Griffin scores 30, Pistons beat Knicks
DETROIT >> Blake Griffin scored
30 points and Stanley Johnson added 21 to lift the Detroit Pistons to a 115-108 victory over the New York Knicks Tuesday night.
Reggie Jackson contributed
21 points for Detroit. The Pistons held New York to 40 percent shooting from the field and led throughout the final three quarters.
Allonzo Trier scored 24 points for the Knicks, who had won a season-high three in a row.
The Pistons (11-7) are off to a solid start under new coach Dwane Casey, although nine of their victories have been against teams that currently have losing records.
The Knicks (7-15) took an early 13-5 lead, but Detroit was up 24-19 at the end of the first quarter, and the Pistons never relinquished the lead. RAPTORS 122, GRIZZLIES 114 >> Kyle Lowry had 24 points and six assists, Fred VanVleet added 18 points and Toronto used a 3-point shooting burst in the fourth quarter to beat Memphis.
VanVleet made all six shots on the night, including three from outside the arc in the fourth, when Toronto was 7 of 12 from
3-point range. Lowry was 5 of 8 on 3-pointers.
Kawhi Leonard finished with
17 points and 10 rebounds, and Serge Ibaka scored 16 points as the Raptors won their sixth straight.
Marc Gasol led Memphis with
27 points, making 10 of his 14 shots. Mike Conley added 20 points and six assists.
HAWKS 115, HEAT 113 >> Taurean Prince scored 18 points, Trae Young finished with 17 points and 10 assists and Atlanta held off Miami to snap a seven-game road slide.
John Collins scored 16 points, Omari Spellman had 14 and Kent Bazemore finished with
12 for the Hawks, who are 2-0 against Miami this season and
3-16 against everyone else. Josh Richardson led Miami with 22 points, but his potential winning 3-pointer with 3 seconds left — a wide-open look — bounced off the rim.
Dwyane Wade scored 18 and Wayne Ellington added 15 for the Heat, who have lost six straight at home.
It’s only the 10th time in the
31 years of Heat basketball that Miami has lost so many consecutive games at home.
Bam Adebayo scored 12 for Miami, which got 11 apiece from Justise Winslow and Hassan Whiteside.
Atlanta led by 19 early in the second half and was still up by
13 with 8:50 left, before Miami went on its best run of the night.
The Heat needed less than four minutes to go on a 14-0 run. Richardson scored seven of those points, including the last basket of the spurt with 5:04 remaining, to go up 109-108 — their first lead since early in the second quarter.