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Cleveland edges out Houston, James hurt
Tracy McGrady scored 34 points, Yao Ming added 20 and the Houston Rockets didn't have to contend with LeBron James after halftime during a 98-87 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Tracy McGrady scored 34 points, Yao Ming added 20 and the Houston Rockets didn't have to contend with LeBron James after halftime during a 98-87 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers.
James didn't play onWednesday night after bruising a bone near his left eye when he was accidentally struck by Houston's Dikembe Mutombo late in the first half. James was coming off a 40-point performance at Atlanta on Tuesday. He scored just three before being hurt on Wednesday night.
In Charlotte, North Carolina, Jermaine O'Neal had 24 points and 17 rebounds, and Indiana won back-to-back for the second time this month.
In the three games he's played since an arbitrator reduced his 25-game suspension to 15, O'Neal has 61 points and 35 rebounds.
He will go before a federal judge on Thursday in New York, to learn if he can continue to play or must sit out the final 10 games of the suspension for his part in the Pacers-Pistons brawl last month.
Emeka Okafor had his 17th consecutive double-double with 16 points and 15 rebounds for Charlotte. Pistons 107, Wizards 105 Chauncey Billups hit a 14-foot jumper with 0.7 seconds left to give Detroit a come-from-behind victory.
The Pistons overcame a 19-point first-half deficit and trailed by as many as 15 in the third quarter. Billups scored 10 of his season-high 32 points in the final five minutes, and Rasheed Wallace had 12 of his 23 in the final quarter.
Gilbert Arenas scored 34 points, and Larry Hughes had 30 to go with seven assists and six steals for the Wizards. Bucks 111, Magic 105.
In Orlando, Florida, Michael Redd scored 29 points and short-handed Milwaukee got 15 points and a career-high 14 rebounds from Dan Gadzuric.
