The Golden State Warriors face a Sunday night deadline on whether to nix a four-team trade involving Gary Payton II after he failed his physical due to an abdominal injury, ESPN and The Athletic reported Saturday.

Payton’s injury could sideline him for the much of the remainder of the regular season, and Golden State now has until 9:30 p.m. ET on Sunday to determine if it wants to proceed with the deal.

The Warriors contend information regarding Payton’s health was withheld during trade negotiations, per the reports. Golden State had not been informed that Payton was being given the pain killer Toradol.

The multi-team deal saw James Wiseman go to the Pistons, who traded Saddiq Bey to the Hawks and Kevin Knox to the Pistons. The Warriors sent five second-round picks to Portland, two of which came from Atlanta.

Payton, 30, averaged 4.1 points, 2.6 rebounds and 1.5 assists in 15 games (one start) for the Blazers this season. He previously played for Golden State (2020-22) after stints with the Milwaukee Bucks (2016-18), Lakers (2017-18) and Wizards (2018-20).

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Joel Embiid scored 37 points and hit a pair of go-ahead free throws with 5.2 seconds remaining as the Philadelphia 76ers rallied down the stretch for a 101-98 victory over the Brooklyn Nets on Saturday at New York.

The Sixers outscored the Nets 16-4 over the final 7:20 and beat Brooklyn for the third time in as many meetings when Spencer Dinwiddie’s potentially game-tying, 32-foot 3-point attempt was ruled on replay to be after the final buzzer.

Embiid saved the Sixers from a third loss in four games with a key rebound after hitting two clutch jumpers during the team’s late, go-ahead scoring run.

Cam Thomas’ layup with 7:43 left opened a 94-85 lead for the Nets, but the Sixers ripped off a 10-2 spurt to get within 96-95 on a 13-footer by Embiid with 3:56 remaining. Embiid answered Dinwiddie’s dunk with a short jumper to make it 98-97 with 1:34 left, but James Harden missed a 3-point attempt nearly a minute later.

With 12.2 seconds left, Dinwiddie lost the ball out of bounds near the baseline.

The Sixers called their final timeout and ran a play for Harden, who missed a layup with 6.2 seconds left. Embiid grabbed the offensive rebound and hit two free throws for a 99-98 lead with 5.2 seconds left.

After a Brooklyn timeout, Mikal Bridges missed a contested layup with 2.4 seconds left and Harden sank two free throws with 0.9 seconds remaining for the final margin before Dinwiddie’s near-miss.

Harden added 29 points in a hostile return to Brooklyn, getting booed every time he touched the ball after he was granted a trade from the Nets to the Sixers last year.

Bridges scored 23 points in his debut for the Nets after being obtained from the Phoenix Suns on Thursday for Kevin Durant. Joe Harris added 18 points for the Nets, Thomas contributed 14 and Cameron Johnson chipped in 12 after being acquired with Bridges.

The Nets held a 60-52 lead by halftime and opened a 68-58 lead when Nic Claxton sped by Embiid for a powerful dunk. They took a 74-62 edge on a jumper by Bridges with four minutes left in the third quarter and held an 82-76 lead heading into the fourth.

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After missing the past four games with a heel injury, Dallas Mavericks star Luka Doncic was upgraded to probable for Saturday’s road game against the Sacramento Kings, putting him closer to his debut alongside new teammate Kyrie Irving.

Doncic hasn’t played since a victory Feb. 2 against the New Orleans Pelicans. Since then, the Mavericks landed Irving in a trade Monday with the Brooklyn Nets to create a partnership among two superstars as the Mavericks chase a deep playoff run.

Irving made his Mavericks debut in a victory Wednesday over the Los Angeles Clippers when he scored 24 points with five assists. In a victory Friday against the Kings, Irving was even better with 25 points and 10 assists.

Doncic is scoring 33.4 points per game with 8.9 assists and 8.2 rebounds. Overall this season, Irving has averages of 27.0 points, 5.0 rebounds and 5.4 assists.

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Portland Trail Blazers forward Jerami Grant was placed into concussion protocol Saturday after sustaining a contusion over his right eye in Friday’s game against the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Grant, 28, ended up returning to Friday’s game after a medical evaluation but started to show concussion symptoms a day later. In 37 minutes Friday, he scored 23 points with four rebounds.

Grant also will go through return-to-participation protocol, where he will have to show he is symptom-free before he can return to action.

