Warriors beats Heat 120-100 for 6th straight win

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Stephen Curry scored 29 points, Yaxel Lendeborg added 17 points, eight rebounds and six assists, and the Golden State Warriors won their sixth straight game by beating the Miami Heat 120-100 on Thursday night. Giannis Antetokounmpo had 20 points and 14 rebounds, Davion Mitchell contributed 22 points and eight assists and Bam Adebayo added 18 and 10 rebounds for Miami, which was outscored 26-9 during one crucial stretch of the third quarter and couldn’t recover.Draymond Green had a season-high 11 assists and Georges Niang scored 13 points off the bench as the Warriors extended their winning streak since starting the season 0-3.Curry began 1 for 8 and was 2 of 10 at halftime before coming on in the third quarter and finished 9 for 19 with six 3-pointers, just missing his fourth straight game with 30 or more points because he rested once the game was out of hand.Former Splash Brother Klay Thompson scored 11 points in his return and reunion with his former Warriors team and received a warm ovation before tipoff. A night after Thompson hit a winning 3-pointer with a second left in overtime of a 117-116 victory at the Clippers, he finished 3 for 10 from the floor. Andrew Wiggins also faced his old Golden State teammates and scored just two points on 1-of-6 shooting to go with six rebounds and four assists for the Heat in their third stop on a five-game West Coast road trip.SUNS 117, MAGIC 104PHOENIX (AP) — Devin Booker scored 30 points, Dillon Brooks added 24 and Phoenix snapped a four-game losing streak by beating Orlando.The Suns won a night after falling at home to Portland. The Magic have dropped three straight.Booker and Brooks hit back-to-back 3s midway through the third quarter to extend the Suns’ lead to 78-60 and they pushed that advantage to 96-73 heading into the fourth. Collin Gillespie’s 3-pointer with 9:20 left gave the Suns a 30-point lead, which was the largest of the night.Miles Bridges added 18 points and a season-high 13 rebounds. The Suns shot 17 of 34 (50%) from 3-point range with Booker and Brooks both hitting four.Orlando’s Wendell Carter Jr. had 27 points on 10 of 12 shooting and added 13 rebounds, Tristan da Silva scored 18 off the bench while Franz Wagner had 15 points and 15 assists. The Magic had 25 turnovers, which the Suns turned into 36 points.