Michael Porter Jr. scored 19 points, Aaron Gordon and Nikola Jokic added 18 each and the visiting Denver Nuggets clinched the No. 4 seed in the Western Conference with a 126-111 win over the Houston Rockets on Sunday.

The victory gives the Nuggets homecourt advantage in the first round of the playoffs against the fifth-seeded Clippers as they enter the postseason for a seventh straight season.

The Nuggets were up by 13 at halftime and used a 10-2 run, with five points from Gordon, to make it 86-63 with about five minutes left in the third quarter.

The Rockets, who had nothing to play for having long since clinched the No. 2 seed, pulled their starters after that big run.

Jokic, who had already guaranteed averaging a triple-double for the season in Friday’s win over Memphis, had seven rebounds and seven assists.

Russell Westbrook added 17 points off the bench for the Nuggets, who won their third straight game under interim coach David Adelman.

Timberwolves 116, Jazz 105: Anthony Edwards had 18 of his 43 points in the third quarter to help Minnesota pull away from visiting Utah for a victory to secure a spot in the playoffs.

Rudy Gobert added 19 points and 18 rebounds for the Timberwolves (49-33), who guaranteed themselves a top-six finish in the Western Conference.

Edwards went 7 for 18 from deep to finish with an NBA-leading 320 made 3-pointers.

Brice Sensabaugh scored 22 points for the Jazz (17-65), who finished with the worst record in the NBA and the worst mark in franchise history by six games.

Thunder 115, Pelicans 100: Rookie center Branden Carlson scored a season-high 26 points to go with 10 rebounds and three blocked three shots, and Oklahoma City wrapped up the best regular season in franchise history with a victory at New Orleans.

Andrew Wiggins scored 28 points and Kenrich Williams had 17 points and 12 rebounds for the Thunder (68-14), who rested all their usual starters.

Kings 109, Suns 98: Domantas Sabonis and Jonas Valanciunas each had a double-double, and Sacramento clinched homecourt advantage for its play-in game, beating visiting Phoenix.

Sabonis had 20 points and 12 rebounds for his 61st double-double of the season while Valanciunas had 22 points and 10 rebounds.

Sacramento, ninth in the Western Conference standings, hosts the No. 10 Dallas Mavericks in a loser-out play-in game on Wednesday.

The Suns finished the season 36-46, their worst record since going 34-39 during the Covid-shortened 2019-20 season.

Grizzlies 132, Mavericks 117: Lamar Stevens scored a career-high 31 points, Marvin Bagley III had 25 points and 11 rebounds and host Memphis defeated Dallas.

Both the Grizzlies and Mavericks will play in the Western Conference play-in tournament.

Bucks 140, Pistons 133 (OT): Pat Connaughton had a career-high 43 points and a season-high 11 rebounds as Milwaukee defeated Detroit to close the regular season on an eight-game winning streak.

Milwaukee’s Giannis An- tetokounmpo, Detroit’s Cade Cunningham and several other regulars didn’t play with both teams already locked into their playoff positions.

The Bucks’ lone usual starter to play was Kyle Kuzma, who scored 22 points in the first quarter before sitting out the rest of the game.

Malik Beasley scored 23 points to lead six Pistons in double figures.

Pacers 126, Cavaliers 118 (2OT): Quenton Jackson scored 21 points, RayJ Dennis had seven points in the second overtime and Indiana rallied at Cleveland after trailing by 23 with 7:35 remaining in regulation.

Tony Bradley’s hook shot with 4:41 remaining in double overtime put Indiana up by two and gave it the lead for the first time since there was 4:21 left in the first quarter.

The Pacers (50-32) reached 50 wins for the first time since the 2013-14 season.

Jaylon Tyson scored a career-high 31 points for Cleveland (64-18), which ended the regular season with three straight losses after clinching the top seed in the Eastern Conference.

Knicks 113, Nets 105: Landry Shamet scored a season-high 29 points, playing starter’s minutes after replacing Mikal Bridges just 6 seconds into the game, and New York won at Brooklyn.

Bridges started the game to extend his consecutive games streak to 556, having never missed a game in his NBA or college career. After the Knicks lost the jump ball, he committed a foul and left the game.

Bridges was the only starter who played for the Eastern Conference third-seeded Knicks.

Celtics 93, Hornets 86: Payton Pritchard scored 34 points and Boston defeated despite blowing a 21-point first-half lead in a regular-season ending matchup of all reserves.

Wizards 119, Heat 118: Tristan Vukcevic had 28 points and 11 rebounds, Justin Champagnie added 27 points and Bub Carrington banked in a game-winner as time expired to put visiting Washington over Miami.

Jaime Jaquez Jr. scored a career high 41 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists for the Heat.