In his first season with the Trail Blazers, Grant is averaging 20.8 points and 4.3 rebounds in 54 games. Over nine seasons, the former second-round draft pick out of Syracuse has averaged 12.2 points with 4.0 rebounds for the Philadelphia 76ers (2014-16), Oklahoma City Thunder (2017-19), Denver Nuggets (2019-20), Detroit Pistons (2020-22) and Blazers.

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The Detroit Pistons aim to carry the momentum from a double-overtime win into their game against the host Toronto Raptors on Sunday afternoon.

Bojan Bogdanovic scored 10 of his 32 points in the two overtime periods and rookie Jalen Duren had a career-high 30 points in the Pistons’ 138-131 victory over the visiting San Antonio Spurs on Friday.

Detroit will face a reeling Raptors team that squandered a 13-point, fourth-quarter lead in losing 122-116 to the visiting Utah Jazz on Friday.

Duren also grabbed 17 rebounds — two short of his career best — as the Pistons ended a three-game losing streak on Friday.

“That was two young teams with guys trying to make a mark in this league,” said 19-year-old Duren, who also blocked a career-high four shots. “I love games like this, where it is a bunch of young guys out there battling.”

“He made a lot of big plays at the right time (Friday),” said Pistons coach Dwane Casey, a former Raptors coach. “He was big on the boards and he was catching the ball in traffic and finishing. He could have had even more if not for the (five) free throws he missed. He could barely walk by the end.”

Over his past 10 games, Duren is averaging 13.4 points, 10.2 rebounds and 1.8 blocked shots.

In their loss to the Jazz, the Raptors took a 13-point lead into the fourth quarter and still led by 13 with 5:17 to play.

The Raptors wasted a 35-point effort by Pascal Siakam.

“I thought everything was going just the way we wanted it to for the first 36 minutes of that game,” Raptors coach Nick Nurse said. “I thought we were making really good decisions. We obviously were shooting it a little bit from the perimeter. We just couldn’t stop the parade to the free-throw line in the fourth quarter.”

Utah was 11-for-13 from the foul line in the final period and shot 13-for-17 (76.5 percent) from the field in the quarter against a porous Raptors defense.

“I take 100 percent of the blame on that,” said Raptors center Precious Achiuwa, who had 16 points and four rebounds. “I’ve got to do a better job of anchoring the defense back there, getting guys where they need to be. Just got to be better.”

The Raptors shot 8-for-23 (34.8 percent) from the field in the final 12 minutes.

Jakob Poeltl, who played his first game for Toronto after being acquired in a trade with the Spurs on Thursday, had six points, four rebounds and five fouls in 16:41 playing time as a reserve.

He started the game on the bench because he had not had a chance to practice with the team, but Nurse expects Poeltl to eventually become a starter and provide an anchor for the defense.

“Hopefully he’s going to rim protect, either with some shot-blocking or some vertical-type moves,” Nurse said. “Hopefully, he’ll defensive rebound for us, too. We work pretty hard at defensive rebounding. There are guys that need to get involved in that. Hopefully, he can take some of that load off our guys.

“He’s got a good IQ. That’s important, when a guy back there has some IQ and can direct traffic a bit.”

The Raptors were without O.G. Anunoby (wrist) for the seventh consecutive game on Friday.

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LeBron James’ sore left ankle will keep him from playing in Saturday night’s nationally televised game against the Golden State Warriors in San Francisco.

This will be the second straight game James has missed since setting the record for most points in NBA history. He sat out the Lakers’ 115-106 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks on Thursday.

James matched his age with 38 points in Tuesday’s loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder to move past Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (38,387 points) for the No. 1 spot on the career scoring list. James has 38,390 points.

The 19-time All-Star is averaging 30.2 points, 8.5 rebounds and 7.0 assists in 44 games this season.

Warriors star Stephen Curry also is out with a lower left leg injury that will be re-evaluated after the All-Star break.

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The Orlando Magic intend to buy out the contract of veteran guard Terrence Ross, ESPN reported Saturday.

Per the report, the two sides were finalizing terms of the buyout. Once done, Ross will be a free agent and have a chance to sign with a playoff-contending team.

That team, according to ESPN late Saturday night, is the Phoenix Suns.

Ross began his career with the Raptors, who selected him with the No. 8 overall pick in the 2012 NBA Draft. He spent four-plus seasons in Toronto before being shipped to the Magic at the 2017 trade deadline.

In 712 career games (187 starts), Ross has averages of 11.0 points, 2.8 rebounds and 1.3 assists per game.

This season, he’s averaging 8.0 points, 2.0 rebounds, 1.3 assists and 22.5 minutes in 42 games (nine starts).

Ross, 32, is in the final season of a four-year, $54 million contract signed in July 2019.

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