Immanuel Quickley had 38 points, eight rebounds and seven assists as the visiting New York Knicks extended their winning streak to nine games by beating the Boston Celtics 131-129 in double overtime Sunday.

Quickley made 15 of 28 field goal attempts, including five 3-pointers, and played 55 minutes. Julius Randle added 31 points and nine rebounds for the Knicks, who also received 29 points and 11 rebounds from RJ Barrett.

Boston had a chance to win the game, but Al Horford’s 3-pointer was off the mark as the final buzzer sounded.

Jayson Tatum had 40 points, 11 rebounds and six assists for the Celtics, who have lost their last two home games. Jaylen Brown tossed in 29 points, and Horford finished with 20 points and 14 rebounds.

The Celtics trailed 113-110 after two Randle free throws with 16.2 seconds remaining in regulation, but Brown tied the game on an old-fashioned three-point play with 12.9 seconds left. The Knicks failed to get a shot off on their final possession.

Boston took a 121-119 lead on a Horford 3-pointer in the first overtime, but Quickley scored with 13 seconds left to tie the game and force a second OT.

The Celtics led 34-31 after one quarter and closed the first half on an 11-0 run to take a 61-54 lead at halftime. Boston led by 14 midway through the third quarter, but a 3-pointer by Randle that beat the buzzer handed New York an 88-87 edge after three quarters.

Each team was missing a starter. The Knicks were without guard Jalen Brunson (foot) and the Celtics played without center Robert Williams (hamstring).

Before the game Boston coach Joe Mazzulla said Williams will be out for at least a week. Williams was not available for the first two months of the season after undergoing knee surgery before training camp. Quickley replaced Brunson in the Knicks’ starting lineup.

Boston was also without guard Malcolm Brogdon, who missed his second consecutive game with soreness in his right ankle.

–Field Level Media

Giannis Antetokounmpo recorded 23 points and a season-best 13 assists to go with 10 rebounds and three blocks to lead the Milwaukee Bucks to a 117-111 victory over the host Washington Wizards on Sunday night.

Jevon Carter added 20 points off the bench as the Bucks were victorious one night after seeing their 16-game winning streak snapped.

Jrue Holiday had 19 points and seven assists, Brook Lopez scored 15 points, Joe Ingles added 14 and Grayson Allen tallied 11.

Bradley Beal had 33 points and nine rebounds and Kristaps Porzingis recorded 24 points and 13 rebounds for the Wizards. Deni Avdija scored 17 points, Corey Kispert added 11 and Delon Wright had 10 as Washington lost for the fourth time in six games.

With the Bucks running out the clock, Antetokounmpo crept up toward the basket and quickly missed a shot off the lower part of the backboard with under two seconds left and grabbed the rebound for his fourth triple-double of the season and 33rd of his career.

Khris Middleton (knee) and Wesley Matthews (hamstring) sat out for the Bucks, while Kyle Kuzma (knee) and Monte Morris (back) missed the game for Washington.

The Bucks shot 46.4 percent from the field, including 22 of 49 from 3-point range.

Washington made 42.6 percent of its shots and was 8 of 31 from behind the arc.

Beal’s three-point play pulled the Wizards within 101-100 with 5:03 remaining.

Ingles made a corner 3-pointer to give Milwaukee a 108-104 lead with 2:37 left. Beal’s basket brought Washington within two before Allen drained a trey to give the Bucks a 111-106 edge with 1:24 remaining.

Holiday scored a basket 14 seconds later and added two free throws to make it a nine-point margin as Milwaukee closed it out.

Carter scored 14 second-quarter points as Milwaukee led 59-48 at the break. Porzingis scored 18 in the first quarter for Washington.

The Bucks led by as many as 17 late in the second quarter but the Wizards charged back in the third.

Washington crept within 63-61 on Daniel Gafford’s basket with 7:36 left in the quarter. The margin was again two after Avdija’s three-point play with 6:12 left before Bobby Portis scored five straight points to give the Bucks a 75-68 advantage.

