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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Stephen Curry scored 26 points to lead the Golden State Warriors past Minnesota 111-85 on Sunday, the fifth straight loss for the Timberwolves and their longest skid in more than three years.<\/p>\n

Curry added seven assists and four of his team\u2019s season-high 20 steals after being listed as questionable to play because of knee soreness. Moses Moody added 19 points and eight rebounds for the Warriors (26-21), who moved within 1 1\/2 games of the Timberwolves (27-19) for seventh place in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n

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Brandin Podziemski had 12 points, six assists and four steals for the Warriors, who have won seven of their last 10 games.<\/p>\n

PISTONS 139, KINGS 116<\/p>\n

DETROIT (AP) \u2014 Cade Cunningham had 29 points and 11 assists and Detroit routed Sacramento for its fifth victory in six games.<\/p>\n

The Eastern Conference-leading Pistons rebounded from a home loss to Houston on Friday night to improve to 33-11. Tied at 35 after a quarter, Detroit broke it open in the second by outscoring the Kings 43-30.<\/p>\n

Cunningham was 13 of 22 from the field, hitting 3 of 5 3-pointers. Pistons center Jalen Duren added 18 points on 7-of-8 shooting, and Tobias Harris had 16.<\/p>\n

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Malik Monk led Sacramento with 19 points, and DeMar DeRozan had 16. The Kings have lost five straight to drop to 12-35.<\/p>\n

Domantas Sabonis played his fifth game for Sacramento after after missing two months because of a knee injury. He had 12 points on 6-of-7 shooting and eight assists and seven rebounds in 24:44.<\/p>\n

RAPTORS 103, THUNDER 101<\/p>\n

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) \u2014 Immanuel Quickley had 23 points and 11 rebounds to help Toronto defeat the NBA-leading Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n

R.J. Barrett scored 14 points and Scottie Barnes added 10 points and 10 rebounds for the Raptors, who won their fourth straight.<\/p>\n

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander led Oklahoma City with 24 points on 8-for-11 shooting. He scored at least 20 points for the 117th consecutive game, the second-longest streak in NBA history.<\/p>\n

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Lu Dort scored a season-high 19 points, Kenrich Williams scored 15 and Chet Holmgren added 11 points and 10 rebounds for the Thunder.<\/p>\n

PELICANS 104, SPURS 95<\/p>\n

SAN ANTONIO (AP) \u2014 Saddiq Bey and Zion Williamson each had 24 points and 10 rebounds and New Orleans squandered a 20-point lead before rebounding to beat San Antonio.<\/p>\n

San Antonio held a 24-5 advantage to open the fourth quarter, but New Orleans closed the game on a 17-3 run to avoid a season sweep by the Spurs.<\/p>\n

Victor Wembanyama had 16 points, 16 rebounds and four blocks to lead San Antonio. Keldon Johnson added 15 points as the Spurs failed to capitalize on a double-digit rally.<\/p>\n

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New Orleans\u2019 lead swelled to 19 points midway through the third quarter, leading San Antonio coach Mitch Johnson to sub out his entire starting lineup following a timeout.<\/p>\n

The lineup change worked as San Antonio went on a 21-4 run bridging the third and fourth quarters. The Spurs scored 16 straight points to close the run.<\/p>\n

HEAT 111, SUNS 102<\/p>\n

PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Bam Adebayo scored 22 points, Jaime Jaquez Jr. added 20 and Miami beat short-handed Phoenix.<\/p>\n

The Heat had a short turnaround after blowing out Utah 147-116<\/a> on Saturday night, but took advantage of Phoenix playing without two key players who suffered injuries in Friday night in a 110-103 loss<\/a> at Atlanta.<\/p>\n

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Devin Booker<\/a>, a four-time All-Star, rolled his right ankle in third quarter against the Hawks and will be re-evaluated in a week. Jalen Green came out after feeling pain in his second game back after missing 33 with a hamstring strain.<\/p>\n

The Suns labored without Booker\u2019s team-leading 25.4 points per game, shooting 37% and 7 of 35 from 3. Dillon Brooks led Phoenix with 26 points and Grayson Allen added 18 despite shooting 4 of 18 from the floor, including 1 of 11 from 3.<\/p>\n

The NBA\u2019s fourth-highest scoring team, Miami led by five after three quarters and pushed it to 101-83 midway through the fourth on their way to finishing a five-game trip 3-2. Norman Powell added 16 points and 10 rebounds.<\/p>\n

CLIPPERS 126, NETS 89<\/p>\n

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INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Kawhi Leonard scored 21 of his 28 points in the first half as Los Angeles built a 38-point lead in the second quarter and beat Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

James Harden scored 19 points, John Collins added 18, and Jordan Miller had 16. Ivica Zubac finished with 11 points and 10 rebounds as the Clippers, who were coming off a victory over the Lakers on Thursday, won for the eighth time in nine games.<\/p>\n

Danny Wolf scored 14 points and Egor Demin had 12 for the Nets, who shot 28% in the first half and 34% (29 for 86) overall, including 21% (9 for 43) from 3-point range. Brooklyn lost its fourth straight and has dropped 10 of its last 11 games and 13 of 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Stephen Curry scored 26 points to lead the Golden State Warriors past Minnesota 111-85 on…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":543382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[5356,46139,105764,1121,19151,7943,7197,63088,58917,7196,7190,94160,193899,41056,239429,3140,9275,23882,4345,85455,36857,142950,138356,7192,18169,36252,62928,3370,23224,58567,224,28881,380,3663,145063,1260,21461,20542,30233,22875,198198,7202,28993,3371,62,7199,3366,239430,73966,22721,6273,177191,8790,67,132,68,4714,60620],"class_list":{"0":"post-543381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-bam-adebayo","10":"tag-brandin-podziemski","11":"tag-brooklyn","12":"tag-cade-cunningham","13":"tag-chet-holmgren","14":"tag-clippers","15":"tag-danny-wolf","16":"tag-demar-derozan","17":"tag-devin-booker","18":"tag-dillon-brooks","19":"tag-domantas-sabonis","20":"tag-dort","21":"tag-egor-demin","22":"tag-fifth-straight-loss","23":"tag-golden-state-warriors","24":"tag-grayson-allen","25":"tag-hawks","26":"tag-houston","27":"tag-immanuel-quickley","28":"tag-ivica-zubac","29":"tag-jaime-jaquez-jr","30":"tag-jalen-duren","31":"tag-jalen-green","32":"tag-james-harden","33":"tag-john-collins","34":"tag-jordan-miller","35":"tag-kawhi-leonard","36":"tag-keldon-johnson","37":"tag-kenrich-williams","38":"tag-los-angeles","39":"tag-malik-monk","40":"tag-miami","41":"tag-minnesota","42":"tag-moses-moody","43":"tag-nba","44":"tag-new-orleans","45":"tag-norman-powell","46":"tag-rebounds","47":"tag-sacramento","48":"tag-saddiq-bey","49":"tag-san-antonio","50":"tag-scottie-barnes","51":"tag-shai-gilgeous-alexander","52":"tag-sports","53":"tag-spurs","54":"tag-stephen-curry","55":"tag-straight-points","56":"tag-the-lakers","57":"tag-the-spurs","58":"tag-timberwolves","59":"tag-tobias-harris","60":"tag-toronto","61":"tag-united-states","62":"tag-unitedstates","63":"tag-us","64":"tag-victor-wembanyama","65":"tag-zion-williamson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}