/a> 15 and Nic Claxton<\/a> 10 for Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

Sacramento fell to 19-57 with its fourth straight loss.<\/p>\n

Devin Carter<\/a> scored 20 points for the Kings, who lost their fourth straight. Nique Clifford<\/a> added 17, Precious Achiuwa<\/a> had 16 and DaQuan Jeffries<\/a> 14.<\/p>\n

The second matchup in six days of franchises building for the future saw Nets coach Jordi Fernandez and Kings coach Doug Christie get extended looks at their young players.<\/p>\n

There were 10 Nets who played at least 10 minutes, led by Traore\u2019s 30, while the Kings had nine get playing time. Clifford led Sacramento with 37 minutes. <\/p>\n

CELTICS 114, HORNETS 99<\/p>\n

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Jayson Tatum<\/a> scored 32 points, Payton Pritchard<\/a> added 28 points and Boston defeated cold-shooting Charlotte for their third straight victory.<\/p>\n

Neemias Queta<\/a> added 17 points and eight rebounds for the Celtics, who played their second consecutive game without Jaylen Brown<\/a> (Achilles tendinitis).<\/p>\n

LaMelo Ball<\/a> had 19 points and Miles Bridges<\/a> 14 for the Hornets, who entered the game leading the NBA in made 3-pointers (1,210) and third in 3-point percentage (38.2), but were just 12 of 43 from beyond the arc against the Eastern Conference\u2019s second-place team.<\/p>\n

Ball, Brandon Miller<\/a> and Kon Knueppel<\/a> finished a combined 7 of 27 on 3-point shots.<\/p>\n

Pritchard, who continued to be a terrific replacement for Brown, was able to get to the basket at will, finishing 10 of 18 from the field and 6 of 6 from the foul line. Pritchard entered the game averaging 25.1 points, 4.9 rebounds, and 7.3 assists in the previous eight games Brown missed this season. <\/p>\n

RAPTORS 139, MAGIC 87<\/p>\n

TORONTO (AP) \u2014 RJ Barrett<\/a> scored 24 points, Scottie Barnes<\/a> had 23 points and a career-high 15 assists, and Toronto used a 31-point run to rout Orlando, handing the slumping Magic their seventh loss in eight games.<\/p>\n

Sandro Mamukelashvili<\/a> scored 19 points and Jamal Shead<\/a> had 12 points and 10 assists for the Raptors (42-32), who remained fifth in the Eastern Conference standings following their largest victory this season. The top six teams automatically make the playoffs.<\/p>\n

Barnes has posted 10 or more assists in four straight games.<\/p>\n

Toronto\u2019s biggest lead was 126-70 after AJ Lawson<\/a>\u2019s 3-pointer with 9:31 left.<\/p>\n

Desmond Bane<\/a> scored 17 points for Orlando. Jalen Suggs<\/a> had 13 and Tristan da Silva<\/a> added 12. Paolo Banchero<\/a> shot 3 of 14 and scored nine points, ending a streak of three straight 30-point performances.<\/p>\n

TRAIL BLAZERS 123, WIZARDS 88<\/p>\n

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) \u2014 Toumani Camara<\/a> scored 23 points and Portland routed Washington. <\/p>\n

Scoot Henderson<\/a> added 21 points and Deni Avdija<\/a> had 20 for the Blazers, who have won six of their last eight games. Portland led by as many as 39 points in the second half. <\/p>\n

Will Riley<\/a> scored 14 points off the bench for Wizards, who have lost 18 of their last 19 games. Washington was eliminated from the playoffs more than two weeks ago. <\/p>\n

Having already clinched a play-in spot in the playoffs, Portland was playing the last of a 3-1 homestand. The Blazers fell 100-93 to the Mavericks on Friday.<\/p>\n

Jerami Grant<\/a> did not play for Portland because of a calf strain. He was replaced in the starting lineup by Henderson. <\/p>\n

ROCKETS 134, PELICANS 102<\/p>\n

NEW ORLEANS (AP) \u2014 Alperen Sengun<\/a> had 36 points, 13 rebounds and seven assists, Houston dominated the second quarter, and the Rockets beat New Orleans.<\/p>\n

Houston (45-29) moved into a tie for fifth place in the Western Conference with idle Minnesota, 1 1\/2 games behind Denver.<\/p>\n

Sengun made 5 of 7 from 3-point range and added three steals and three blocks. Kevin Durant<\/a> and Jabari Smith Jr.<\/a> each had 20 points for Houston and Tari Eason<\/a> scored 15.<\/p>\n

Dejounte Murray<\/a> had 19 points for the Pelicans. Zion Williamson<\/a> and Saddiq Bey<\/a> each scored 18 and Derik Queen<\/a> had 13. Rookie Jeremiah Fears<\/a> added 12 points and five assists for New Orleans, which has lost three straight against the Rockets.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE (AP) \u2014 Bennedict Mathurin scored 28 points, John Collins 22 and Kawhi Leonard 20 as the Los…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3789],"tags":[7,559,4034,192,4032,251,135,4033,4031,6,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-687282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-clippers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-clippers","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-la-clippers","12":"tag-laclippers","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-los-angeles-clippers","15":"tag-losangeles","16":"tag-losangelesclippers","17":"tag-nba","18":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116315979255407756","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687282","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=687282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}