DETROIT (AP) — Domantas Sabonis scored 37 points, and had 13 assists and 10 rebounds to help the Sacramento Kings to a roller-coaster 131-110 victory over the Detroit Pistons on Tuesday.
The Kings trailed by 20 points in the first quarter, led by 15 in the third, let the Pistons tie the game in the fourth and then pulled away down the stretch. Keegan Murray added 32 points and De’Aaron Fox scored 26.
Detroit (3-34) has lost five straight since breaking its NBA-record 28-game losing streak. Bojan Bogdanovic scored 26 and Jaden Ivey added 22. The Pistons played without Cade Cunningham, who will be out at least 7-10 days with a knee sprain.
The Kings were coming off a 133-100 home loss to the New Orleans Pelicans on Sunday.
LAKERS 132, RAPTORS 131
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Anthony Davis scored 20 of his 41 points in a brilliant fourth quarter, and the Lakers held off the Raptors to win back-to-back games for the first time in a month.
LeBron James had 22 points and 12 assists for the Lakers, who went 3-10 immediately after winning the inaugural NBA In-Season Tournament in December. The Lakers held off the Clippers on Sunday before outlasting the Raptors to get back to .500 (19-19).
Davis grabbed 11 rebounds, went 13 for 17 from the field and 13 of 14 on free throws while carrying the Lakers down the stretch against the Raptors, who were missing injured starting center Jakob Poeltl. Davis completed his masterful performance by scoring 10 points in the final 1:01, including eight free throws without a miss, and making a key block on Scottie Barnes.
Barnes scored 26 points and Pascal Siakam had 25 for the Raptors
KNICKS 112, TRAIL BLAZERS 84
NEW YORK (AP) — OG Anunoby scored 23 points, his most since coming to New York, and the Knicks won their fifth in a row since he joined their lineup with a victory over the Trail Blazers.
Anunoby scored 16 in a first quarter, when the Knicks opened a 19-point lead that would grow to 39 in the third quarter. The forward went 6 for 7 in the period, 4 of 5 behind the 3-point arc, and was already just a point shy of the 17 he scored in his Knicks debut against Minnesota on New Year’s Day, his previous best since coming from Toronto in a Dec. 30 trade.
He might have approached his season high of 29, also at Madison Square Garden while playing for the Raptors last month, but the starters didn’t need to play much in the second half.
Jerami Grant scored 21 points for the Trail Blazers, who lost for the fourth time in five games.
TIMBERWOLVES 113, MAGIC 92
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Karl-Anthony Towns scored 23 of his 28 points in the first half and the Timberwolves led from start to finish in a win over the Magic.
Rudy Gobert had 21 points and 12 rebounds and the Western Conference-leading Timberwolves (26-10) won easily despite getting only six points and three assists from leading scorer Anthony Edwards.
Moritz Wagner led the Magic (21-16) with 21 points and seven rebounds. Jalen Suggs had 20 points and five rebounds and Paolo Banchero had 18 points on 8 for 22 shooting.
GRIZZLIES 120, MAVERICKS 103
DALLAS (AP) — Desmond Bane scored 32 points to lead the injury-riddled Grizzlies to a win over the Mavericks.
Bane scored 13 of the Grizzlies’ final 18 points in the third quarter to help build a 20-point lead entering the final quarter in the team’s first game since learning of leading scorer Ja Morant’s season-ending shoulder injury.
The Grizzlies (14-23), who are 2-0 since Morant’s injury, were without Marcus Smart for much of the second half. Smart left the game with 7:38 left in the third quarter with a dislocated finger on his right hand.
Before his injury, Smart scored 23 points on 9 of 16 shooting. He hit four 3-pointers, including one from the left wing to give Memphis an 18-point lead before leaving the game. He later returned to the bench with an icepack covering his right hand.
Kyrie Irving scored 33 points and Luka Doncic added 31 despite being in and out of the game with an ankle injury.
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