Raptors get late hoop to tip Magic
Danny Green made a fadeaway jumper with less than a second remaining to lift the Toronto Raptors over the Magic, 93-91, last night in Orlando.
Green caught Kyle Lowry’s inbound pass with 2.3 seconds left, pulled up on the left side of the lane and hit a jumper with 0.5 seconds remaining. Orlando’s Nikola Vucevic missed on a 67-foot heave as time expired.
Kawhi Leonard led Toronto with 18 points, and Pascal Siakam had 15. Serge Ibaka added 14 points and nine rebounds, and Green finished with 13.
Evan Fournier led the Magic with 27 points, 22 of them in the second half when he was about the only offense Orlando could generate. Aaron Gordon had 16 points, and Vucevic had 14 points and 18 rebounds for the Magic, who ended a three-game winning streak.
Wizards 125, Clippers 118 — John Wall scored 30 points, Bradley Beal had 27 and Jeff Green added 20 as host Washington rallied from 24 points down to beat Los Angeles.
Wall, Beal and Green each scored 10 in the fourth quarter as Washington outscored Los Angeles 39-23 to pull out the win.
Washington, which improved to 6-11, won amid reports the team would listen to trade offers for Wall and Beal. There were also reports that players argued in practice and that Wall had been fined for disrespectful behavior toward coach Scott Brooks.
Trail Blazers 118, Knicks 114 — CJ McCollum scored 31 points, Damian Lillard had 29 points, eight assists and six rebounds, and visiting Portland beat New York.
Portland’s star guards provided most of the offense in a game that was close most of the way, and Evan Turner helped the Trail Blazers finally pull it out when he put back a missed shot with Portland clinging to a two-point lead and 9.5 seconds remaining.
Nets 104, Heat 92 — D’Angelo Russell scored 20 points, Jarrett Allen had 13 points and 14 rebounds and Brooklyn added to Miami’s misery at home.
Spencer Dinwiddie scored 16 points for Brooklyn, which held the Heat to 36 percent shooting. Joe Harris and DeMarre Carroll each added 11 for the Nets
Elsewhere in the NBA — J.R. Smith’s bumpy-but-neverboring stay with the Cavaliers is over.
The team said yesterday the disgruntled forward, who had requested to be traded earlier this season, “will no longer be with team as the organization works with JR and his representation regarding his future.”
The Cavaliers will try to trade Smith. He will make $14.7 million this season, and $3.8 million of his $15.6 million salary for next season is guaranteed.
Meanwhile, Cavaliers All-Star forward Kevin Love may not be back until sometime in 2019 following foot surgery . ...
Markelle Fultz won’t play for the Philadelphia 76ers until his troublesome right shoulder is examined by a specialist on Monday.
Fultz, the No. 1 pick of the 2017 draft, added another curious chapter to an injury-plagued career when his representatives informed the Sixers that the guard would be examined next week.