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(By CLIFF BRUNT From the Associated Press) - Danny Granger provided the spark the Indiana Pacers had been missing. The forward scored 23 points, and the Pacers overcame a 23-point deficit to beat the Toronto Raptors 105-101 on Monday night...Troy Murphy had 20 points and 16 rebounds, A.J. Price scored 16 points and Mike Dunleavy added 15 for the Pacers, who had lost two straight. Chris Bosh had 27 points and 10 rebounds, and Andrea Bargnani( added 12 points and 17 rebounds for the Raptors, who played their third game in four days. “We were fatigued, maybe,” Triano said. “Didn’t have our legs. I’ve never seen us miss that many free throws. But our guys played as hard as they could in a back-to-back, the way that they battled, and we didn’t have it.”
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(From the Associated Press) - Andre Iguodala and Elton Brand scored 18 points each, Allen Iverson added 16 and the 76ers snapped a four-game home losing streak with a 96-92 victory over the New Orleans Hornets on Monday night...Thaddeus Young and Lou Williams added 12 points each and Samuel Dalembert had six points, 14 rebounds and five blocks for the Sixers, who had lost nine of 10 at home...Emeka Okafor had 20 points and 11 rebounds, David West added 13 points and 13 rebounds and Chris Paul had 13 points and 14 assists for the Hornets, whose season-best six-game winning streak was snapped.
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(By JIMMY GOLEN From the Associated Press) - Hours after scratching Rasheed Wallace from the lineup, Celtics coach Doc Rivers did a fair impersonation of the volatile forward by drawing two quick technicals and an early exit. A third “T”—on soft-spoken assistant Armond Hill—handed the Hawks a four-point play and helped whittle away a 10-point deficit in a 102-96 victory Monday night...“In order to get to where we’re trying to go in this league, we’ve got to go through Orlando, Boston and Cleveland,” said Joe Johnson, who scored 36 points, including seven straight to erase a seven-point fourth-quarter deficit. “We’ve been pretty successful against Boston this year, but we’ve just got to try to get some wins down the stretch.” Al Horford had nine points and 12 rebounds for Atlanta, and Crawford scored the last six of the game. Mike Bibby had just five points and two assists in 18 minutes for the Hawks. Rajon Rondo had 26 points and seven assists for Boston.
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(By MURRAY EVANS From the Associated Press) - The Thunder limited New York to 38.2-percent shooting—more than 7 percent below its average—and behind Durant’s 30 points, they cruised to a 106-88 win over the Knicks on Monday night...Durant, who entered the game with a 28.7-point scoring average, had 15 in the first quarter as Oklahoma City (21-16) built a double-digit lead it kept for most of the rest of the game. Durant has scored 30 or more points in nine of his last 11 games. Nate Robinson led the Knicks with 19 points. New York (15-22) suffered its worst loss since falling by 22 points in the season opener at Miami. The Knicks gave up 100-plus points for just the fourth time since Dec. 6...Jonathan Bender scored 16 points for New York, while Wilson Chandler had 12 and David Lee added 11 points and 13 rebounds for his 20th double-double of the season. Lee had scored at least 20 points in three straight games and six of last seven for the Knicks.
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(From the Associated Press) - Luol Deng scored 27 points on 13-of-18 shooting and the Bulls handed the Detroit Pistons their 13th consecutive loss, 120-87 on Monday night. Detroit matched its longest skid since losing 13 straight to end the 1993-94 season...Derrick Rose finished with 22 points on 11-of-13 shooting for the Bulls, who shot 57.1 percent overall, including 70.6 percent in the third quarter. The Bulls had a season-high in points and their biggest margin of victory. Rookie Jonas Jerebko had 15 points and nine rebounds and Richard Hamilton added 17 points for the Pistons, who last won on Dec. 12, against Golden State.
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(From the Associated Press) - Without its coach and star guard, Milwaukee seemed lost in the first half as the Bucks found themselves down by 24 points to Phoenix before battling back and falling just short in a 105-101 loss to the Suns on Monday night. It was the Bucks’ 22nd straight loss in Phoenix. Skiles was hospitalized shortly before the game for precautionary purposes due to an irregular heartbeat, the Bucks said. Skiles addressed the media just over an hour prior to tipoff, then was taken to a hospital...Hakim Warrick, who led Milwaukee with 21 points and 10 rebounds, called Skiles’ loss “a shock.”...Redd is out for the season after tearing his anterior cruciate ligament and medial collateral ligament in his left knee during the second period of Sunday night’s loss at the Los Angeles Lakers. Redd was standing on crutches outside the Bucks’ locker room before the game against the Suns, then left to return to Milwaukee...Steve Nash scored 30 points and had 11 assists to lead the suns, who haven’t lost at home to Milwaukee since Feb. 21, 1987...Amare Stoudemire had 23 points and 10 rebounds for the Suns...Luke Ridnour scored 17 points for Milwaukee. Rookie Brandon Jennings added 14 and Andrew Bogut had 13 points and 13 rebounds.
