TIMBERWOLVES 113,
HEAT 104
MIAMI -- Karl-Anthony
Towns scored 34 points and grabbed 18 rebounds, leading six
Minnesota players in double figures as the Timberwolves defeated the Miami Heat 113-104
on Sunday night.
Towns added seven assists and six blocked shots for the
Timberwolves. The only other player in NBA history to have that many points,
rebounds, assists and blocks in the same game was Kareem
Abdul-Jabbar, for the Los Angeles
Lakers against Phoenix on Nov. 14, 1975. Abdul-Jabbar had 35
points, 19 rebounds, nine assists and eight blocks in that game.
Robert
Covington scored 16 and Taj Gibson added
14 for Minnesota. The Wolves also got 13 apiece from Andrew
Wiggins and Dario Saric,
while Tyus Jones scored
12.
Dwyane Wade led
Miami with 21 points. Josh
Richardson scored 17, Derrick Jones
Jr. added 16 and Hassan
Whiteside grabbed 13 rebounds for the Heat.
RAPTORS 95, BULLS 89
TORONTO -- Kawhi Leonard scored
27 points, Pascal Siakam had
20 points and 12 rebounds and Toronto recorded its seventh straight win over
Chicago.
Danny Green and Fred VanVleet each
scored 10 points as the Raptors bounced back from their largest defeat of the
season, a 29-point loss at Orlando on Friday.
Lauri
Markkanen had 18 points and 10 rebounds and Wendell
Carter Jr. had 16 points and 11 rebounds for the Bulls, who didn't
score for the first 3:19 of the fourth quarter.
Chicago's Zach LaVine fouled
out with 13 points. It was a poor shooting night for LaVine, who went 3 for 17,
including 0 for 3 from 3-point range.
Kris Dunn scored
14 points, and Justin
Holiday and Chandler
Hutchison each had 11 as the Bulls fell to 5-8 under Coach Jim
Boylen.
MAGIC 109, PISTONS 107
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Evan Fournier's
running jumper in the lane as the buzzer sounded gave Orlando a win over Detroit.
D.J. Augustin led
the Magic with 26 points and eight assists, and Nikola
Vucevic and Aaron Gordon each
scored 22 points. Fournier finished with 13.
Luke Kennard scored
16 points to lead the Pistons. Reggie
Bullock and Blake Griffin had
15 apiece and Andre Drummond had
14 points and 15 rebounds.
Fournier's winning basket ended a wild finish in which
Detroit wiped out an eight-point deficit in the final three minutes only to
lose for the 11th time in their last 14 games.
MAVERICKS 105, THUNDER 103
DALLAS -- Teenage rookie Luka Doncic scored
25 points and young backcourt mate Dennis Smith
Jr. hit the go-ahead layup in the final minute for Dallas.
Paul George scored
the last 13 points for Oklahoma City and finished with 36, but he missed a
pull-up jumper over Smith with 2 seconds left in the first of two straight
meetings on back-to-back nights for these regional rivals.
The Thunder's Russell
Westbrook was 4 of 22 from the field for nine points with nine
rebounds and eight assists.
Smith scored 14 points. DeAndre
Jordan had 12 points and 17 rebounds.
George was 12 of 24 from the field but just 3 of 11 from
3-point distance as the Thunder shot 24 percent from beyond the arc. Westbrook
missed all eight of his attempts from long range.
TRAIL BLAZERS 129, 76ERS 95
PORTLAND, Ore. -- C.J. McCollum scored 35 points to break
out of a brief shooting slump and Portland topped Philadelphia.
McCollum made four 3-pointers and hit 13 of 18 from the
floor to lead Portland. In his six previous games, McCollum was 35 percent from
the floor while going 16 percent from 3-point range.
Al-Farouq
Aminu had 16 points, Damian
Lillard 15 and Jusuf Nurkic 14
for Portland.
Ben Simmons scored
19 points to lead the 76ers, who were without center Joel Embiid due
to soreness in his left knee.
His absence was felt inside, as the Blazers outrebounded the
76ers 59-36.
LAKERS 121, KINGS 114
LOS ANGELES -- Kentavious
Caldwell-Pope scored a season-high 26 points, Josh Hart added
22 and Los Angeles won for the first time since LeBron James was
sidelined with a groin injury.
Brandon
Ingram added 21 points, including seven during the
game-deciding run. The Kings led 110-103 with 4:30 remaining when the Lakers
scored 12 straight points over a three minute span
De'Aaron Fox led
Sacramento with 26 points, while Buddy Hield and Bogdan
Bogdanovic scored 21 apiece.
The Lakers had lost two games in James' absence.
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