Tyrese Haliburton scored 31 points to power Indiana's 123-114 victory over the Boston Celtics, bouncing back from a 37-point loss two days earlier. Six Pacers reached double figures in scoring, including Pascal Siakam and Andrew Nembhard with 17 points apiece. Meanwhile, the Orlando Magic staged a dramatic comeback, erasing a 21-point deficit to defeat the Brooklyn Nets 102-101.
LOS ANGELES — Indiana's Tyrese Haliburton scored 31 points as the Pacers turned the tables on the NBA champion Celtics with a confident 123-114 victory in Boston on Sunday .Two days after Jaylen Brown's 44 points propelled the Celtics to a 142-105 blowout victory over the Pacers Indiana got their revenge.
Haliburton added six rebounds and seven assists without a turnover and six players scored in double figures for Indiana, whose lights-out shooting in the second quarter saw them seize a seven-point halftime lead that they would push to as many as 16.Brown stayed hot, delivering 31 points on 13-of-21 shooting with six assists. Jayson Tatum added 22 points with nine rebounds and six assists.Pascal Siakam and Andrew Nembhard scored 17 points each for Indiana, Nembhard adding eight rebounds and eight assists as he returned after missing Friday's game with left knee tendinitis.Nembhard said maintaining their pace in the fourth quarter — when Boston cut an 11-point deficit to two with 7:38 to play, was key for Indiana.'I think that was the biggest thing we did late in the game,' he said. 'We kept pace in the game. We didn't slow it down and worry about the score too much.'In Orlando, Cole Anthony drove for the game-winning layup as the Magic erased a 21-point deficit to beat the Brooklyn Nets, 102-101.Tristan da Silva scored 21 points to lead the injury-ravaged Magic. Goga Bitadze added 19 and Anthony scored five of his 10 in the fourth quarter as Orlando closed the game on a 22-4 scoring run.Cam Thomas, back after missing 13 games with a hamstring strain, came off the bench and led Brooklyn's scoring with 25 points but missed a jump shot as time expired.Anthony admitted that da Silva, who scored 13 points in the fourth quarter, was supposed to get the ball on the play that yielded his game winner.When that failed to pan out, he said, 'I'm like, alright, I'm gonna go get a layup!'The Nets were without veteran Dorian Finney-Smith, who was traded along with Shake Milton to the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday in a deal that sent D'Angelo Russell to Brooklyn.Atlanta's Trae Young posted a double-double of 34 points and 10 assists as the Hawks handed the Toronto Raptors a 10th straight defeat, 136-107.Young made seven of the Hawks' 18 three-pointers, his efforts from beyond the arc matching the Raptors' total of three-pointers.De'Andre Hunter added 22 points off the bench for the Hawks who won their fourth straight and spoiled the season debut of Toronto's Bruce Brown after his recovery from arthroscopic knee surgery.Brown came off the bench and scored 12 points for the Raptors, who were led by Scottie Barnes's 19.
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