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By GEORGE HENRY From the Associated Press) - Johnson scored 24 points, Jamal Crawford added 22 and the Atlanta Hawks won their third straight with a sluggish 94-82 victory over Washington on Wednesday night. Despite 25 points and a season-high 19 rebounds from Antawn Jamison, the Wizards lost their third straight and seventh in their last nine as the team tries to play through problems related to Gilbert Arenas’ suspension...The Hawks, winners of three straight and four of five, led by as many as 22 points on Al Horford’s free throw late in the second, but Washington pulled within two when Jamison’s turnaround jumper made it 66-64 with 11:41 remaining...Randy Foye finished with 18 points, and Caron Butler added 15 for Washington...Marvin Williams scored 16 points for Atlanta, and Josh Smith had 10 points and 11 rebounds.
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By CLIFF BRUNT From the Associated Press) - Danny Granger scored 33 points, Mike Dunleavy added a season-high 30 and the Pacers overcame a 24-point deficit to beat the Phoenix Suns 122-114 on Wednesday night...Granger and Dunleavy both have been prolific scorers in recent years, but it was the first time both scored more than 30 points in a game since Dunleavy was traded to Indiana in January of 2007...Earl Watson added 14 points and nine assists for the Pacers, who won their fourth straight home game. Amare Stoudemire led the Suns with 21 points. Steve Nash had 20 points and nine assists, despite missing more than a quarter with a busted lip. Nash got seven stitches after taking an elbow from Indiana’s Earl Watson late in the first quarter, but he returned for the second half...“We let them get the momentum, and we couldn’t stop the bleeding,” he said. “They got their confidence up, and for some reason, our level of play drops. We gave up too many points in the third and fourth quarters. Can’t expect to win too many games that way.”
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From the Associated Press) - Lee scored 24 points and hit the game-winning layup with 13.3 seconds remaining, one day after the death of his grandfather, and the New York Knicks salvaged the finale of a three-game trip with a 93-92 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers on Wednesday night...Wilson Chandler added 18 points, Al Harrington scored 17, Jared Jeffries had 15 and Danilo Gallinari 12 for the Knicks (16-22), who snapped a two-game losing streak. The Knicks also ended a nine-game skid in Philadelphia, dating to Dec. 17, 2004...Allen Iverson scored 16 points, Rodney Carney added 13 and Samuel Dalembert had 12 and a season-high 21 rebounds for the Sixers (12-26), who had won two straight and their previous six meetings with New York...Thaddeus Young also chipped in with 11 points for the Sixers, and Marreese Speights had 10 in the final 8:40, his only playing time all night.
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By BRIAN MAHONEY From the Associated Press) - Pierce scored 24 points in 28 minutes and the Celtics quickly turned a mismatch on paper into just that on the court, beating the New Jersey Nets 111-87 on Wednesday night. Allen added 15 points and Rajon Rondo had 11 points and 14 assists for the Celtics, who are playing without All-Star Garnett (right knee) and reserve Rasheed Wallace (sore left foot), but didn’t need them in a matchup of one of the NBA’s top teams and by far its worst...Yi Jianlian scored 19 points and Brook Lopez had 18 points and 10 rebounds for the Nets, who lost their sixth straight and were as far away from the Celtics on the court as they are in the standings...The Celtics already had 20 points by the midway point of the first quarter and went nearly five minutes between their first and second missed shots, both by Brian Scalabrine, who is starting for Garnett. Boston didn’t have a player other than Scalabrine miss until Glen Davis was off on a layup with 2:35 left in the period.
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By JEFF LATZKE From the Associated Press) - Blair set new career highs with 28 points and 21 rebounds, and Richard Jefferson(notes) hit the game-winning jumper in overtime to lift the San Antonio Spurs to a 109-108 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Wednesday night...“Both teams really busted their noodles out there tonight, and the ball bounced our way down the stretch, very honestly,” Popovich said. “It just did. It bounced our way and then we made a shot.” Hill had 16 points and Jefferson and McDyess scored 13 apiece. Kevin Durant(notes) scored 35 points and Westbrook had 25 points and 13 assists for the Thunder. Jeff Green(notes) added 16 points and 10 rebounds.
