NBA roundup: Irving, Celtics sink Wizards in OT

Bradley Beal and John Wall missed 3-point attempts to tie the score before
Irving closed out Boston's victory with two free throws.

Irving's 3-pointer with 38.6 seconds left gave the Celtics a two-point lead,
but Wall's jumper tied it with 30.7 seconds to go.

Irving scored 38 points and Marcus Morris added 27 for Boston, which won its
seventh straight.

Pelicans 118, Thunder 114

Anthony Davis had his second consecutive 40-plus point game as host New
Orleans cooled off Oklahoma City.

Davis, who had 41 points in a loss at Boston on Monday, scored a season-high
with 44 points and added 18 rebounds as the Pelicans alternated wins and
losses for the ninth consecutive game. Julius Randle added 22 points and 12
rebounds, Jrue Holiday had 20 points and 10 assists and Darius Miller came off
the bench to score 10 points.

Paul George had 25 points and 11 rebounds to lead the Thunder, who had won
five of their previous six games, Dennis Schroder came off the bench to score
24 points, and Russell Westbrook and Steven Adams had 20 points each.

Nets 127, 76ers 124

Spencer Dinwiddie scored a career-high 39 points to lift visiting Brooklyn
past Philadelphia.

Allen Crabbe added 20 points and Joe Harris had 14 as the Nets handed the
Sixers a rare home loss. The Sixers had been 14-1 at home this season with the
previous lone defeat to the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Joel Embiid paced the Sixers with 33 points and 17 rebounds while Ben Simmons
added 22 points. Furkan Korkmaz had 18 points and T.J. McConnell scored 17.

Grizzlies 92, Trail Blazers 83

Mike Conley collected 23 points, six rebounds and six assists, and Memphis
used a late 13-0 run to break open a tight game on the way to a victory over
visiting Portland.

Marc Gasol contributed nine points, seven rebounds, six blocked shots and five
assists for the Grizzlies, who had lost six of their previous nine games,
including the previous two.

CJ McCollum matched his season high by scoring 40 points for the Trail
Blazers, who dropped their sixth consecutive road game. Damian Lillard and
Jusuf Nurkic combined for 5-for-33 shooting for Portland, which has lost 10 of
its past 15 outings overall.

Hornets 108, Pistons 107

Jeremy Lamb hit a 20-footer with 0.3 seconds remaining, and Charlotte rallied
for a bizarre victory over visiting Detroit.

Lamb's heroics came after the Hornets stormed back from a 10-point deficit
with just over six minutes to play. The Hornets played for one final shot
after Detroit's Langston Galloway hit two free throws for a 106-106 tie with
14.7 seconds left, and Lamb took a pass from a driving Kemba Walker as the
clock wound down.

The Hornets were called for a technical foul for having too many players on
the court after Lamb's shot, and Galloway hit a free throw with 0.3 remaining
to cut the margin to one. But the Pistons could not get a final shot off
before the buzzer.

Cavaliers 113, Knicks 106

Rodney Hood hit the go-ahead jumper with 23.7 seconds remaining as Cleveland
lost a 22-point lead before escaping with a victory over visiting New York.

The Cavaliers led by 22 with 6:54 left in the second quarter but gradually let
the Knicks rally. New York trailed 106-105 after rookie Kevin Knox finished
off a transition play with a left-handed dunk off a bounce pass from Emmanuel
Mudiay with 32.5 seconds to go.

On the next possession, Hood released an 11-foot turnaround shot from inside
the paint while using a 2-inch size advantage over 6-foot-6 Frank Ntilikina.
The Knicks had a chance to regain the lead, but Mudiay missed a contested
14-footer in the paint, and the Cavaliers' Cedi Osman grabbed the rebound.
Osman made two free throws to put Cleveland up 109-106.

Pacers 113, Bucks 97

Thaddeus Young scored 25 points and Myles Turner added 23 points as Indiana
led wire-to-wire in a win over visiting Milwaukee.

Young added 11 rebounds, four assists and five steals as Indiana won its fifth
straight game and avenged a 118-101 loss in Milwaukee's first game in their
new arena in October.

Victor Oladipo was back in the Pacers lineup after missing the past 11 games
with right knee soreness. Oladipo scored 12 points and had 10 rebounds to go
along with six assists.

Mavericks 114, Hawks 107

Harrison Barnes scored 25 points as Dallas extended its winning streak to
three games with a victory over visiting Atlanta.

The win also broke the Mavericks' 10-game losing streak to the Hawks, a
stretch that began Oct. 30, 2013. Dallas is now 5-1 in December.

The Mavericks also got 24 points from rookie Luka Doncic, who was 12-for-15
from the foul line and added 10 rebounds and six assists. It was the 13th time
he scored 20 or more points.

Jazz 111, Heat 84

Donovan Mitchell scored 21 points to lead a balanced offensive effort that
lifted Utah to a victory over visiting Miami.

Derrick Favors added 17 points and eight rebounds and Kyle Korver chipped in
16 points for the Jazz. Rudy Gobert added 10 points and 11 rebounds as Utah
snapped a two-game losing streak.

Rodney McGruder scored 16 points, Kelly Olynyk added 14 points and Josh
Richardson chipped in 11 for the Heat. Miami dropped a game to the Jazz for
the first time since the 2015-16 season, snapping the team's four-game winning
streak over Utah.

--Field Level Media