76ers lose again without injured Embiid, falling to Pacers

NDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Justin Holiday came off the bench to score a season-high 27 points in the Indiana Pacers’118-113 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers on Saturday night.

IPhiladelphia center Joel Embiid missed his fourth consecutive game after testing positive for COVID-19 on Monday. The 76ers have lost all four games.

Holiday was 9 of 11 from the field. Malcolm Brogdon had a tripledouble with 13 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists. Myles Turner added 20 points, and Domantas Sabonis had 18 points and 12 rebounds.

Tobias Harris led the 76ers with a season-high 32 points on 10-of-22 shooting. Tyrese Maxey added 24.

HEAT 111, JAZZ 105 SALT LAKE CI TY ( AP) — Tyler Herro had 27 points and eight rebounds to help Miami beat Utah.

Duncan Robinson made six 3-pointers and added 22 points. Kyle Lowry had 21. Miami swept the season series with the Jazz and snapped a three-game losing streak.

Bojan Bogdanovic scored 26 points –19 coming in the fourth quarter – for Utah. Jordan

Clarkson added 25 points, and Donovan Mitchell had 22. The Jazz lost for the fourth time in five games.

CAVALI ERS CELTICS 89

CLEVELAND (AP) — Darius Garland made two free throws with 9.4 seconds left and Cleveland rallied from 19 points down in the third quarter to beat Boston to open a twogame set.

Dennis Schroder had an opportunity to force overtime for Boston, but missed a jumper from the right baseline as time expired. There were five lead changes and seven ties in the final seven 91, minutes.

The teams will meet again Monday at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse.

Garland finished with 22 points and six assists, and rookie Evan Mobley had 19 points, nine rebounds and three blocks. Cleveland has won six of its last seven and is off to its best start in five years at 9-5. Schroder scored 28 points.

CLIPPERS 129, TIMBEWOLVES 102

LOSANGELES(AP) — Paul George scored 23 points, Reggie Jackson added 21 points and Los Angeles routed Minnesota for its seventh victory in a row.

Ivica Zubac had 10 points and 12 rebounds, Eric Bledsoe had 14 points and nine assists and George had nine rebounds for the Clipper s.

Anthony Edwards led Minnesota with 21 points and nine rebounds. D’Angel o Russell and Jaden McDaniels had 15 points each. Karl-Anthony Towns was held to eight points on 3-of-11 shooti ng.

PELICANS 112, GRIZZLIES 101

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Nickeil AlexanderWalker scored 21 points, Brandon Ingram returned from a sevengame absence to add 19 and New Orleans beat Memphis to snap a ninegame losing streak.

The victory was the first at home this season for the Pelicans, who had lost 12 of their first 13 games playing without Zion Williamson, sidelined with a broken right foot.

Dillon Brooks led Memphis with 23 points, and Ja Morant had 22.

WIZARRDS 104, MAGIC 92

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Spencer Dinwiddie scored 23 points, Montrezl Harrell added 20 and Washington used a 20-0 first-half run to beat Orlando.