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vs(From the Associated Press) - LeBron James’ only moves in the fourth quarter were in a playful dance-off with one of the arena’s ushers. After a string of nail-biters, the Cleveland Cavaliers finally enjoyed a blowout. J.J. Hickson scored a career-high 23, James added 11 assists before resting the last 12 minutes and the Cavs finally won comfortably following two weeks of tense-and-tight games, beating the Minnesota Timberwolves 109-95 on Wednesday night for their sixth straight victory...Emerging as an interior option for Cleveland, Hickson was active near the basket and went 8 of 10 from the field and made all 7 free throws in 25 minutes. Leading by 19 points after three, Cavs coach Mike Brown had the luxury of sitting James, Hickson and Shaquille O’Neal for the fourth...James added 12 points and six rebounds in 31 minutes. Corey Brewer scored 22 and Kevin Love 20 for the Timberwolves, who lacked the firepower to trade baskets with the NBA’s best team...O’Neal added 13 points and four assists in just 19 minutes and Jamario Moon added a season-high 14 points.

vs(From the Associated Press) - Andrew Bynum played as though he was making a final statement ahead of Thursday’s All-Star reserves announcement. The center scored a season-high 27 points and grabbed 12 rebounds to help the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Indiana Pacers 118-96 on Wednesday night...Lakers forward Pau Gasol said Bynum should be on the team. The coaches choose the reserves...Bynum scored 22 points in the first half. Kobe Bryant took over in the second half and finished with a game-high 29 points to go with nine rebounds and seven assists...Gasol had 21 points and 13 rebounds and Lamar Odom added 12 points and 14 rebounds for the Lakers, who outrebounded the Pacers 62-42 and set a season rebounding high. Roy Hibbert scored 21 points, Troy Murphy scored 18, Granger had 14 and Brandon Rush added 13 points and 11 rebounds for Indiana.

vs(From the Associated Press) - Chris Bosh and the Toronto Raptors showed no signs of a letdown after Sunday’s big win against the Los Angeles Lakers.
Bosh had 24 points and a season-high 18 rebounds, Andrea Bargnani scored 27 points and the Raptors beat the Miami Heat 111-103 on Wednesday night...Amir Johnson and Marco Belinelli each scored 11 points for Toronto, with Sonny Weems adding 10 in his first career start. The Raptors, who beat the Lakers 106-105 on Sunday, won for the 10th time in 11 home games and moved past Miami into fifth place in the Eastern Conference...Dwyane Wade had 35 points and 10 assists and former Raptors center Jermaine O’Neal scored 22 for Miami, which lost Michael Beasley to a right knee injury...Toronto led 100-91 with 4:11 left but Wade made a layup and Rafer Alston followed with a 3-pointer, cutting it to 100-96 with 3:22 remaining. Calderon and Bosh scored for Toronto but a pair of free throws by Udonis Haslem and a three-point play by O’Neal made it 104-101 with 2:00 left. Hedo Turkoglu made two free throws and Wade had a breakaway layup but Toronto put it away when Jose Calderon made one of two from the line, then found Antoine Wright in the corner for a 3-pointer with 15 seconds left, making it 110-103...Haslem had 16 points and 11 rebounds and Alston scored 10 points as Miami lost its second straight.

vs(From the Associated Press) - The crowd was on its feet and clapping. The players were standing near midcourt, happily waiting for the final buzzer to sound...Kris Humphries scored a career-high 25 points and the Nets avoided the worst 44-game start in NBA history with a 103-87 victory over the Clippers on Wednesday night, snapping an 11-game losing streak...“Did we need this?” center Brook Lopez said after chipping in 19 points and nine rebounds. “Are you kidding me? I mean we were 3-40. That’s not a tough question to answer.”...“I know I definitely needed it, especially coming off the last road trip which I said was the worst of my life,” said veteran guard Keyon Dooling, who scored 10 of 18 points in the fourth quarter. “I still believe that. We responded well.” Chris Kaman had 24 points and 11 rebounds for the Clippers. Craig Smith added 18 points and eight rebounds. “Words can’t even describe this,” said veteran Clippers guard Baron Davis, who was limited to six points in 29 minutes, with only two coming in the fourth quarter...“Getting the win is more important,” Humphries said, downplaying his point total. “Nobody remembers who averaged what on a bad team. It’s just about winning. It doesn’t mean anything to put up numbers on a bad team.” New Jersey led 71-64 entering the fourth quarter and they never let the Clippers get closer than 73-70 on a 3-pointer by Rasual Butler (14 points).


