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Jaylen Brown scored 44 points as NBA champions the Boston Celtics responded to consecutive defeats with a 142-105 victory over the Indiana Pacers.<\/b><\/p>\n

Jayson Tatum contributed 22 points and Payton Pritchard added a further 18 as Boston recorded their biggest points total of the season.<\/p>\n

The win kept the Celtics in touch with Eastern Conference leaders the Cleveland Cavaliers.<\/p>\n

Cleveland improved their league-best record to 27 wins in 31 games – four more than the Celtics – with a 149-135 victory over the Denver Nuggets among eight games to take place on Friday.<\/p>\n

Donovan Mitchell posted 33 points as six Cavaliers players reached double figures in the team’s sixth consecutive victory, achieved despite NBA Most Valuable Player Nikola Jokic’s triple-double of 27 points, 14 rebounds and 13 assists for Denver.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Anthony Edwards made a three-pointer with 23.2 seconds left to give the Minnesota Timberwolves a 113-112 win over hosts the Houston Rockets, who led by 16 points with less than five minutes to play.<\/p>\n

Jalen Brunson scored 26 points as the New York Knicks extended their winning streak to six games with a 108-85 victory over the Magic in Orlando, while Victor Wembanyama produced 19 points and seven rebounds as the San Antonio Spurs beat the Brooklyn Nets 96-87 in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Clippers won 102-92 against the Golden State Warriors, who were without the injured Stephen Curry.<\/p>\n

Kyrie Irving’s 20 points helped the Dallas Mavericks beat the Phoenix Suns 98-89, and the Memphis Grizzlies recorded an eighth win in 10 by beating the New Orleans Pelicans 132-124.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Sacramento Kings fired coach Mike Brown on Friday, less than halfway into his third season in charge, following Thursday’s 114-113 loss to the Detroit Pistons.<\/p>\n

That defeat was Sacramento’s fifth-in-a-row – and 18th in 31 games this season – and left the Kings in 12th place in the 15-team Western Conference.<\/p>\n

Brown, 54, was voted NBA Coach of the Year after guiding the Kings to the Western Conference play-offs in his first year in 2022-23, and he signed a three-year contract extension worth a reported $30m (\u00a323.8m) in July.<\/p>\n

Assistant Doug Christie will take over as interim coach.<\/p>\n

Also on Friday, the NBA announced it had fined the Philadelphia 76ers player Joel Embiid $75,000 (\u00a360,000) for making obscene gestures toward the Boston Celtics’ home crowd during their game on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n

Embiid was ejected from his team’s 111-106 win against the San Antonio Spurs after confronting a referee on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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