Tyrese Haliburton scored 29 points, one of nine Indiana players in double figures as the Pacers set a franchise record for points in a game in a 162-109 rout of the Washington Wizards on Thursday night.

The final score could have been even more lopsided, but Indiana began taking shot clock violations with well over a minute remaining, drawing boos from the crowd in Washington. Indiana’s previous record in an NBA game was 157 points, set most recently last season.

It was also the most points allowed in franchise history for Washington and the most points scored in an NBA game this season.

Cavaliers 124, Spurs 116: Jarrett Allen scored a season-high 29 points, Donovan Mitchell had a career-high 14 assists and Cleveland looked more comfortable back home, holding off San Antonio.

Allen went 10 of 11 from the floor and added 16 rebounds for Cleveland, which went 2-4 on a just-completed six-game trip out West.

Mitchell scored 25 and flirted with his first career triple-double, finishing with eight rebounds.

Allen’s three-point play — on an assist from Mitchell — put the Cavs up 117-112 and Darius Garland’s 3-pointer put the Spurs away with 1:16 left.

Heat 122, Hawks 112: Tyler Herro scored 36 points, Davion Mitchell and Andrew Wiggins each added 16 and Miami beat Atlanta for their third straight win. Bam Adebayo had 12 points and 10 rebounds for Miami, which trailed by 14 in the first quarter at home but controlled the second half.

The win moved the Heat (32-41) within three games of Atlanta (35-38) for the No. 7 seed in the Eastern Conference, both having nine games left to play. Miami’s win also clinched a playoff berth for the New York Knicks and eliminated the Brooklyn Nets from postseason contention.

Rockets 121, Jazz 110: Alperen Sengun had 33 points and 10 rebounds, Amen Thompson finished with 16 points, 10 rebounds and five assists, and Houston won at Utah. The Rockets have a two-game lead over the third-place Denver Nuggets in the Western Conference standings with a little more than two weeks left in the regular season.

Mavericks 101, Magic 92: Jaden Hardy scored 22 points, Anthony Davis added 15 points and seven rebounds and Dallas won at Orlando. Paolo Banchero had 35 points and 10 rebounds for the Magic, who shot 5 of 30 from 3-point range. Franz Wagner added 20 points and nine rebounds. Hardy came off the bench and made 5 of 6 3-point shots, three of them in a span of 90 seconds in the third quarter.

Thunder 125, Grizzlies 104: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 37 points and Oklahoma City defeated visiting Memphis to win its eighth straight and team-record 61st game of the season. All-Star guard Jalen Williams scored 20 points in his return for the Thunder after missing seven games with a hip injury. Isaiah Hartenstein added 18 points and 11 rebounds for Oklahoma City (61-12), which remained two games ahead of Cleveland for the league’s best record with nine games to play. The Thunder have clinched the best record in the Western Conference.

all-star weekend format will change

The NBA will not bring back its All-Star Game mini-tournament next season.

Commissioner Adam Silver said Thursday that the format used last month — a four-team tournament made up of 24 NBA All-Stars and another team of rookies and sophomores that played their way in by winning the Rising Stars event on All-Star Friday, all the All-Star matchups playing untimed games to a target score of 40 points — “was a miss.”

“We’re not there in terms of creating an All-Star experience that we can be proud of and our players can be proud of,” Silver said.

The game is shifting to NBC next season as part of the league’s new broadcast deal, and Silver said the league and the network are talking about what may work. The league tried something new this season with hopes of sparking some competitiveness, which the game has lacked for years.

“We’re a bit back to the drawing board,” Silver said.

Next year’s game will be during the Milan-Cortina Olympics, which will be aired on the NBC family of networks, so it may seem logical to play off that in some way and utilize some sort of U.S. vs. International format — which has been talked about in recent years.