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Portland Trail Blazers 118, Oklahoma City Thunder 108

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (Thunder) — 31 points on 9-20 shooting. Never quite a blowout, never quite a sweat.

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Houston Rockets 115, Golden State Warriors 108

Yaxel Lendeborg (Warriors) — 25 points, 10 rebounds on 9-19 shooting. A possession-by-possession game into the final minutes, decided by execution in the last stretch rather than any one run..

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Orlando Magic 123, Utah Jazz 108

Franz Wagner (Magic) — 38 points, 8 rebounds on 13-23 shooting. Never quite a blowout, never quite a sweat.

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Brooklyn Nets 145, New Orleans Pelicans 111

Zion Williamson (Pelicans) — 29 points on 8-14 shooting. This one stopped being competitive early. Margins that size usually say more about one team's night than the other's talent, but the gap in execution was real from the opening quarters..

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Los Angeles Lakers 123, Milwaukee Bucks 112

Luka Doncic (Lakers) — 32 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists on 10-25 shooting. Never quite a blowout, never quite a sweat.

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Denver Nuggets 123, Memphis Grizzlies 118

Jamal Murray (Nuggets) — 30 points, 8 assists on 12-19 shooting. A possession-by-possession game into the final minutes, decided by execution in the last stretch rather than any one run..

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San Antonio Spurs 124, Chicago Bulls 119

Victor Wembanyama (Spurs) — 32 points, 9 rebounds on 13-18 shooting. A possession-by-possession game into the final minutes, decided by execution in the last stretch rather than any one run..

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Boston Celtics 98, Toronto Raptors 93

Jayson Tatum (Celtics) — 24 points, 7 rebounds, 8 assists on 6-21 shooting. A possession-by-possession game into the final minutes, decided by execution in the last stretch rather than any one run..

nba summer league

Hawks 93, Spurs 66: A 27-Point Vegas Blowout Built Entirely on Ball Pressure

San Antonio shot 34% from the floor, went 4-of-34 from three, and coughed it up 23 times. Here's what that actually tells us — and what it doesn't.

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Warriors 101, Mavericks 90: A 35-Point Second Quarter and a 51-30 War on the Glass

Yaxel Lendeborg stuffed the box score (21-10-6, +26) while Dallas got a 27-piece from Morez Johnson Jr. and still never led by more than two.

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Wizards 92, Jazz 88: AJ Dybantsa Scores 27 Without a Three, Utah's Comeback Dies at the Line

Washington led by 20, survived a 51-38 second half, and won this one the old way: 16-of-21 from the stripe against a Jazz team whistled for 33 fouls.

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Heat 119, Bucks 86: Milwaukee's Seven-Point Third Quarter, Autopsied

The Bucks led this game 31-26 after one. Then Miami's defense took the ball away 12 times, shot 52%, and led by as many as 36. Quarter by quarter, here's how a game flips.

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