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OKLAHOMA CITY -- Kevin Durant often says hell do whatever
his team needs. In the second half against Memphis, his
mission was simply to score as often as possible. He had
30 of his 37 points after halftime to help the Oklahoma
City Thunder beat the Grizzlies 113-107 on Friday night.
Durant made 10 of 15 shots and all eight of his free
throws after halftime to help the Thunder hold off a
furious rally. "I just told myself to be aggressive, to
score," said Durant, the NBAs scoring leader. "Thats all
I said to myself at half. I was frustrated with the shots
I was taking. I felt that I wasnt disciplined. I worked
my fundamentals. I just wanted to be aggressive to score.
I think thats what my team needed." Russell Westbrook had
21 points and six assists in 28 minutes, Serge Ibaka had
16 points and nine rebounds and Reggie Jackson added 14
points for the Thunder, who snapped a three-game losing
streak. Oklahoma City had dropped every game since
Westbrook returned from his latest knee surgery -- and
nearly lost again because Mike Miller scored all 19 of
his points in the fourth quarter to rally Memphis.
Westbrook wasnt worried about the fact that the Thunder
almost squandered the 16-point lead they had heading into
the fourth. "We won, thats what Im going to take from
it," Westbrook said. "We lost three in a row. We just
won." Marc Gasol had 17 points and Zach Randolph added 13
points and 10 rebounds for the Grizzlies, who had won
five of six. Memphis ran into a team that was tired of
losing. "Theyre extremely talented, but they were very
focused, locked in," Memphis coach Dave Joerger said.
"They played at a very, very high level, I thought
tonight, as well as Ive seen them play against us in a
long, long time." Thunder guard Thabo Sefolosha left in
the first half with a left calf strain and did not
return. The Grizzlies made 26 of 40 shots in the second
half, but couldnt stop Oklahoma City in the final minutes
when the game got close. The Thunder offence broke out of
a lull in the second quarter when Westbrook returned from
a rest. He scored 10 points in the final 5:36 to help
Oklahoma City take a 57-42 lead at the break despite
getting just seven points from Durant on 2-for-9
shooting. Randolph was held to 2-for-10 shooting in the
first half, and the Grizzlies shot just 38 per cent.
Durant got it going in the opening minutes of the third
quarter with a 3-pointer and a dunk to help Oklahoma City
take a 65-47 lead. Westbrook showed some of his old form
when he froze Tayshaun Prince with a crossover dribble,
then drained a mid-range jumper to give the Thunder a 70-
55 edge. Durant scored 17 points on 6-for-10 shooting in
the third quarter to help the Thunder take an 87-71 lead
at the end of the period. Miller came off the bench and
made three 3-pointers in the fourth to help the Grizzlies
trim the deficit to 103-97 with 4:22 remaining. "In the
fourth quarter, our bench was unbelievable," Prince said.
"We (the starters) put them in a bad situation and they
almost got us out of it." Memphis cut the margin to three
before Durant made a baseline jumper on an assist from
Westbrook with 1:24 to play, then a floater with 33
seconds remaining to seize control for good. "We cant
afford to dig ourselves a hole like we did," Grizzlies
guard Mike Conley said. "Theyre too good of a team,
especially at home. They came out and they wanted to win
this game from the very beginning." The Thunder finally
resembled the team that has earned the top record in the
Western Conference. They won for the first time since
Feb. 13 and for the first time at home since Feb. 9 "It
feels great," Durant said. "You never take it for
granted. We learned a lesson after losing three in a row.
Its tough to swallow, so its good to get a W." NOTES:
Thunder centre Steven Adams played through flu-like
symptoms. The 7-foot rookie from New Zealand started in
place of Kendrick Perkins, who will miss about six weeks
with a left groin strain. Thunder coach Scott Brooks said
before the game that Adams might not play. ... Oklahoma
City shot 50 per cent in the first quarter to lead 29-22
at the end of the period. ... Memphis Kosta Koufos
committed four fouls in his first 5 minutes of play in
the first half.
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1-2 with a 7.DENVER -- Paul Pierce scored 18 points and
the Brooklyn Nets rebounded from their worst loss more
than 10 years by routing the slumping Denver Nuggets 112-
89 on Thursday night. Joe Johnson, Marcus Thornton, and
Mason Plumlee each added 10 points for the Nets, who
snapped a six-game losing streak in Denver. The Nets
hadnt won in the Mile High City since a 112-102 victory
on Jan. 27, 2007. Randy Foye had 15 points to lead
Denver, which has lost four in a row and nine of 10.
Brooklyns 7-foot centre Jason Collins, the NBAs first
openly gay player appearing in his third game since being
signed to a 10-day contract, was given a round of
applause from the crowd when he entered the game for the
first time with 8:02 left. Collins finished with three
points. Before the game, Collins said he planned to meet
afterward with the family of Wyoming college student
Matthew Shephard, who was tortured and murdered in 1998
because he was gay. Collins wears his No. 98 jersey in
Shepards honour, and he said during a pregame news
conference that the chance to meet Dennis and Judy
Shepard was "one of those cool treats in life." The Nets
were coming off a 104-80 loss at Portland the night
before, their biggest loss since a 47-point defeat to
Memphis on Dec. 13, 2003. But they quickly put that
behind them with a runaway win of their own in a game in
which they never trailed. Pierce scored 11 points in the
third quarter, helping the Nets extend their lead to 38
points. Brooklyn took an 89-56 advantage into the fourth
quarter and played reeserves for most of the rest of the
game.dddddddddddd The offensive struggles by Denver,
which was without leading scorer Ty Lawson (left rib
fracture) for an eighth consecutive game, were epitomized
in the first quarter. The Nuggets were held to a season-
low eight points on 3-for-18 shooting from the floor
(16.7 per cent) and trailed by as many 31 points in the
second quarter before managing to get within 23 at the
half. It got bad enough for the Nuggets that the crowd,
after seeing Timofey Mozgov and Kenneth Faried both miss
dunks in the first quarter, cheered derisively when
Mozgov hit a layup early in the second. The Nets took
advantage of the Nuggets horrible start to pull out to
59-36 halftime lead. Each of 10 Nets players seeing
action to that point scored at least once. Denver ended
up with as many turnovers in the first quarter as points.
NOTES: The Nuggets were also without F Wilson Chandler,
who was held out of the game because of sore right knee.
... The previous low for points in a quarter by the
Nuggets was 12, against Oklahoma City on Jan. 9. ... The
Nets Shaun Livingston made his 33rd start of the year,
the most in a season in his career. ... Brooklyn improved
to 4-10 in the second of back to back games. ... Since
the beginning of January, the Nets have gone 17-8,
fourth-best among Eastern Conference teams in that
stretch. ... Denver, historically one of the teams with
the strongest home-court advantage, fell to 14-15 at the
Pepsi Center this season. ... All 13 Nets playing in the
game scored.
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