Booker, Durant, Okogie lead Suns to 125-104 romp over Bulls

CHICAGO >> Devin Booker scored 35 points and matched his career high with six 3s, Kevin Durant added 20 points in his second game with Phoenix and the Suns beat Chicago.

Josh Okogie scored 25 and made five 3-pointers and the Suns withstood big efforts by DeMar DeRozan and Zach LaVine to win for the eighth time in 11 games. KNICKS 122, HEAT 120 >> Julius Randle scored 43 points, the last of them on a go-ahead 3-pointer with 1.7 seconds left, and New York beat Miami to extend its winning streak to eight games.

Randle was 16 of 25 from the floor, including 8 of 13 from 3-point range. Jalen Brunson scored 25 points, Immanuel Quickley added 21 and RJ Barrett had 17. At 38-27, the Knicks have already topped last season’s win total.

HAWKS 129, TRAIL BLAZERS 111 >> Dejounte Murray scored a career-high 41 points and Atlanta overcome Portland star Damian Lillard’s 33-point night to give new coach Quin Sny- der his first victory with the Hawks.

Snyder, the former Utah coach, agreed to a five-year deal as Atlanta’s coach on Feb. 26, five days after the firing of Nate McMillan. The Hawks lost to Washington 119-116 on Tuesday night in Snyder’s debut.

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Paolo Banchero scored 31 points and finally got a cou- ple of shots to fall from long range to help Orlando beat Charlotte.

The No. 1 overall pick in the 2022 NBA draft was 1 of 33 on 3-point attempts in February and started this month 0 for 2 before going 2 of 6 from against the Hornets. It was his first game with multiple 3s since Jan. 30.

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Aaron Wiggins scored 27 points and Oklahoma City beat Utah to snap a five- game losing streak.

Oklahoma City’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, an AllStar who averages 31 points, missed his fourth straight game. He was out due to health and safety protocols and an abdominal strain.