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Top NBA: Jrue Holiday Heroics Give Bucks Thrilling Win at Kings
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Jrue Holiday turned a short jumper into a three-point play with 1:32 to go, then added a driving hoop 33 seconds later Saturday night, allowing the visiting Milwaukee Bucks to stall a Sacramento Kings rally and pull out a 129-128 victory without Most Valuable Player candidate Giannis Antetokounmpo.
Jrue Holiday’s personal five-point flurry capped a season-best, 33-point night for the Bucks, who led 118-105 after a tip-in by Brook Lopez with 6:48 remaining.
But despite playing on the second night of a back-to-back, the Kings made an energetic late push, scoring the next 14 points to take a 119-118 lead on a Terence Davis 3-pointer with 2:06 to play.
That’s when Holiday saved the game for the Bucks, who improved to 3-1 without Antetokounmpo this season. He was given the night off to rest a sore left knee.
Top NBA: 76ers star C Joel Embiid returns from a knee injury
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Philadelphia 76ers star center Joel Embiid was cleared to return from a knee injury and play against the Minnesota Timberwolves on Saturday night.
76ers Star C Joel Embiid missed the previous 10 games after suffering a bone bruise in his left knee against the Washington Wizards on March 12.
Joel Embiid was injured when he fell awkwardly while dunking during the third quarter of a 127-101 victory.
Philadelphia 76ers Star C Joel Embiid coach Doc Rivers said prior to Saturday’s game that Embiid’s minutes would be monitored.
“It’s not really more minutes — it’s minutes in a row …” Rivers said. “I don’t expect him to play 35-40 minutes, but we’ll see.
“He looks great. He looks in great condition, so we’re all good.”
The 76ers went 7-3 without Joel Embiid, a four-time All-Star.
Embiid is averaging 29.9 points, 11.5 rebounds, and 3.3 assists in 31 games this season.
Top NBA: Utah Record-Breaking 3 Point Night Downs Orlando
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Donovan Mitchell scored 22 points and led the Utah Jazz’s 3-point barrage with six deep shots in a 137-91 victory over the short-handed Orlando Magic on Saturday night in Salt Lake City.
Joe Ingles and Bojan Bogdanovic each scored 17 points, while Jordan Clarkson threw in 15 off the bench as the Jazz won their ninth straight overall and 22nd in a row at home.
Utah record-breaking set an NBA record with 18 3-pointers in the first half, passing the 2018 Golden State Warriors (17). The Jazz finished hitting 26 of 55 from beyond the arc, including multiple makes by Mitchell (6-7), Ingles (5-7), Bogdanovic (4-6), Clarkson (3-6), two each by Georges Niang, and Ersan Ilyasova, and one apiece from Royce O’Neale, Jarell Brantley, Miye Oni, and Matt Thomas.
Wendell Carter Jr. led the Magic with 19 points and 12 rebounds, while Chuma Okeke added 16 points for a team whose crisscross-the-country Los Angeles-New Orleans-Utah-Denver road trip ends Sunday night against the Nuggets.
Top NBA: Blazers Stay Hot Annihilate Struggling Thunder
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CJ McCollum scored 20 points in just 26 minutes as the Portland Trail Blazers steamrolled the visiting Oklahoma City Thunder 133-85 on Saturday night.
Damian Lillard added 16 points in 25 minutes as the Trail Blazers led by as many as 52 points while winning for the eighth time in the past 11 games. The margin of victory is Portland’s largest of the season.
Anfernee Simons scored 16 points, Norman Powell added 15 points and Enes Kanter had 12 points and 17 rebounds for the Trail Blazers, who turned the game into a blowout with a 23-1 spurt in the third quarter.
Kenrich Williams scored 18 points and fellow reserve Tony Bradley contributed 14 points and eight rebounds for Oklahoma City, which lost for the fifth time in the past six games. Darius Miller had 11 points and Moses Brown added 10 points and 14 rebounds.
Top NBA: Pacers Outlast Spurs on The Road in Overtime
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T.J. McConnell canned a jumper with the shot clock running out with 17.8 seconds to play in overtime as part of his 18-point performance as the visiting Indiana Pacers outlasted the San Antonio Spurs 139-133 on Saturday.
The game was the second of a home-road back-to-back for the Pacers, but it was Indiana that had the legs, and the execution, in the extra period to snap a three-game losing streak.
San Antonio tied the game at 126 with 29.9 seconds left to play in regulation. Myles Turner then missed for Indiana with 7.3 seconds remaining, and DeMar DeRozan rimmed out a shot at the buzzer to force the game into overtime.
