Nets beat Cavs for 7th in East

Kevin Durant scored 36 points, leading a pair of fourth-quarter surges that carried the Brooklyn Nets into a tie for seventh place in the Eastern Conference with a 118-107 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Friday night.

The Nets caught the Cavaliers at 43-38 with a game remaining and clinched the tiebreaker. They will finish seventh if they beat Indiana on Sunday in their final regularseason game. The No. 7 team hosts No. 8 on Tuesday, moving into the playoffs with a victory.

Kyrie Irving shook off a poor shooting night to finish with 18 points, eight assists and six rebounds. Bruce Brown had 18 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists for the Nets, who won their third straight. Andre Drummond had 15 points and 12 rebounds.

LaMelo Ball scored 24 points and Charlotte ran away from Chicago.

The Hornets — 10th in the Eastern Conference and a game behind Brooklyn and Atlanta coming in — barely broke a sweat in this one. They led 7951 through the first two quarters.

Giannis Antetokounmpo had 30 points, 13 rebounds and eight assists to help Milwaukee rout Detroit.

Averaging 29.9 points, Antetokounmpo needs 35 points or more Sunday in the season finale at Cleveland to join Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as the only Milwaukee players to average 30 points for a season.

Bam Adebayo made the goahead dunk with 27 seconds remaining and scored 27 points in Miami's comeback victory over Atlanta..

Trae Young scored 35 points for Atlanta.

Luka Doncic had 39 points, 11 rebounds and his 16th technical foul of the season for Dallas, which will open the playoffs at home for the first time since 2011 after routing Portland.

The Mavericks will play their regular-season finale Sunday without Doncic, unless the technical foul is rescinded by the NBA office.

Pascal Siakam had 29 points and 10 rebounds, Gary Trent Jr. made the winning layup with 4.8 seconds left and Toronto beat Houston.

Obi Toppin scored a career-high 35 points and New York beat Washington,