The Wizards trailed 83-80 entering the final stanza but baskets by Beal, Avdija and Gafford gave Washington its first lead since the opening moments.

–Field Level Media

Returning from a five-game absence, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 38 points to lead the Oklahoma City Thunder to a 129-119 victory over the visiting Utah Jazz on Sunday.

The Thunder swept the two-game home set with the Jazz, who lost their third consecutive game.

Jalen Williams added a career-high 32 points on 12-of-15 shooting for Oklahoma City.

It didn’t take long for Gilgeous-Alexander to get going.

Less than 30 seconds into the game, Gilgeous-Alexander hit a turnaround jumper along the baseline. On his way to the other end, he said said, “I’m back.”

Oklahoma City led the rest of the game.

By the end of the first quarter, the Thunder led 35-20 with Gilgeous-Alexander and Josh Giddey combining for more points (21) than the Jazz scored as a team. Gilgeous-Alexander scored 13 points in the first.

The Jazz were just 5-for-21 from the floor in the first quarter.

Gilgeous-Alexander had been out with an abdominal strain and was in the league’s health and safety protocol.

Late in the third quarter, when Utah trimmed what was a 24-point Thunder lead down to 10, Gilgeous-Alexander dove on the floor to grab a loose ball and fed it to Isaiah Joe, who drained a long 3-pointer to give Oklahoma City control again.

In Friday’s loss to the Thunder, the Jazz committed 26 turnovers, leading to 32 Oklahoma City points.

Turnovers were once again a major issue for Utah on Sunday. The Jazz had 16, and the Thunder converted them into 28 points on the other end.

Utah scored 14 points off Oklahoma City’s 12 turnovers.

The Jazz were without leading scorer Lauri Markkanen, who was sidelined with lower back soreness.

Jordan Clarkson returned after missing Utah’s last two games with a thumb sprain, while Collin Sexton missed his fifth consecutive game with a left hamstring strain.

Clarkson led the Jazz with 18 points but was just 6 of 15 from the floor. Clarkson added 12 assists.

Walker Kessler (17 points, 10 rebounds) and Kelly Olynyk (15 points, 10 rebounds) each had double-doubles in the loss.

Giddey added 24 points, nine rebounds and nine assists for Oklahoma City.

–Field Level Media

Jalen Green scored 13 of his game-high 31 points in the third quarter as the host Houston Rockets completed a back-to-back sweep of the San Antonio Spurs with a 142-110 victory Sunday.

After pulling away from the Spurs early in the fourth quarter Saturday, Houston seized control in the first half and never relented. Green was instrumental in landing the knockout blow in the third, scoring eight points during a 10-0 run that allowed the Rockets to extend to a 99-76 lead.

Green shot 11 of 19 overall and finished 4 of 8 on 3-pointers. His backcourt mate, Kevin Porter Jr., added 19 points and 13 assists in his best performance since returning from a 20-game injury absence last week. Alperen Sengun posted a double-double (15 points, 14 rebounds) while Tari Easton and Jae’Sean Tate tallied 17 and 16 points off the bench, respectively.

Eason added eight rebounds for Houston, which earned a season series split with the Spurs by shooting 61.2 percent in the series finale. The Spurs were without starters Zach Collins (left ankle), Tre Jones (left foot) and Jeremy Sochan (right knee). San Antonio has dropped 18 of 20 games.

Keita Bates-Diop paced the Spurs with 17 points while Charles Bassey and Devonte’ Graham scored 14 apiece. San Antonio surrendered 74 points in the paint and 34 points in transition.

Houston answered an early burst by the Spurs with an extended 29-8 run that yielded a 31-18 lead. San Antonio attempted to slow the surge with a timeout following an Eason fast-break dunk with 3:18 remaining in the first, but Green followed with a 3-pointer before Eason and Tate added layups that extended the rally.