vs(From the Associated Press) - Marc Gasol scored the game’s final eight points and the Pistons missed their final eight shots as the Grizzlies posted a 99-93 victory Wednesday night...Gasol added 12 rebounds while Zach Randolph had 24 points and 13 rebounds for Memphis, which won its third straight. All five Grizzlies starters scored at least 14 points. “This is pretty much how it has been all year,” said O.J. Mayo, who finished with 16 points. “We’re pretty stable with our starting five, because that’s who we are going with down the stretch. Tonight was a prime example of executing at the end of the game.” Rodney Stuckey led Detroit with 17 points and 11 assists and Richard Hamilton added 16 points and 10 assists. The Pistons have lost three straight...“We played almost 48 minutes tonight, so I’m pleased,” said Pistons coach John Kuester, who had been critical of his team’s effort in a lopsided loss to Indiana last week. “We competed. It’s a shame to lose this game.”



vs(From the Associated Press) - Brandon Jennings scored 18 points, hitting a 12-footer with 22 seconds left, and the Bucks held on for a 91-88 win on Wednesday night after the Sixers missed three shots to tie in the final 11 seconds...Milwaukee snapped a six-game skid against the Sixers, but needed Elton Brand to miss a short layup and a 17-foot fadeaway in the final seconds. “I missed the chippie. So, I’m thinking, ‘OK. I got it back.’ Could have gotten a better shot, but the shot clock and everything, I thought I could just knock it down,” said Brand, who scored a season-high 26 points and added 10 rebounds. “I was making everything. So, I was pretty confident in that (second) shot.” Then, after Luke Ridnour failed to hit a second free throw that would’ve given Milwaukee a four-point lead with 2.2 seconds left, Andre Iguodala clanked a 27-foot 3-point attempt at the buzzer to end it. “Well executed plays. We just didn’t make a shot,” Sixers coach Eddie Jordan said. None of them fell as Milwaukee improved to 5-0 at home since Jan. 1 and bounced back from a 108-107 loss in Dallas on Tuesday night. Milwaukee is 4-10 in games decided by three points or less. “Hopefully the basketball gods even it out and toward the end of the year we’ll start getting some more to go our way,” said Charlie Bell, who finished with 18 points.

vs(From the Associated Press) - Joakim Noah considers Derrick Rose the biggest reason the Chicago Bulls have made a sudden rise back to .500. But even Rose himself didn’t see it coming, especially at the expense of four Western Conference teams with winning records. Rose scored 26 points, Noah added 13 points and 11 rebounds and the Bulls held the Oklahoma City without a field goal for the first eight minutes of the fourth quarter on their way to a 96-86 victory on Wednesday night...Luol Deng had 17 points, Brad Miller scored 14 and Tyrus Thomas had 13 points for the Bulls. Taj Gibson had 15 rebounds as Chicago—the NBA’s top rebounding team—held a 53-40 advantage on the boards...Kevin Durant ended a run of 16 straight missed shots for Oklahoma City with a 16-footer from the right baseline with 3:59 to play. He finished with 28 points and 11 rebounds and Jeff Green added 24 points and nine rebounds. The Thunder lost their third straight game, matching their longest skid of the season. Their previous four losses had been by a total of five points. “You win some and you lose some. It’s only a three-game losing streak,” Green said. “It ain’t like we’ve lost 11 in a row. We can rebound from this.”

vs(From the Associated Press) - Plenty of reason to feel good about that, but the Spurs could hardly celebrate because on the way to beating the Atlanta Hawks 105-90 on Wednesday night, Tony Parker sprained his left ankle and it’s uncertain how long he’ll be out...“We’re going to have to adjust to it,” said Tim Duncan, who grabbed a career-high 27 rebounds and scored 21 points. “We’re trying to get something going here and then we lose Tony. We’ll find a way to get it done.”...“I thought we made a statement from the start,” said Spurs forward Antonio McDyess, who scored 17. “We let ourselves down and we had given games away, just beaten ourselves. But tonight we came out and made a statement.” Joe Johnson scored 31 and Jamal Crawford had 25 points for the Hawks, whose winning streak ended at three games. Josh Smith had 14 points and 16 rebounds. “They had been struggling of late,” Johnson said. “They needed to get (a win) desperately and they came out and acted like it tonight.”...George Hill scored 16 points as all Spurs starters were in double figures. That includes Parker, who had 10 points and eight assists before being helped off the court.