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By BRETT MARTEL From the Associated Press) - Paul had 15 points and 15 assists, and the Hornets won for the seventh time in eight games, 108-94 over the Los Angeles Clippers on Wednesday night. Stojakovic, hitting at least four 3-pointers in a game for the ninth time this season, scored 20 points to help New Orleans beat the Clippers a 12th consecutive time...Working that pick-and-roll with Paul was Emeka Okafor, who scored 21 points, mostly inside with seven points coming at the foul line. West and Marcus Thornton each scored 11 for the Hornets, who led by as much as 21 en route to their 13th win in their last 14 home games...Baron Davis scored 19 points, and Brian Skinner added 14 for Los Angeles, which has lost two straight following a four-game winning streak...The bigger loss for the Clippers came off the court as the club announced top draft pick Blake Griffin, who had yet to play in the regular season, needs season-ending surgery on his broken left kneecap...The Hornets had six players score in double figures, including Devin Brown with 10 despite going 0 for 7 from 3-point range. Al Thornton scored 12 for Los Angeles and Eric Gordon 11.
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By JAIME ARON From the Associated Press) - Kobe Bryant dealt with an aggravated back injury like any multimillionaire, superstar athlete would—he called his longtime massage therapist in Santa Monica, got him on a red-eye flight to Texas, then spent more than three hours Wednesday morning going through a deep-tissue treatment...Yet Bryant somehow went from stiff to loose after halftime, playing the entire second half to avoid from tightening up again on the bench, and added to his lengthy list of dramatic finishes by making the go-ahead basket with 28 seconds left, sending the Los Angeles Lakers to a 100-95 victory over the Dallas Mavericks on Wednesday night in a matchup of the top two teams in the Western Conference...This proved to be a historic night for both clubs: The Lakers became the first NBA team to win 3,000 games and Dallas’ Dirk Nowitzki became the 34th player in league history to score 20,000 points. Nowitzki scored 15 of his 30 points, including the milestone 14-foot jumper from the left baseline, during the fourth quarter. He closed an 8-0 run with a 3-pointer that tied the game at 95 with 42.5 seconds left. All that did was set up Bryant. He dribbled to the right side of the foul line, leaned left toward the lane, then spun back around to his right for a jumper over Josh Howard that swished through. It was Bryant’s only basket in four attempts in the fourth quarter. He finished 5 of 11 for 10 points...Bynum had 22 points and 11 rebounds, Lamar Odom had 18 points and 14 rebounds, and Artest had 16 points and 11 rebounds as the Lakers ended a three-game road losing streak...Howard scored 18 in his first start since Nov. 11; he’d been coming off the bench in his last 14 outings since returning from injuries. Jason Kidd added 11 points and 11 assists for the Mavericks.
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By CHRIS DUNCAN From the Associated Press) - Aaron Brooks scored a career-high 43 points, Chuck Hayes grabbed a career-best 17 rebounds and the Rockets beat Minnesota 120-114 in triple overtime...Jefferson pulled down a franchise-record 26 rebounds and scored 26 points for the Timberwolves, playing the team’s first ever three-overtime game...The Rockets led most of the way, but Corey Brewer swished a half-court shot as the buzzer sounded in regulation to tie it at 89 and force an unexpected overtime period...Trevor Ariza scored 19 points and Shane Battier added 14 points and 12 rebounds for the Rockets, who beat the Timberwolves for the 10th straight time, but never struggled like this...Ryan Gomes scored 18 points, Wayne Ellington added 17 and Brewer scored 14 for Minnesota.
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From the Associated Press) - Howard ended up having one of his worst games of the season, and the Nuggets fed off their defensive effort, getting 27 points from Carmelo Anthony and 24 from Chauncey Billups in a 115-97 victory over Orlando on Wednesday night...Howard, who had 30 points and 16 rebounds in Orlando’s win at Sacramento on Tuesday, had 13 rebounds and three blocked shots but was held to 8 points...“They swarmed him and their big guys are very athletic,” said Matt Barnes, who had a season-high 28 points to lead Orlando. “He’s Superman, but when you swarm him with that many guys, it’s hard to get a shot off...JJ Redick, with 13 points, and Mickael Pietrus, with 12, were the only other Magic players in double figures...The Magic were playing without their leading scorer, Vince Carter (shoulder), for a third straight game and the second game of a back to back after winning at Sacramento the night before.
