Tatum, Schroder team up to push Celtics past Thunder
Jayson Tatum scored 33 points, Dennis Schroder had 29 and the Boston Celtics beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 111-105 on Saturday night.
Al Horford added 10 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists for Boston, which won for seventh time in 10 games. Grant Williams chipped in with 14 points and Enes Kanter had 10 points and 10 boards.
Lu Dort scored 16 points for Oklahoma City, Josh Giddey had 15 points and eight rebounds, and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander added 14 points. The Thunder have dropped four of five.
Coming off an emotional 22-point victory over the rival Lakers a night earlier, the Celtics didn’t have any letdown, charging to a double-digit lead midway into the second quarter.
Tatum had 37 points and 11 rebounds in the win over Los Angeles on Friday.
Boston pushed a 13-point halftime lead to 68-48 on Horford’s threepoint play. The Thunder made a brief spurt with consecutive 3s by Giddey before the Celtics went on a 13-2 run.
They led by 16 with 6 ½ minutes left in the game before the Thunder sliced it under double digits on Jeremiah Robinson-Earl’s follow shot with just under 4 minutes left.
But Oklahoma City never made a serious threat.
Boston held a 58-45 halftime advantage behind 16 points from Tatum and 13 by Schroder. WIZARDS 103, HEAT 100 >> Kentavious Caldwell-Pope and Spencer Dinwiddie each scored 16 points and hit two 3-pointers during a crucial late stretch and the Wizards rallied to beat Miami.
Bradley Beal had 21 points to help Washington split the home-and-home series with Miami and move a half-game above the Heat in the Southeast Division standings. Miami, beat Washington 112-97 in Florida on Thursday night.
The Wizards trailed by as 16 in the third quarter and by 10 with 4:42 to play before Caldwell-Pope and Dinwiddie scored every point during a 15-2 run to give Washington a 99-96 lead with 1:43 left.
Jimmy Butler scored 29 points for the Heat.
KNICKS 106, ROCKETS 99 >> Alec Burks scored 17 of his 20 points in the fourth quarter, Evan Fournier added 19 and New York handed Houston its 14th consecutive loss,
All-Star Julius Randle added 16 points and 10 rebounds, and Immanuel Quickley had 13 points off the bench for the Knicks.
Christian Wood had 18-points and 12 rebounds for the NBA-worst Rockets. They are 1-15.
PACERS 111, PELICANS 94 >> Domantas Sabonis had 20 points and 10 rebounds and Indiana’s starters bounced back from being benched a night earlier to beat New Orleans.
Yanked by coach Rick Carlisle in the third quarter of loss at Charlotte, Indiana’s starters opened with 23 points in the first quarter for a 32-19 lead.
Jonas Valanciunas had 19 points and 13 rebounds for the Pelicans.