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(From the Associated Press) - Chris Bosh had 25 points and 16 rebounds, Jarrett Jack scored 17 points and the Toronto Raptors extended their winning streak to a season-high four games, beating the Pistons 102-95 on Sunday. Even with Richard Hamilton, Tayshaun Prince and Ben Gordon all back in the lineup, the Pistons still lost their seventh straight. Detroit has not topped 100 points in any of those defeats. Hamilton and Gordon each scored 15 and Jonas Jerebko and Rodney Stuckey both had 14 for the Pistons. Ben Wallace had 10 points and nine rebounds...Andrea Bargnani scored 16 points and Hedo Turkoglu added 14 for the Raptors, who improved to 12-0 when holding opponents below 100 points. It’s the first time that Toronto has won three games over the Pistons in a season in the team’s 15-year history. The Raptors beat the Pistons 110-99 in Toronto on Nov. 4.
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(From the Associated Press) - Cleveland looked sluggish through the first few minutes following a West Coast trip, but quickly recovered with a flurry of 3-pointers and stifling defense to beat the Rockets 108-83 Sunday night...LeBron James scored 29 points and Mo Williams added 20 for Cleveland (24-8), which has won four straight and nine of 10. They have won 10 straight at home, the league’s longest active winning streak...Aaron Brooks had 23 points for Houston, but only five in the second half. Trevor Ariza scored 11 points, but went 2 of 10 from the floor and is now mired in a 10-for-48 slump. Ariza injured his shin late in the game and a team spokesman said he was taken for precautionary X-rays. Carl Landry added 11 points. Even though the Cavaliers were coming off the West Coast swing, Rockets coach Rick Adelman thought his team tired first after playing on consecutive nights.
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(By BRIAN MAHONEY From the Associated Press) - Parker scored 22 points, Ginobili added 17, and they made the key plays in the final minutes to power the Spurs to a 95-88 victory over the New York Knicks on Sunday night...Duncan finished with 13 points while being outplayed by Lee, but Parker and Ginobili combined for all of San Antonio’s points after the game was tied at 84 with under 3 1/2 minutes remaining. The Spurs won for the eighth time in 10 games following a three-game skid earlier this month...Lee matched a season high with 28 points on 11-of-13 shooting and grabbed 10 rebounds, but the Knicks finished 3-2 on their five-game homestand after losing the last two. Danilo Gallinari and Al Harrington each scored 19. The Knicks held an opponent under 100 points for the 10th straight time, the first time they’ve done that since a 19-game stretch from Feb. 18-March 26, 2001. But they wasted that effort with another poor night from the perimeter, going 2 for 16 from 3-point range.
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(By TIM REYNOLDS From the Associated Press) - Dwyane Wade(notes) scored 25 points in only 28 minutes, Jermaine O’Neal(notes) added 19 points on 6 of 7 shooting against his former team and the Heat enjoyed their largest victory margin this season by topping the Indiana Pacers 114-80 on Sunday night. Beasley scored 16 points and Udonis Haslem(notes) added 13 for Miami, 5-1 in its last six games since a 28-point loss to Memphis two weeks ago sparked a team meeting, a long and ugly film session and plenty of soul searching. The Heat started 8 of 8 from the field for a 17-3 lead and never looked back, building a 66-44 advantage that was their largest at halftime since January 2007...Troy Murphy(notes) scored 16 for Indiana, which dropped its sixth straight. It could have been so much worse for the Pacers, too—they actually outscored Miami 14-0 during one first-half stretch, a brief blip in what was otherwise a Miami romp...“We competed when we got behind tonight,” Indiana coach Jim O’Brien said. “After that, everybody just played bad basketball.”