The Rockets shot 62.5 percent in the opening period and missed just seven of their final 22 attempts after the Spurs darted to a 10-2 lead. Houston quickly pushed the advantage to 17 points on a Tate three-point play before the Spurs mounted an 11-2 run that included a pair of three-point plays, the last coming from Bates-Diop and cutting the deficit to 43-35.

But, despite the Spurs’ 39-point second period, the Rockets maintained their double-digit cushion at the intermission when Porter drilled a buzzer-beating 3 for a 73-63 halftime lead. Four Spurs made multiple field goals in the second as part of 58.3 percent shooting in the period, but the Rockets shot 59.6 percent in the first half and kept the Spurs at bay with their balanced attack.

–Field Level Media

Damian Lillard scored 41 points and Nassir Little sank a go-ahead 3-pointer with 35.2 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter to fuel the visiting Portland Trail Blazers to a 122-119 victory over the Orlando Magic on Sunday.

Lillard, who reached the 40-point plateau for the 14th time this season, sank 17 of 20 shots from the free-throw line to offset a 10-for-25 shooting performance from the floor and 4-for-16 effort from 3-point range.

Lillard also had nine rebounds and six assists for Portland, which snapped a three-game losing skid and exacted a measure of revenge after dropping a 109-106 decision to Orlando on Jan. 10.

Jerami Grant collected 20 points, seven assists and six rebounds and Cam Reddish added 16 points for the Trail Blazers.

Orlando rookie Paolo Banchero made all seven of his shots in the first half and finished with 26 points for the game. Franz Wagner had 24 points and Moritz Wagner, Markelle Fultz and Jalen Suggs each added 15 for the Magic, who have alternated wins and losses over their last 12 games.

Fultz’s layup forged a tie at 113-113 with 58.8 seconds to play before Little drained a 3-pointer on the ensuing possession.

Orlando and Portland each made four free throws before Banchero sank a pair from the charity stripe with 6.2 seconds to play. Lillard drained two more from the foul line to give Portland a 122-119 lead with 4.3 seconds remaining, and Banchero’s desperation heave at midcourt was off the mark.

Lillard drained 3-pointers on consecutive possessions and Shaedon Sharpe followed with a trey of his own to push Portland’s lead to 92-83 with 2:02 remaining in the third quarter.

Banchero’s layup gave the Magic a 51-46 lead with 2:53 remaining in the second quarter before the Trail Blazers went on a 12-5 run to end the first half. Matisse Thybulle converted a three-point play and Reddish drained a 3-pointer to highlight the surge.

Orlando played without Wendell Carter Jr. (left hip), while Anfernee Simons (right ankle) sat out for Portland.

–Field Level Media

Mikal Bridges scored 33 points as the Brooklyn Nets led most of the way in a 102-86 victory over the Charlotte Hornets Sunday night in New York.

The Nets followed up their stirring comeback from a 28-point deficit Friday in Boston by leading for the final 43:36 and leading by as many as 37 points before withstanding a slight Charlotte charge in the fourth quarter. Brooklyn improved to 3-6 with Bridges in the lineup and earned consecutive wins for the first time since beating the New York Knicks and Los Angeles Lakers Jan. 28-30.

Bridges made his first nine shots and scored 19 points in the first quarter for his most points in any quarter this season. He surpassed the 17 he scored in the fourth quarter against Miami Feb. 15 when he finished with a career-high 45 points.

Bridges shot 12-for-21 and surpassed 30 points for the fourth time in nine games since the Nets acquired him from Phoenix for Kevin Durant on Feb. 9.

Spencer Dinwiddie added 24 points as the Nets swept all four meetings with Charlotte this season and moved 2 1/2 games ahead of seventh-place Miami in the Eastern Conference. Joe Harris contributed 12 points and Cameron Johnson chipped in 11 as the Nets survived shooting 39.1 percent.

Kelly Oubre Jr. scored 17 points for Charlotte, which dropped its third straight. Terry Rozier added 16 points but shot 5-for-17 as the Hornets shot 37.5 percent.

