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Pacers Win Monday; Bulls Lose

>>Pacers Rally Past Pistons

 

Indiana's two tallest players combined to score 35 points and grab 18 rebounds, and Turner added five blocks to help the struggling Pacers snap a three-game losing streak with a 111-102 victory over the Detroit Pistons.

 

Damontas Sabonis finished with 18 points and 12 rebounds before fouling out midway through the fourth, while Myles Turner added 17 points, six rebounds and three steals. Thaddeus Young and Bojan Bogdanovic each scored 19 to lead the Pacers.

 

But Monday's victory hasn't changed anything in the standings yet.

 

The Pacers remain tied with Boston, a 110-105 winner over Miami, for the No. 4 spot in the East. The Celtics still hold the tiebreaker with the teams meeting in a potentially decisive game Friday in Indianapolis.

 

Sabonis spurred the Pacers' first-half turnaround with 14 points in 13 minutes as the Pacers built a 59-55 halftime lead.

 

And when the Pistons charged back to take a 77-74 third-quarter lead, Turner answered with seven points and a critical steal in a 13-3 run that put Indiana on top 87-80. Sabonis' 9-footer with 9:12 left in the game started the decisive 9-0 run that made it 98-87.

 

Tyreke Evans scored 13 points and Aaron Holiday wound up with 10.

 

The Pacers will try to snap a 10-game road losing streak in the rematch of the home-and-home. 

 

>>Knicks Get Rare Win, Beat Bulls

 

Luke Kornet scored a career-high 24 points and the Knicks ended a six-game losing streak with a 113-105 victory over the Chicago Bulls, who lost for the fifth straight time.

The Knicks, an NBA-worst 15-62, held on after the Bulls (21-57) cut a 28-point lead down to five.

Kevin Knox added 19 points, Damyean Dotson had 18 and Emmanuel Mudiay scored 17 for New York.

 

Robin Lopez led the Bulls with a season-high 29 points. JaKarr Sampson scored 22 and fellow reserve Ryan Arcidiacono had 14.

 

New York took its largest lead of the game at 59-31 on Mitchell Robinson's free throws with 6:04 left in the second quarter.

 

Chicago scored the next six points and pulled to 64-47 at halftime.

 

The Bulls drew within single digits for the first time since midway through the first quarter when Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot hit three free throws to make it 93-84 with 9:24 remaining.

 

Chicago then cut it to 94-89 on Walter Lemon Jr.'s layup with 7:51 left but the Knicks responded with the next six points and went on a 9-2 run to re-open a double-digit lead, 103-91.

 

The Bulls got as close as 112-105 on Sampson's two free throws with 46 seconds left, but they did not score again.

 

Robinson added 14 points and 10 rebounds for the Knicks.

 

Wayne Selden Jr. scored 11 points and Luwawu-Cabarrot finished with 10 for Chicago, while Shaquille Harrison had 10 rebounds.

 

Kornet was 8 of 11 from the field and 5 of 7 from beyond the arc as the Knicks shot 47.4% on 3-pointers and 50% overall. He was starting in place of DeAndre Jordan, who did not see action for the second straight game as Fizdale gives a longer look at Robinson and Kornet.

 

Chicago visits Washington on Wednesday.

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