INDIANAPOLIS — Devin Booker scored 43 points, Jalen Green had 36 and Phoenix beat NBA-worst Indiana for its fourth straight win and the Pacers’ 11th straight loss.
The Suns, seventh in the Western Conference, opened the second of a six-game road trip with a win over Milwaukee on Tuesday night.
Booker went 14 of 31 from the field, hit 4 of 7 3-pointers and didn’t miss any of his 11 free throws. He also had seven rebounds and five assists. Green made 14 of 23 shots, including three 3-pointers. Royce O’Neill scored 15 points on 5-of-8 3-point shooting.
Andrew Nembhard led the Pacers with 23 points throughout the first half after being questionable with a back issue.
Center Ivica Zubac had eight points and six rebounds in 16 minutes in his Pacers debut. Zubac, who has been sidelined since December due to a left ankle sprain, joined Indiana in a trade deadline deal with the Los Angeles Clippers.
OKLAHOMA CITY — Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 35 points in the Oklahoma City Thunder’s 104-102 win over the Boston Celtics on Thursday night, breaking Wilt Chamberlain’s record for consecutive games with 20 or more points.
Oklahoma City’s Chet Holmgren was fouled on a rebound with 0.9 seconds left in the game and made two free throws to break a 102-all tie. Boston’s Payton Pritchard misses a long 3-pointer as time expires.
Gilgeous-Alexander scored at least 20 points in 127 consecutive games, surpassing Chamberlain’s record since 1963. He hit a mid-range jumper with 7:04 left in the third quarter to score 21 points and tie the game at 69. He had nine assists, six rebounds and made 13 of 18 field goals.
The Thunder have won seven straight. This was after Gilgeous-Alexander returned from the All-Star Game due to an abdominal strain.
Jaylen Brown scored 34 points for the Celtics. Boston’s Jayson Tatum sat out on his way back from surgery to repair his right Achilles tendon. He has appeared in three games since returning, including Tuesday’s loss to San Antonio.
SAN ANTONIO — Nikola Jokic had 31 points, 20 rebounds and 12 assists, Jamal Murray had 39 points and Denver rallied to beat San Antonio and snap the Spurs’ five-game winning streak with Victor Wembayama sidelined with injury.
San Antonio guard Stephen Castle had 30 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists for his third career triple-double.
With the Spurs trailing 132-129, Castle hit a 3-pointer at the rim with 20 seconds left. Murray sealed the victory with four consecutive free throws.
Trailing by 20 points early in the third quarter, Murray’s 3-pointer gave Denver its first lead at 121-119 with 4 minutes and 38 seconds left. Murray’s basket was the start of an 11-0 run.
Wembanyama was suspected with right ankle soreness and was ruled out after a pre-match warm-up. He must play in 13 of San Antonio’s final 16 games to be eligible for the award at season’s end.
Spurs are up 10-5 without Wembanyama, who watched from the second row of the team’s bench. San Antonio maintained a 20-point lead and lost for the first time in 22 games.
DETROIT — Duncan Robinson scored 19 points and Eastern Conference-leading Detroit won its second straight, beating Philadelphia after a season-worst four-game losing streak.
Javonte Green added 17 points and Jalen Duren had 14 points and 10 rebounds. The Pistons won both Brooklyn and Philadelphia by an average of 30 points, coming from behind in both wins.
Cade Cunningham, double-teamed for most of the game, took just six shots from the floor, matching the third-lowest total of his career. He finished the game with eight points, but also had 13 assists and five rebounds in 28 minutes.
Marjon Beauchamp had 17 points and Cam Payne had 15 for Philadelphia. The 76ers have lost five of seven.
Detroit led by 17 points in the second quarter, but the 76ers got back into the game by aggressively holding off Cunningham. As a result, the score in the first half was only 8 points, and 9 assists were balanced by 4 turnovers.
Magic 136, Wizard 131, OT
ORLANDO, Fla. — Jalen Suggs scored a season-high 28 points and hit a game-tying 3-pointer with 1:27 left in overtime as Orlando beat Washington and extended its longest winning streak of the season to six games.
Two nights after being embarrassed when Miami’s Bam Adebayo scored 83 points, the second-highest performance in NBA history, the Wizards rallied from 17 points down in the fourth quarter to tie the game when Bilal Koulibaly hit a 3-pointer with 5.8 seconds left.