Bridges went 9-for-9 as the Nets took a 36-21 lead through the opening quarter when he hit an 11-footer with 2.4 seconds left.

Consecutive threes by Harris opened a 51-26 lead with 7:44 remaining in the first half, and the Nets held a 70-41 lead at the break. After a sluggish start to the second half, the Nets opened a 79-47 lead on a 3-pointer by Bridges with 6:40 remaining in the third quarter, and he surpassed 30 points with a finger roll layup that made it 82-47 a little over two minutes later.

The Hornets scored 15 straight points bridging the final 55 seconds of the third and the first 1:47 of the fourth, getting within 86-71 on a trey by Svi Mykhailiuk. Gordon Hayward’s basket made it 96-82 with about 4 1/2 minutes left, but a basket by Dinwiddie with about two minutes to go made it 100-83 and effectively sealed matters.

–Field Level Media

The New Orleans Pelicans will attempt to repeat recent history when they wrap up a three-game Western swing with a stop in Sacramento to take on the Kings on Monday night.

New Orleans has split the first two games of the trip, winning 121-110 on Wednesday at Portland before losing 108-99 at Golden State on Friday.

In the meantime, Sacramento saw a five-game winning streak come to an end with a 138-134 home loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves on Saturday.

The Kings haven’t lost two in a row since the last time they saw the Pelicans. That was one month ago on Feb. 5, when the Kings followed a loss at Indiana with a 136-104 shellacking at New Orleans two days later.

Trey Murphy III shocked the visitors with six 3-pointers and 30 points in that New Orleans win, which came during a stretch in which the Pelicans won four of five to solidify their standing in the Western Conference playoff race.

They’ve since lost five of six to fall two games below .500, with a four-game homestand against all Western playoff contenders to follow starting on Wednesday.

With the Pelicans, who had the best record in the West in mid-December, having fallen to the lower boundary of the pack in the Western race, and with Zion Williamson’s future remaining cloudy due to a strained right hamstring, Brandon Ingram realizes it’s up to him to help keep things positive.

“I know I have a major responsibility to make sure everybody stays locked in and we have a sense of urgency as we head down the stretch,” he said. “We know every game we have ahead of us is extremely important. My responsibility is just to make sure everybody is ready and keep everybody involved so we can play our best basketball when we need it.”

Ingram has surely done just that. He had a season-high 40 points in Wednesday’s win at Portland and has topped 30 five times in his last 10 games.

He sat out the Kings’ visit to New Orleans last month, as did Sacramento’s De’Aaron Fox, who has basically matched Ingram point for point in recent weeks.

The Kings’ All-Star had gone for 30 or more points in eight straight appearances before totaling 25 in Saturday’s loss to the Timberwolves. Kevin Huerter topped the team in that one with 29 points.

Sacramento hasn’t made the playoffs since 2006, and while they currently sit in a rather comfortable position — they have seven fewer losses than the Pelicans — coach Mike Brown has found himself reminding his team the job is not done.

“We have a target on our back,” he said. “We are the hunted right now. I’m not sure where we sit as a team because this is the first time we’ve gone through this — being the hunted.”

The Kings have fared well in a tough stretch of the schedule, going 6-3 against all playoff contenders. But with the New York Knicks, Phoenix Suns and Milwaukee up next after New Orleans, there are no lightweights in sight.

The Kings and Pelicans also are scheduled to meet April 4 in New Orleans.

–Field Level Media

The Eastern Conference playoff race is so bunched up that the result of one game could change a team’s fortunes.

So a 116-109 road win over Washington on Saturday did much for the Toronto Raptors, who are sitting in the middle of the play-in bracket with 17 games left in the regular season.

Toronto has won nine of its last 12 games and has three games left on a tough five-game road trip that started with two games against the Wizards. The competition doesn’t get easier with a trip to Denver to face the Nuggets on Monday night.