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By ANNE M. PETERSON From the Associated Press) - Roy scored 22 points before sitting much of the second half because of a tight right hamstring and the Portland Trail Blazers beat the Milwaukee Bucks 120-108 on Wednesday night. Roy, who has been working overtime for the injury-depleted Blazers, went to the locker room with a little more than six minutes left in the game for treatment. He did not return. Asked about his hamstring, he said “It’s seen better days.”...Ersan Ilyasova(notes) scored 24 points for Milwaukee, which has lost three straight after a three-game winning streak. The Bucks continue to adjust to the prospect of Michael Redd(notes) being sidelined for the rest of the season. Redd tore ligaments in his left knee for the second time in less than a year on Sunday night in the second quarter of Milwaukee’s 95-77 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers.
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By JOSH DUBOW From the Associated Press) - Wade shook off the injured wrist to score 35 points and the Miami Heat rolled past the Golden State Warriors, 115-102 on Wednesday night...Jermaine O’Neal added a season-high 24 points, including two big baskets late for the Heat, who had lost three of four games. Michael Beasley scored 14 of his 19 points in the first half to help Miami break out to the early lead. Corey Maggette scored 25 points to lead the Warriors, Anthony Morrow added 24 and Monta Ellis had 17. Golden State has lost five of seven and fell to 1-2 on a season-long seven-game homestand...While Maggette and Ellis combined for 42 points, the other three starters— Vladimir Radmanovic, Stephen Curry and Andris Biedrins—finished with 15 points on 6-for-20 shooting. “I don’t know what the reason behind our sluggish start was,” Curry said. “I thought we finished the game against the Cavs very well so I thought we had some good momentum but they came out, got on us early and took us out of it.”
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(By GEORGE HENRY From the Associated Press) - Johnson scored 24 points, Jamal Crawford added 22 and the Atlanta Hawks won their third straight with a sluggish 94-82 victory over Washington on Wednesday night. Despite 25 points and a season-high 19 rebounds from Antawn Jamison, the Wizards lost their third straight and seventh in their last nine as the team tries to play through problems related to Gilbert Arenas’ suspension...The Hawks, winners of three straight and four of five, led by as many as 22 points on Al Horford’s free throw late in the second, but Washington pulled within two when Jamison’s turnaround jumper made it 66-64 with 11:41 remaining...Randy Foye finished with 18 points, and Caron Butler added 15 for Washington...Marvin Williams scored 16 points for Atlanta, and Josh Smith had 10 points and 11 rebounds.
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(By CLIFF BRUNT From the Associated Press) - Danny Granger scored 33 points, Mike Dunleavy added a season-high 30 and the Pacers overcame a 24-point deficit to beat the Phoenix Suns 122-114 on Wednesday night...Granger and Dunleavy both have been prolific scorers in recent years, but it was the first time both scored more than 30 points in a game since Dunleavy was traded to Indiana in January of 2007...Earl Watson added 14 points and nine assists for the Pacers, who won their fourth straight home game. Amare Stoudemire led the Suns with 21 points. Steve Nash had 20 points and nine assists, despite missing more than a quarter with a busted lip. Nash got seven stitches after taking an elbow from Indiana’s Earl Watson late in the first quarter, but he returned for the second half...“We let them get the momentum, and we couldn’t stop the bleeding,” he said. “They got their confidence up, and for some reason, our level of play drops. We gave up too many points in the third and fourth quarters. Can’t expect to win too many games that way.”
