Tyler Johnson scored a career-high 26 points, while Goran Dragic added 21 against his former team, as the Miami Heat beat the Phoenix Suns 115-98 on Monday in a game that included two third-quarter altercations.
Hassan Whiteside finished with 17 points and 10 rebounds before getting ejected for Miami, who got 16 points and nine assists from Dwyane Wade.
P.J. Tucker had 20 points and 14 rebounds for the Suns, who also got 20 points from Eric Bledsoe. while Markieff Morris and Brandon Knight scored 13 apiece.
In all, there were five player technicals, three ejections and two flagrant fouls assessed in the third quarter alone, the 12 minutes of play needing 42 minutes to complete.
Morris was ejected for a flagrant-2 foul against Dragic in the third quarter, while Whiteside and Alex Len were both tossed later in the period after getting tangled up under the Miami basket.
NETS 110, WARRIORS 108
In New York, Jarrett Jack made a tiebreaking jumper with 1.1 seconds left, as Brooklyn overcame Stephen Curry’s stirring fourth-quarter comeback attempt to beat Golden State.
Curry brought the Warriors back from 10 points down with less than 4 minutes left to tie it, but was unable to get a final shot off after Jack’s jumper.
Curry finished with 26 points, 18 in the final period. However, Jack calmly ran the clock down and shot over him as the Nets won their first game at home since Feb. 6.
Brook Lopez had 26 points and Deron Williams 22 for the Nets.
Andrew Bogut scored 16 for Golden State, but Klay Thompson shot three for 17. He was one of nine on three-pointers and finished with seven points.
Alan Anderson scored 16 for the Nets, who had played eight in a row on the road since beating New York at the Barclays Center on Feb. 6, a 24-day stretch between home games that ranked as the longest in franchise history.
CLIPPERS 110, TIMBERWOLVES 105
Chris Paul had 26 points and 14 assists, as Los Angeles allowed only one field goal in the fourth quarter to outlast hosts Minnesota.
J.J. Redick scored 18 points before getting ejected in the fourth, while DeAndre Jordan had 12 points and 18 rebounds, his ninth straight game with at least 15 boards. Glen Davis scored 12 points off the bench to help the Clippers get their seventh win in nine games.
Ricky Rubio had 18 points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists for the Timberwolves, who were missing starters Nikola Pekovic and Kevin Martin. Minnesota went one for 14 in the fourth quarter.
Gary Neal had 19 points and nine rebounds, but missed a forced three-pointer with 9.3 seconds to go that would have tied the game.
MAVERICKS 102, PELICANS 93
Richard Jefferson equaled his season high with 16 points, seven during a 16-0 Dallas run early in the third quarter, as the Mavericks raced past visitors New Orleans.
The Mavericks were led by Monta Ellis with 20 points. Rajon Rondo added 19 points, 15 in the first half.
The Pelicans, were paced by Norris Cole with 19 points off the bench. Eric Gordon added 18 and Tyreke Evans 17.
RAPTORS 114, 76ERS 103
DeMar DeRozan scored a season-high 35 points, while Lou Williams had 21, as Toronto snapped a five-game losing streak with an away win over Philadelphia.
Patrick Patterson scored 15 points for Toronto, while Greivis Vasquez added 12, while Nerlens Noel scored 17 points on seven-for-seven shooting for the 76ers.
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