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(By PAT GRAHAM From the Associated Press) - Drew Gooden scored 19 points and Dirk Nowitzki hit a clutch 3-pointer late in the game, lifting the Mavericks to a 104-96 win Sunday night over a Denver squad missing All-Star guard Chauncey Billups. Dallas handed the league’s best home team a rare loss as the Nuggets fell to 13-2 at the Pepsi Center...The Nuggets missed Billups’ leadership, and he will miss at least one more game as he gives his strained left groin extra time to heal. Billups injured the groin on Dec. 16 against Houston and sat out three straight games. He returned on Christmas Day at Portland, but didn’t play in the second half...Anthony was held to 16 points, well below his league-leading average of 30.4 entering the game. Anthony also finished with a season-high 12 rebounds, before fouling out with 2:47 left...The sharp-shooting Smith had 11 points on 3-of-12 shooting...“I think we got too emotional at times and too frustrated at times with the refereeing, with the ball not going in, not shooting the ball very well, missing layups,” Karl said. “It seems like our emotional balance at times was too out of control.”
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(By GREG BEACHAM From the Associated Press) - Davis hit a long fallaway jumper at the buzzer after Rondo missed two free throws 1.5 seconds earlier, and the Los Angeles Clippers dramatically snapped the Celtics’ nine-game road winning streak with a 92-90 victory on Sunday night. Davis had 24 points and 13 assists for the Clippers, whose three-game losing streak ended when Davis took an inbounds pass with a second left, pivoted and hopped backward for a perfect 22-footer while drawing a little contact from Rondo, giving Los Angeles its only lead of the second half...Rondo scored 20 points in another impressive offensive game for the Celtics, but his free throw woes—he’s hovering near 53 percent for the season—cost the Celtics dearly. After drawing a foul from Davis, his two misses were actually three, including another shot that was waved off in between the two that counted...Eric Gordon scored 15 points for the underachieving Clippers, who stunned their first sellout crowd of the season with their comeback. Staples Center was filled with a large percentage of Boston fans, yet the home team rebounded just in time from its worst loss of the season in Phoenix on Friday. Kevin Garnett had 12 points and eight rebounds while playing mostly on the perimeter with a sore back for the Celtics, whose three-game winning streak ended two days after their impressive Christmas victory over the Orlando Magic. Boston managed just two points in the final 3:30 of its second straight road loss to the Clippers, who got 27 points and 12 rebounds from Chris Kaman.
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(From the Associated Press) - Chris Bosh had 25 points and 16 rebounds, Jarrett Jack scored 17 points and the Toronto Raptors extended their winning streak to a season-high four games, beating the Pistons 102-95 on Sunday. Even with Richard Hamilton, Tayshaun Prince and Ben Gordon all back in the lineup, the Pistons still lost their seventh straight. Detroit has not topped 100 points in any of those defeats. Hamilton and Gordon each scored 15 and Jonas Jerebko and Rodney Stuckey both had 14 for the Pistons. Ben Wallace had 10 points and nine rebounds...Andrea Bargnani scored 16 points and Hedo Turkoglu added 14 for the Raptors, who improved to 12-0 when holding opponents below 100 points. It’s the first time that Toronto has won three games over the Pistons in a season in the team’s 15-year history. The Raptors beat the Pistons 110-99 in Toronto on Nov. 4.
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(From the Associated Press) - Cleveland looked sluggish through the first few minutes following a West Coast trip, but quickly recovered with a flurry of 3-pointers and stifling defense to beat the Rockets 108-83 Sunday night...LeBron James scored 29 points and Mo Williams added 20 for Cleveland (24-8), which has won four straight and nine of 10. They have won 10 straight at home, the league’s longest active winning streak...Aaron Brooks had 23 points for Houston, but only five in the second half. Trevor Ariza scored 11 points, but went 2 of 10 from the floor and is now mired in a 10-for-48 slump. Ariza injured his shin late in the game and a team spokesman said he was taken for precautionary X-rays. Carl Landry added 11 points. Even though the Cavaliers were coming off the West Coast swing, Rockets coach Rick Adelman thought his team tired first after playing on consecutive nights.
