Draymond Green scored an off-balance three-pointer as the shot clock expired with 40.2 seconds remaining in overtime, as the Golden State Warriors escaped with a 109-105 win against the Atlanta Hawks on Tuesday night, while Stephen Curry sat out with an injured ankle.
Andrew Bogut saved the ball from going out of bounds before Green got the shot off just in time, while avoiding Kent Bazemore’s diving steal attempt.
Klay Thompson made a go-ahead three-pointer with 2 minutes, 54 seconds left and another big basket at the 11.4-second mark. He finished with 26 points. The Warriors won their second straight overtime game and got a franchise-best 43rd straight regular-season home victory and 25th in a row this season.
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Golden State (54-5) can tie the Bulls’ 44-game unbeaten mark at home from March 30, 1995 to April 4, 1996, when the Warriors host Oklahoma City today.
HEAT 129, BULLS 111
Hassan Whiteside scored a career-high 26 points and grabbed 14 rebounds as Miami set a franchise record by shooting 67.5 percent against Chicago.
Joe Johnson added 24 points in his Miami home debut. The previous Heat record for shooting percentage in a regular-season game was 63.4 percent on Dec. 16, 2013, against Utah.
Chicago were within 108-102 with 5 minutes, 14 seconds left, before Miami finished on a 21-9 run. No team had shot better in an NBA game this season than the 61.8 percent posted by San Antonio against Philadelphia on Dec. 7 last year.
Derrick Rose returned from a three-game absence because of injury and scored 17 points for Chicago, who lost for the 17th time in 25 games and fell to the No. 9 spot in the Eastern Conference race. Pau Gasol had 15 points, nine rebounds and six assists.
TRAIL BLAZERS 104, KNICKS 85
Damian Lillard scored 30 points, while C.J. McCollum had 21 of his 25 in the second half as Portland earned their sixth straight road victory.
The Blazers followed a fantastic February with a blistering start to this month, winning for the 18th time in their past 22 games.
Lillard reached the 30-point mark for the eighth time in nine games and had 14 of them in the final 4 minutes, 25 seconds of the first half.
Carmelo Anthony had 23 points and 10 rebounds for the Knicks, who were so hopeless in their 15th loss in 18 games that fans spent much of the fourth quarter chanting for Jimmer Fredette, who is nearing the end of his 10-day contract. The former college player of the year finally got on for the final 3 minutes, 13 seconds and finished with four points.
In other games, it was:
‧ Mavericks 121, Magic 108
‧ Lakers 107, Nets 101
‧ Hornets 126, Suns 92
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