Houston (AP)-Stephen Curry scored 27 points and the Golden State Warriors stood the late increase in Houston Rockets for a 105-98 victory on Thursday evening.

The Warriors clung to a two-point lead before using an 11: 2 run to do it 102-91 with about two minutes. A highlight of this sprint came when Curry Jeff Green delighted the visitor’s bank with a two-handed dunder in front of the gays of a 3 pointer and Jimmy Butler about a minute later.

The Golden State under the direction of up to 24 and frustrated about the poor performance of his starter, the Houston trainer Ime Udoka initiated Jalen Green, Alperen Sengun and Dillon Brooks on the fourth quarter. The team’s backups closed a 16: 6 run, which lowered the lead to 88-86 with seven minutes before the lead.

Nate Williams, who only played in his sixth game this season, had seven points in this route.

Udoka never invested the three starters again. Aaron Holiday led the Rockets with 25 points with 25 points when Houston lost in nine games for the seventh time.

Timberwolves 116, Thunder 101

Minneapolis (AP) -Naz Reid had 27 points, 13 rebounds and seven assists for short-handed Minnesota in a victory over Oklahoma City, who ended her winning streak with seven games.

Anthony Edwards scored 23 points and Jaden McDaniels added 21 points to drive the wolves (31-25) into the all-star break with an inspired performance against the western thunder (44-10) behind a small metropolitan strategies required Lack of their usual homepage.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander had 24 points, nine assists and eight rebounds to lead the thunder after shot in the first half 2 for 13.

Pelicans 140, kings 133, OT

New Orleans (AP)-CJ McCollum scored 37 of his 43 points after the half-time intake in the extension and New Orleans, a 10-game defeat with a victory over Sacramento.

Jose Alvarado and Trey Murphy III. Scored 18 points for New Orleans, who defeated Sacramento for the first time in four meetings. Reserve Jordan Hawkins and Jeremiah Robinson-Earl each scored 16 points, while Karlo Matkovic added a career high of 13 points and blocked three shots.

New Orleans played without Zion Williamson, who scored 33 points on Wednesday and got out on Thursday when he continued to work in shape from a left thigh injury.

Zach Lavine had 32 points and 10 assists for Sacramento, while Domanten had 22 points and connected a career high with 28 rebounds. Malik Monk scored 24 points and Demar Derozan added 20.

The Pelicans tried to protect a three -point lead late in the regulation when they deliberately polluted Sabonis with a 8 -second lead. Sabonis missed his second free throw, but Monk recovered, was fouled by Bruce Brown and hit two free throws to force overtime.

Mavericks 118, heat 113

Dallas (AP)-Dante Exum scored a season high of 27 points, one shortly before his career high, and Dallas defeated Miami.

Max Christie added 19 points, Spencer Dinwiddie had 17 and Kessler Edwards ended the season height of 15 points and nine rebounds, when the understaffed, underlying Mavericks swept a home-to-back home climb and the fourth time in five games for the fourth We won.

Tyler Herro scored 40 points for the heat that swept in a row in a street and lost four games in a row. Rookie Kel’el Ware had 17 points and Kyle Anderson added 15 points and 10 rebounds

The Mavericks had listed eight players in the injury report, with Kyrie Irving (shoulder tribe) and Klay Thompson (bricked foot) added after far -reaching minutes on Wednesday evening.

Dallas’ highest regular guests were Edwards and Olivier-Maxence Prosper, 6-foot 8.

Clippers 120, Jazz 116, OT

Salt Lake City (AP)-Norman Powell scored 41 points with a high season and James Harden added 32 to bring Los Angeles to an overtime win over Utah.

Harden also had 10 rebounds, seven templates and three steals. Los Angeles returned from a 20-point deficit and defeated Utah in three games for the second time.

The Clipper never looked up in the extension of Ben Simmons’s debut, but did not withdraw from jazz until Powell made two consecutive baskets to clean them up with 59 seconds with 119-114.

Kyle Filipowski led Utah with 20 points and 10 rebounds. Lauri Markkanen also scored 20 points and John Collins was 17.