PHILADELPHIA — Derrick White scored 14 of his 27 points in the fourth quarter to lead the short-handed Boston Celtics to a 117-107 win over the Philadelphia 76ers on Wednesday night in a matchup of the early pacesetters in the Eastern Conference.
Jayson Tatum scored a game-high 29 points and Jrue Holiday added 18 points, 10 rebounds and three assists for the Celtics, who were missing Jaylen Brown with an illness and Kristaps Porzingis with a right knee contusion.
Philadelphia, playing its second game in a back-to-back and third game in four nights, got 20 points apiece from Joel Embiid and Tyrese Maxey.
Sam Hauser and Al Horford took the places of Brown and Porzingis in the starting lineup, with Horford scoring 14 points as the Celtics won their fourth in a row.
MAVERICKS 130, WIZARDS 117
WASHINGTON — Luka Doncic scored 26 points and had 10 assists as Dallas eased to a victory over Washington.
Tim Hardaway Jr. scored 31 points and sank seven 3-pointers for the Mavericks on a night point guard Kyrie Irving sat out with a sprained left foot.
Derrick Jones Jr. had 20 points and Dereck Lively II had 17 on 7 of 8 shooting.
Kyle Kuzma scored 22 points to lead the Wizards, who lost their fourth straight. Jordan Poole added 16 points and Deni Avdija had 15.
KNICKS 116, HAWKS 114
ATLANTA — Jalen Brunson scored 24 points, including a pull-up jumper from the top of the lane with 18.8 seconds remaining, and New York held on for the victory over Atlanta.
Julius Randle led the Knicks with 29 points.
Bogdan Bogdanovic led the Hawks with 28 points and Jalen Johnson added 18. Trae Young had 15 points and Dejounte Murray was held to 13.
Young had a chance to tie it for the Hawks, but he missed the second of two free throws to leave the Knicks with a 112-111 leads.
The Knicks led by as many as 13 in the first half. Randle led the way, filling the void with RJ Barrett missing his second straight game suffering from a migraine.
BUCKS 128, RAPTORS 112
TOTONTO — Damian Lillard had 37 points and a season-high 13 assists, Malik Beasley scored a season-high 30 and Milwaukee overcame Giannis Antetokounmpo’s absence to beat Toronto.
Antetokounmpo missed his first game of the season after playing the first 10, sitting out because of a strained right calf.
Bobby Portis scored 18 points for Milwaukee and Cameron Payne had 13.
The Bucks finished 20 for 39 from long range, matching a season-high for made 3-pointers.
Scottie Barnes scored 29 points for the Raptors. Jakob Poeltl had 13 points and 11 rebounds.
Notes
The NBA has suspended Golden State's Draymond Green for five games for grabbing Minnesota's Rudy Gobert around the neck “in an unsportsmanlike and dangerous manner,” the league said Wednesday night.
Also penalized by the league for their roles in the incident, which happened early in Tuesday's game between the Timberwolves and Warriors, were Gobert, his Minnesota teammate Jaden McDaniels and Golden State guard Klay Thompson — all fined $25,000 by the league.
But Green will pay the biggest price, both in terms of games missed and money lost. The suspension will cost him $769,704 in forfeited salary.
“The length of the suspension is based in part on Green’s history of unsportsmanlike acts,” the NBA said in the release announcing the penalties. Those sanctions were handed down by Joe Dumars, the NBA's Executive Vice President and Head of Basketball Operations — and a longtime mentor of Green's.
The incident started when Thompson and McDaniels “became entangled and were grabbing and pulling at one another’s jerseys,” the NBA said, and got further out of hand when Gobert got involved and put his arms around Thompson.
Green got involved not long after that, wrapping his arm around Gobert’s neck.
Thompson and McDaniels were each assessed a technical foul and ejected, while Green was assessed a Flagrant Foul 2 for grabbing Gobert. That category of flagrant comes with an automatic ejection, which was Green’s second in Golden State’s last three games.
Green will miss home games Thursday and Saturday against Oklahoma City, another home game Monday against Houston, a road game with Phoenix on Nov. 22 and then a home NBA In-Season Tournament game against San Antonio on Nov. 24.
He would be eligible to return Nov. 28 at Sacramento. The Warriors — who will also be without star guard Stephen Curry for at least Thursday's game because of a knee issue — have lost four consecutive games and are 6-6 through 12 games this season, just 1-4 at home.
First Published: November 16, 2023, 3:47 a.m.