Rudy Gobert had 22 points and 14 rebounds, Anthony Edwards added 19 points and the visiting Minnesota Timberwolves beat the Los Angeles Lakers 110-102 on Friday.

Naz Reid contributed 15 points and eight rebounds for Minnesota, which has won two straight following a three-game losing skid. Mike Conley scored five of his 14 points in the final 1:13 to help secure the victory.

Anthony Davis led the Lakers with 38 points on 12-of-22 shooting, and he went 12 of 14 from the foul line. Davis made a pair of 3-pointers and grabbed five rebounds.

Malik Beasley amassed 15 points and eight rebounds, Lonnie Walker IV put up 10 points and Dennis Schroder dished out 12 assists. Los Angeles played without star LeBron James (right foot soreness) and D’Angelo Russell, who missed his fourth straight game due to a sprained right ankle.

Trailing by 14 with just under nine minutes remaining, the Lakers battled back and used a 16-6 run to pull within 103-100 with 3:20 left.

Conley sealed the win with clutch play in the end. After making a 3-pointer with 1:13 remaining to put the Wolves ahead by six, Conley hit a jumper with 43 seconds left to provide the final margin.

Davis scored 16 points in the first quarter for the Lakers, who were beginning a five-game homestand. Los Angeles took a 34-33 lead into the second quarter after shooting 56.5 percent.

After Davis picked up his third foul with 4:36 left in the second quarter, Minnesota moved ahead 53-44 on Nickeil Alexander-Walker’s jumper. With Davis on the bench, Los Angeles closed on an 11-3 run to cut the deficit to 56-55 at the break.

Gobert had 11 points and eight rebounds in the first half for the Wolves, who held Davis to two points in the second quarter.

Minnesota led throughout the third quarter after opening on an 11-2 run. The Wolves carried the momentum into the final period and held a 95-81 advantage after Kyle Anderson scored with 8:59 remaining.

The Timberwolves have won their past three meetings against the Lakers, including a 111-102 home victory on Oct. 28.

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De’Aaron Fox recorded 33 points, seven rebounds and seven assists and the Sacramento Kings won their fifth straight game by prevailing 128-127 over the visiting Los Angeles Clippers on Friday night.

Domantas Sabonis added 23 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists and made two free throws with seven seconds remaining to put the Kings ahead. Paul George of the Clippers missed a 3-pointer as time expired in a contest in which 96 fewer points were scored than in last Friday’s matchup between the two teams.

Harrison Barnes had 20 points and seven rebounds, Kevin Huerter scored 18 points and Keegan Murray scored 14 for Sacramento, which has won eight of its past 10 games.

George scored 28 points and Russell Westbrook had 27 points and 10 assists as the Clippers lost their fifth consecutive game. Eric Gordon scored 21 points, Robert Covington added 15 and Mason Plumlee had 13.

The teams combined for 351 points one week ago — second most in NBA history — as the Kings prevailed 176-175 in double-overtime.

Clippers star Kawhi Leonard sat out on the second end of a back-to-back to rest his surgically repaired knee. Fellow starters Marcus Morris Sr. (elbow contusion) and Ivica Zubac (calf soreness) and reserve Norman Powell (dislocated shoulder) also sat out.

George buried a 3-pointer from the left corner to give the Clippers a 125-124 lead with 51.6 seconds left. Sabonis scored on a layup to put the Kings back ahead with 38.4 seconds to go.

George drove for a layup to give Los Angeles a 127-126 edge with 33.6 seconds remaining. Two possessions later, Fox missed a free-throw line jumper with about eight seconds left and Sabonis was fouled by Covington while trying to grab the rebound and made both free throws.

Sacramento shot 52.9 percent from the field, including 10 of 33 from 3-point range. Trey Lyles added 10 points for the Kings.

Nicolas Batum added 11 points for the Clippers, who made 54 percent of their shots and were 14 of 41 from behind the arc.

Fox scored eight points in a 12-2 burst early in the fourth quarter as the Kings took a 113-100 lead with 8:19 remaining.

The Clippers later made a charge and received two 3-pointers from George and one from Batum during the 12-2 run that allowed them to take the one-point lead in the final minute.

Huerter scored 14 first-half points to help the Kings lead 68-63 at the break. Westbrook had 15 in the half for the Clippers.

Sacramento held a 101-96 lead entering the final stanza.

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Klay Thompson scored a game-high 27 points and the Golden State Warriors worked their come-from-behind magic once again to outlast the New Orleans Pelicans 108-99 on Friday night in San Francisco.

Donte DiVincenzo came through with three big plays down the stretch as the Warriors, playing without Stephen Curry and Andrew Wiggins, completed a 5-0 homestand to continue a push up the Western Conference standings.

Jonathan Kuminga, coming off the Golden State bench, chipped in with 19 points, seven rebounds and four steals.

