Stephen Curry, Warriors hold nerve to beat Timberwolves in tight NBA battle

Stephen Curry scored 44 points and grabbed 8 rebounds, and the Golden State Warriors escaped with a 119-114 triumph implicit the Minnesota Timberwolves successful Minneapolis.

Yaxel Lendeborg added 26 points successful Wednesday night’s lucifer for Golden State, which won its 2nd consecutive crippled aft losing its archetypal 3 contests of the season. Brandon Williams chipped successful 11 points disconnected the bench.

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Jonathan Kuminga scored 20 points against his erstwhile squad to pb Minnesota, which dropped its 2nd crippled successful a enactment aft a 3-0 start. Jaden McDaniels and Terrence Shannon Jr each finished with 19 points, and Ayo Dosunmu contributed 17.

The Timberwolves outscored the Warriors 66-55 successful the 2nd fractional but could not implicit the comeback attempt. Bones Hyland made a slope changeable to trim the shortage to 3 points successful the last seconds, but Curry ended the scoring with 2 escaped throws.

The Warriors led 93-81 astatine the extremity of the 3rd quarter.

Golden State accrued its pb to arsenic galore arsenic 24 points midway done the 2nd half. Curry converted a three-point play to springiness the Warriors a 78-54 lead.

Minnesota closed the 3rd 4th connected a 27-15 tally to chopped the shortage to 12. Hyland came disconnected the seat and made a brace of 3-pointers to assistance the Timberwolves gully closer.

Golden State led 64-48 astatine the half.

The Warriors closed the archetypal 4th connected a 21-9 tally to drawback a 30-23 advantage. De’Anthony Melton knocked down a brace of 3-pointers during the run, and Lendeborg added a driving layup and a 3-pointer.

Another layup by Lendeborg gave Golden State its archetypal double-digit pb of the crippled astatine 48-38 with 6:29 near successful the half.

Golden State scored 7 of the last 9 points of the archetypal fractional to spell up by 16. Lendeborg made a 3-pointer and Will Richard and Curry made 2 escaped throws apiece.

Simons fuels fourth-quarter flurry arsenic 76ers powerfulness past Pacers

Tyrese Maxey led a balanced onslaught with 27 points, and Anfernee Simons ignited a deficit-erasing, fourth-quarter run, arsenic the Philadelphia 76ers overtook the Indiana Pacers for a 114-109 triumph successful Indianapolis.

Simons finished with 20 points disconnected the bench, portion Joel Embiid had 21 points and 11 rebounds, Jaylen Brown 20 points and 10 rebounds and LeBron James had 13 points and 10 assists for the 76ers.

Pascal Siakam totalled 26 points to complement 11 rebounds and Andrew Nembhard chipped successful with an 18-point, 14-assist double-double for the Pacers.

In a crippled that featured a 37-point detonation by the 76ers successful the 2nd 4th and 2 Pacers bursts during a 36-point effect successful the 3rd period, Philadelphia recovered itself down 88-75 earlier dominating the last 12 minutes.

Simons buried a 3-pointer 18 seconds into the 4th fourth and the 76ers didn’t dilatory down until they had tally disconnected 26 of the period’s archetypal 34 points to spell up 101-96 with 4:24 to go. He had different 3-pointer successful the run, James added 1 and Embiid contributed a three-point play.

Consecutive hoops by Siakam and Nembhard got the hosts wrong 1 with 3:07 to play, and it remained a one-score crippled into the last 90 seconds until Maxey secured Philadelphia’s 4th triumph successful 5 games with a brace of 3-pointers successful the last 1:10.

The 76ers outscored the Pacers 39-21 successful the last period.

Indiana had taken its second-half pb with 17-0 and 13-2 third-quarter flurries, the second helping enactment the 76ers successful a 13-point spread entering the last 12 minutes.

Aaron Nesmith had 18 points, Kelly Oubre Jr had 15 and Obi Toppin had 13 for the Pacers, who mislaid their 2nd straight.

Cavaliers spoil AJ Dybantsa’s Wizards debut

Evan Mobley scored 24 points and Peyton Watson had a season-high 22 points arsenic the Cleveland Cavaliers bushed the visiting Washington Wizards 121-111, spoiling the NBA debut of apical wide draught prime AJ Dybantsa.

Dybantsa had a team-high 19 points successful 27 minutes, making 8 of 12 tract extremity attempts with 2 rebounds and 2 assists.

Mobley, who scored 10 points successful the 4th quarter, besides grabbed 12 rebounds arsenic Cleveland rallied from a 13-point deficit. Donovan Mitchell posted 19 points and 7 assists, and Jarrett Allen had 8 points, 12 rebounds and 3 blocks.

Anthony Davis and Alex Sarr each scored 18 points for the Wizards, portion Kyshawn George had 8 points and a career-high 11 assists. Trae Young added 14 points and 8 assists, and Bilal Coulibaly made 8 of 9 shots and scored 17 disconnected the bench.

The Cavaliers went successful beforehand for the archetypal clip since the archetypal 4th astatine 94-92 connected Mobley’s slam to statesman the fourth. Dybantsa enactment Washington backmost up 105-104, but Cleveland scored the adjacent 9 points successful completing a cleanable three-game homestand.

Dybantsa drove the lane 2 minutes into the 3rd to widen the Wizards’ pb to 76-63, but Cleveland ended the play connected a 29-16 run. Mitchell made 2 escaped throws to necktie it astatine 92-92 going into the fourth.

Coulibaly scored 14 points without a miss successful the archetypal fractional arsenic Washington carried a 69-59 vantage into the break. Dybantsa had 11 points successful 14 minutes and Young had 7 points and six assists, portion Watson had 16 for the Cavaliers.

Sarr scored 13 points successful the first, his play precocious for a game, arsenic the Wizards built a 42-34 lead. Dybantsa, Mitchell and Mobley each had 9 points apiece arsenic the teams combined to marque 9 of 13 3-point attempts and spell 15 of 16 astatine the foul line.

Dybantsa attacked the handbasket connected the opening possession, drafting a foul and making 2 escaped throws 16 seconds in.