WARRIORS 137,
HORNETS 90
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Stephen Curry scored
25 points with five 3-pointers and the Golden State
Warriors beat Charlotte 137-90 on Sunday night to clinch their
fifth straight Pacific Division title and hand the Hornets their worst loss of
the season.
Curry has made five or more 3s in a career-best eight
straight games. He has 335 so far, his second-most in a season behind the
NBA-record 402 he hit in 2015-16.
Klay Thompson scored
Golden State's initial nine points and finished with 24 and six 3s. Curry and
Thompson combined to shoot 11 for 17 from deep and 17 of 30 overall. Quinn Cook added
21 points off the bench.
Willy
Hernangomez scored 22 points -- 14 on free throws -- for the
Hornets. Charlotte leading scorer and All-Star Kemba Walker was
held to nine points for his third game of the season not reaching double
figures.
MAVERICKS 106, THUNDER 103
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Trey Burke had
25 points and eight assists, Dwight Powell scored
the winning basket on a dunk with 21 seconds left and Dallas, playing without
star rookie Luka Doncic,
stunned Oklahoma City.
Jalen Brunson had
18 points; Devin Harris added
15 and Dirk Nowitzki --
playing perhaps his final game in Oklahoma City -- grabbed a season-high 13
rebounds to go with seven points for the Mavericks.
Russell
Westbrook had 25 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists for his
30th triple-double of the season and Paul George had
27 points and 11 rebounds for the Thunder, who had sealed a Western Conference
playoff spot Saturday when the Sacramento
Kings lost.
HAWKS 136, BUCKS 135, OT
ATLANTA -- Trae Young grabbed
a deflected inbounds pass and made a last-second jumper to lift Atlanta over
short-handed Milwaukee.
Justin
Anderson had 24 points and 12 rebounds for Atlanta, and John Collins finished
with 23 points and 12 boards. Alex Len also
scored 23 points. Young finished with 12 points and 16 assists.
Sterling
Brown scored 27 points for Milwaukee, including a go-ahead
layup with 1.1 seconds remaining in overtime.
The Bucks played without Giannis
Antetokounmpo and Khris
Middleton. Antetokounmpo, one of the favorites for the NBA MVP
award, was held out due to right ankle sprain. Middleton has a sore groin.
LAKERS 130, PELICANS 102
NEW ORLEANS -- Alex Caruso scored
a career-high 23 points in his 20th NBA game of the season, and Los Angeles
beat New Orleans.
JaVale McGee had
23 points and 16 rebounds, and former Pelican Rajon Rondo added
24 points and 12 assists for Los Angeles in a game missing both teams' biggest
stars: the Lakers' LeBron James and
the Pelicans' Anthony Davis.
Former Laker Julius Randle scored
17 points for New Orleans in 23 minutes before leaving to have an X-ray on his
left index finger, which the team said came back negative.
Christian
Wood, acquired recently by New Orleans after Milwaukee placed him on
waivers, had 15 points and 11 rebounds.
Kentavious
Caldwell-Pope scored 19 and Reggie
Bullock 18 for the Lakers, who have won four of five as they
try to build toward next season.
WIZARDS 95, NUGGETS 90
DENVER -- Tony Brown Jr. scored 24 points, Thomas Bryant and Jabari Parker each
had 20, and Washington held Denver to just 28 points in the second half.
Nikola Jokic had
23 points and 14 rebounds for Denver, which lost for the third time in five
games and saw its lead in the Northwest Division over Portland cut to three
games.
The loss came at price for Denver. Starting point
guard Jamal Murray left
the game in the third quarter with a sprained left ankle and didn't return.
Murray missed six games from Jan. 26-Feb. 4 with a left ankle sprain.
KINGS 113, SPURS 106
SAN ANTONIO -- Buddy Hield scored
26 points and Sacramento snapped an 11-game skid in San Antonio.
Willie
Cauley-Stein added 17 points and all of Sacramento's starters
scored in double figures. Bogdan
Bogdanovic added 15 points off the bench.
LaMarcus
Aldridge had 27 points and 17 rebounds as San Antonio lost for
the fourth time in six games. DeMar DeRozan finished
with 16 points and Rudy Gay had
18. The Spurs remained seventh in the Western Conference.
CLIPPERS 113, GRIZZLIES 96
LOS ANGELES -- Danilo
Gallinari had 27 points and 15 rebounds, and Los Angeles routed
Memphis for its league-leading 13th win in 15 games.
The Clippers closed March with the NBA's best record at
13-2, tying the highest winning percentage in the month in team history set in
2014.
Montrezl
Harrell added 20 points, making 10 of 11 free throws, and Lou Williams had
17 points for the Clippers.
The injury-riddled Grizzlies lost Jonas
Valanciunas with 6:16 left in the third quarter. He appeared to
hurt his right leg going for a rebound. Valanciunas finished with nine points
and seven rebounds.
Delon Wright led
Memphis with 20 points and Chandler
Parsons added 17.
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