Wall’s Wizards rout Celtics, cut deficit

John Wall scored 24 points, Isaiah Thomas was held to 13 and the Washington Wizards jumped out to a hot start and rode it to a 116-89 victory over the Boston Celtics in a technical foul-filled Game 3 on Thursday night in D.C. to cut their series deficit to 2-1.

The Wizards used a 22-0 first-quarter run to take a 34-12 lead as Thomas and the Celtics kept missing shots and turning the ball over. The game was already a blowout in the second when Washington’s Kelly Oubre Jr. was ejected for charging and knock- ing over Kelly Olynyk after the Boston big man was called for an illegal screen.

There were eight technical fouls and three ejections total.

“I guess that’s playoff basketball,” said Thomas, who was held to 13 points after scoring 53 in Game 2. “We don’t like them and they don’t like us.”

l Kevin Durant had 25 points and 11 rebounds, Stephen Curry had 23 points and Draymond Green had 21 points — with five 3-pointers — as the Golden State Warriors beat the visiting Utah Jazz, 115-104, to take a 2-0 series lead.

Gordon Hayward had 33 points for Utah.

AARON WROTE IN BLOOD

Former NFL star Aaron Hernandez wrote a reference to a biblical passage in ink on his forehead and in blood on the wall of his prison cell before he hanged himself with a bed sheet, state police said in an investigative report released Thursday.

The former New England Patriots tight end was found April 19 at the Souza-Baranowski prison, where he was serving a life sentence in the 2013 murder of a man who had been dating his fiancee’s sister. His suicide came five days after he was acquitted in the 2012 gun slayings of two men in a car.

A report released by state police on Thursday says “John 3:16” was written on Hernandez’s forehead and on the cell wall. The Bible passage says: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

FAN CLAIMS ASSAULT

A woman says she was sexually assaulted in a bathroom during a Pittsburgh Penguins playoff hockey game.

Police say the woman walked into a police station near the PPG Paints Arena at 12:01 a.m. Thursday to make the report.