Josh Howard scored 28 points and the Dallas Mavericks overcame Hedo Turkoglu's triple-double to hold off the Orlando Magic 107-98 in the NBA on Monday.
Dallas led by as many as 19, but Orlando trailed only 83-80 with 7:15 left. The Magic didn't score again for almost five minutes, and Dallas went on a 10-0 run to put the game away.
Turkoglu had 13 points, a career-high 13 assists and 12 rebounds, and Dwight Howard scored 28.
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But Howard, the NBA's rebounding leader averaging 15, had only seven, and Orlando was outrebounded 47-34.
Jason Terry scored 12 of his 20 points in the fourth quarter, and Dirk Nowitzki had 20 points and nine rebounds for Dallas.
RAPTORS 114, HEAT 82
At Miami, Chris Bosh scored 24 points, Andrea Bargnani added 22 and Toronto delivered more indignity to Miami's season of epic struggle by handing the Heat their biggest loss of the year.
HAWKS 96, 76ERS 91
At Atlanta, Josh Smith had 19 points, nine assists and nine blocks to lead Atlanta to victory from 20 down in the first quarter.
CLIPPERS 103, KNICKS 94
At New York, Corey Maggette scored 19 points in his return to the lineup, and Los Angeles snapped a nine-game road losing streak.
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Zhang Shuai yesterday said that she nearly quit after losing 24 matches in a row — now the world No. 595 is into the quarter-finals of her home China Open. The 35-year-old is to face Spain’s Paula Badosa as the lowest-ranked player to reach this stage in the history of the tournament after Badosa reeled off 11 of the last 12 games in a 6-4, 6-0 victory over US Open finalist Jessica Pegula. Zhang went into Beijing on a barren run lasting more than 600 days and her string of singles defeats was the second-longest on the WTA Tour Open era, which
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