TORONTO (AP) - Gary Trent Jr. scored 23 points, Precious Achiuwa had 14 points and 13 rebounds and the Toronto Raptors beat the Milwaukee Bucks 121-105 on Sunday in a matchup of short-handed teams whose postseason fates already were sealed.
Bobby Portis Jr. scored 16 points for the Bucks, Jae Crowder had 13 and Meyers Leonard had 10 points and 12 rebounds.
Lindell Wiggington scored 17 points, and Goran Dragic and Thanasis Antetokounmpo each had 14 for Milwaukee, which finished the regular season 58-24.
Malachi Flynn scored a season-high 20 points for the Raptors, who finished 41-41 for the second time in team history.
CELTICS 120, HAWKS 114
BOSTON (AP) - Payton Pritchard finished with his first career triple-double with 30 points, 14 rebounds and 11 assists and Boston beat Atlanta in a matchup of mostly reserves.
Boston went 25 of 54 on 3-point attempts. Pritchard connected on 9 of 16, Mike Muscala went 4-for-7 on 3s and finished with 27 points and Sam Hauser was 8 of 14 on 3s with 26 points.
Garrison Mathews and Bruno Fernando led the Hawks with 19 points apiece.
Locked into the Eastern Conference's eighth seed, the Hawks will be at the Miami Heat on Tuesday in a play-in game. Boston, the East's No. 2 seed, will face the winner of the Heat-Hawks series in the opening round.
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BULLS 103, PISTONS 81
CHICAGO (AP) - Zach LaVine scored 17 points and DeMar DeRozan added 16 to help Chicago end the regular season with a win over Detroit.
Chicago plays in Toronto on Wednesday in an elimination game in the NBA's play-in tournament.
Killian Hayes had 26 points and Jaden Ivey scored 16 for the Pistons, who finished an NBA-worst 17-65.
76ERS 134, NETS 105
NEW YORK (AP) - Shake Milton scored 20 points and chased Cam Thomas all over the floor in the fourth quarter to keep him at 46, and Philadelphia beat Brooklyn. The teams face each other next weekend to begin the first round of the NBA playoffs.
Mikal Bridges was the only starter for either team to play, and he did so for just four seconds. It was his 83rd game starting this season, extending his streak to 392 straight to begin his career. Then he committed a foul and left the game.
HORNETS 106, CAVALIERS 95
CLEVELAND (AP) - Mark Williams had 22 points and 10 rebounds and fellow rookie Bryce McGowens scored 22 points as Charlotte rallied in the fourth quarter to beat the playoff-bound Cleveland.
Theo Maledon had 18 points, eight rebounds and six assists for Charlotte, which finished with the fourth-worst record in the NBA at 27-55 and did not advance to the postseason for the seventh year in a row.
All-Star Donovan Mitchell and Darius Garland were not in uniform for the fourth-seeded Cavaliers. Sam Merrill scored 17 points and Danny Green and Raul Neto each had 13. Cleveland blew an 11-point lead and finished the regular season 51-31. The Cavs play the Knicks in the first round of the playoffs.
HEAT 123, MAGIC 110
MIAMI (AP) - Udonis Haslem scored 24 points in his final regular-season game, Duncan Robinson added 20 and Miami tuned up for its game against the Atlanta Hawks in the play-in tournament by beating Orlando.
It was Haslem's highest-scoring game since he had 28 points on Nov. 14, 2009. He is retiring and checked out for the final time with 58.9 seconds left. Miami got a franchise-record 111 points off its bench.
Kevon Harris scored 22 for Orlando, while Caleb Houstan added 21 and Chuma Okeke scored 14.
PACERS 141, KNICKS 136
NEW YORK (AP) - Bennedict Mathurin scored 26 points and was one of seven Pacers who had double-digit points in Indiana's win over New York.
The Pacers completed the regular season with three wins in their final 10 games to finish the season 35-47.
Obi Toppin scored a game-high 34 for New York, which finished the regular season with a 47-35 record, and the fifth seed in the Eastern Conference. They will meet fourth seed Cleveland in the first round. Immanuel Quickley added 30 points for the Knicks.
ROCKETS 114, WIZARDS 109
WASHINGTON (AP) - Jabari Smith Jr. scored 20 points for Houston, which went on a 12-0 run late in the fourth quarter to top Washington. Neither team will be in the playoffs.
The Rockets won four of their last five games to finish 22-60. Washington played without Bradley Beal, Kristaps Porzingis and Kyle Kuzma down the stretch and lost five of its last six to finish 35-47.=
Jordan Goodwin led Washington with 22 points, Quenton Jackson added 19 and Corey Kispert scored 18.
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