SAN ANTONIO: Kyrie Irving had a career-high 57 points and the Cleveland Cavaliers rallied for a 128-125 overtime victory over the San Antonio Spurs on Thursday night.

Irving had the most points in the NBA this season, topping his 55-point game against Cleveland on Jan. 28. He scored nine points in the final minute of regulation to force overtime.

Irving hit a 3-pointer in the face of heavy defense from Danny Green to pull Cleveland to 110-107 with 31 seconds remaining in regulation. After the Spurs’Kawhi Leonard missed two free throws with 4.3 seconds left, Irving made another 3 - this time over Leonard – to tie it at 110.

Irving made all seven of his 3-point attempts, was 20 of 32 from the field overall, and made 10 free throws without a miss.

LeBron James added 31 points in his first game at the AT&T Center since being blown out in five games by San Antonio in the NBA Finals in his last games with the Miami Heat.

Tony Parker had 31 points for San Antonio and Leonard added 24 points.

Irving scored 11 points in overtime, including a crossover, fadeaway 3-pointer against Boris Diaw with 1:20 remaining to give Cleveland a 122-118 lead.

James was 10 for 20 from the floor in a physical battle with Leonard, but his struggles were lessened by Irving's wild night.

Green’s 3-pointer gave San Antonio a 104-95 lead, prompting a timeout by Cleveland and a technical on James for arguing a non-call on his earlier miss.


Now Knicks too beat Lakers, Pacers outlast Bucks

LOS ANGELES: Derek Fisher stepped onto the familiar hardwood below all those championship banners, and memories of his golden past with the Los Angeles Lakers came flooding back to him.

Fisher then led the New York Knicks to a victory that left him feeling slightly more optimistic about a bleak future back East.

Tim Hardaway Jr. scored 22 points; Andrea Bargnani added 16 and the Knicks snapped their five-game losing streak with just their fifth road victory of the season, 101-94 over the Lakers on Thursday night.

Alexey Shved had 14 points and 11 rebounds as the Knicks ended a seven-game road skid against the Lakers since 2007. New York won for Fisher in the former Los Angeles point guard's return to Staples Center, where he won five NBA championships alongside Kobe Bryant.

The NBA’s worst team (13-51) calmly maintained a lead down the stretch, sweeping the season series with Los Angeles (17-47) and picking up its first road victory over a Western Conference team all season.

Jordan Hill had 19 points and 10 rebounds for the Lakers, who have lost six of seven. While Fisher was encouraged by the game, another former Lakers guard was baffled.

INDIANAPOLIS:The Indiana Pacers outlasted the Milwaukee Bucks.

They might just do it in the Eastern Conference standings, too.

Rodney Stuckey scored 25 points and Luis Scola had 17 points and 15 rebounds to help Indiana beat Milwaukee 109-103 in overtime Thursday night. Since the All-Star break, the Pacers are NBA-best 9-1 and have pulled within 3 1/2 games of Milwaukee for the sixth seed.

Down by two points in overtime, the Pacers used a 9-0 run to take a 105-98 lead.

George Hill sealed the victory with two free throws with 16 seconds left, stretching the lead to six. Hill and C.J. Miles each finished with 17 points.

Results: Milwaukee Bucks 103 lost to Indiana Pacers 109; Memphis Grizzlies 87 lost to Washington Wizards 107; Houston Rockets 91 lost to Utah Jazz 109; Cleveland Cavaliers 128 beat San Antonio Spurs 125; New York Knicks 101 beat LA Lakers 94


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