Chris Mills sank a short bank shot over Glenn Robinson with less than a second remaining Saturday night as the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Milwaukee Bucks 89-87.
The Cavaliers won for the fourth time in five games despite blowing a 10-point lead in the final three minutes. The Bucks outscored Cleveland 12-4 down the stretch. It was Cleveland's seventh straight victory against Milwaukee.Bobby Phills led the Cavaliers with 19 points and Mills scored 15. Michael Cage had 14 points and 10 rebounds.
Robinson scored 24 and Vin Baker had 18 points and 14 rebounds for the Bucks.
Hawks 114, Raptors 102
At Atlanta, Ken Norman matched his season high of 21 points, including 13 in the third quarter, to lead Atlanta over Toronto. The win snapped Atlanta's two-game losing streak and gave coach Lenny Wilkens, the NBA's winningest coach, his 975th victory.
The Hawks' Stacey Augmon had 18 points, while Tracy Murray scored 22 for Toronto.
Heat 111, Grizzlies 91
At Miami, paced by Alonzo Mourning and Sasha Danilovic, Miami went on a 30-8 spurt midway through the second half to spark the Heat over Vancouver.
Mourning finished with a season-high 30 points, while Danilovic scored 9 of his 16 points in the third quarter.
Benoit Benjamin scored 22 points and Blue Edwards had 20 to lead the Grizzlies, who have now lost 11 straight.
Magic 114, Bullets 112
At Landover, Md., Anfernee Hardaway scored 13 of his 30 points in the fourth quarter and Orlando held off a late Washington surge to extend its winning streak to four games.
Dennis Scott scored 29 points and made two of his five 3-pointers in the final period for Orlando.
Robert Pack scored 35 and Juwan Howard 27 for Washington.
Warriors 107, 76ers 89
At Philadelphia, Donyell Marshall scored a season-high 24 points as Golden State handed the 76ers their seventh straight loss.
Richard Dumas had 20 points, and rookie Jerry Stackhouse and Clarence Weatherspoon scored 18 apiece for Philadelphia.
Knicks 103, Rockets 88
At New York, Patrick Ewing scored 27 points, grabbed 11 rebounds and blocked four fourth-quarter shots to lead New York over the two-time NBA champion Houston and snap the Rockets' seven-game winning streak.
With Houston center Hakeem Olajuwon in foul trouble most of the game, Charles Oakley (17 points) and Anthony Mason added 10 rebounds apiece.
Olajuwon, whose nine points ended a string of 258 games in double figures, was ejected with 4:13 left, as was Houston coach Rudy Tomjanovich.
Suns 114, Lakers 113
At Phoenix, Michael Finley hit a 14-foot jumper at the buzzer, and the Suns, who missed their first nine 3-point attempts, came back from a 16-point deficit in the fourth quarter with a 3-point barrage.
In a 48-second span that began with 1:07 to play, Finley, Kevin Johnson, Finley and Charles Barkley made 3-pointers to pull within 113-112.
Then Barkley tied up Nick Van Exel, and the jump at midcourt went to A.C. Green, who dished off to Finley. The rookie drove to the free-throw lane, jumped and hit nothing but net as time expired.
Finley finished with 23 points. Johnson had 22 and Barkley 16, and Cedric Ceballos scored 34 for the Lakers.
Spurs 100, Clippers 91
At Los Angeles, San Antonio tied an NBA record with 10 3-pointers in the first half and Vinny Del Negro scored 21 points.
The Spurs had 11 3-pointers overall, including four by Chuck Person, to tie the franchise record set on March 31, 1994 against Milwaukee.