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Friday 15 March 2019
Warriors, minus Durant, stop

Rockets' 9-game win streak

By The Associated Press ence standings. The Rock- ished with 24 points.
HOUSTON (AP) — Klay ets are tied with Oklahoma Curry added 24 points
Thompson scored 30 City for third place behind for Golden State. Durant
points, DeMarcus Cousins Denver. missed the game with a
had a season-high 27 and After trailing by 14 in the sprained right ankle.
the Golden State War- fourth quarter, a three- THUNDER 108, NETS 96
riors snapped Houston's point play by Chris Paul got OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) —
nine-game winning streak Houston within one with Russell Westbrook scored
Wednesday night with a 10.8 seconds left. Stephen 31 points in his 26th triple-
106-104 victory over the Curry made two free throws double of the season as
Rockets. with eight seconds remain- Oklahoma City beat Brook-
Playing without injured star ing to make it 106-103, and lyn.
Kevin Durant, the Warriors James Harden hit one of Westbrook added 12 re-
bounced back from Sun- two from the line at the oth- bounds and 11 assists for
day's loss to Phoenix and er end with 6.4 seconds to the 130th triple-double of
avoided being swept by go. The miss on the second his career.
Houston after the Rockets one bounced high off the Paul George scored 25
won the first three meetings rim and was rebounded by points and Jerami Grant
this season. Andre Iguodala, securing added 15 for the Thunder,
Golden State Warriors' DeMarcus Cousins (0) shoots as Houston Golden State, which had Golden State's victory. looking to secure home-
Rockets' Clint Capela (15) defends during the second half of an lost six of 10 overall, is 4 1/2 Harden had 29 points and court advantage in the first
NBA basketball game, Wednesday, March 13, 2019, in Houston. games ahead of Houston 10 assists but shot just 2 of round of the playoffs.
Associated Press atop the Western Confer- 12 on 3-pointers. Paul fin- Spencer Dinwiddie had
25 points for the Nets, who
won their previous four
games.
HEAT 108, PISTONS 74
MIAMI (AP) — Justise Win-
slow scored 16 points and
Miami opened the second
half with a 21-0 run on the
way to an easy win over
Detroit.
It was the biggest spurt and
largest victory margin this
season for the Heat, who
are trying to hang on in the
Eastern Conference play-
off race.
Dion Waiters scored 14
points and Dwyane Wade
had 11.
Blake Griffin scored 13
points for the Pistons, who
have dropped consecu-
tive games for the first time
since late January.
Miami (32-35) is still No. 8 in
the East, two games ahead
of No. 9 Orlando and two
games back of No. 7 De-
troit.
Andre Drummond fouled
out with 6:30 left and fin-
ished with five points and
nine rebounds — snapping
his run of 19 consecutive
double-doubles, which left
him tied with Bob Lanier for
the Pistons record.
WIZARDS 100, MAGIC 90
WASHINGTON (AP) — Brad-
ley Beal scored 23 points,
Thomas Bryant had 21
points and 10 rebounds,
and Washington made up
a little ground in the Eastern
Conference playoff race
with a win over Orlando.q