Hawks snap Cavaliers’ 11-game winning streak, 97-92

LeBron James scored 33 points in the defeat.

ATLANTA (AP) — Mike Bibby scored 24 points, Marvin Williams hit the clinching free throws, and the Atlanta Hawks snapped the Cleveland Cavaliers’ 11-game winning streak with a 97-92 victory Saturday night.

LeBron James had 33 points and nine assists for the Cavs, who overcame a 14-point deficit in the third quarter to take a 70-68 lead early in the fourth on Mo Williams’ layup.

The deficit was Cleveland’s first in the second half since its last loss, a 96-89 defeat at Detroit on Nov. 19. The Cavs were trying for the first 12-game winning streak in franchise history, having won 11 in a row four times, the last time in 1994-95.

After eight lead changes over a 6-minute span in the fourth quarter, Atlanta never trailed after Bibby made it 84-83 with a 10-footer with 4:40 remaining.

Williams finished with 26 points for Cleveland, the only NBA team to rank in the top 10 in both scoring and points allowed.

Cleveland was playing its second straight game without injured starting center Zydrunas Ilgauskas. Anderson Varejao’s 11 points and eight rebounds weren’t enough to compensate on the front line with Ben Wallace going scoreless on just two shots from the field.

Atlanta has won two straight after dropping three consecutive road games at Dallas, Houston and San Antonio.

Redd scores 27 points as Bucks beat Pacers 121-103

Bucks 121, Pacers 103.

MILWAUKEE — Michael Redd scored 27 points and Andrew Bogut had 20 points and 20 rebounds, as the Milwaukee Bucks blew a 21-point second-half lead before scoring the game’s final 19 points.

Charlie Villanueva added 26 points, 24 in the first half, to equal a season high and help the Bucks snap a three-game losing streak.

T.J. Ford had a season-high 27 points for Indiana, which dropped its sixth straight and eighth of nine.

Milwaukee led much of the game and by 21 at 70-49 early in the third quarter before letting the lead slip away. Indiana went on a 50-27 run spanning the third and fourth quarters.

The Pacers tied it at 95 on Jeff Foster’s tip-in with 6:55 remaining and took their first lead since the first quarter on Ford’s two free throws with 5:33 left. Ford’s jumper gave Indiana a 103-102 lead with less than five minutes to go before the Bucks closed with a 19-0 flurry.