CJ McCollum had a team-high 25 points and Brandon Ingram added 17 for the Pelicans, who lost for the fifth time in six games as they also deal with injuries to several key players, including Zion Williamson.

For the fourth consecutive game, the Warriors fell behind by double digits in the first half — this time by 17 — before rallying. Only this time, they needed two rallies.

After going up by as many as eight in the third quarter, Golden State found itself down 93-89 with 4:46 remaining after McCollum and Ingram hit consecutive hoops.

But DiVincenzo saved his best for when it was needed most, assisting an Anthony Lamb 3-pointer, burying a 27-foot 3-pointer for his only hoop of the night and turning an offensive rebound into a Kuminga dunk in an 15-3 burst that gave Golden State the lead for good.

Thompson shot 4-for-9 from 3-point range on a night when Golden State made just 10 shots in 31 tries from beyond the arc.

Shooting 12-for-12 at the free-throw line, Jordan Poole added 18 points to go with a game-high seven assists for the Warriors, who hope to get Curry back from his leg injury for a Sunday road game against the Los Angeles Lakers.

JaMychal Green (14 points), Lamb (11) and Kevon Looney (10) also scored in double figures for Golden State, with Looney adding a game-high 11 rebounds.

DiVincenzo finished with just three points, but found time for seven rebounds and six assists.

Trey Murphy III scored 15 points and Naji Marshall had 14 for New Orleans, which had opened a three-game Western swing with a win at Portland on Wednesday.

Herbert Jones aided the visitors’ cause with seven points, a team-high-tying five assists and a game-high-tying four steals.

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Nikola Jokic had 18 points, 18 rebounds and 10 assists for his 25th triple-double of the season as the host Denver Nuggets beat the Memphis Grizzlies 113-97 on Friday night.

Jamal Murray had 22 points and nine assists and sparked a big fourth quarter for the first-place Nuggets, who increased their lead in the Western Conference to six games over the second-place Grizzlies.

Michael Porter Jr. amassed 26 points and eight rebounds, Bruce Brown had 15 points and Aaron Gordon scored 13 as Denver won for the seventh time in eight games.

Ja Morant produced 27 points and 10 assists, Desmond Bane scored 19 points, Jaren Jackson Jr. added 15 points and Xavier Tillman finished with 11 points and 10 rebounds for the Grizzlies. Memphis saw its three-game winning streak end.

Morant wore a mask to protect his nose, which sustained a nasal fracture at Houston on Wednesday night.

Memphis built an 11-point lead late in the second quarter. The Nuggets missed their first 11 3-point shots before Brown hit one with 3:24 left in the half.

Denver was able to get within five, but the Grizzlies took a 58-50 lead into the locker room.

The Nuggets trailed by nine in the third but rallied to tie it at 74 and went ahead 80-79 on Brown’s layup in the final minute, their first lead since early in the second quarter.

Morant split a pair of free throws to tie it 80-80 heading into the fourth.

Gordon converted a three-point play to open the fourth and Murray hit a 20-footer to give Denver a five-point lead.

Murray stayed hot, scoring on a finger roll, making two free throws and adding a driving layup. After Gordon made a pair of foul shots, Murray drove to the basket and passed out to Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, who drained a 3-pointer to make it 96-86 with 7:08 left.

Morant missed a floater out of a Memphis timeout, Jokic tipped in his own miss, Murray drained a 3-pointer and then Jokic completed his triple-double when he fed Porter for another shot from behind the arc.

Porter was fouled on the trey and made the free throw to put the Nuggets ahead by 19, and they closed it out.

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The Brooklyn Nets are signing free agent center Nerlens Noel, his agent confirmed to ESPN on Saturday.

The 6-foot-11 Noel will add size off the Brooklyn bench. His contract was bought out by the Detroit Pistons.

Noel, 28, played in 14 games (three starts) for the Pistons, averaging 2.3 points, 2.6 rebounds and 10.9 minutes.

Drafted No. 6 overall by the New Orleans Hornets in 2013, Noel has career averages of 7.2 points and 6.1 rebounds in 464 games (222 starts) with the Philadelphia 76ers, Dallas Mavericks, Oklahoma City Thunder, New York Knicks and Pistons.

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Two teams coming off dramatic and draining wins 24 hours earlier will be tested when the Minnesota Timberwolves and Sacramento Kings square off Saturday night in the California capital.

Minnesota got a key late 3-pointer from Mike Conley and a 22-point, 14-rebound double-double from Rudy Gobert in a 110-102 road triumph over the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday night.

At the same time about 400 miles to the north, the host Kings stunned the other Los Angeles team — the Clippers — when Domantas Sabonis turned a foul on the offensive boards into two free throws with seven seconds remaining for a 128-127 victory.

The Timberwolves earned their second straight win on a four-game California swing during which they have played or will play only playoff contenders. They swept the Los Angeles teams after beginning the journey with a 109-104 loss to the Golden State Warriors.

