CLEVELAND

Dennis Schroder scored a career-high 28 points and Atlanta handed reigning NBA champion Cleveland its first loss of the season, 110- 106 on Tuesday night.

Cleveland (6-1) cut a 96-81 deficit early in the fourth quarter to 101-97 on LeBron James’ basket with 3:14 to play. The Hawks scored the next six points, but 3-pointers by James and Kyrie Irving made it 106-103 with 48 seconds left.

Paul Milsap’s basket pushed the lead to five, but Kevin Love converted a three-point play with 25 seconds remaining. Bazemore’s jumper from the corner with 7 seconds left put the game away.

Bazemore scored 25 points while Millsap added 21. Dwight Howard, who received four stitches for a bloody lip in the first half, had 17 rebounds.

Irving led Cleveland with 29 points. Love added 24 while James, who scored two points in the first half, had 23.

Nets 119, T-Wolves 110

NEW YORK (AP) — Brook Lopez scored 26 points and Brooklyn kept Minnesota winless on the road.

The Nets shot 55.3 percent from the field and had eight players with at least nine points, a surprisingly easy offensive performance against a young Wolves team that clearly hasn’t yet grasped Tom Thibodeau’s defensive schemes.

Trevor Booker added 15 points and Sean Kilpatrick had 14 for the Nets.

Andrew Wiggins scored a career-high 36 points for the Wolves, making a career-best six 3-pointers. Karl- Anthony Towns had 21 points, but scoring wasn’t the problem for Minnesota.

The Wolves are 0-4 on the road and just 1-5 overall.

It was close most of the way, neither team having much luck stopping the other, and the Nets’ lead was just two after Wiggins’ jumper with 56 seconds left. Bojan Bogdanovic then made a 3-pointer with 37 seconds to go for a 115-110 lead, and Isaiah Whitehead and Bogdanovic closed it out with free throws.

Grizzlies 108, Nuggets 107

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Marc Gasol scored on an inbounds pass from Vince Carter at the buzzer to lift Memphis.

Gasol’s basket came over Emmanuel Mudiay on a high-arcing pass from Carter underneath the Memphis goal. When Carter inbounded the ball there were 0.7 seconds left.

Gasol had 19 points for the Grizzlies, who had lost two straight, while Zach Randolph added 16.

Mudiay had 23 points and Danilo Gallinari added 21 for the Nuggets.

Mudiay appeared to have led the Nuggets to a victory when he stripped the ball from Mike Conley and converted a fast-break layup with 7.9 seconds left.

But Conley came up with a steal in the closing seconds and drove the length of the court before the ball was knocked out of bounds by Denver with 0.7 seconds to go.

The Grizzlies went up 83- 76 early in the fourth quarter on a twisting layup by Jarell Martin and led by 95- 88 following a driving layup by Andrew Harrison midway through the quarter.

But the Nuggets battled back to take their first lead of the final period, 99-98, on a 3-pointer by Nikola Jokic, with 4:27 left.

T-Blazers 124, Suns 121

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Damian Lillard scored 38 points, including key free throws in the waning seconds, for Portland.

CJ McCollum added 33 points for the Blazers, who have won three straight. Portland led by as many as 18 points early in the game but the Suns threatened down the stretch.

Lillard hit a 3-pointer with 6:45 left that put Portland in front 101-95. Eric Bledsoe made a free throw to pull Phoenix within 115-114 with just under a minute left, but he missed the second attempt that would have tied it and Lillard scored a layup on the other end.

Bledsoe hit two free throws to again get within a point, but Lillard was fouled with 13.3 seconds left and made both to put Portland up 119-116.

Devin Booker made a 3- pointer that pulled the Suns within 122-121 but Lillard again hit two free throws with 3.7 seconds left and Booker missed from some 25 feet has time ran out.

Bledsoe finished with 31 points and Booker had 23.

Mavericks 109, Lakers 97

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Harrison Barnes scored 31 points and Seth Curry added 23 as Dallas won its second straight game after an 0-5 start.

JJ Barea had 18 points, seven rebounds and eight assists for the Mavericks, who beat the Lakers for the 11th consecutive time since April 2, 2013. Dallas forced 17 turnovers and held the Lakers off down the stretch, scoring 10 straight points midway through the fourth quarter to take control.

Jordan Clarkson scored 22 points and Nick Young had 20 as the Lakers’ three-game winning streak ended.

Lou Williams scored 15 points for Los Angeles, which rallied from an 11- point deficit in the second half before failing to execute in the final minutes.

Kings 102, Pelicans 94

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — DeMarcus Cousins had 11 of his 28 points in the fourth quarter for Sacramento, which never trailed in defeating winless New Orleans.

It was the second straight victory for the Kings (4-5), who were 1-7 in their first eight games last season,

Rudy Gay had 21 points and Aaron Afflalo added 15 for the Kings, who had dropped six straight games to New Orleans, dating to Nov. 25, 2014.

Kings point guard Darren Collison had nine points in his first game this season. Collison, who entered the game late in the opening quarter, missed the first eight games, serving a suspension for a domestic violence incident in the summer.

Anthony Davis had 34 points and eight rebounds for the Pelicans, who have started the season with eight straight losses, matching the 2004-05 team for the worst start in franchise history. Rookie guard Buddy Hield had 12 of his 14 points in the fourth quarter and E’Twaun Moore added 13.

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