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Defensive maestro Dyson Daniels (left) had a high-scoring game to help Atlanta beat Golden State. Photo: AP PHOTO<\/p>\nDefensive maestro Dyson Daniels (left) had a high-scoring game to help Atlanta beat Golden State. Photo: AP PHOTO<\/p>\n
Dyson Daniels has matched his NBA career high with 28 points to lead the Atlanta Hawks’ 126-110 win over the Golden State Warriors as they continue to climb the standings.<\/p>\n
The victory, combined with Orlando’s loss to the Los \u200cAngeles Lakers, lifted the Hawks (39-32) into sixth in the Eastern Conference, the last guaranteed playoff spot.<\/p>\n
Australian star Daniels \u200cDaniels had 15 points in the first quarter – a career high for one quarter – with seven rebounds, six assists and four steals to help the Hawks bounce back after their 11-game winning streak was snapped two nights earlier by Houston.<\/p>\n
Fellow Aussie Jock Landale chipped in with seven points, one rebound and one assist for Atlanta.<\/p>\n
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Dyson Daniels (top) scores against Golden State centre Quinten Post. (AP PHOTO)<\/p>\n
CJ McCollum scored 23 points and the Hawks also got 17 points each from \u200bZaccharie Risacher and Nickeil Alexander-Walker and 16 points, 10 rebounds and three blocks from Mouhamed Gueye, who started in place of injured leading scorer Jalen Johnson.<\/p>\n
But Jonathan Kuminga struggled for the Hawks in his first game against the team he spent four-plus seasons with. He had two points on 1-for-9 shooting.<\/p>\n
In Orlando, LeBron James set yet another NBA record by playing in his 1612th regular-season game as his Los Angeles Lakers rallied to edge out the Magic 105-104.<\/p>\n
James had 12 points, six rebounds, four assists and three steals on his record-breaking night, passing the mark Robert Parish held for nearly 30 years.<\/p>\n
Luka Doncic scored 33 points in the Lakers’ ninth straight win, but was called for his 16th technical foul – an automatic one-game suspension if not rescinded.<\/p>\n
In San Antonio, All-Star Victor Wembanyama had 20 points, eight rebounds, six assists and five blocks for the host Spurs in a 134-119 victory over the Indiana Pacers.<\/p>\n
The surging Spurs have now won 21 of their past 23 games and improved to 53-18, securing their most victories since finishing 61-21 in 2017.<\/p>\n
In Houston, Kevin Durant scored 27 points to move past Michael Jordan for fifth place on the NBA’s career scoring list and Amen Thompson had a tip-in at the buzzer to lift the Rockets to a 123-122 win over the Miami Heat.<\/p>\n
Durant has 32,294 points in his career, two more than Jordan.<\/p>\n
Bam Adebayo had 32 points and tied a career high with 21 rebounds for the Heat, who dropped their fourth straight game.<\/p>\n
In New Orleans, Donovan Mitchell scored 27 points and James Harden added 20 second-half points as the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the host Pelicans 111-106.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In Charlotte, LaMelo Ball dropped 29 points while Australian Josh Green added five off the bench as their Hornets (37-34) beat the Memphis Grizzlies 124-101.<\/p>\n
Australian Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defensive maestro Dyson Daniels (left) had a high-scoring game to help Atlanta beat Golden State. Photo: AP PHOTO…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-556269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}