
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Terry Rozier hit an off-balance jumper from the left corner as time expired to give the Charlotte Hornets a wild 102-100 victory over the Golden State Warriors on Saturday night.
Rozier – who had 36 points – made the winner after Golden State’s Draymond Green received two technical fouls and was ejected with 9.3 seconds for arguing the outcome of a jump ball.
The Warriors were leading by two when officials ruled Hornets Coach James Borrego had called a timeout as Gordon Hayward came down with the jump ball. Green immediately began jumping around the court, screaming at officials that the Warriors had tied up Hayward as he was falling to the floor and it should have been another jump ball.
“He crossed the line, that’s the main thing,” Warriors Coach Steve Kerr said about Green, who has a history of in-game outbursts. “We love his passion and his energy and we would not be the team we are without him. But that doesn’t give him license to cross the line – and he knows that.”
Rozier sank two free throws for the technical fouls to tie it. Then, he took the inbounds pass from midcourt and drove to the corner where he made the winning jumper and was immediately mobbed by teammates.
Rozier had 20 points in the fourth quarter en route to his fourth straight 30-point game.
P.J. Washington finished with 15 points to help the Hornets overcame a season-high 25 turnovers to beat the Warriors, who played without Stephen Curry.
Kelly Oubre Jr. led Golden State with 25 points.
Curry went through warmups but was a late scratch. The team said his illness is not COVID-19 related and that Curry was “just not feeling well.”
HEAT 96, LAKERS 94: Kendrick Nunn scored 27 points, Jimmy Butler had 24 points and eight rebounds, and Miami held on for a win at Los Angeles in an NBA finals rematch.
Bam Adebayo had 16 points and 10 rebounds for the Heat in the teams’ first meeting since the Lakers won their 17th championship with a six-game victory over Miami in the Florida bubble four months ago.
LeBron James had 19 points, nine assists and nine rebounds as the defending NBA champions lost their second straight game without starters Anthony Davis and Dennis Schröder.
James stole an inbounds pass with 8.4 seconds left to create one last chance for the Lakers, but the 17-time All-Star passed off to Alex Caruso, who missed a 3-pointer at the buzzer.
SUNS 128, GRIZZLIES 97: Devin Booker scored 23 points, hitting five of Phoenix’s franchise-record 24 3-pointers in a romp at short-handed Memphis.
Mikal Bridges added 19 points, making 6 of 7 shots overall and 4 of 5 from long range. Cam Payne also had 19 points, a season high, and Chris Paul added 16 points and six assists.
The Grizzlies, playing their fourth game in five nights, rested Brandon Clarke, Kyle Anderson and Grayson Allen.
BULLS 122, KINGS 114: Zach LaVine scored 38 points and Chicago won at home, sending slumping Sacramento to its sixth loss in a row.
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