NEW YORK — Kristaps Porzingis scored a career-high 38 points and Kyle O’Quinn added 15 points and 12 rebounds to help the New York Knicks beat the Denver Nuggets 116-110 on Monday night.

Tim Hardaway Jr. scored all 13 of his points in the fourth quarter after the Knicks had blown all of their 23-point third-quarter lead.

Nikola Jokic led the Nuggets with 28 points and Jamal Murray scored 20.

The Knicks had taken their biggest lead of the game, 69-46, on Courtney Lee’s layup with 10:38 left in the third quarter. However, the Nuggets responded by scoring the next 13 points to ignite a 27-2 run and they took their first lead, 73-71, on Wilson Chandler’s free throws with 4:42 left in the third quarter.

MAGIC 115, PELICANS 99: Marreese Speights highlighted an 18-point performance by hitting five of his career-high six 3-pointers during a decisive 22-6 run, and visiting Orlando soundly defeated New Orleans.

Speights’ second 3 of the game made it 87-83 in the final minute of the third quarter. He drained four more early in the fourth, after which Orlando led 106-89.

TIMBERWOLVES 125, HEAT 122: Jeff Teague scored 23 points, Andrew Wiggins scored 22 and Minnesota scored the first six points of OT before holding on to win in Miami.

Karl-Anthony Towns scored 20 points and grabbed 12 rebounds for the Timberwolves, who got 16 from Jimmy Butler and 13 from Jamal Crawford.

Jimmy Butler scored 14, Jamal Crawford scored 13 and Towns grabbed 12 rebounds for the Timberwolves.

76ers 115, ROCKETS 107: Ben Simmons had 24 points, nine assists and seven rebounds and Joel Embiid added 22 points to lead Philadelphia at Houston.

After losing 105-104 on a buzzer-beating 3-pointer from Eric Gordon in Philadelphia on Oct. 18, the 76ers snapped an eight-game losing streak against the Rockets, winning in Houston for the first time since Feb. 16, 2011.

HORNETS 104, GRIZZLIES 99: Kemba Walker scored 27 points and keyed a fourth-quarter rally to erase a double-digit deficit as Charlotte handed Memphis its first home loss of the season.

Jeremy Lamb added 17 points and rookie Malik Monk finished with 13 points.

NOTES

BULLS: Forward Nikola Mirotic has decided not to have surgery to repair the broken bones in his face.

Vice president of basketball operations John Paxson told Chicago’s WBBM-AM 780 that Mirotic decided to let the fractures heal on their own.

Mirotic suffered several broken bones as well as a concussion when he got into a fight with teammate Bobby Portis on Oct. 17.

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