The Raptors bring some inside knowledge with them to face the best home team in the NBA. They signed Will Barton, who spent seven seasons with Denver before being traded to Washington over the summer.

He was bought out by the Wizards, signed with Toronto on Tuesday and has played sparingly in his first three games with his new team.

“There were some other teams that I was considering, I just felt like it was a good opportunity,” Barton said. “This is a good team. I feel like I can come in, bring some leadership, some versatility, some bench playmaking and scoring and a lot of energy.”

The Raptors have struggled away from home this season but have played better of late on the road. They are 4-2 in their last six, including a win at Memphis last month.

Their most recent game took overtime to secure, which doesn’t help the legs when playing in the thin air — and against a team that has lost once at home since Dec. 6 and is looking to strengthen its hold on the top seed in the Western Conference.

The Nuggets have won three in a row and seven of their last eight and are coming off a 113-97 win against the Grizzlies that increased their lead over Memphis to six games.

Denver has embraced being the top team in the West, which would mean homecourt advantage through the first three rounds. The Nuggets have never advanced past the conference finals since joining the NBA and a 29-4 record at Ball Arena shows how tough they are to beat there.

The Grizzlies tried to get physical with Denver on Friday night to disrupt the high-scoring offense but it didn’t slow them down; the Nuggets just played physical in response.

“We’re at home and we’re the No. 1 team,” Jamal Murray said. “I think we just have to do that and make them play with our physicality.”

It also helps when Nikola Jokic has a triple-double, which he has reached in four of the last five games and 25 times this year. Denver is unbeaten this year when he hits that mark.

Jokic is averaging a triple-double for the year and it has put him in position to win league MVP honors for the third straight year.

The Nuggets are relatively healthy, with Zeke Nnaji being the only rotation player not available. He is dealing with a right shoulder injury that the team announced Saturday would be reevaluated in two weeks.

–Field Level Media

Anthony Davis led all scorers with 39 points, Dennis Schroder and Troy Brown buried key 3-pointers late and the Los Angeles Lakers spoiled Stephen Curry’s return with a 113-105 victory over the visiting Golden State Warriors on Sunday afternoon.

Having missed 11 straight games with a partially torn ligament in his left knee, Curry paced the Warriors with 27 points in 32 minutes. But he missed a wide-open 3-point attempt with Golden State down four with 1:14 to play.

After the Warriors erased all of a 20-point first-quarter deficit, the Lakers found themselves in a 91-all tie following Anthony Lamb’s 3-pointer with 5:37 to go.

But Davis’ supporting cast, lacking injured LeBron James and D’Angelo Russell, came through down the stretch, with the 3-pointers by Schroder and Brown contributing to a 10-2 burst that opened a 101-93 lead with just 3:38 to go.

Curry and Klay Thompson responded with 3-pointers in a late Golden State surge, but this time Davis took matters into his own hands, hitting two free throws after the Warriors had closed within two and making a five-foot floater following Curry’s late missed three.

In addition to eight rebounds, six assists and two blocks, Davis finished 10-for-13 at the line, nearly getting as many attempts as Golden State did as a team. The Warriors finished 15-for-18.

Austin Reaves chipped in with 16 points and Brown 14 for Los Angeles, which improved to 2-2 since James suffered a tendon injury in his right foot. Malik Beasley contributed 12 points to the win, Schroder 11 and Jarred Vanderbilt 10.

Vanderbilt completed a double-double with a game-high 13 rebounds. Reaves had a game-high eight assists.

Curry shot 8-for-20 overall and 5-for-13 on 3-pointers. Golden State outscored the hosts 54-33 from beyond the arc in the loss.

Thompson backed Curry with 22 points for the Warriors, who saw a five-game winning streak — all at home — come to an end.

Draymond Green compiled 15 points and a team-high eight rebounds, while Donte DiVincenzo had 11 points and Jordan Poole 10. DiVincenzo also tied Curry with a team-high six assists.

–Field Level Media