AROUND THE NBA

AROUND THE NBA

Tuesday’s games

Hawks 115, Heat 113

MIAMI

Taurean Prince scored 18 points, Trae Young finished with 17 points and 10 assists and the Atlanta Hawks held off the Miami Heat to snap a seven-game road slide. John Collins scored 16 points, Omari Spellman had 14 and Kent Bazemore finished with 12 for the Hawks, who are 2-0 against Miami this season and 3-16 against everyone else. Josh Richardson led Miami with 22 points, but his potential winning 3-pointer with 3 seconds left — a wide-open look — bounced off the rim. Dwyane Wade scored 18 and Wayne Ellington added 15 for the Heat, who have lost six straight at home. It’s only the 10th time in the 31 years of Heat basketball that Miami has lost so many consecutive games at home. Bam Adebayo scored 12 for Miami, which got 11 apiece from Justise Winslow and Hassan Whiteside. Atlanta led by 19 early in the second half and was still up by 13 with 8:50 left, before Miami went on its best run of the night. The Heat needed less than four minutes to go on a 14-0 run. Richardson scored seven of those points, including the last basket of the spurt with 5:04 remaining, to go up 109-108 — their first lead since early in the second quarter. And then it was Atlanta’s turn for a run, this one a 7-0 spurt for a six-point lead as the Heat missed six consecutive shots. Back came Miami, with a 3-pointer by Olynyk and a follow shot by Richardson to get the Heat within one. Prince made the second of two free throws with 14 seconds left, giving Atlanta a 115-113 lead. Miami took its final timeout, and Richardson’s last shot bounced away as time expired. Miami scored a season-high 38 points in the first quarter, and followed that up with its lowest-scoring quarter of the season — a 14-point clunkfest in the second, as the Hawks took control. Atlanta outscored Miami by 19 points in the second quarter, with absurd balance. The Hawks had 10 players log more than two minutes of playing time in the first half, all of them had between three and nine points, and after a 3-pointer by Bazemore beat the halftime buzzer Atlanta went into the break with a 68-52 lead. It was Atlanta’s biggest halftime lead of the season.

Pistons 115, Knicks 108

DETROIT

Blake Griffin scored 30 points and Stanley Johnson added 21 to lift the Detroit Pistons to a victory over the New York Knicks. Reggie Jackson contributed 21 points for Detroit. The Pistons held New York to 40 percent shooting from the field and led throughout the final three quarters. Allonzo Trier scored 24 points for the Knicks, who had won a season-high three in a row. The Pistons (11-7) are off to a solid start under new coach Dwane Casey, although nine of their victories have been against teams that currently have losing records. The Knicks (7-15) took an early 13-5 lead, but Detroit was up 24-19 at the end of the first quarter, and the Pistons never relinquished the lead. New York shot 15 of 50 in the first half and trailed by as many as 16 points in the second quarter. It was 51-43 at the half, and the Pistons stretched the lead to back to as much as 18 in the fourth. The Knicks had the deficit down to seven when Johnson came leaping from behind to block Trier’s layup attempt with about 30 seconds to play in the game.

Raptors 122, Grizzlies 114

MEMPHIS, TENN.

Kyle Lowry had 24 points and six assists, Fred VanVleet added 18 points and Toronto used a 3-point shooting burst in the fourth quarter to beat the Memphis Grizzlies. VanVleet made all six shots on the night, including three from outside the arc in the fourth, when Toronto was 7 of 12 from 3-point range. Lowry was 5 of 8 on 3-pointers. Kawhi Leonard finished with 17 points and 10 rebounds, and Serge Ibaka scored 16 points as the Raptors won their sixth straight. Marc Gasol led Memphis with 27 points, making 10 of his 14 shots. Mike Conley added 20 points and six assists. The barrage of 3-pointers from Toronto in the middle stages of the fourth erased a Memphis lead, keying 17-2 burst. The Raptors would never trail again. The Raptors, who trailed by 17 early in the second half, steadily cut into the deficit. Three straight 3-pointers from OG Anunoby, Delon Wright and VanVleet, pulled the Raptors even at 105-all near the midway point of the fourth. When Lowry scored on a layup, it capped an 11-0 rally and gave the Raptors the lead. Memphis led 71-59 at the half. As in Sunday’s loss to the New York Knicks, the Grizzlies’ double-digit lead slipped away after the break. Leonard was much more aggressive in the third and the Grizzlies’ advantage, which had reached 17 early in the third, was whittled to 94-93.

Pacers 109, Suns 104

PHOENIX

Bojan Bogdanovic sank the go-ahead 3-pointer with 31 seconds to play and Indiana escaped with a victory over Phoenix. The Pacers, coming off a 33-point victory at Utah the previous night, had their hands full in a tight fourth quarter. Doug McDermott and Domantas Sabonis scored 21 points apiece for Indiana. Myles Turner added 16 and Bogdanovic 15.

Associated Press