NBA Roundup: Suns snap Cavaliers’ five-game win streak

PHOENIX — Dillon Brooks scored 27 factors and the Phoenix Suns beat Cleveland 126-113 on Friday evening to comb a back-to-back and finish the Cavaliers’ profitable streak at a season-best 5 video games.

On Thursday evening in opposition to Detroit, the Suns gave out “Dillon the Villain” T-shirts earlier than Brooks scored a career-high 40 factors in a 114-96 victory. Phoenix has received three in a row with scoring chief Devin Booker sidelined by a sprained ankle.

Brooks was 9 of 14 from the sphere. He hit 2 of 4 3-pointers and seven of 8 free throws. The Suns had been 23 of 48 from 3-point vary.

Jordan Goodwin added 17 factors to assist Phoenix enhance to 30-19. Collin Gillespie had 16 factors.

Jalen Green returned from a proper hamstring damage to play solely his fifth sport of the season. Acquired from Houston within the deal that despatched Kevin Durant to the Rockets, Green had 11 factors in 15 1/2 minutes.

De’Andre Hunter led Cleveland with 17 factors. Donovan Mitchell and Jaylon Tyson every had 16, with Mitchell committing eight turnovers.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Desmond Bane scored 16 of his 32 factors within the fourth quarter to assist the Orlando Magic overcome a 13-point deficit and beat the Toronto Raptors 130-120 on Friday evening.

Paolo Banchero added 20 factors, 10 rebounds and 6 assists for Orlando. Wendell Carter Jr. had 23 factors and 7 rebounds and Anthony Black had 25 factors and 6 assists within the Magic’s second straight win after 4 straight losses.

Brandon Ingram scored 35 factors for the Raptors, who led by as many as 14 factors late within the third quarter and had been searching for their fifth straight highway win. Scottie Barnes completed with 19 factors, 9 rebounds, six assists and 4 blocks.

Ingram and Barnes did many of the scoring on a 19-8 run that closed out the third quarter with the Raptors main 99-86.

Bane made three straight jumpers, together with a few 3-pointers, in a fourth-quarter burst that helped the Magic draw back from a 104-104 tie.

All 5 of Toronto’s starters scored in double figures and Ja’Kobe Walter got here off the bench to attain 13 factors.

Orlando shot 17 for 34 from 3-point vary and had been 6 of 9 within the fourth quarter.

WASHINGTON — Luka Doncic had a triple-double by halftime and completed with 37 factors, 13 assists and 11 rebounds in Los Angeles’s rout of Washington.

Doncic had 26 factors, 11 assists and 10 rebounds within the first two quarters. His tenth rebound got here within the waning seconds of the second.

The final time a participant had a triple-double within the first half, in line with Sportradar, was when Jalen Johnson of the Atlanta Hawks did it Dec. 5. Johnson had 11 factors, 12 assists and 10 rebounds within the half.

LeBron James scored 20 factors for the Lakers, wanting spry at age 41 when he threw down an alley-oop within the first half with solely his left hand. And he was not completed dunking.

Fans had been chanting for James’ son, Bronny, to return within the sport earlier than the midpoint of the third quarter. That lastly occurred with 5:29 left within the fourth, and even the youthful James broke free for a one-handed dunk on a breakaway.

Deandre Ayton had 28 factors and 13 rebounds. He was 12 of 14 from the sphere, and the Lakers shot 61% general.

Malaki Branham scored 17 factors for the Wizards, who had been attempting for his or her first three-game profitable streak of the season however had been on the second evening of a back-to-back.

PELICANS 114, GRIZZLIES 106

NEW ORLEANS — Saddiq Bey and Derik Queen every had 22 factors, Zion Williamson added 21 and New Orleans beat Memphis.

Williamson had his fourth consecutive sport with 20-plus factors. Herb Jones added 16 factors to assist the Pelicans enhance to 13-37.

Cam Spencer and Jaren Jackson, Jr. every had 16 factors for Memphis. Cedric Coward added 13 and Jock Landale had 12. The Grizzlies are 18-28.

Grizzlies star guard Ja Morant was inactive for the fourth consecutive sport due to a sprained left elbow. Morant, who final performed Jan. 21 in opposition to Atlanta, has missed 25 video games this season.

New Orleans outscored Memphis 35-15 within the third quarter to take a 93-76 lead.

BOSTON — Payton Pritchard scored 29 factors, Baylor Scheierman had 16 and Boston rolled to a win over Sacramento.

Neemias Queta added 10 factors and 15 rebounds for the Celtics, who rebounded from Wednesday’s residence loss to Atlanta. Pritchard and Scheierman mixed to shoot 9 of 13 from the 3-point line, whereas Derek White had 9 assists.

Zach LaVine scored 17 factors for Sacramento, which has misplaced eight in a row and performed on the second evening of a back-to-back Nique Clifford added 15 factors.

Pritchard had 22 factors and eight assists by means of two quarters because the Celtics held a commanding 72-46 lead getting into the second half. Boston opened the sport by hitting its first 5 photographs and was 8 of 10 en path to a 15-point benefit after one quarter.

KNICKS 127, TRAIL BLAZERS 97

NEW YORK — Jalen Brunson scored 26 factors and OG Anunoby added 24 factors as New York prolonged its profitable streak to 5 video games with a victory over Portland.

Josh Hart had 20 factors, six rebounds and 5 assists, and Karl-Anthony Towns completed with 14 factors and 20 rebounds for New York. Hart moved right into a tie with Atlanta’s Jalen Johnson for the NBA lead in double-doubles with 31.

New York received by double digits for the fourth time in its previous 5 video games and improved to 19-6 at residence this season.

Shaedon Sharpe scored 26 factors, and Jerami Grant had 15 factors off the bench for Portland, which dropped its fourth straight sport.

New York’s defence pissed off budding Portland star ahead Deni Avdija. Advija, who ranks thirteenth within the NBA in factors per sport at 25.8, was held to 11 factors on 4-of-14 capturing and had 4 turnovers in 28 minutes.

Seven Knicks gamers scored in double figures, and New York led comfortably for a lot of the sport after posting a 34-12 run within the first half and main by 24 factors.

NUGGETS 122, CLIPPERS 109

DENVER — Nikola Jokic had 31 factors and 12 rebounds in his first sport in a month, Tim Hardaway Jr. added 22 factors and Denver knocked off Los Angeles.

Jokic, the three-time NBA MVP, missed 16 video games after injuring his left knee within the first half of a Dec. 29 loss at Miami. The Nuggets went 10-6 throughout that stretch, which additionally included prolonged absences from starters Cameron Johnson and Christian Braun.

Jokic’s twenty ninth double-double of the season got here regardless of being on a minutes restriction imposed by coach David Adelman. The 30-year-old Serbian was restricted to 25 minutes, his second-fewest in a sport this season.

James Harden had 25 factors and 9 assists for Los Angeles. The Clippers had received 16 of their earlier 19, one of the best win share in that NBA throughout that interval.

Jokic scored 11 factors over a stretch of three:47 within the fourth quarter that prolonged Denver’s lead from 5 to 16. The Nuggets improved to 7-3 this season within the second sport of a back-to-back.