Houston (USA), Feb 4 (Reuters) -. Division leaders, led by the Indiana Pacers, Miami Heat, Oklahoma City Thunder resulted, like the San Antonio Spurs and Toronto Raptors, with wins commitments of the day in the NBA.
Losing staged surprises the Los Angeles Clippers and Portland Trail Blazers were defeated by the Denver Nuggets and Washington Wizards, respectively.
The guard-forward Danny Granger scored 16 points and led the attack Pacers 98-79 that were imposed by the Orlando Magic and maintain the best record in the league.
The forward Paul George and Lance Stephenson guard contributed 15 points each and the Pacers (37-10) clinched the second straight win in three days.
While Stephenson also had a double-double with 12 rebounds, including eight defensive and five assists.
Not Taking Off Heat game with your team, but had to LeBron James who shone again with your individual game to contribute 24 points and 11 assists that allowed them to win 102-96 to the Detroit Pistons.
James, who fell just two rebounds for his first triple-double of the season, led the Heat to their fifth win in the last six matches that keeps with the second best record in the Eastern Conference (34 - 13).
The guard Dwyane Wade contributed a double-double of 30 points by plating 13 of 19 field goals, 10 rebounds and five assists in 37 minutes.
Wade annotation is greater than has been achieved since the 18th of December, while center Chris Bosh reached the 17 points.
Thunder recounted the perfect combination (52 points) in the attack forward Kevin Durant and the Congolese power forward, a Spanish citizen, Serge Ibaka, and won 86-77 to the Memphis Grizzlies.
The win was the seventh straight getting the Thunder in their field of Chesapeake Energy Arena and eleventh in the last 12 games.
The French guard Tony Parker had 32 points, including 21 in the second half, the game the Spurs won at home 95-102 to New Orleans Pelicans.
Parker, who led the balanced attack Spurs also had nine assists that helped the Spurs to overcome a 14-point deficit.
The power forward Tim Duncan scored 21 points, including 16 in the second half, and the Italian reserve guard Marco Belinelli was the sixth player to contribute 13 points and close the list of three Spurs players who had double digits.
The guard DeMar DeRozan had 23 points and led the Raptors attack that won at home 79-94 to the Utah Jazz and consolidated as leaders of the Atlantic Division.
Along with DeRozan, the Lithuanian center Jonas Valanciunas had 18 points and power forward Amir Johnson a double-double of 11 points, 11 rebounds, two assists, two blocks and recovered a ball.
The victory was the fourth to have achieved the Raptors (26-22) in the last five games they have played.
The exescolta Clippers Randy Foye scored a triple before the game and the Denver Nuggets prevailed by 116-115 was exhausted.
The power forward Kenneth Faried was the leader of the Nuggets (22-23) to provide a double-double of 28 points and 11 rebounds that helped his team snapped a two-game losing streak.
The guard Ty Lawson, who missed the last four games with a shoulder injury, contributed 27 points and six assists.
While the pivot JJHickson also shone in the game under the basket and contributed a double-double of 17 points, 12 rebounds and five assists.
Along with Blake, who contributed a double-double by capturing 11 rebounds and hand out four assists, center DeAndre Jordan also highlighted in the game under the basket to get a double-double (19 points and 12 rebounds).
The long-awaited victory that gave the Wizards winning mark for the first time in four years before they got one of the toughest opponents in the league, the Trail Blazers that were defeated during his visit to the capital of the nation by 100-90.
The guard John Wall had 22 points and Dominican origin guard Trevor Ariza had 20 points.
The basis Damian Lillard scored 25 points and power forward LaMarcus Aldridge contributed a double-double of 20 points, 10 rebounds and six assists.
In other matches of the day, Brooklyn won 108-102 at Philadelphia, Milwaukee surprised 101-98 to New York (36 points, Carmelo Anthony) and Dallas beat Cleveland 124-107.