vs(From the Associated Press) - The Denver Nuggets are learning how to win without Carmelo Anthony. J.R. Smith scored 22 points, Kenyon Martin added 12 points and 15 rebounds and the Nuggets extended their winning streak to eight games with a 97-92 win over the Houston Rockets on Wednesday night...Chauncey Billups scored 21 points, Nene added 18 and Denver went 29 for 39 from the free throw line to win in Houston for just the fourth time in 16 trips. Martin has 12 double-doubles in his last 16 games, another reason why the Nuggets have surged while Anthony has been in and out of the lineup this month...Aaron Brooks scored 22 points and Luis Scola added 20 for the Rockets, who’ve lost four of their last five home games...Brooks sank a 3-pointer with 1:18 left, and Billups was whistled for an offensive foul with 58.7 seconds to go. But Scola missed a mid-range jumper, Martin rebounded and the fans started making another early exit. The Rockets lost for the eighth time in 12 games, despite a dominating start.

vs(From the Associated Press) - Playing at a place where they had lost six straight games, Deron Williams and the Utah Jazz looked as if they were right at home in the Rose Garden. Williams scored 24 points and the Jazz scored 21 of the first 23 points and went to beat the Portland Trail Blazers 106-95 on Wednesday night...Utah shot 60.3 percent from the field, hitting 38 of 63 shots. Portland shot 36.3 percent (33 of 91). Kyle Korver hit four 3-pointers and scored 16 points for Utah and Ronnie Millsap had 15 points and 11 rebounds for the Jazz. Portland’s LaMarcus Aldridge scored 14 of his game-high 25 points during the second half. Nicolas Batum scored 16 points, all in the first half...“There wasn’t much defense. They just dominated that quarter,” Portland coach Nate McMillan said. “They just attacked us and we had no answer for that. Offensively, we missed our shots and I thought that probably affected us on the defensive end.”...Utah took an 85-75 lead into the fourth quarter, but 6-0 run by Portland chopped the Jazz advantage in half at 89-84. “We got off to a good start, but usually the law of averages will catch up with you and you expect them to come back. Fortunately, we were able to weather that,” Utah coach Jerry Sloan said. Utah responded with back-to-back jumpers by Williams and Millsap to regain a double-digit lead and were never threatened again.

vs(From the Associated Press) - Chris Paul scored 38 points to lead five New Orleans starters in double figures and the Hornets beat the Golden State Warriors 123-110 on Wednesday night for their fourth win in five games...Paul shot 14 for 19 from the field, made all nine of his free-throw tries, dished out nine assists, grabbed six rebounds and made three steals. Marcus Thornton added 18 points, David West 17 points and 12 rebounds and Emeka Okafor had 12 points and 12 boards for the Hornets, who are 11-4 in January and won three of four on this road trip. They fell behind 11-0 against Golden State before getting back in the game. “This was a big trip for us. We won in some tough venues,” Paul said. “Everyone knows the road has been our Achilles’ heel so far. “ Monta Ellis returned for Golden State after missing the past two games with a sprained right ankle and had 19 points, nine assists and six rebounds—but also five turnovers. He had been averaging 30.7 points over his previous 16 outings...Stephen Curry had 15 points, eight assists and five rebounds and C.J. Watson scored 17 of his season-high 23 points in the first half for the Warriors, who looked sluggish for much of the night playing the second game of a back-to-back. Many of the 16,308 fans in attendance started making for the exits midway through the fourth quarter. Corey Maggette scored 14 a night after he was both whistled for a costly technical in the waning seconds and yelled and pointed angrily at Nelson in the Warriors’ 99-96 loss at Sacramento. Maggette struggled mightily Tuesday, missing his first 15 shots before making a jumper in the fourth quarter. He shot 3 of 22 overall.