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MIAMI — Andrew Wiggins made an alley-oop dunk at the buzzer in overtime, and the Miami Heat beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 140-138 in a wild back-and-forth game Monday night.
Norman Powell scored 33 points, Jaime Jaquez Jr. had 22 points, 13 rebounds and seven assists off the bench for the Heat. Wiggins scored 23 for Miami, which got a 14-point, 20-rebound game from Kel’el Ware.
Donovan Mitchell had 28 points, 15 rebounds and eight assists for Cleveland, including a 3-pointer to tie the game with 0.4 seconds left in overtime — before Wiggins caught a pass from Nikola Jovic for the game-winner.
LAKERS 121, HORNETS 111
Luka Doncic had 38 points, Rui Hachimura scored 13 of his 21 points in a pivotal third quarter and Los Angeles pulled away in the second half to beat Charlotte.
Austin Reaves added 24 points for the Lakers, who have won six of their past seven games.
Miles Bridges had 34 points on seven 3-pointers and rookie Kon Knueppel flirted with his first career triple-double before finishing with 19 points, 10 rebounds and nine assists for the Hornets, who continued to struggle without their top two scorers in LaMelo Ball and Brandon Miller.
MAGIC 115, TRAIL BLAZERS 112
Desmond Bane hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer to give Orlando a win over Portland.
Bane’s basket from 27 feet capped a wild finish in which the Trail Blazers overcame a nine-point deficit only to see their comeback nullified as the buzzer sounded. Shaedon Sharpe scored 31 points for Portland. Devi Avdija added 27 points, including a couple of 3-pointers during an 11-0 Portland run in the final two minutes.
PISTONS 137, WIZARDS 135, OT
Cade Cunningham scored 46 points on a whopping 45 shots, Daniss Jenkins made the tying 3-pointer to force overtime and Detroit rallied to beat Washington.
Cunningham finished with 12 rebounds, 11 assists and five steals, helping will the Eastern Conference-leading Pistons to their seventh straight victory on a night he shot just 14 for 45, by far the most field goal attempts in the NBA this season.CJ McCollum scored a season-high 42 points for the last-place Wizards, but he missed twice in the closing seconds as they lost their ninth straight and fell to 1-10.
SPURS 121, BULLS 117
Victor Wembanyama scored 18 of his 38 points in the fourth quarter, and San Antonio beat Chicago for its third consecutive win.
Wembanyama also grabbed 12 rebounds and blocked five shots. The seven-foot-four centre made six 3-pointers and went 11 for 19 from the field in San Antonio’s first win at Chicago since March 17, 2021.
He became the first player in NBA history with at least 35 points, 10 rebounds, five assists, five blocked shots and five 3-pointers in a game.
BUCKS 116, MAVERICKS 114
Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 15 of his 30 points in the fourth quarter and Ryan Rollins put Milwaukee ahead for good with a driving layup with 17.9 seconds left as the Bucks rallied from a 13-point deficit early in the period to beat Dallas.
Kyle Kuzma added a season-high 26 points off the bench for the Bucks, closing with a dunk with 14 seconds left after stealing a Dallas inbound pass when intended recipient Cooper Flagg slipped just beyond the 3-point line.
TIMBERWOLVES 120, JAZZ 113
Anthony Edwards had 35 points and six assists as Minnesota beat Utah for the second time in four days. Edwards posted his ninth straight game of 30 or more points, marking the longest stretch of 30-point games against the Jazz for any NBA player.
SUNS 121, PELICANS 98
Grayson Allen made a franchise-record 10 3-pointers and scored a career-high 42 points, leading Phoenix to a victory over New Orleans.
Allen was 12 for 17 from the field and 10 for 15 from 3-point range to break the record he shared after making nine 3-pointers three previous times. He was 5 for 5 in the third quarter, when he scored 17 points. —AP.
