ONTARIO, California, Oct 21, (AP): Kobe Bryant scored 21 points and Andrew Bynum had 20 points and nine rebounds to lead the Los Angeles Lakers to a 113-107 preseason victory over the Golden State Warriors on Tuesday night. The game drew a sellout crowd of 10,410 to Citizens Business Bank Arena. Anthony Morrow had 24 points, including four 3-pointers, for the Warriors (3-4), while Stephen Jackson and Monta Ellis had 15 each. Jackson was suspended for two games after calling Bryant a “dirty” player and arguing with Golden State coach Don Nelson following the Warriors’ 110-91 win over the Lakers on Oct 9. Lamar Odom, who had missed the past two games with a leg contusion, had 16 points for the Lakers (5-1), while Derek Fisher and Josh Powell both had 10. Pau Gasol (right hamstring) and Luke Walton (back) of the Lakers missed their fourth consecutive games.

The Warriors were without Nelson, who was attending to family business in Southern California. They also had Devean George (sore left knee), Acie Law (sprained left ankle) and Kelenna Azubuike (bone bruise) in street clothes, while Brandan Wright (left shoulder surgery) did not make the trip. The Lakers didn’t arrive at the arena until about 40 minutes before game time, their 50-mile trip from downtown Los Angeles having taken more than 2-1/2 hours because of the usual Southern California traffic and a brush fire. Bryant scored the first six points of the game and the Lakers took a 17-4 lead midway through the first quarter. The Warriors shaved the deficit to 29-21 by the end of the quarter, and after consecutive 3-pointers by Morrow keyed a rally against LA reserves, Lakers coach Phil Jackson sent the starters back and they rebuilt the lead to 52-47 at halftime.

Golden State found its rhythm in the third quarter behind Jackson, Andris Biedrins and Ronnie Turiaf and took a 77-73 lead with 1:52 to go in the third period. But Ron Artest’s 3-pointer and Shannon Brown’s layup off a steal by Jordan Farmar sparked a 9-0 run that gave the Lakers an 84-79 lead entering the fourth quarter. The game was tied at 98 with 4:28 to play when Powell’s layup started an 11-4 run.

Cavaliers 96, Mavericks 66
In Pittsburgh, the Cleveland Cavaliers and Dallas Mavericks took different paths in getting ready for the regular season. Cavaliers coach Mike Brown played his starters into the second half, while Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle didn’t suit up three of his stars. Cleveland, led by Mo Williams’ 16 points and 11 assists, rolled to a 96-66 preseason victory. Zydrunas Ilgauskas scored 16 points for the Cavaliers (3-3), who had five players in double figures. LeBron James and Anderson Varejao both scored 12 points as Brown kept his starters in the game until building a 30-point lead in the third quarter. “I wish I could have played them more,” Brown said. “When they were out there, they did some good things and they did some bad things. If we could’ve extended them into the fourth quarter, it would have been a good night for me.”

James had four rebounds, seven assists, two steals and two blocks, while Shaquille O’Neal had six points and seven rebounds in 20 minutes. Brown lifted O’Neal with 5:50 remaining in the third and James with 3:45 left in the quarter.
Williams, who played almost 28 minutes, was rested in Cleveland’s previous game and missed two others with a sore right groin.
Kris Humphries led Dallas (4-2) with 20 points, while Matt Carroll had 17 and Drew Gooden 10.
The Mavericks dressed only nine players. Dirk Nowitzki, Jason Terry and Jason Kidd did not play, and Shawn Marion, Josh Howard and Tim Thomas continued to nurse injuries.
Brown wasn’t surprised to see Nowitzki, Terry and Kidd on the bench. When the teams played Oct 17 in Dallas, Brown rested James, O’Neal and Williams.

Marion sat out a fourth preseason game because of a right calf strain. Howard and Thomas haven’t played in the preseason because of offseason surgeries.
With so many regulars on the bench, Carlisle gave extensive playing time to Carroll, who played 35 minutes in front of his hometown fans. Carroll grew up in Pittsburgh until moving away after the eighth grade.
The Cavaliers built a 51-34 halftime lead as the Mavericks shot 32 percent. They outscored the Mavericks 32-16 in the third quarter to take a 33-point lead.
Carlisle liked the way the Mavericks held James in check, holding to 3-of-13 shooting from the field.