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(From the Associated Press) - Anthony scored 10 of his 24 points in the fourth quarter, including consecutive 3-pointers midway through the period to help quash any chance of another upset by Minnesota, and the Denver Nuggets beat the Timberwolves 105-94 on Monday night...“It was great to have him back,” said Chauncey Billups, who scored 18 points. “He got an opportunity to run around, shake off a little rust, get a little bit of rhythm. I thought he really caught the rhythm in the second half.”...Arron Afflalo added 15 points for Denver, which reversed the outcome of its Nov. 29 meeting with Minnesota. The Timberwolves overcame a 14-point halftime deficit to beat the Nuggets 106-100 in that one, snapping their 15-game losing streak...“They definitely did not want to lose to us again on their home court,” said Minnesota’s Kevin Love, who had 20 points and 14 rebounds. “They came out and kind of put us out in that third quarter. We fell too far behind in the fourth and we just couldn’t pull it out.”...Corey Brewer had 25 points for the Timberwolves, who lost their fourth consecutive game on the road. Al Jefferson added 22 points and 15 rebounds.
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(By DOUG ALDEN From the Associated Press) - The Jazz had 28 assists for the second straight game and capitalized on Miami’s travel fatigue, beating the Heat 118-89 on Monday night...Williams had 23 points and 10 assists, Boozer finished with 25 points and 11 rebounds and Mehmet Okur added 13 points and tied his career high with five blocks for Utah, which has won three of four...Wesley Matthews added 18 points and Andrei Kirilenko had 15 points and three assists while starting for C.J. Miles, who was out with a viral infection. Ronnie Brewer had eight assists and Boozer added four...Michael Beasley scored 20 points for Miami and Dwyane Wade finished with 13 points and six assists despite spraining his right wrist late in the first quarter. Miami lost for the sixth time in eight games and fell to .500 for the first time in a month.
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(By JANIE McCAULEY From the Associated Press) - James had 37 points, 11 assists and eight rebounds and the Cleveland Cavaliers ran their winning streak against Golden State to four with a 117-114 victory Monday night...Shaquille O’Neal added 13 points and six rebounds and three Cleveland reserves scored in double digits as well in the Cavs’ fourth straight win at Oracle Arena...Ellis, trying to make a push for the Warriors’ first All-Star nod since Latrell Sprewell in 1997, scored 30 points to go with five assists and five steals, but missed 11 straight shots during a stretch spanning the second and third quarters. Corey Maggette added 32 points and seven rebounds for Golden State, which was denied its first three-game winning streak of the season.
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(By CLIFF BRUNT From the Associated Press) - Danny Granger provided the spark the Indiana Pacers had been missing. The forward scored 23 points, and the Pacers overcame a 23-point deficit to beat the Toronto Raptors 105-101 on Monday night...Troy Murphy had 20 points and 16 rebounds, A.J. Price scored 16 points and Mike Dunleavy added 15 for the Pacers, who had lost two straight. Chris Bosh had 27 points and 10 rebounds, and Andrea Bargnani( added 12 points and 17 rebounds for the Raptors, who played their third game in four days. “We were fatigued, maybe,” Triano said. “Didn’t have our legs. I’ve never seen us miss that many free throws. But our guys played as hard as they could in a back-to-back, the way that they battled, and we didn’t have it.”
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(From the Associated Press) - Andre Iguodala and Elton Brand scored 18 points each, Allen Iverson added 16 and the 76ers snapped a four-game home losing streak with a 96-92 victory over the New Orleans Hornets on Monday night...Thaddeus Young and Lou Williams added 12 points each and Samuel Dalembert had six points, 14 rebounds and five blocks for the Sixers, who had lost nine of 10 at home...Emeka Okafor had 20 points and 11 rebounds, David West added 13 points and 13 rebounds and Chris Paul had 13 points and 14 assists for the Hornets, whose season-best six-game winning streak was snapped.
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(By JIMMY GOLEN From the Associated Press) - Hours after scratching Rasheed Wallace from the lineup, Celtics coach Doc Rivers did a fair impersonation of the volatile forward by drawing two quick technicals and an early exit. A third “T”—on soft-spoken assistant Armond Hill—handed the Hawks a four-point play and helped whittle away a 10-point deficit in a 102-96 victory Monday night...“In order to get to where we’re trying to go in this league, we’ve got to go through Orlando, Boston and Cleveland,” said Joe Johnson, who scored 36 points, including seven straight to erase a seven-point fourth-quarter deficit. “We’ve been pretty successful against Boston this year, but we’ve just got to try to get some wins down the stretch.” Al Horford had nine points and 12 rebounds for Atlanta, and Crawford scored the last six of the game. Mike Bibby had just five points and two assists in 18 minutes for the Hawks. Rajon Rondo had 26 points and seven assists for Boston.
