Texarkana Gazette

Magic extend win streak with 128-118 win over Nets

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Evan Fournier scored 24 points, Nikola Vucevic had 22 and Orlando picked up where it left off before the NBA season was suspended, beating Brooklyn.

Playing as the designated road team not far from their arena, the Magic looked right at home at Disney — whose name they wear as their jersey patch.

They extended their winning streak to four and moved back ahead of the Nets into seventh place in the Eastern Conference.

Brooklyn also won its last three before the stoppage, but the decimated team that returned is a shell of the one that beat the Lakers in Los Angeles in its final game. The Nets are missing Spencer Dinwiddie, DeAndre Jordan

and Taurean Prince after they tested positive for the coronaviru­s. They are already playing without Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving.

Suns 125, Wizards 112

Devin Booker scored 27 points, Deandre Ayton added 24 points and 12 rebounds and Phoenix beat Washington.

Booker made all nine of his free throws and the Suns hit

30 of 32 from the line.

They shot 52% from the field, with Ayton hitting two of three 3-pointers and going 11 of 14 overall.

Rui Hachimura scored 21 points and Jerome Robinson added 20 for the Wizards on coach Scott Brooks’ 55th birthday.

Bucks 119, Celtics 112

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla

— Giannis Antetokoun­mpo converted a tiebreakin­g three-point play with 1:28 left on an overturned call that kept him in the game and helped the Milwaukee Bucks beat the Boston Celtics 119-112 on Friday night.

Antetokoun­mpo had 36 points, 15 rebounds and seven assists in the Bucks’ first game in the restart.

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