(The Sports Xchange) – Highlights of Friday’s National Basketball Association games.
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Suns 102, Magic 84
Unheralded Alex Len scored a career-high 31 points and grabbed 15 rebounds in leading the surprising Phoenix Suns to a 102-84 victory over the Orlando Magic on Friday.
Phoenix (16-46) snapped a 17-game road losing streak.
Tyson Chandler had 10 points and 12 rebounds, and Devin Booker had 14 points and six assists for the Suns. Ronnie Price had 14 points and five rebounds, and Archie Goodwin had 10 points.
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Raptors 117, Trail Blazers 115
DeMar DeRozan scored 38 points as the Raptors stretched their franchise-best home winning streak to 12 games with a victory over the Trail Blazers.
DeRozan set an NBA record by draining 24 consecutive free throws before missing his final attempt and the Raptors set a franchise mark with 43 free throws.
Kyle Lowry, the reigning Eastern Conference Player of the Week, added 28 points and six assists while Jonas Valanciunas had 17 points and 10 rebounds.
Toronto (41-19) swept the season series with Portland (33-30).
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Nets 121, Nuggets 120 (OT)
Brook Lopez scored 20 points, including a game-winning tip-in with four-tenths of a second left in overtime, and the Nets defeated the Nuggets.
Markel Brown scored a career-high 21 points and Bojan Bogdanovic had 17 for Brooklyn, which has won three in a row in Denver and five straight overall against the Nuggets.
Emmanuel Mudiay had 25 points and seven assists and Gary Harris tied a career-high with 21 points, but Denver suffered another tough loss to Brooklyn.
