PACERS HUMBLE 76ERS ON THE ROAD
Thaddeus Young had 26 points and 10 rebounds to carry the visiting Indiana Pacers past the Philadelphia 76ers 113-101 on Friday for their sixth straight win.
Bojan Bogdanovic added 18 points and Victor Oladipo had 14 in just his second game back from a sore knee that sidelined him for 11 games. Domantas Sabonis contributed 14 points and 16 rebounds.
Joel Embiid led the Sixers with 40 points and 21 rebounds, while JJ Redick scored 22 points and Ben Simmons had 18 points and nine rebounds.
Sixers guard Jimmy Butler missed his second straight game with a strained groin and was replaced in the starting lineup by Furkan Korkmaz. The Sixers fell to 14-3 at home and dropped back-to-back home games for the first time all season.
In Sacramento, Golden State countered a 10-0 Sacramento run with a 17-2 game-ending flurry, allowing the two-time defending NBA champions to escape with a 130-125 victory over the host Kings.
Stephen Curry poured in a game-high 35 points, Kevin Durant had 33 and Klay Thompson 27, helping the Warriors bounce back from a 113-93 embarrassment at home against the Toronto Raptors on Wednesday night with a second consecutive narrow victory over their Northern California rival.
Buddy Hield had 27 points, De’Aaron Fox 25 and Willie Cauley-Stein 22 for the Kings, who had a twogame winning streak snapped.
In Cleveland, Giannis Antetokounmpo matched a career-high 44 points, grabbed 14 rebounds and had eight assists as visiting Milwaukee led wire-to-wire and beat Cleveland 114-102.
Antetokounmpo was coming off his lowest-scoring game of the season – 12 in a loss Wednesday to Indiana. On Friday, he went 14-for-19 from the field and made 16 of 21 free-throw attempts. Brook Lopez scored 19 and Eric Bledsoe added 16 points for the Bucks.
Jordan Clarkson led the Cavaliers with 23 points off the bench. Rodney Hood added 19 for Cleveland.