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Luka Doncic, Austin Reaves guide Lakers past Spurs
Luka Doncic had 21 points, 14 assists and nine rebounds, Austin Reaves added 30 points and the Los Angeles Lakers extended their home winning streak to eight games with a 125-109 victory over the San Antonio Spurs on Monday.,Jordan Goodwin and Dorian Finney Smith each scored 15 points and Dalton Kne...

Pelicans lose to Pistons by franchise-record-tying 46
Cade Cunningham scored 24 points and the visiting Detroit Pistons never trailed, routing the New Orleans Pelicans 127-81 on Monday night.,Cunningham, who tied his season low with 11 points after being ejected late in the third quarter of a 113-107 loss to visiting Oklahoma City on Saturday, had nine...

Kings end skid, knock off short-handed Grizzlies
Malik Monk scored 28 points, Zach LaVine added 23, and the Sacramento Kings snapped a four-game losing streak with a 132-122 win over the visiting Memphis Grizzlies on Monday.,DeMar DeRozan had 22 points and nine assists for Sacramento (34-33), which led by as many as 21 in the fourth quarter and ne...

Devin Booker pours in 27 as Suns romp past Raptors
Devin Booker scored 27 points to lead six Phoenix scorers in double-figures, and the Suns opened a five-game homestand with their most lopsided win of the season in a 129-89 blowout of the Toronto Raptors.,Phoenix (32-37) opened the second quarter on a 23-4 run lasting 5:44 and took control from the...

Anfernee Simons pours in 30 as Blazers blitz Wizards
Anfernee Simons made five 3-pointers and scored 30 points to help the Portland Trail Blazers notch a 112-97 victory over the visiting Washington Wizards on Monday night.,Shaedon Sharpe netted 16 points while Deni Avdija and Duop Reath scored 15 apiece as Portland (30-39) won its second straight game...

Pelicans lose by franchise-record-tying 46 points to Pistons
Cade Cunningham scored 24 points and the visiting Detroit Pistons never trailed, routing the New Orleans Pelicans 127-81 on Monday night.,Cunningham, who tied his season low with 11 points after being ejected late in the third quarter of a 113-107 loss to visiting Oklahoma City on Saturday, had nine...

Bulls' defense shuts down Jazz in fourth quarter
Coby White scored 26 points and the Chicago Bulls held the Utah Jazz scoreless for a 5 1/2-minute stretch of the fourth quarter to earn a 111-97 victory on Monday in Salt Lake City.,Tre Jones added 18 points, 12 assists and three steals, Kevin Huerter and Matas Buzelis each totaled 17 points and nin...

Rockets set team comeback record, defeat 76ers in OT
Jalen Green had 30 points and 13 assists on Monday, helping the Houston Rockets stage the largest comeback in franchise history to defeat the visiting Philadelphia 76ers 144-137 in overtime.,Jabari Smith also scored 30 points for Houston (44-25), which won its seventh straight game and did so despit...

Obi Toppin's late-OT trey pushes Pacers past Wolves
Obi Toppin scored 34 points, including the go-ahead 3-pointer with 3.5 seconds remaining in overtime, while leading the Indiana Pacers to a 132-130 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Monday in Minneapolis.,Toppin made 7 of 10 shots and tied his season-best point total for Indiana (38-29), which ...

Auston Matthews' 2-goal game powers Leafs past Flames
Auston Matthews had two goals and an assist as the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the visiting Calgary Flames 6-2 on Monday night.,William Nylander added a goal and two assists for the Maple Leafs (40-24-3, 83 points), who won for the second time in seven games (2-4-1).,Toronto's Max Domi had a goal a...

Wild snap Kings' winning streak with comeback victory
Mats Zuccarello's power-play goal with 4:38 left in the final period allowed the Minnesota Wild to snap the Los Angeles Kings' five-game winning streak in a 3-1 come-from-behind victory Monday at St. Paul, Minn.,Ryan Hartman scored the other goal for the Wild, who had lost four of their last five, a...

Pelicans lose by franchise-record 46 points to Pistons
Cade Cunningham scored 24 points and the visiting Detroit Pistons never trailed, routing the New Orleans Pelicans 127-81 on Monday night.,Cunningham, who tied his season-low with 11 points after being ejected late in the third quarter of a 113-107 loss to visiting Oklahoma City on Saturday night, ha...

Auston Matthews' two-goal game powers Leafs past Flames
Auston Matthews had two goals and an assist as the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the visiting Calgary Flames 6-2 on Monday night.,William Nylander added a goal and two assists for the Maple Leafs, who won for the second time in seven games (2-4-1).,Toronto's Max Domi had a goal and an assist, and Nic...

Josh Hart ties Knicks' triple-double mark in win vs. Heat
Josh Hart tied a franchise record with his eighth triple-double of the season on Monday night for the host New York Knicks, who overcame a slow start to rout the reeling Miami Heat, 116-95.,Hart finished with 12 points, 13 rebounds and 11 assists, matching the mark set by current Knicks broadcaster ...

Alex Tuch, Owen Power push Buffalo past Boston in OT
Alex Tuch netted the game-winning power-play goal with 10.7 seconds remaining in overtime to lift the visiting Buffalo Sabres past the Boston Bruins 3-2 on Tuesday night.,Stationed at the front of Boston goaltender Joonas Korpisalo's net, Tuch deflected Owen Power's shot from the top of the left cir...

Andrei Vasilevskiy stops 21 shots as Lightning blank Flyers
Nikita Kucherov netted an unassisted first-period breakaway goal, Andrei Vasilevskiy made it stand with 21 saves, and the Tampa Bay Lightning rebounded from a loss in Philadelphia four days earlier with a 2-0 of the visiting Flyers on Monday.,In the lone home match right in the middle of a seven-gam...

Jesper Bratt, Jake Allen help Devils defeat Blue Jackets
Jesper Bratt scored the eventual game-winner as the New Jersey Devils edged the host Columbus Blue Jackets 2-1 on Monday night.,Timo Meier also scored for New Jersey (37-26-6, 80 points), which has won four of five and improved to 20-15-2 on the road this season.,Jake Allen made 45 saves in the vict...

New York knocks out top seed Los Angeles in TGL semifinals
Xander Schauffele scored two points during singles play and fourth-seeded New York Golf Club pulled away for a 6-4 upset victory over top-seeded Los Angeles Golf Club in the first match of the TGL playoffs on Monday night in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.,New York advanced to next week's best-of-three cha...

Alex Ovechkin continues record climb as Capitals host Red Wings
Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin enters Tuesday night's home game against the Detroit Red Wings eight goals short of becoming the most prolific scorer in NHL history.,Ovechkin has 887 career goals after a tally in Saturday's 5-1 road win over the San Jose Sharks. He is chasing Wayne Gretzky...

Rory McIlroy defeats J.J. Spaun in playoff for second Players title
Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland celebrated St. Patrick's Day by winning a three-hole aggregate playoff against J.J. Spaun to capture his second title at The Players Championship on Monday morning at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.,McIlroy took a one-shot lead when he birdied the par-5 16th ...