SAN ANTONIO SPURS guard Patty Mills (8) drives around Los Angeles Clippers guard Austin Rivers during the first half of an NBA basketball game on Tuesday in San Antonio.
San Antonio won its 33rd straight home game this season, tying Orlando’s start to the 1995-1996 season. Chicago holds the record at 37 games in 1995-96 on the way to a record 72 wins overall.
LaMarcus Aldridge had 17 points and reserve guards Patty Mills and Manu Ginobili added 15 and 13, respectively, for the Spurs (57-10).
Los Angeles (42-24), still playing without Blake Griffin, lost its second straight.
The Clippers’ reserves, who were without injured Paul Pierce, were outscored 51-20 by the Spurs’ bench.
Raptors 107, Bucks 89
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Kyle Lowry scored 25 points and Toronto, despite resting leading scorer DeMar DeRozan, had no trouble with Milwaukee.
Giannis Antetokounmpo had 18 points, 12 rebounds and nine assists in 35 minutes for the Bucks, just missing a triple-double.
DeRozan, who averages 23.8 points per game, was in uniform but didn’t play after starting each of the team’s first 65 games and playing 39 minutes in a loss to Chicago on Monday night.
Raptors rookie Norman Powell, starting for DeRozan despite averaging only 7 minutes per game, had a season high 17 points in 34 minutes.
Magic 116, Nuggets 110
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Evan Fournier scored 30 points and Jason Smith had 25 points and 13 rebounds off the bench to help Orlando beat Denver.
Victor Oladipo scored 23 for the Magic, who led by 18 in the third quarter before fending off Denver’s second-half rally. Brandon Jennings added 12 points and 11 assists in his first start for Orlando.
The Nuggets had six players in double figures, led by Gary Harris with 18 points, but didn’t have enough energy or firepower to complete the comeback.
Nets 131, 76ers 114
NEW YORK (AP) — Bojan Bogdanovic scored a career-best 44 points and Brooklyn set a season high for points against Philadelphia.
Sean Kilpatrick had 19 points, Brook Lopez added 18 points and 10 rebounds, and Thaddeus Young finished with 14 points and 16 rebounds for the Nets.
Isaiah Canaan led the 76ers with 20 points. Nerlens Noel, Ish Smith and Nik Stauskas each had 18.
Bogdanovic’s previous career high was 28 points against Orlando last April 15. His total was the most for a Nets player since Deron Williams scored 57 on March 4, 2012. The team moved to Brooklyn the following season.
Philadelphia has lost 15 of 16 games. The only victory during that stretch came against the Nets at home.
Kings 106, Lakers 98
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Darren Collison had 22 points in his ninth start of the season, DeMarcus Cousins also scored 22 and Sacramento completed a four-game season sweep of Los Angeles.
The Lakers, who trailed by as many as 23, got as close as 97-91 on a pair of free throws by Julius Randle that capped a 15-5 run with 3:14 to play. Rudy Gay clinched it for the Kings by scoring seven of his 20 points in the final 2:57.
This was the first time the Kings went an entire season without losing to the Lakers during the franchise’s 68-year history.
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