NEW ORLEANS \u2014 Anthony Edwards scored 34 of his season-high 44 points in the second half, including a driving layup to force overtime, and Julius Randle scored eight points in the extra period to lift the Minnesota Timberwolves to a 149-142 victory over the New Orleans Pelicans on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
Edwards, who came in averaging 37.2 points in his last five games, struggled from long range early, missing 4 of 5 3-point attempts in the first half. But he caught fire in the second half, going 5 of 8 from deep.<\/p>\n
Edwards sent the game into overtime by driving past Jose Alvarado for a layup with 2.3 seconds left. New Orleans led 129-125 with 1:03 remaining in regulation on Derik Queen\u2019s dunk but went scoreless the rest of the way.<\/p>\n
PHILADELPHIA \u2014 Tyrese Maxey scored 20 of his 35 points in the third quarter, Andre Drummond had 12 points and 10 rebounds, and the Philadelphia 76ers beat the Washington Wizards.<\/p>\n
Maxey, who was coming off a 44-point performance, was 13 of 26 from the field to score 20-plus for the 20th straight game this season. He also had six assists and four steals in 29 minutes.<\/p>\n
Philadelphia had its 66-54 halftime lead trimmed to five after Washington scored the first seven points of the third quarter. But the 76ers scored 11 of the next 13 points to rebuild a double-digit lead at 77-63.<\/p>\n
BOSTON \u2014 Jaylen Brown scored a season-high 42 points, sealing the game with a breakaway dunk in the final seconds as the Boston Celtics beat the New York Knicks 123-117 in a rematch of last season\u2019s Eastern Conference semifinal.<\/p>\n
Derrick White scored seven of his 22 points in the last four minutes, after the Celtics turned back a New York charge that cut a 15-point deficit to 102-99. Jordan Walsh had six points and five rebounds in the fourth quarter for Boston.<\/p>\n
Mikal Bridges scored 17 of his 35 points in the fourth and went 8 for 12 from 3-point range overall. Karl-Anthony Towns added 29 for the Knicks, who had won four in a row.<\/p>\n
RAPTORS 121, TRAIL BLAZERS 118<\/p>\n
TORONTO \u2014 Scottie Barnes scored 28 points to help the Toronto Raptors edge the Portland Trail Blazers.<\/p>\n
Barnes was 10 for 18 from the field. He also had seven rebounds, seven assists and two blocks.<\/p>\n
Immanuel Quickley had 23 points with eight assists for Toronto, which had lost two in a row. Gradey Dick scored 14 points.<\/p>\n
Portland wasted a solid performance by Deni Avdija, who had 25 points, 14 assists and eight boards. Toumani Camara added 21 points and seven rebounds, and reserve Shaedon Sharpe \u2014 a London, Ontario, native \u2014 scored 23 points.<\/p>\n
SAN ANTONIO \u2014 Harrison Barnes scored 31 points, De\u2019Aaron Fox had 29 and the San Antonio Spurs beat the Memphis Grizzlies.<\/p>\n
Dylan Harper added 15 points as San Antonio improved to 6-2 since losing Victor Wembanyama to a strained left calf on Nov. 15.<\/p>\n
Zach Edey had 19 points and 15 rebounds for Memphis, which had won three straight and five of six without star point guard\u00a0Ja Morant.<\/p>\n
After shooting 1 for 4 on 3-pointers in a 125-112 loss at Minnesota on Sunday, Barnes made his first three 3s to set up a season high. Barnes finished 7 for 12 on 3-pointers and 10 for 20 from the field.<\/p>\n
THUNDER 124, WARRIORS 112<\/p>\n
SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 38 points and made a key 3-pointer with 3:34 left, Jalen Williams added 22 points and six assists, and the Oklahoma City Thunder held off the determined Golden State Warriors.<\/p>\n
Chet Holmgren hit a go-ahead 3 from the top with 6:02 remaining and finished with 21 points and eight rebounds for the defending champions.<\/p>\n
Brandin Podziemski scored 17 points and Seth Curry added 14 in his Warriors debut with older brother Stephen Curry sidelined for a second straight game because a bruised left quadriceps and muscle strain sustained last Wednesday against Houston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW ORLEANS \u2014 Anthony Edwards scored 34 of his season-high 44 points in the second half, including a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-322280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}