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(From the Associated Press) - Lee scored 24 points and hit the game-winning layup with 13.3 seconds remaining, one day after the death of his grandfather, and the New York Knicks salvaged the finale of a three-game trip with a 93-92 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers on Wednesday night...Wilson Chandler added 18 points, Al Harrington scored 17, Jared Jeffries had 15 and Danilo Gallinari 12 for the Knicks (16-22), who snapped a two-game losing streak. The Knicks also ended a nine-game skid in Philadelphia, dating to Dec. 17, 2004...Allen Iverson scored 16 points, Rodney Carney added 13 and Samuel Dalembert had 12 and a season-high 21 rebounds for the Sixers (12-26), who had won two straight and their previous six meetings with New York...Thaddeus Young also chipped in with 11 points for the Sixers, and Marreese Speights had 10 in the final 8:40, his only playing time all night.
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(By BRIAN MAHONEY From the Associated Press) - Pierce scored 24 points in 28 minutes and the Celtics quickly turned a mismatch on paper into just that on the court, beating the New Jersey Nets 111-87 on Wednesday night. Allen added 15 points and Rajon Rondo had 11 points and 14 assists for the Celtics, who are playing without All-Star Garnett (right knee) and reserve Rasheed Wallace (sore left foot), but didn’t need them in a matchup of one of the NBA’s top teams and by far its worst...Yi Jianlian scored 19 points and Brook Lopez had 18 points and 10 rebounds for the Nets, who lost their sixth straight and were as far away from the Celtics on the court as they are in the standings...The Celtics already had 20 points by the midway point of the first quarter and went nearly five minutes between their first and second missed shots, both by Brian Scalabrine, who is starting for Garnett. Boston didn’t have a player other than Scalabrine miss until Glen Davis was off on a layup with 2:35 left in the period.
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(By JEFF LATZKE From the Associated Press) - Blair set new career highs with 28 points and 21 rebounds, and Richard Jefferson(notes) hit the game-winning jumper in overtime to lift the San Antonio Spurs to a 109-108 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Wednesday night...“Both teams really busted their noodles out there tonight, and the ball bounced our way down the stretch, very honestly,” Popovich said. “It just did. It bounced our way and then we made a shot.” Hill had 16 points and Jefferson and McDyess scored 13 apiece. Kevin Durant(notes) scored 35 points and Westbrook had 25 points and 13 assists for the Thunder. Jeff Green(notes) added 16 points and 10 rebounds.
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(By BRETT MARTEL From the Associated Press) - Paul had 15 points and 15 assists, and the Hornets won for the seventh time in eight games, 108-94 over the Los Angeles Clippers on Wednesday night. Stojakovic, hitting at least four 3-pointers in a game for the ninth time this season, scored 20 points to help New Orleans beat the Clippers a 12th consecutive time...Working that pick-and-roll with Paul was Emeka Okafor, who scored 21 points, mostly inside with seven points coming at the foul line. West and Marcus Thornton each scored 11 for the Hornets, who led by as much as 21 en route to their 13th win in their last 14 home games...Baron Davis scored 19 points, and Brian Skinner added 14 for Los Angeles, which has lost two straight following a four-game winning streak...The bigger loss for the Clippers came off the court as the club announced top draft pick Blake Griffin, who had yet to play in the regular season, needs season-ending surgery on his broken left kneecap...The Hornets had six players score in double figures, including Devin Brown with 10 despite going 0 for 7 from 3-point range. Al Thornton scored 12 for Los Angeles and Eric Gordon 11.
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(By JAIME ARON From the Associated Press) - Kobe Bryant dealt with an aggravated back injury like any multimillionaire, superstar athlete would—he called his longtime massage therapist in Santa Monica, got him on a red-eye flight to Texas, then spent more than three hours Wednesday morning going through a deep-tissue treatment...Yet Bryant somehow went from stiff to loose after halftime, playing the entire second half to avoid from tightening up again on the bench, and added to his lengthy list of dramatic finishes by making the go-ahead basket with 28 seconds left, sending the Los Angeles Lakers to a 100-95 victory over the Dallas Mavericks on Wednesday night in a matchup of the top two teams in the Western Conference...This proved to be a historic night for both clubs: The Lakers became the first NBA team to win 3,000 games and Dallas’ Dirk Nowitzki became the 34th player in league history to score 20,000 points. Nowitzki scored 15 of his 30 points, including the milestone 14-foot jumper from the left baseline, during the fourth quarter. He closed an 8-0 run with a 3-pointer that tied the game at 95 with 42.5 seconds left. All that did was set up Bryant. He dribbled to the right side of the foul line, leaned left toward the lane, then spun back around to his right for a jumper over Josh Howard that swished through. It was Bryant’s only basket in four attempts in the fourth quarter. He finished 5 of 11 for 10 points...Bynum had 22 points and 11 rebounds, Lamar Odom had 18 points and 14 rebounds, and Artest had 16 points and 11 rebounds as the Lakers ended a three-game road losing streak...Howard scored 18 in his first start since Nov. 11; he’d been coming off the bench in his last 14 outings since returning from injuries. Jason Kidd added 11 points and 11 assists for the Mavericks.