Jazz 108, Blazers 97
In Portland, Oregon, after a a dominating preseason win over the Portland Trail Blazers, Carlos Boozer feels like the Utah Jazz are ready for the regular season.
I think we did a good job defensively, especially in the half court. We did a good job of helping each other.”
Deron Williams had 27 points and Boozer and Ronnie Brewer each added 16 in Utah’s 108-97 preseason victory over Portland.
The Jazz (4-2), missing Kyle Korver and C.J. Miles because of injuries, led by as many as 25 points.
Jerryd Bayless had 16 points for the Blazers (3-4), who overall seemed both tired and out of sorts. Brandon Roy had 15 points and Travis Outlaw added 10, all in the first quarter.
Utah center Mehmet Okur returned after missing Sunday’s victory over Charlotte with a sore back and contributed five points.

The Blazers made a surprise move when Juwan Howard started at forward instead of LaMarcus Aldridge, who had a left shin contusion and was a last-second scratch. Howard was acquired by Portland as a free agent in the offseason.
Portland lost forward Nicolas Batum early in the game with a hip injury.
The Blazers were already without center Greg Oden, who bruised his thigh on Sunday in Portland’s come-from-behind victory over Denver.
Blazers swingman Rudy Fernandez missed the game because of a bad back, and coach Nate McMillan said he’s unlikely to play in the preseason finale Thursday against Phoenix in Vancouver, British Columbia.
The Jazz led by as many as 13 points in the first quarter, jumping on the dazed Blazers. About the only spark for Portland was Outlaw, but even that was short-lived.

Utah’s dominance continued as Kyrylo Fesenko’s running jumper extended the lead to 40-26.
The Jazz led 59-40 at halftime, and Boozer’s tip-in stretched the lead to 85-61 at the end of the third quarter.
Both teams pretty much sat their starters for the final quarter.
The officials drew the ire of fans — who chanted their displeasure — with a few questionable calls, but there was word earlier Tuesday that the NBA’s labor dispute with the referees’ union may be drawing to a close.
A person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press that the league has made a new proposal. The person, who requested anonymity because the negotiations are ongoing, said it’s “highly likely” the referees will be back for the opening of the season.

Suns 143, Kings 127
In Phoenix, Channing Frye scored 29 points, Amare Stoudemire had 26, and the fast-moving Phoenix Suns overcame the losses of Steve Nash and Grant Hill to beat the Sacramento Kings 143-127 in their final home preseason game.
Nash left in the second half with an injured right ankle and Hill was ejected after getting two technical fouls for arguing with the officials.
The Suns, who broke open the game with a 42-point third quarter, hit a remarkable 51 of 56 free throws in the foul-plagued game. Thirty-six personals were called against the Kings, and starters Kevin Martin and Jason Thompson fouled out
Goran Dragic, who filled in for Nash, added 21 points for the Suns, while Leandro Barbosa had 16, and Hill and Nash 13 each.

Omri Casspi led Sacramento with 22 points, Tyreke Evans had 21, Martin 20, Thompson 15 and Spencer Hawes and Sean May 14 each.
With the regular season still about a week away, both teams already looked in mid-season form in the fast-paced first half. The shooting was on target, the passing crisp and both coaches played the game like it was the regular season.
Casspi, trying to become the first Israeli player to make an NBA roster, launched a desperation 34-foot bank shot just before the halftime buzzer, his third 3-pointer of the second quarter, giving the Kings a 68-67 lead.
Evans, the fourth overall pick in the June draft who had scored in double figures in each of the Kings’ first four games, topped Sacramento with 15 points at the half. May, who had not scored more than four points in the earlier exhibitions, had 10 points.

