Cavaliers Win in OT, Knicks Roll
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SPORTS SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 2015 LOS ANGELES: Tarik Black (right) of the Los Angeles Lakers blocks a shot by Andrea Bargnani of the New York Knicks at Staples Center. — AFP Cavaliers win in OT, Knicks roll SAN ANTONIO: Kyrie Irving had a career-high 57 points as the Teammate Gordon Hayward finished with 29 points, seven of a back-to-back. The Grizzlies also held out key reserve Tony Cleveland Cavaliers rallied for a 128-125 overtime victory over the assists and four rebounds. Rookie Rodney Hood put up a career Allen. San Antonio Spurs in the NBA on Thursday. high for the second consecutive game with 20 points. Corey Gortat finished with 22 points for Washington. Stokes and Irving had the most points in the NBA this season, topping his Brewer led the Rockets with 25 points, and James Harden had 15. JaMychal Green had 13 apiece for the Grizzlies, who wrapped up 55-point game against Cleveland on Jan. 28. He scored nine a 1-3 trip. points in the final minute of regulation to force overtime. WIZARDS 107, GRIZZLIES Irving hit a 3-pointer in the face of heavy defense from John Wall had 21 points, seven rebounds and six assists to lead PACERS 109, BUCKS 103 Danny Green to pull Cleveland to 110-107 with 31 seconds Washington past short-handed Memphis. The game got chippy Rodney Stuckey scored 25 points and Luis Scola had 17 points remaining in regulation. After the Spurs’ Kawhi Leonard missed late in the third quarter, when Washington’s Kevin Seraphin was and 15 rebounds to help Indiana beat Milwaukee. Stuckey also two free throws with 4.3 seconds left, Irving made another 3 this called for a flagrant foul and ejected for knocking Jon Leuer to the had six rebounds and six assists. time over Leonard - to tie it at 110. court as he dunked. Earlier, Seraphin got tangled on the floor with David West’s jumper with 2:45 remaining in regulation gave Irving made all seven of his 3-point attempts, was 20 of 32 Jarnell Stokes following another bit of grabbing between Stokes Indiana a five-point lead at 96-91, but Milwaukee’s Ersan Illyasova from the field overall, and made 10 free throws without a miss. and Washington’s Marcin Gortat. scored five points in the final 2 minutes to send it to overtime. LeBron James added 31 points in his first game in San Antonio Memphis sat three starters: the injured Mike Conley, and Marc Michael Carter-Williams led the Bucks with 28 points. Illyasova since being blown out in five games by the Spurs in the NBA Gasol and Zach Randolph, who were resting on the second night had 19 points and 10 rebounds. — AP Finals in his last games with the Miami Heat. Tony Parker had 31 points for San Antonio and Leonard added 24 points. Irving scored 11 points in overtime, including a NBA results/standings crossover, fade away 3 pointer against Boris Diaw with 1:20 remaining to give Cleveland a 122-118 lead. James was 10 for 20 Indiana 109, Milwaukee 103 (OT); Washington 107, Memphis 87; Utah 109, Houston 91; Cleveland 128, San Antonio 125 (OT); NY from the floor in a physical battle with Leonard, but his struggles Knicks 101, LA Lakers 94. were lessened by Irving’s wild night. Eastern Conference Western Conference KNICKS 101, LAKERS 94 Atlantic Division Northwest Division Tim Hardaway Jr. scored 22 points and Andrea Bargnani added W L PCT GB Portland 42 20 .677 - 16 as New York ended its five-game losing streak with just its fifth Toronto 38 26 .594 - Oklahoma City 35 29 .547 8 road victory of the season. Boston 27 36 .429 10.5 Utah 28 36 .438 15 Alexey Shved had 14 points and 11 rebounds as the Knicks Brooklyn 25 38 .397 12.5 Denver 24 41 .369 19.5 ended a seven-game road skid against the Lakers, winning for Philadelphia 14 50 .219 24 Minnesota 14 49 .222 28.5 coach Derek Fisher in the former Los Angeles point guard’s return NY Knicks 13 51 .203 25 Pacific Division to Staples Center. The NBA’s worst team (13-51) calmly main- Central Division Golden State 51 12 .810 - Cleveland 42 25 .627 - tained a lead down the stretch, sweeping the season series with LA Clippers 42 23 .646 10 Chicago 40 26 .606 1.5 Los Angeles and picking up its first road victory over a Western Phoenix 34 32 .515 18.5 Milwaukee 34 31 .523 7 Conference team all season. Jordan Hill had 19 points and 10 Sacramento 22 41 .349 29 rebounds for the Lakers. They have lost six of seven. Indiana 30 34 .469 10.5 Detroit 23 41 .359 17.5 LA Lakers 17 47 .266 34.5 Southwest Division JAZZ 109, ROCKETS 91 Southeast Division Rudy Gobert had 19 points, 22 rebounds and four blocks and Atlanta 50 14 .781 - Memphis 45 20 .692 - Utah beat Houston for its ninth victory in 11 games. The Jazz used Washington 37 28 .569 13.5 Houston 43 22 .662 2 their size to dominate the paint and ran away in the second half. Miami 29 35 .453 21 San Antonio 40 24 .625 4.5 Gobert put on a show as the Rockets didn’t have an answer for Charlotte 28 35 .444 21.5 Dallas 41 25 .621 4.5 the 7-foot-1 Frenchman on either end of the floor. He had a dou- Orlando 21 45 .318 30 New Orleans 36 29 .554 9 ble-double in the first quarter and 18 rebounds at halftime..