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Tuesday 5 March 2019

Harden scores 42 points to help Rockets beat Celtics

season. Houston entered dre and Drummond had 15 its defensive leader, hold-
the day in fifth place in points and 17 rebounds. ing the Grizzlies to 6-for-21
the Western Conference Kyle Lowry scored a season- shooting in the fourth quar-
standings, a game behind high 35 points for Toronto. ter. Avery Bradley scored
of fourth-place Oklahoma Pascal Siakam added 21. 27 points for Memphis.
City. Boston has lost five of THUNDER 99, GRIZZLIES 95 HAWKS 123, BULLS 118
last six. Kyrie Irving led the OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — CHICAGO (AP) — Alex Len
Celtics with 24 points, nine Russell Westbrook scored scored a season-high 28
rebounds and six assists. 12 of his 22 points in the points and Atlanta beat
Al Horford finished with 19 fourth quarter and Oklaho- Chicago, two days af-
points. ma City Thunder overcame ter the Bulls outlasted the
PISTONS 112, RAPTORS 107, a 13-point deficit in the fi- Hawks 168-161 in quadru-
OT nal seven minutes to beat ple overtime in Atlanta
DETROIT (AP) — Blake Griffin Memphis. Len finished three points
scored 14 of his 27 points in Dennis Schroder added 17 shy of his career high. He
the first quarter and Detroit points and a career-high 11 also made a personal-best
Houston Rockets’ James Harden (13) prepares to shoot from outlasted Toronto. rebounds, and Steven Ad- five 3-pointers.
three-point territory as Boston Celtics’ Jayson Tatum (0) defends
during the second half of an NBA basketball game in Boston, Detroit took advantage of ams had 13 points and 22 Trae Young scored 18 be-
Sunday, March 3, 2019. Toronto resting star forward rebounds to help the Thun- fore getting ejected ear-
Associated Press Kawhi Leonard less than 48 der snap a four-game los- ly in the third quarter for
By The Associated Press the beat the Boston Celtics hours after he made the ing streak. Paul George, the taunting Chicago’s Kris
BOSTON (AP) — James 115-104 on Sunday for their go-ahead shot in the clos- NBA’s No. 2 scorer, missed Dunn for his second tech-
Harden had 42 points be- fifth straight victory. ing seconds in a victory his third straight game nical foul. Lauri Markkanen
fore fouling out late in the Harden made six 3-point- over Portland. because of asore right led Chicago with 19 points.
fourth quarter and the ers and scored 40 or more Reggie Jackson scored 19 shoulder. Oklahoma City CLIPPERS 128, KNICKS 107
Houston Rockets held on points for the 24th time this points for Deyroitm and An- stepped up late without LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rook-
ie Landry Shamet scored
all of his 21 points on
3-pointers, Danilo Gallinari
added 20 and Los Ange-
les sent New York to its 50th
loss of the season. Shamet
and Gallinari combined for
27 of the Clippers’ 38 points
in the first quarter when
they raced to a 38-20 lead.
Shamet scored 18 points in
the opening 12 minutes. He
tied the franchise record
for threes in a quarter (six)
and a half (seven), and set
a franchise rookie record
for 3s in a single game.
Damyean Dotson and
Noah Vonleh each had 17
points for New York.
TRAIL BLAZERS 118, HOR-
NETS 108
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) —
Rodney Hood scored 27
points, Jusuf Nurkic added
26 points and 15 rebounds
and Portland beat Char-
lotte.
Damian Lillard had 23
points to help the Trail Blaz-
ers win for the sixth time
in seven games. Jeremy
Lamb had 23 points, and
Kemba Walker added 18
points and a season-high
12 assists for the Hornets.
CAVALIERS 107, MAGIC 93
CLEVELAND (AP) — Jordan
Clarkson scored 18 points,
Kevin Love had 16 points
and 14 rebounds and
Cleveland pulled away in
the fourth quarter to beat
Orlando.
Nikola Vucevic scored 28
points for Orlando.q