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(By MURRAY EVANS From the Associated Press) - The Thunder limited New York to 38.2-percent shooting—more than 7 percent below its average—and behind Durant’s 30 points, they cruised to a 106-88 win over the Knicks on Monday night...Durant, who entered the game with a 28.7-point scoring average, had 15 in the first quarter as Oklahoma City (21-16) built a double-digit lead it kept for most of the rest of the game. Durant has scored 30 or more points in nine of his last 11 games. Nate Robinson led the Knicks with 19 points. New York (15-22) suffered its worst loss since falling by 22 points in the season opener at Miami. The Knicks gave up 100-plus points for just the fourth time since Dec. 6...Jonathan Bender scored 16 points for New York, while Wilson Chandler had 12 and David Lee added 11 points and 13 rebounds for his 20th double-double of the season. Lee had scored at least 20 points in three straight games and six of last seven for the Knicks.
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(From the Associated Press) - Luol Deng scored 27 points on 13-of-18 shooting and the Bulls handed the Detroit Pistons their 13th consecutive loss, 120-87 on Monday night. Detroit matched its longest skid since losing 13 straight to end the 1993-94 season...Derrick Rose finished with 22 points on 11-of-13 shooting for the Bulls, who shot 57.1 percent overall, including 70.6 percent in the third quarter. The Bulls had a season-high in points and their biggest margin of victory. Rookie Jonas Jerebko had 15 points and nine rebounds and Richard Hamilton added 17 points for the Pistons, who last won on Dec. 12, against Golden State. 
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(From the Associated Press) - Without its coach and star guard, Milwaukee seemed lost in the first half as the Bucks found themselves down by 24 points to Phoenix before battling back and falling just short in a 105-101 loss to the Suns on Monday night. It was the Bucks’ 22nd straight loss in Phoenix. Skiles was hospitalized shortly before the game for precautionary purposes due to an irregular heartbeat, the Bucks said. Skiles addressed the media just over an hour prior to tipoff, then was taken to a hospital...Hakim Warrick, who led Milwaukee with 21 points and 10 rebounds, called Skiles’ loss “a shock.”...Redd is out for the season after tearing his anterior cruciate ligament and medial collateral ligament in his left knee during the second period of Sunday night’s loss at the Los Angeles Lakers. Redd was standing on crutches outside the Bucks’ locker room before the game against the Suns, then left to return to Milwaukee...Steve Nash scored 30 points and had 11 assists to lead the suns, who haven’t lost at home to Milwaukee since Feb. 21, 1987...Amare Stoudemire had 23 points and 10 rebounds for the Suns...Luke Ridnour scored 17 points for Milwaukee. Rookie Brandon Jennings added 14 and Andrew Bogut had 13 points and 13 rebounds.
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(From the Associated Press) - Anthony scored 10 of his 24 points in the fourth quarter, including consecutive 3-pointers midway through the period to help quash any chance of another upset by Minnesota, and the Denver Nuggets beat the Timberwolves 105-94 on Monday night...“It was great to have him back,” said Chauncey Billups, who scored 18 points. “He got an opportunity to run around, shake off a little rust, get a little bit of rhythm. I thought he really caught the rhythm in the second half.”...Arron Afflalo added 15 points for Denver, which reversed the outcome of its Nov. 29 meeting with Minnesota. The Timberwolves overcame a 14-point halftime deficit to beat the Nuggets 106-100 in that one, snapping their 15-game losing streak...“They definitely did not want to lose to us again on their home court,” said Minnesota’s Kevin Love, who had 20 points and 14 rebounds. “They came out and kind of put us out in that third quarter. We fell too far behind in the fourth and we just couldn’t pull it out.”...Corey Brewer had 25 points for the Timberwolves, who lost their fourth consecutive game on the road. Al Jefferson added 22 points and 15 rebounds.
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(By DOUG ALDEN From the Associated Press) - The Jazz had 28 assists for the second straight game and capitalized on Miami’s travel fatigue, beating the Heat 118-89 on Monday night...Williams had 23 points and 10 assists, Boozer finished with 25 points and 11 rebounds and Mehmet Okur added 13 points and tied his career high with five blocks for Utah, which has won three of four...Wesley Matthews added 18 points and Andrei Kirilenko had 15 points and three assists while starting for C.J. Miles, who was out with a viral infection. Ronnie Brewer had eight assists and Boozer added four...Michael Beasley scored 20 points for Miami and Dwyane Wade finished with 13 points and six assists despite spraining his right wrist late in the first quarter. Miami lost for the sixth time in eight games and fell to .500 for the first time in a month.
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(By JANIE McCAULEY From the Associated Press) - James had 37 points, 11 assists and eight rebounds and the Cleveland Cavaliers ran their winning streak against Golden State to four with a 117-114 victory Monday night...Shaquille O’Neal added 13 points and six rebounds and three Cleveland reserves scored in double digits as well in the Cavs’ fourth straight win at Oracle Arena...Ellis, trying to make a push for the Warriors’ first All-Star nod since Latrell Sprewell in 1997, scored 30 points to go with five assists and five steals, but missed 11 straight shots during a stretch spanning the second and third quarters. Corey Maggette added 32 points and seven rebounds for Golden State, which was denied its first three-game winning streak of the season.
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