Oladipo’s late 3 gives Pacers rare 97-94 win over Spurs

INDIANAPOLIS — Victor Oladipo’s step-back 3-pointer with 10.3 seconds left Sunday completed a late Indiana comeback that gave the Pacers a rare 97-94 victory over San Antonio Spurs.

The former Indiana University star finished with 23 points and five assists, and Domantas Sabonis added career highs of 22 points and 12 rebounds.

It’s only the third time in 20 games that the Pacers have beaten the Spurs.

LaMarcus Aldridge finished with

26 points and eight rebounds to lead San Antonio, which played again without Kawhi Leonard and Tony Parker. The loss means coach Gregg Popovich must wait another day to tie Phil Jackson for sixth on the NBA’s career victory list.

San Antonio has lost two in a row. But when the Spurs opened the fourth quarter on an 18-5 run and took an 82-73 lead with 6:43 to go, it looked like the Spurs would run away.

Instead Sabonis and Oladipo, the two players acquired in last summer’s blockbuster trade that sent Paul George to Oklahoma City, rallied the Pacers. They combined for nine points in a 16-4 run with Sabonis’

19-footer giving Indiana an 89-85 lead with 3:06 to go. Oladipo broke an

89-89 tie with a three-point play with

1:53 left.

And after Danny Green scored five straight points to give the Spurs a 9492 lead, Oladipo hit the long rainbow jumper to put the Pacers ahead 95-94.

Aldridge could have given the Spurs the lead with an 18-footer but it clanked off the rim and Cory Joseph grabbed the rebound and drew a foul. Joseph made both free throws and the Spurs got one last chance — Patty Mills’ 3 to force overtime, but it hit nothing but air.

Bucks 117, Hawks 106

ATLANTA — Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 33 points, Khris Middleton had 27 and the Milwaukee Bucks cruised to a 117-106 victory over the outmanned Atlanta Hawks on Sunday.

Antetokounmpo also had 11 rebounds and five assists. He went 14 for

21 from the field, scoring from all over the floor while helping Milwaukee to its third win in its last four games.

He began the game with 175 points,

53 rebounds and 28 assists, the best start by a player in NBA history through his first five games.

Dennis Schroder finished with 21 points and Taurean Prince had 17 for Atlanta, which has lost six straight. The Hawks have no inside experience or size this season after letting Paul Millsap and Al Horford leave as free agents and trading Dwight Howard to Charlotte. They were outrebounded by

12 and never led. Antetokounmpo, the NBA’s scoring leader with a 34.7 average, had 13 of Milwaukee’s first 20 points. Coach Jason Kidd rested him until midway through the second quarter, when his hard dunk made it 59-41.

The Bucks hit nine 3-pointers in the first half, including four by Rashad Vaughn on six attempts. They finished with season highs in points and 3s (13).

Milwaukee had such command of the game that Kidd didn’t call a timeout until the Hawks trimmed the lead to 11 at the 7:42 mark of the fourth. John Henson hit a hook shot on Milwaukee’s next possession to make it

98-85.