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• Gilgeous-Alexander shook off a slow start in which he missed his first five shots to score 29 points in the 124-112 win over Miami on Sunday night and extend his streak of 20-plus-point games to 110. Wilt Chamberlain topped the 20-point mark in a record 126 consecutive games from 1961-63.
BOSTON — Sam Hauser was downgraded on the Celtics injury report with right hamstring tightness for the 8 p.m. Saturday game against the Spurs. He was a late scratch roughly a couple hours before the game. Josh Minott will miss his third straight game with a left ankle sprain. Jayson Tatum remains out with his Achilles rehab.
SAN ANTONIO — The San Antonio Spurs beat the Boston Celtics on the road, 100-95. Victor Wembanyama led the team with 21 points in 26 minutes off the bench.
The Spurs tuned up for the Christmas Day extravaganza by waxing the Thunder by 20 points on Dec. 23 at the Frost Bank Center, then turned around two days later and showed it wasn’t a fluke with another double-digit de-pantsing of the champs.
Finch missed the Wolves’ game on Sunday night, Jan. 11, because of an illness, the team said, with assistant Micah Nori taking over head coaching duties at Target Center. Nori said Finch was at the coaches’ meeting, but his illness got worse throughout the day. Finch stayed away from the team in case he was contagious.
The Spurs defeated the Lakers 107-91, spearheaded by Keldon Johnson's stellar 27-point performance. SAN ANTONIO — The San Antonio Spurs beat the Los Angeles Lakers, 107-91. Keldon Johnson led the team with 27 points in 28 minutes off the bench.
Wembanyama had not started a game since New Year’s Eve, when he suffered a left knee bone bruise in the fourth quarter of a Spurs victory over the New York Knicks. He had come off the bench in three games since his return. Now that he is back in the starting lineup, Wembanyama hopes to stay there for good.
The Celtics had their chances against the Spurs, but they couldn’t close Saturday at TD Garden. It was the Victor Wembanyama show for stretches as the Spurs pulled away 100-95 over the C’s in an impressive road victory.