Heat 86, Knicks 79
Dwyane Wade scored a season-best 27 points in his return to the Miami Heat in a 86-79 win over the New York Knicks Sunday at Madison Square Garden.
Wade missed the Heat's last seven games with a hamstring injury. Without the all-star guard in the lineup, Miami (8-8) were 3-4.
Forward Carmelo Anthony returned to the Knicks (4-14) after missing the last two games with back spasms. He scored 31 points and forward Amar'e Stoudemire added 19 points and 12 rebounds.
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Magic 93, Suns 90
Forward Tobias Harris led a balanced Orlando Magic attack with 21 points, helping his team to their fifth road win of the season, 93-90, over the Phoenix Suns on Sunday.
Center Nikola Vucevic added 18 points and the biggest basket of the night on a six-footer with 42.9 seconds left for the Magic, who were 4-37 on the road last season but improved to 5-7 away from Amway Center this season by surprising a Suns team that had won five of their last seven.
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Bulls 102, Nets 84
Bulls guard Jimmy Butler scored a game-high 26 points, 16 of which came in the first half, as the Bulls manhandled Brooklyn. The win came in the final game of the Bulls' seven-game road trip, a stretch where Chicago went 4-3.
The Bulls also received 25 points and 13 rebounds from forward Pau Gasol. Guard Derrick Rose added 14 points.
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Trail Blazers 107, Timberwolves 93
Forward LaMarcus Aldridge scored 26 points and a season-high 15 rebounds in the Portland Trail Blazers' 107-93 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves Sunday night at the Moda Center.
Guard Wesley Matthews added 23 points -- sinking 6 of 10 shots from 3-point range -- as the Trail Blazers (13-4) rebounded from a 112-99 loss to Memphis on Friday.
Forward Shabazz Muhammad came off the bench to lead Minnesota (4-11) with a career-high 28 points while guard Mo Williams contributed 21 points and 11 assists.
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