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(By CHRIS DUNCAN From the Associated Press) - Aaron Brooks scored a career-high 43 points, Chuck Hayes grabbed a career-best 17 rebounds and the Rockets beat Minnesota 120-114 in triple overtime...Jefferson pulled down a franchise-record 26 rebounds and scored 26 points for the Timberwolves, playing the team’s first ever three-overtime game...The Rockets led most of the way, but Corey Brewer swished a half-court shot as the buzzer sounded in regulation to tie it at 89 and force an unexpected overtime period...Trevor Ariza scored 19 points and Shane Battier added 14 points and 12 rebounds for the Rockets, who beat the Timberwolves for the 10th straight time, but never struggled like this...Ryan Gomes scored 18 points, Wayne Ellington added 17 and Brewer scored 14 for Minnesota.
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(From the Associated Press) - Howard ended up having one of his worst games of the season, and the Nuggets fed off their defensive effort, getting 27 points from Carmelo Anthony and 24 from Chauncey Billups in a 115-97 victory over Orlando on Wednesday night...Howard, who had 30 points and 16 rebounds in Orlando’s win at Sacramento on Tuesday, had 13 rebounds and three blocked shots but was held to 8 points...“They swarmed him and their big guys are very athletic,” said Matt Barnes, who had a season-high 28 points to lead Orlando. “He’s Superman, but when you swarm him with that many guys, it’s hard to get a shot off...JJ Redick, with 13 points, and Mickael Pietrus, with 12, were the only other Magic players in double figures...The Magic were playing without their leading scorer, Vince Carter (shoulder), for a third straight game and the second game of a back to back after winning at Sacramento the night before.
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(By ANNE M. PETERSON From the Associated Press) - Roy scored 22 points before sitting much of the second half because of a tight right hamstring and the Portland Trail Blazers beat the Milwaukee Bucks 120-108 on Wednesday night. Roy, who has been working overtime for the injury-depleted Blazers, went to the locker room with a little more than six minutes left in the game for treatment. He did not return. Asked about his hamstring, he said “It’s seen better days.”...Ersan Ilyasova(notes) scored 24 points for Milwaukee, which has lost three straight after a three-game winning streak. The Bucks continue to adjust to the prospect of Michael Redd(notes) being sidelined for the rest of the season. Redd tore ligaments in his left knee for the second time in less than a year on Sunday night in the second quarter of Milwaukee’s 95-77 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers.
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(By JOSH DUBOW From the Associated Press) - Wade shook off the injured wrist to score 35 points and the Miami Heat rolled past the Golden State Warriors, 115-102 on Wednesday night...Jermaine O’Neal added a season-high 24 points, including two big baskets late for the Heat, who had lost three of four games. Michael Beasley scored 14 of his 19 points in the first half to help Miami break out to the early lead. Corey Maggette scored 25 points to lead the Warriors, Anthony Morrow added 24 and Monta Ellis had 17. Golden State has lost five of seven and fell to 1-2 on a season-long seven-game homestand...While Maggette and Ellis combined for 42 points, the other three starters— Vladimir Radmanovic, Stephen Curry and Andris Biedrins—finished with 15 points on 6-for-20 shooting. “I don’t know what the reason behind our sluggish start was,” Curry said. “I thought we finished the game against the Cavs very well so I thought we had some good momentum but they came out, got on us early and took us out of it.”
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