Tatum lifts Celtics to eighth win in row
Jayson Tatum scored 38 points and led a third-quarter surge that sent the Boston Celtics past the visiting Atlanta Hawks 105-95 for their eighth consecutive victory.
Tatum also had 10 rebounds. Robert Williams added 10 points and 14 rebounds, and Jaylen Brown scored 17 points.
Trae Young had 30 points and 10 assists to lead Atlanta, which lost for the fourth time in five games.
Anthony Edwards celebrated a milestone by scoring 37 points and leading the Minnesota Timberwolves to a 129-120 victory over the host Indiana Pacers.
Edwards became the fourthyoungest player in NBA history to reach the 2,500-point mark when he made his first basket of the game. The second-year forward is 20 years 192 days old. LeBron James, Kevin Durant and Devin Booker are the only younger players to achieve the feat.
The Milwaukee Bucks were optimistic that guard Pat Connaughton would return before the end of the regular season as he prepares to undergo surgery on his broken right hand. Connaughton suffered the injury Thursday while fouling Chris Paul on a drive to the basket in a 131-107 loss at Phoenix.
Reilly Opelka won his third ATP Tour title, beating Jenson Brooksby in straight sets in an allAmerican final at the inaugural Dallas Open.
The second-seeded Opelka won all 46 service games during the tournament and faced just one break point, which came in the second set of his 7-6 (5), 7-6 (4) victory over the fourth-seeded Brooksby.
The 6-foot-11 Opelka’s powerful serve produced 16 aces.
Felix Auger-Aliassime won his first title in his ninth attempt, upsetting the top-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-4, 6-2 in the Rotterdam (Netherlands) final to deny his opponent an eighth title . ... Casper Ruud of Norway beat home-crowd favorite Diego Schwartzman 5-7, 6-2, 6-3 in Buenos Aires to win his second Argentina Open . ... Anett Kontaveit overcame Maria Sakkari 5-7, 7-6 (4), 7-5 in the final of the St. Petersburg (Russia) Ladies Trophy for her fourth consecutive indoor championship.
The NHL suspended Ottawa forward Austin Watson two games for a hit on the Boston Bruins’ Jack Ahcan during the Senators’ 2-0 loss Saturday.
In the Spanish soccer league, host Espanyol could not stop a goal by Barcelona’s Luuk de Jong in the sixth minute of second-half stoppage time and settled for a 2-2 draw that extended its winless run against the powerhouse to 24 consecutive matches.