Knicks get third straight win
Randle has 34 points, 10 rebounds against Lakers
Julius Randle had 34 points and 10 rebounds against his former team and the New York Knicks beat the Los Angeles Lakers 111-96 on Monday night for their third straight victory.
Coming off tense finishes against Memphis and Toronto, the Knicks led comfortably for much of the fourth quarter and moved back above .500 at 28-27.
Elfrid Payton scored 20 points and Derrick Rose added 14 off the bench for the Knicks, who had plenty of energy on the second night of back-to-back games.
Dennis Schroder scored 21 points and Markieff Morris had 17 for the Lakers, who fell to 5-7 since Lebron James sprained his ankle March 20, joining fellow All-star Anthony Davis on the sideline.
The Knicks outrebounded the Lakers 47-33. Andre Drummond, who had 20 points and 11 rebounds against the Nets, took only three shots and had three points and 10 boards.
New York had a 66-62 lead in the third quarter before a 13-2 spurt, with Randle scoring the final five, extended it to 79-64. He had another basket with 5.3 seconds remaining in the period, giving the Knicks an 81-68 lead.
The Lakers ran off 10 straight points midway through the fourth to get within 92-87, but Payton scored before Randle converted a three-point play to push it back to double figures. He followed with another basket and then a free throw as the lead grew to 100-87.
76ers 113, Mavericks 95: Joel Embiid scored 36 points and Philadelphia wrapped up a long stretch of mostly road games with a victory over Dallas. Embiid made all six of his free throws in the first four-plus minutes and was 14-for-15 from the line. Philadelphia took a half-game lead atop the Eastern
Conference over the Nets, whose game at Minnesota was called off because of the shooting death of a Black man by police in the Minneapolis area. Luka Doncic scored 32 points but the young Dallas star didn’t have enough help with European sidekick Kristaps Porzingis sitting out the second night of a back-to-back four days after playing in one for the first time in two months.
Spurs 120, Magic 97: Demar Derozan scored 19 points in under three quarters, Dejounte Murray added 17 and San Antonio routed slumping Orlando. San Antonio was playing a night after winning in Dallas on a last-second shot by Derozan, and it showed no signs of fatigue in cruising to the easy win.