INDIANAPOLIS — Quenton Jackson scored 12 of his 25 points in the fourth quarter as the Indiana Pacers snapped a season-opening five-game losing streak with a 114-109 victory over the Golden State Warriors on Saturday night.
Aaron Nesmith scored 31 and Pascal Siakam added 27 for the Pacers.
Stephen Curry led the Warriors with 24 points. Jimmy Butler scored 20 points and Jonathan Kuminga 17 for Golden State.
After Indiana trailed by as many as 11 points in the fourth quarter, Jackson’s 3-pointer with 1:09 left gave the Pacers a 109-107 lead. Butler dunked to tie the score at 109-all, but he failed to convert a three-point play.
Siakam hit a 3-pointer that put the Pacers ahead 112-109 with 37 seconds left. After a Kuminga missed, Jackson hit a pull-up jumper with 5.2 seconds left that extended the lead to 114-109.
BOSTON — Kevin Durant scored 26 points in three quarters before resting the fourth, Amen Thompson added 17 points and nine rebounds, and the Houston Rockets beat the Boston Celtics 128-101 on Saturday night.
Alperen Sengun had 16 points, 10 rebounds and nine assists for the Rockets. Jabari Smith Jr. and Josh Okogie each scored 12 as Houston won its third straight following an 0-2 start to the season and ended Boston’s three-game win streak.
Baylor Scheierman led Boston with 17 points. Payton Pritchard had 14 points, Josh Minott finished with 10 points and six rebounds and Jaylen Brown had 12 points for Boston, sitting out the fourth one night after leading the Celtics with 32 points in a 109-108 win at Philadelphia on Friday night.
WASHINGTON — Paolo Banchero had 28 points and 11 rebounds as the Orlando Magic beat the Washington Wizards 125-94 on Saturday night.
Banchero shot 9 for 15 from the field and went 3 of 6 from 3-point range in 26 minutes for his fourth double-double.
Wendell Carder Jr. added 16 points and 12 rebounds, and Franz Wagner scored 25 points as the Magic won consecutive games after an early season four-game skid.
Orlando outrebounded Washington 53-40 — a margin that narrowed late — and held an opponent under 100 points for the first time this season. The Magic are 2-2 on their five-game trip and 3-4 overall.
Keyshawn George scored 17 points and CJ McCollum added 13 as the Wizards lost their fourth straight overall and third straight at home. Washington has dropped 11 consecutive games against the Magic.
TIMBERWOLVES 122, HORNETS 105
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Julius Randle scored 30 points to lead the Minnesota Timberwolves past the Charlotte Hornets 122-105 on Saturday night, their first victory since All-Star Anthony Edwards was sidelined with an injury.
Without Edwards, who has a right hamstring strain, Minnesota had lost home games to Denver and the Los Angeles Lakers.
Donte DiVincenzo and Naz Reid added 18 points each, Rudy Gobert had 14 points and 15 rebounds and Jaden McDaniels added 14 points for Minnesota.
Miles Bridges had 30 points and LaMelo Ball had 18 points, seven rebounds and eight assists to lead Charlotte, which has lost its last three games.
MILWAUKEE — Zach LaVine had 31 points, DeMar DeRozan scored 29, and the Sacramento Kings turned back a late rally to hold on for a 135-133 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks on Saturday.
The Bucks, who trailed 108-102 entering the final period, pulled within 133-132 on Miles Turner’s 3-pointer from the right corner with 51 seconds remaining.
DeRozan missed a pull-up jumper on the Kings’ next possession, but the Bucks failed to capitalize when Giannis Antetokounmpo turned it over with a poor pass with 19 seconds left.
Dennis Schroder hit two free throws with 14.8 seconds left to put the Kings up 135-132. A.J. Green missed a 3-pointer on the Bucks’ next possession. Green hit the first of two free throws with 1.1 seconds left, but the Bucks could not control the rebound.
Russell Westbrook scored on a put-back to put the Kings up 126-118, but Antetokounmpo scored the Bucks’ next 11 points, cutting the lead to 131-129 with a breakaway dunk.
Domantas Sabonis had 24 points and 13 rebounds and Schroder had 24 points for the Kings.
PISTONS 122, MAVERICKS 110
MEXICO CITY — Jalen Duren had 33 points and 10 rebounds, Cade Cunningham added 21 points with 18 assists and the Detroit Pistons pulled away in the fourth quarter to beat the Dallas Mavericks 122-110 in Mexico City on Saturday night.
Duncan Robinson added 18 points and Ausar Thompson had 15 for the Pistons, who won their second game in a row.
D’Angelo Russell came off the bench to score 31 points while first overall pick Cooper Flagg scored a season high 16 points on 3-for-14 shooting for the Mavericks.
The Mavericks led 93-87 after three quarters but were outscored 35-17 in the fourth.
Dallas played without forward Anthony Davis, who is expected to miss two games with left leg injury sustained on Wednesday against Indiana.
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