Spurs 119, Thunder 102
In Austin, Texas, Kevin Durant was having so much fun at his homecoming that even a loss to the San Antonio Spurs couldn’t spoil it.
The Oklahoma City Thunder forward toured the University of Texas campus where he spent one season in college, visited his old teammates and coaches and got to watch them practice.
Then he went out and scored 23 points and grabbed nine rebounds in 35 minutes on his old court, only to watch the Spurs hit 14 3-pointers as San Antonio rolled to a 119-102 preseason victory.
Before the game, Longhorns fans who came to see him called out his name for pictures and he was presented on the court with a “Kevin Durant Day” proclamation from the city.
When he was a Longhorn, Durant scored 20 or more points 30 times and scored at least 30 in 11 games in his one season and swept national player of the year honors as a freshman. Texas retired his No. 35 — the same number he wears as a pro — last season.

Durant made six of his first nine shots in front of a crowd that came out to see him but also to cheer for the Spurs (3-2). Although the game was a “home” contest for the Thunder, Austin is only about 75 miles north of San Antonio.
At one point in the second quarter, a group of Longhorns fans in the upper deck chanted “One more year!”
That was the fun part. The Spurs were all business in trying to prepare for the regular season and had the game under control by halftime.
Michael Finley made five 3-pointers to lead the Spurs with 20 points in 17 minutes. Matt Bonner was 3 of 3 from beyond the arc, while George Hill was 3 of 6.

Knicks 108, Celtics 103
In New York, bottled up in in Boston, the Knicks started slowly again in the rematch. Then Nate Robinson and Danilo Gallinari scored off the bench in bunches, and this time New York solved the Celtics’ mighty defense. Robinson scored 21 points, Al Harrington added 20, including the tiebreaking 3-pointer with 1:23 left, and the Knicks beat the Celtics 108-103 in an exhibition game Tuesday night. David Lee had 19 points and 16 rebounds, and Gallinari had his strongest outing of a poor pre-season with 18 points for New York (4-2). “I think that we played a really good game,” Gallinari said. “It was important for us because the first time we played against Boston up there, we lost. It was an important game for us even if it was just pre-season.”

Rajon Rondo scored 20 points for the Celtics (5-2), who had reserves on the court down the stretch of a game that was close throughout. One of them, Marquis Daniels, finished with 17 points. Paul Pierce(notes) had 14 points, while Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen each were limited to 11 as Celtics coach Doc Rivers used his three stars little in the second half with a week to go until the regular season starts. “A lot of good things. Some bad things,” said Rivers, who praised the play of his second unit. “They scored too many points. We’re going to score. We don’t like giving up that many points.”

Just like their 96-82 loss in Boston on Oct 9, the Knicks shot miserably at the start, missing 11 of their first 12 attempts. They rallied to tie it at 26 after one, but the Celtics went back ahead in the second and took a 62-59 halftime lead behind 14 points from Rondo. “They’re a very good team and a lot of times it takes a couple of minutes in a game to get adjusted, because I mean you’re going against Kevin Garnett, Rasheed Wallace(notes), Paul Pierce, Ray Allen, and Rondo’s pushing the ball,” Lee said. “So it takes a minute to get adjusted, but after we got adjusted to that we were able to hit them back and got a little bit of a run ourselves and go from there.” Daniels tied it for the final time with two free throws with 1:40 remaining before Harrington nailed his 3-pointer. Robinson followed with a layup after a turnover to make it 108-103 with 1:18 to go, and the Celtics’ backups kept misfiring from there. Robinson, back in a reserve role after a couple of preseason starts, had 16 points in 16 first-half minutes.

“My job is to come in and get these guys fired up,” Robinson said. “That’s been my identity since my rookie year and that’s just something I’ve been trying to do.” New York had struggled offensively throughout the preseason, shooting 38 percent and averaging 96 points while too often settling for jumpers in its first five games. The Knicks still hit only 44 percent in this one, but were able to play at the pace they want to much more than in previous games. Up two after the third quarter, the Knicks scored nine straight points early in the fourth to open a 98-90 lead on Wilson Chandler’s(notes) jumper. The Celtics answered with an 11-1 surge, with Daniels scoring the final four points for a 101-99 lead with 3:36 remaining, and it stayed close from there. “We’re still getting our execution plays, getting our plays down,” Wallace said. “It’s not going to happen overnight but we’re cool.” The Knicks close their exhibition schedule Wednesday night at New Jersey. The Celtics face the Cavaliers on Wednesday in Columbus, Ohio, then return to Ohio next Tuesday to visit the Cavs for the NBA season opener.