SCOREBOARD
Thursday, April 13
Dallas at Phoenix (10:30 p.m. EDT). The Mavericks, a game behind Southwest Division-leading San Antonio, meet the Pacific Division champion Suns.
STARS
Tuesday
— Antoine Walker, Heat, scored a season-high 32 points with eight rebounds and five assists as Miami defeated Toronto 106-97.
— Tony Parker, Spurs, had 27 points and nine assists as San Antonio reached 60 wins for a third time with a 104-95 victory over Seattle.
— Pau Gasol, Grizzlies, had 19 points, 10 rebounds and six assists as Memphis won for the 10th time in 11 home games, 92-76 over Minnesota.
TRIPLE-DOUBLES
Shaquille O'Neal posted his second career triple-double Tuesday night, finishing with 15 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists in Miami's 106-97 victory over Toronto. O'Neal's only other triple-double was Nov. 20, 1993 for Orlando against New Jersey. ... Lamar Odom had his ninth career triple-double with 15 points, 13 rebounds and 10 assists as the Lakers defeated Golden State 111-100.
BULLISH
Chicago's 104-101 win over New Jersey moved the Bulls into a tie with Philadelphia for the Eastern Conference's eighth and final playoff spot. Andres Nocioni scored 20 points and grabbed a career-high 17 rebounds — his seventh straight double-double — as the Bulls won for the seventh time in nine games.
COMEBACK
Sacramento scored 68 points in the first half, but Phoenix countered with 72 in the second to overcome a 17-point deficit for a 123-110 win Tuesday night.
SEASONS
The Lakers swept the season series from Golden State for the first time in 11 years following Tuesday night's 111-100 victory.
LONG RANGE
Toronto extended its NBA-record consecutive games with a 3-pointer to 610 in Tuesday night's 106-97 loss to Miami.
SLUMPING
Golden State's 111-100 loss to the Lakers on Tuesday night was its season-high ninth straight. ... After a 1-for-5 night in Tuesday's 92-76 victory over Minnesota, Memphis guard Eddie Jones is just 11-for-45 from the field his last six games.
SIDELINED
Houston center Yao Ming will have surgery this weekend on his broken left foot and the injury could take 4-6 months to heal. The 7-foot-6 Yao was hurt in the first quarter of an 85-83 loss to Utah on Monday.
SPEAKING
"I told the team that it all has to start with me, and it's been about a month since we had a fire in the belly. I have been a little lackadaisical and not firing from the sidelines or at practice. In the second half, we came out with the fire necessary to compete in the playoffs. That's the first time we've seen that in a long time. We had an unbelievable second half." — Suns coach Mike D'Antoni after they came back from a 17-point halftime deficit for a 123-110 victory at Sacramento on Tuesday night.