Coulibaly added 131 points with 1:39 left in OT to tie the game, but Suggs gave up a 3 and added two free throws with 56 seconds left.
Tristan da Silva added 26 points, seven rebounds, four steals and two blocks for the Magic, including one on Koulibaly’s drive in OT. Desmond Bane finished with 22 points, Wendell Carter Jr. had 19 points and 11 rebounds, and Paolo Banchero finished with 18 points and 10 boards.
Koulibaly scored a career-high 29 points, but Washington suffered its 10th straight loss. Alex Sarr scored 16 points and Trae Young had 15 points and six assists in 21 minutes.
MIAMI — Bam Adebayo had 21 points on his way to 83 points, Pelle Larsson had a career-high 28 points and Miami notched its season-high seventh straight win over Milwaukee.
Adebayo scored 12 points in the fourth quarter for the Heat, which remained in sixth place in the Eastern Conference. This figure is only 1 percentage point behind 5th place Orlando, which is on a 6-game winning streak. The Heat and Magic meet Saturday night.
Kasparas Jakučionis had 18 points, Davion Mitchell had 13 and Kel’el Ware had 13 rebounds for Miami.
Giannis Antetokounmpo led all scorers with 31 points for the Bucks, who got 19 points from Bobby Portis Jr. and 16 points and a 10-assist game from Ryan Rollins.
Antetokounmpo attempted a wide-open 3-pointer from the top of the key that would have tied the game with 52 seconds left, but it was thrown out. Larsson controlled the rebound and hit a 3-pointer of his own 24 seconds later for a six-point lead, effectively sealing the win.
Miami was again without Norman Powell (groin), Andrew Wiggins (toe), Tyler Herro (quad), and Nikola Jovic (back).
ATLANTA — Jalen Johnson had 21 points, nine rebounds and nine assists, Zaccharie Risacher had 19 points and Atlanta extended the NBA’s longest winning streak to eight games with a win over Brooklyn.
Nickeil Alexander-Walker added 18 points and CJ McCollum had 18 for Atlanta, which began its winning streak with a win over Brooklyn on Feb. 22. The Hawks moved into eighth place in the Eastern Conference, 1 1/2 games behind seventh-place Toronto.
Josh Minott scored a career-high 24 points for the Nets, who lost 12 of 14 points. Brooklyn was without leading scorer Michael Porter Jr. with a sprained right ankle.
The Nets led 83-82 early in the fourth quarter and McCollum scored six points during the Hawks’ 10-0 run. Brooklyn never got closer than four points the rest of the way.
Mavericks 120, Grizzlies 112
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Khris Middleton scored 22 of his season-high 35 points in the fourth quarter, Daniel Gafford added a season-high 22 points and Dallas snapped an eight-game losing streak with a win over Memphis.
Max Christie and Cooper Flagg added 13 points each for Dallas. Middleton was 10 of 17 including 8 of 10 3-pointers. Gafford added 14 rebounds.
Jaylen Wells led Memphis with 23 points and GG Jackson finished with 20 points. Javon Small had 19 points and nine assists. Taylor Hendrix had 17 points and 10 rebounds.
The Mavericks, who led by 20 points in the first half, led 30-21 in the third quarter and only led 86-84 at the end. Middleton scored Dallas’ first 11 points in the fourth to get the lead back to double figures and recorded the highest scoring quarter of his career.
LOS ANGELES — Luka Doncic had 51 points, 10 rebounds and nine assists, LeBron James added 18 points in his return after missing three games with injury, and Los Angeles used a strong third quarter to defeat Chicago.
Doncic scored 50 points for the first time as a Laker since the blockbuster trade that sent him from Dallas to Los Angeles in February 2025. It was Doncic’s 13th 40-point game in 82 games for Los Angeles, and ninth in franchise history.
Austin Reeves led the way with 30 points, DeAndre Ayton had 23 points and 10 rebounds for his 20th double-double of the season, and the Lakers’ four-game winning streak is their longest since they won seven straight from November 14-30.
Los Angeles finished third in the Western Conference, ahead of the idle Houston Rockets.
Josh Giddey had 27 points and Matas Buzelis had 22 for the team, which has alternated wins and losses over its past six games following an 11-game losing streak in February.
