George's 36 Help Pacers Easily Beat the Clippers

Paul George scored 36 points and Lance Stephenson added 22 points and 12 rebounds, leading the host Indiana Pacers past the Los Angeles Clippers, 106-92, on Saturday night.

Indiana (32-7) has won four straight, all by double digits, though it missed a chance to win four in a row by 20 or more points for the first time in franchise history. The Pacers retained the league's top record and improved to 21-1 at home before heading west for a five-game trip.

Jamal Crawford scored 22 points for the Clippers, who had won five in a row. Blake Griffin had 19 points, and DeAndre Jordan added 12 points and 17 rebounds.

After falling behind, 13-6, in the first four and a half minutes, the Pacers cracked down and gave up only 14 points during the next 14 minutes as they took a 45-27 lead. The Clippers never got closer than 9 after that.

Indiana did all that despite David West's being ejected at halftime for a flagrant-2 call and with his backup, Luis Scola, and the All-Star center Roy Hibbert watching the entire fourth quarter from the bench.

How did the Pacers do it? The same way they have won all season.

They held the high-scoring Clippers to 39 percent shooting from the field, beat them on the glass, outscored them inside and thwarted the Clippers' momentum every time they started to get some.

Indiana turned the tables quickly after those first few minutes. The Pacers answered Los Angeles's opening punch with a 12-2 spurt to take an 18-16 lead with 3 minutes 16 seconds left in the first quarter. The Pacers never trailed again.

PISTONS 104, WIZARDS 98 Josh Smith overcame a slow start to score 22 points, and Rodney Stuckey added 20 as visiting Detroit beat Washington.

Rodney Monroe had 12 points and 10 rebounds, and Andre Drummond added 10 points and a game-high 13 boards as the Pistons outrebounded the Wizards, 44-35.

John Wall scored 34 points, including Washington's final 10 during the final six minutes, as the Wizards, who had won three in a row, failed to move above .500 for the first time in more than four years.

WARRIORS 97, PELICANS 87 Stephen Curry scored 28 points, David Lee added 22 and Golden State sent host New Orleans to its eighth straight loss.

Anthony Davis had 31 points and 17 rebounds in his seventh straight game with more than 20 points, but that only kept the Pelicans competitive into the final minutes.

Andrew Bogut had 10 points and 15 rebounds for Golden State, which rebounded from a loss a night earlier in Oklahoma City and snapped a two-game skid. Jordan Crawford added 10 points.

T'WOLVES 98, JAZZ 72 Nikola Pekovic had 27 points and 14 rebounds in three quarters, and Minnesota blasted visiting Utah.

Kevin Love had 18 points, 13 rebounds and 5 assists, and Kevin Martin scored 20 points to help the Timberwolves snap a three-game losing streak that included losses to Sacramento and Toronto. The Wolves scored 28 points off 16 Utah turnovers and outscored the Jazz, 50-18, in the lane for a much-needed blowout.

Alec Burks scored 18 points for the Jazz, who trailed by as many as 36 points and shot 28.8 percent, the worst shooting night in franchise history. Derrick Favors had 8 points and 10 rebounds but was just 3 for 10 from the field.

CUBAN FINED The N.B.A. fined Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban $100,000 for confronting the officials and using inappropriate language toward them.

Cuban confirmed the fine on his Twitter feed, saying he could not let Commissioner David Stern leave without a proper farewell.

'Its been a fun 14 years of trying to create change and donating to the donut fund!' Cuban wrote.

Cuban went onto the court and yelled at the officials after the Mavericks blew a 17-point lead in the final five minutes of a 129-127 loss at the Clippers on Wednesday.

PELICANS' SMITH OUT The Pelicans said center Jason Smith would be out indefinitely with a right knee injury.

The club said a magnetic resonance imaging test revealed cartilage damage.

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