Meanwhile, the Kings are riding a five-game winning streak. They sit in third place in the Western Conference, three games ahead of the Phoenix Suns, who recently acquired Kevin Durant, and four games up on the defending champion Warriors, who also have won five in a row.

Little separated the Timberwolves and Kings during two earlier meetings in Minneapolis, which were scheduled as part of a same-site mini-series. The hosts used 34 points from Anthony Edwards as a springboard to a 117-110 win in the set opener on Jan. 28 before De’Aaron Fox went for 32 points in a 118-111 Kings overtime victory two days later.

The clubs will meet again in Sacramento on March 27.

The Kings will be seeing the Timberwolves with Conley for the first time this season. The veteran point guard was a thorn in Sacramento’s side in two earlier meetings while with the Utah Jazz, averaging 17.5 points and 7.5 assists.

Conley has been reunited with former Jazz teammate Gobert, who has averaged 18.6 points and 12.8 rebounds in his past five games.

Gobert, who has shot 39-for-56 (69.6 percent) in those games, knows it’s no coincidence his numbers have skyrocketed since Conley joined the team.

“I do a lot of things to impact winning, but it takes time for guys around me to figure out that,” he said. “And it takes time for me to figure out the guys around me, too.”

The Kings, who haven’t made the playoffs since 2006, moved a step closer with the Friday win. They climbed within one game of the second-place Memphis Grizzlies, who lost 113-97 to the first-place Denver Nuggets on Friday.

Sacramento reaped a reward for its continued success this season when Mike Brown was named Western Coach of the Month for February.

As he has said about his team all year, Brown insisted the honor was a team effort.

“It really is a testament to the guys that are on my staff right now,” he said, “and obviously the players, too. You’ve got to have players to win in this league. But this is the best staff I’ve ever had. They make my job extremely, extremely easy. And I can literally turn my back and they’re going to handle it and make things right. It makes opportunities to win accolades like this a lot easier.”

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Two teams trying to elevate themselves out of the play-in tournament and into the playoffs will square off Saturday when the Atlanta Hawks start a four-game road trip with the first of consecutive games against the Miami Heat.

Miami is currently in seventh place in the Eastern Conference, 2 1/2 games behind the sixth-place Brooklyn Nets and a half-game ahead of the eighth-place Hawks.

The Heat have dropped two straight and six of their past seven, including a 122-120 loss to the visiting New York Knicks on Friday.

The Hawks have won three of their past four and gave new coach Quin Snyder his first victory on Friday, a 129-111 victory over the visiting Portland Trail Blazers.

This will be the third of four meetings between the teams this season. They split the two previous meetings in Atlanta. The Hawks and Heat will square off again on Monday in Miami, where the Heat have won the past two matchups.

Atlanta got a career-high 41 points from Dejounte Murray and 23 points and 11 assists from Trae Young against Portland. The two combined to go 23-for-36 from the field, 8-for-10 on 3-point attempts and 10-for-10 from the foul line.

“It’s not always going to look like this, but when it does, it’s pretty nice,” Young said. “(Murray is) the king of the mid-range jumper right now.”

The Hawks have scored 100 points in 38 straight games. They have only been limited to double digits in two games this season — one of them a 106-98 loss to Miami on Nov. 27.

Atlanta is now 1-1 under former Utah Jazz coach Snyder, who lost his Hawks debut against the Washington Wizards on Tuesday.

“I feel like he will get it going in the right direction,” Murray said.

Snyder has said he will use a nine-man rotation. That most likely means either Jalen Johnson or AJ Griffin will be the odd man out. On Friday, the minutes went to Johnson, who had eight points, four rebounds and four assists in 22 minutes. Griffin played only the final two minutes when both teams emptied the bench.

Johnson did not play against Washington, when Griffin played 16 minutes.

A bright spot for Miami has been the play of Jimmy Butler. He scored 33 against the Knicks and was 18-for-20 at the line. The veteran is averaging 22.0 points, 5.9 rebounds and 5.0 assists. Butler scored 34 in a 121-113 loss to the Hawks on Jan. 16 and has a career average of 18.8 in 31 games against Atlanta.

Heat guard Tyler Herro scored 29 and sank five 3-pointers against the Knicks, and he is averaging 20.4 points, 5.6 rebounds and 4.3 assists. He had a triple-double against Hawks on Nov. 27 with 11 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists.

Bam Adebayo, who scored 18 on Friday, has been in double figures in all 59 games in which he has appeared this season and in a career-best 75 dating to last season, matching Alonzo Mourning for the fifth-longest streak in team history.

The Heat will continue to play without Kyle Lowry, who has missed 11 games due to left knee soreness.

“He’s making progress,” Miami coach Erik Spoelstra said. “I do not have a specific time now. He had a good week and we’ll keep on progressing.”

Gabe Vincent will continue to fill Lowry’s minutes.

–Field Level Media