WARRIORS 118,
GRIZZLIES 103
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant each
scored 28 points, with Durant going 12 of 13 from the field, and the Golden State
Warriors beat the Memphis
Grizzlies 118-103 on Wednesday night to take sole possession of
the Western Conference lead.
Curry also had 10 rebounds, and DeMarcus
Cousins added 16 points and nine rebounds to help the Warriors
break a tie with idle Denver for the top spot in the West.
Jonas
Valanciunas led Memphis with 27 points and 13 rebounds,
and Mike Conley added
22 points to take the franchise's career scoring lead and added eight
assists. Bruno Caboclo had
17 points and 13 rebounds.
Durant scored seven straight points in a 9-0 run that made
it 100-92 midway through the fourth quarter.
THUNDER 107, PACERS 99
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Paul George scored
31 points against his former team, and Oklahoma City had a 24-0 run in the
third quarter to pull away from Indiana.
Steven Adams had
25 points and 12 rebounds, and Russell
Westbrook added 17 points, 12 assists and 11 rebounds for his
29th triple-double of the season. The Thunder won for only the second time in
seven games.
Bojan
Bogdanovic scored 28 points for Indiana, and Domantas
Sabonis added 18 points and 10 rebounds.
WIZARDS 124, SUNS 121
PHOENIX -- Devin Booker became
the youngest player in NBA history with consecutive 50-point games, but his
latest scoring binge was wasted once again by last-place Phoenix in a loss to
Washington.
Thomas Bryant's
three-point play with 2.8 seconds left put the Wizards ahead for good in a
back-and-forth game. Bryant caught Bradley Beal's
pass off a baseline drive and dropped in the winning layup while getting
fouled. After he added the free throw, Phoenix had one more chance to tie,
but Troy Daniels missed
a 3-pointer from the corner just before the final buzzer.
The 22-year-old Booker finished with 50 points and 10
rebounds as the Suns, with the worst record in the Western Conference at 17-59,
dropped their fifth straight. Booker scored 59 points in a 125-92 loss Monday
night at Utah.
It was the first time a Phoenix player reached 50 in
back-to-back games. Tom Chambers had
been the only member of the Suns to score even 40 in successive games.
Beal and Jabari Parker had
28 points apiece for the Wizards, who snapped a five-game skid. Bryant added 18
points and a career-high 19 rebounds.
TRAIL BLAZERS 118, BULLS 98
CHICAGO -- Seth Curry scored
a season-high 20 points and Portland beat Chicago.
Still shaken by Jusuf Nurkic's
gruesome leg injury two nights earlier in a double-overtime victory over
Brooklyn that secured Portland's sixth straight playoff appearance, the Trail
Blazers won their fifth in a row even though Damian Lillard scored
a season-low 11.
Chicago's Shaquille
Harrison set career highs with 21 points and 10 rebounds.
JAZZ 115, LAKERS 100
SALT LAKE CITY -- Rudy Gobert had
22 points and 11 rebounds, Derrick
Favors scored 20 and Joe Ingles nearly
posted his first triple-double to power Utah over depleted Los Angeles.
Jae Crowder scored
16 points and the balanced Jazz, with seven players in double figures, won for
the eighth time in nine games.
Six weeks ago, Ingles went public with the news that his
2-year-old son was diagnosed with autism. Since then, he has been a vocal
advocate for funding and awareness. Playing on Autism Awareness Night, he set a
career high with 14 assists and added 11 points and nine rebounds.
Kyle Kuzma paced
the Lakers with 21 points. JaVale McGee had
16 points and 13 rebounds.
Los Angeles had won consecutive games for the first time
since January but wasn't competitive from the start without LeBron James in
this one. James sat out after he had 23 points, 14 assists and seven rebounds
Tuesday night against Washington. He's been dealing with a swollen knee and
sore groin.
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