By ASSOCIATED PRESS
ORLANDO, Florida (AP) — Luke Kornet blocked Franz Wagner’s last-second layup, De’Aaron Fox scored 31 points and the San Antonio Spurs beat the Orlando Magic 114-112 on Wednesday night.
Fox scored the Spurs’ final 10 points, the last on two free throws with 1.4 seconds left after a foul on Orlando’s Jonathan Isaac. Orlando got the ball to Wagner under the basket, but Kornet swatted it out of bounds as the horn sounded, his third block of the game.
San Antonio has won seven of nine with Victor Wembanyama out with a strained left calf.
Wagner led Orlando with 25 points. Jalen Suggs added 24 points and three steals before fouling out with 25.6 seconds left. Desmond Bane, coming off consecutive 37-point games, finished with 14 points and six assists after hitting two big shots down the stretch.
It was the Magic’s third loss in 10 games since they lost Paolo Bancherro to a strained groin.
Dylan Harper came off the San Antonio bench with 16 points, five rebounds and five assists, and Devin Vassell had 15 points and six rebounds.
Fox had seven of the Spurs’ 19 turnovers.
Meanwhile in Dallas, Cooper Flagg scored 22 points, Anthony Davis had 17 points and 17 rebounds and the Mavericks extended their first winning streak of the season to three games with a 118-108 victory over the Miami Heat.
Undrafted rookie Ryan Nembhard had 15 points and a season-high 13 assists after scoring a career-high 28 points in the previous game, a 131-121 victory over Denver. Klay Thompson scored 17 points in his relatively new role off the bench.
Kel’el Ware had 22 points and 10 rebounds for Miami, while Tyler Herro scored 20 points but was shut out after halftime in his fifth game of the season coming off surgery to repair an issue affecting his left ankle and foot.
The Heat played without leading scorer Norman Powell, who has a sprained left ankle. Dallas center Daniel Gafford exited in the second half with a left ankle injury and didn’t return.
Flagg, the rookie No. 1 overall pick, and Davis combined to score the last eight Dallas points after the Heat had cut a 17-point second-half deficit to four with three minutes remaining on a bucket by Bam Adebayo, who scored 21 points.
Davis was playing consecutive games for the first time since missing a month with a left calf strain.
Nembhard, who has made four consecutive starts that are the first of his career, made all three of his 3-point attempts during a three-minute stretch in the second quarter when Dallas took the lead for good. The Mavericks were 16 of 32 from long range.
Herro was 8 of 12 from the field in the first half but missed the only five shots he got after the break, four from beyond the arc.
