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Spurs extend record to 18 straight 50-win seasons
Associated Press

Manu Ginobili had 19 points, David Lee added 18 points and 10 rebounds, and San Antonio rallied without Kawhi Leonard to beat Sacramento at home, 114-104.

The Spurs won their ninth straight and extended their NBA record for 50-win seasons to 18 straight, the longest in league history.

Sacramento lost its sixth straight despite a season-high 26 points from Tyreke Evans and 15 from rookie Skal Labissiere.

Hawks 110, Nets 105 — Dennis Schroder scored 31 points, Paul Millsap added 24, and host Atlanta snapped a three-game losing streak with a victory over Brooklyn.

Tim Hardaway Jr. finished with 16 points for Atlanta, which had lost six of eight to fall three games behind fourth-place Toronto in the Eastern Conference.

Sean Kilpatrick scored 27 points, Brook Lopez had 18, and Jeremy Lin 16 for Brooklyn, the NBA’s worst team. The Nets were trying to win consecutive games for the first time since last March 24-26.

Lin’s corner 3 trimmed the lead to 106-105 with 13 seconds remaining, but Hardaway and Schroder each hit a pair of free throws to end it.

Heat 108, Hornets 101 — Dion Waiters scored 24 points, Goran Dragic added 22 points and 10 assists, and Miami improved to 20-4 over its last 24 games to move within a half-game of an Eastern Conference playoff spot with the home victory over Charlotte.

Luke Babbitt scored 12 points, Hassan Whiteside had 10 points and 15 rebounds, and James Johnson added 10 points for the Heat.

Miami outscored Charlotte, 27-15, in the final quarter.

Kemba Walker scored 33 points for Charlotte, which got 16 from Nicolas Batum, 14 from Marvin Williams, and 12 from Michael Kidd-Gilchrist.

The Heat made 17 3-pointers, outscoring Charlotte, 51-21, from beyond the arc.

Magic 98, Bulls 91 — Elfrid Payton had 22 points, 14 assists, and 14 rebounds for his second straight triple-double, and Orlando rallied for a home victory over Chicago.

Evan Fournier added 20 points to help Orlando snap a two-game skid.

Bucks 104, Knicks 93 — Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 22 of his 32 points in the second half to help Milwaukee overcome a third-quarter deficit at home against New York.

The Bucks moved to within a half-game of Chicago for the eighth playoff spot in the East.

Antetokounmpo also added 13 rebounds, seven assists, and four steals. Khris Middleton finished with 18 points and Greg Monroe had 17.

Derrick Rose led the Knicks with 26 points, scoring 20 of them in the second half. He was 13 of 16 from the field. Carmelo Anthony scored 16 points in his return after a one-game absence.

The Bucks began the third quarter missing 13 of their first 14 shots and the Knicks built a 69-57 lead on a pair of free throws.

Pacers 115, Pistons 98 — Paul George scored 13 of his 21 points in the third quarter to help Indiana sweep the four-game series against Detroit with a blowout win at home.

Tobias Harris had 22 points and Stanley Johnson had a season-high 17 for the Pistons, who moved two games ahead of the Pistons in the playoff chase.

Indiana kept Detroit at arm’s length most of the night after scoring the first 8 points and still led, 58-50, at halftime.

But after the Pistons took their only lead, 63-62, on Marcus Morris’s step-back jumper with 7:37 left in the third quarter, Indiana answered with C.J. Miles’s 3-pointer. George then scored 8 points during a 25-8 quarter-closing run to give Indiana a 90-73 lead.

Detroit never challenged in the fourth.

Timberwolves 107, Clippers 91 — Karl-Anthony Towns had 29 points and 14 rebounds and Minnesota beat Los Angeles at home.

Andrew Wiggins scored 20 points, and Ricky Rubio had 15 points, 12 assists, and six rebounds for the Timberwolves.

Jazz 115, Rockets 108 — Rudy Gobert and Gordon Hayward each scored 23 points to help Utah record its fourth straight victory with a road win in Houston.

James Harden had 35 points for the Rockets, who dropped their second in a row.

The Rockets trailed by double digits for much of the game as they struggled from 3-point range. Houston was just 8 of 32 to end a streak of 18 straight games with at least 10 3-pointers.

A pair of free throws by Harden cut Utah’s lead to four with less than two minutes remaining, but Joe Johnson hit a 3-pointer just before the shot clock expired on the other end to make it 110-103.

Gobert put it away with a layup that made it 112-106 with less than a minute left.

Raptors 94, Pelicans 87 — Jonas Valanciunas had 25 points and 13 rebounds, and Toronto emerged with a road victory over a New Orleans squad that played the second half without All-Star forward Anthony Davis, who injured his left wrist at the end of the first half.

Davis was injured when he crashed to the court after trying to catch an alley-oop pass during the Pelicans’ final possession before halftime.

DeMarcus Cousins had 25 points and 10 rebounds, but the Pelicans fell to 1-5 with Cousins in the lineup.