Houston Chronicle

Green’s last-second shot lifts Raptors

- Wire reports

ORLANDO, Fla. — Danny Green made a fade-away jumper with less than a second remaining to lift the Toronto Raptors over the Orlando Magic 93-91 on Tuesday night.

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. Aaron Gordon had 16 points, and Vucevic had 14 points and 18 rebounds for the Magic, who ended a three-game winning streak.

TRAIL BLAZERS 118 KNICKS 114

C.J. McCollum scored 31 points and Damian Lillard contribute­d 29 points and eight assists as Portland won at New York.

The Western Conference-leading Trail Blazers improved to 12-5 with the victory. The Knicks have lost six in a row.

Tim Hardaway Jr. led New York with 32 points.

WIZARDS 125, CLIPPERS 118

John Wall scored 30, Bradley Beal had 27 and Jeff Green added 20 as host Washington rallied from 24 points down to win.

Tobias Harris scored a season-high 29 points, and Montrezl Harrell had 20 for the Clippers, who had won five straight.

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.

Hassan Whiteside had 21 points and 23 rebounds for Miami, which dropped its fifth straight at home.

Miami’s Dwyane Wade returned from a sevengame absence because of the birth of his daughter to score five points.

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