Beal, Wizards hold on to beat Knicks

Bradley Beal scored 27 points, Kelly Oubre Jr. had 21 off the bench and the Wizards beat the Knicks, 110-107, in Washington on Monday night.

John Wall had 18 points and 15 assists for the Wizards, who collected their just their third road win of the season and beat the Knicks at Madison Square Garden for the ninth straight time. Markieff Morris also had 18 points and Otto Porter Jr. scored 15.

Tim Hardaway Jr. led the Knicks with 20 points. Damyean Dotson scored 17 and Enes Kanter had 13 points and 16 rebounds for New York, which has lost three of four.

Washington trailed by as many as 11 points late in the second quarter, but Beal’s layup with 6.6 seconds remaining got the Wizards within 61-52 at halftime.

The skidding Bulls fired coach Fred Hoiberg on Monday and promoted associate head coach Jim Boylen in hopes of lifting the team from the bottom of the standings. Hoiberg finished his tenure with the Bulls 115-155 (.426) and with just one playoff appearance in three-plus seasons. AP