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(By BRIAN MAHONEY From the Associated Press) - Parker scored 22 points, Ginobili added 17, and they made the key plays in the final minutes to power the Spurs to a 95-88 victory over the New York Knicks on Sunday night...Duncan finished with 13 points while being outplayed by Lee, but Parker and Ginobili combined for all of San Antonio’s points after the game was tied at 84 with under 3 1/2 minutes remaining. The Spurs won for the eighth time in 10 games following a three-game skid earlier this month...Lee matched a season high with 28 points on 11-of-13 shooting and grabbed 10 rebounds, but the Knicks finished 3-2 on their five-game homestand after losing the last two. Danilo Gallinari and Al Harrington each scored 19. The Knicks held an opponent under 100 points for the 10th straight time, the first time they’ve done that since a 19-game stretch from Feb. 18-March 26, 2001. But they wasted that effort with another poor night from the perimeter, going 2 for 16 from 3-point range.
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(By TIM REYNOLDS From the Associated Press) - Dwyane Wade(notes) scored 25 points in only 28 minutes, Jermaine O’Neal(notes) added 19 points on 6 of 7 shooting against his former team and the Heat enjoyed their largest victory margin this season by topping the Indiana Pacers 114-80 on Sunday night. Beasley scored 16 points and Udonis Haslem(notes) added 13 for Miami, 5-1 in its last six games since a 28-point loss to Memphis two weeks ago sparked a team meeting, a long and ugly film session and plenty of soul searching. The Heat started 8 of 8 from the field for a 17-3 lead and never looked back, building a 66-44 advantage that was their largest at halftime since January 2007...Troy Murphy(notes) scored 16 for Indiana, which dropped its sixth straight. It could have been so much worse for the Pacers, too—they actually outscored Miami 14-0 during one first-half stretch, a brief blip in what was otherwise a Miami romp...“We competed when we got behind tonight,” Indiana coach Jim O’Brien said. “After that, everybody just played bad basketball.”
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(By PAT GRAHAM From the Associated Press) - Drew Gooden scored 19 points and Dirk Nowitzki hit a clutch 3-pointer late in the game, lifting the Mavericks to a 104-96 win Sunday night over a Denver squad missing All-Star guard Chauncey Billups. Dallas handed the league’s best home team a rare loss as the Nuggets fell to 13-2 at the Pepsi Center...The Nuggets missed Billups’ leadership, and he will miss at least one more game as he gives his strained left groin extra time to heal. Billups injured the groin on Dec. 16 against Houston and sat out three straight games. He returned on Christmas Day at Portland, but didn’t play in the second half...Anthony was held to 16 points, well below his league-leading average of 30.4 entering the game. Anthony also finished with a season-high 12 rebounds, before fouling out with 2:47 left...The sharp-shooting Smith had 11 points on 3-of-12 shooting...“I think we got too emotional at times and too frustrated at times with the refereeing, with the ball not going in, not shooting the ball very well, missing layups,” Karl said. “It seems like our emotional balance at times was too out of control.”
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(By GREG BEACHAM From the Associated Press) - Davis hit a long fallaway jumper at the buzzer after Rondo missed two free throws 1.5 seconds earlier, and the Los Angeles Clippers dramatically snapped the Celtics’ nine-game road winning streak with a 92-90 victory on Sunday night. Davis had 24 points and 13 assists for the Clippers, whose three-game losing streak ended when Davis took an inbounds pass with a second left, pivoted and hopped backward for a perfect 22-footer while drawing a little contact from Rondo, giving Los Angeles its only lead of the second half...Rondo scored 20 points in another impressive offensive game for the Celtics, but his free throw woes—he’s hovering near 53 percent for the season—cost the Celtics dearly. After drawing a foul from Davis, his two misses were actually three, including another shot that was waved off in between the two that counted...Eric Gordon scored 15 points for the underachieving Clippers, who stunned their first sellout crowd of the season with their comeback. Staples Center was filled with a large percentage of Boston fans, yet the home team rebounded just in time from its worst loss of the season in Phoenix on Friday. Kevin Garnett had 12 points and eight rebounds while playing mostly on the perimeter with a sore back for the Celtics, whose three-game winning streak ended two days after their impressive Christmas victory over the Orlando Magic. Boston managed just two points in the final 3:30 of its second straight road loss to the Clippers, who got 27 points and 12 rebounds from Chris Kaman.
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