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HOUSTON -- James Harden had 26 points, 14 assists and 12 rebounds for his third triple-double of the season to help the Houston Rockets beat the Portland Trail Blazers 126-109 on Thursday night.Harden completed the triple-double in the third quarter. The Rockets rebounded a night after scoring just three points in the final 6 minutes in a 105-103 loss in Oklahoma City.C.J. McCollum led Portland with 26 points, Maurice Harkless had 19, and Damian Lillard 18, his second-lowest output of the season.Rockets starting point guard Patrick Beverley made his season debut after missing the first 11 games following arthroscopic surgery on his left knee. Limited to 25 minutes, Beverley had 11 points, three assists and three blocks.HEAR 96, BUCKS 73MIAMI -- Dion Waiters scored 23 points and Miami beat Milwaukee to end a six-game losing streak.Josh Richardson added 18 points, and Hassan Whiteside had 12 points, 17 rebounds, and eight blocks. The losing streak was the Heats longest since 2008.Point guard Goran Dragic returned for the Heat after missing three games with a sprained left ankle. He had 16 points in 36 minutes.Giannis Antetokounmpo and Tony Snell each had 14 points for the Bucks. They have lost four of five.Richardson hit a corner 3, Whiteside blocked a layup attempt by Antetokounmpo, and Dragic hit a 3 in a flurry of big plays to give Miami an 80-69 lead with 7 minutes left. Miami outscored Milwaukee 29-11 in the fourth quarter.WIZARDS 119, KNICKS 112TIMBERWOLVES 110, 76ERS 86MINNEAPOLIS -- Andrew Wiggins had 35 points, 10 rebounds and four assists to lead Minnesota past Philadelphia.Karl-Anthony Towns added 25 points and 10 rebounds, and Gorgui Dieng had 12 points and 10 boards.Joel Embiid had 10 points and 10 rebounds in 23 minutes after sitting out the front end of Philadelphias back-to-back on Wednesday night. 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Despite the loss, it was a remarkable show by the confident Swedish challenger, who had the best of the early rounds and then hung on in the fourth and fifth. John Havlicek Jersey . The Celtics closed out their first preseason under Stevens on Wednesday night with a 101-97 victory over the Brooklyn Nets, who rested a lot of their lineup including former Celtics Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce. Bob Cousy Celtics Jersey .ca look back at each of the Top 10 stories of 2013. Today, we look back at Boston Strong - a citys recovery from tragedy.LOS ANGELES, Calif. - As torrid as the Los Angeles Dodgers have been, Hyun-Jin Ryu is on an impressive roll, too. The rookie left-hander extended his career-high winning streak to six games with seven innings of one-run ball as the Dodgers beat Matt Harvey and the New York Mets 4-2 on Tuesday night for their first seven-game winning streak in more than three years. "Youve got to play a perfect game to beat them right now, and were not doing that," Mets manager Terry Collins said. The Dodgers improved to 39-8 since June 22, becoming the first NL team with such a run since the New York Giants from Aug. 12-Oct. 3, 1951. Their winning streak is the franchises longest since taking nine straight from May 9-18, 2010. "The Dodgers are having a lot of fun right now," Los Angeles shortstop Nick Punto said. Ryu (12-3) allowed one run and five hits in seven innings, struck out three and walked one. The left-hander is 6-0 with a 3.12 ERA in his last seven starts since July 5. The Dodgers have won each of Ryus last nine starts. "He was matching their guy pitch for pitch," catcher A.J. Ellis said. "You could tell before the game he had an edge to him. He used all his pitches." The Dodgers starters improved to 13-1 with a 1.72 ERA in their last 18 games since July 26. "Ryu is the game plan when you got a guy like Harvey out there," Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said. "Hyun-Jin was obviously up to the challenge. I was looking to see how he was going to respond to this little matchup. In the games theyve made a big deal of hes responded really well." Harvey (9-4) gave up four runs and eight hits in six innings, struck out three and walked two. The right-hander wass coming off his first career shutout, pitching a four-hitter in a 5-0 win over Colorado on Aug.dddddddddddd 7. He hadnt allowed an earned run in three of his previous four starts while going 2-1 with a 0.91 ERA in that stretch. "I was pretty inconsistent all night. I just couldnt locate anything," Harvey said. "When I tried to go in, it was over the middle. When I tried to go away, I was yanking it a bit. And when youre not hitting your spots and making quality pitches against a team like that, theyre going to put the ball in play." Kenley Jansen allowed a run in the ninth, but earned his 19th save in 22 chances. Puntos RBI double scored the tying and go-ahead runs in the fifth off Harvey (9-4). His hit in the left field corner scored Ellis, who walked, and Juan Uribe, who singled, making it 2-1. The Dodgers extended their lead to 4-1 in the sixth on Ellis two-out RBI single to left that scored Mark Ellis and Yasiel Puig, who both singled. "When our pitchers are keeping us in games like this it just takes a timely hit," Punto said. Juan Lagares homered in the first for the Mets. John Bucks RBI single with two outs in the ninth accounted for their other run. The Mets have lost eight of nine to the Dodgers. Notes: With the win, the Dodgers clinched the series and improved to 12-0-4 in their last 16 series. ... Mets 3B Wilmer Flores was out of the lineup with a stiff right ankle that he tweaked while running to third base on Monday night. ... Dodgers OF Andre Ethier was scratched with left calf tightness. ... Dodgers 1B Adrian Gonzalez team-best streak of recording an RBI in seven straight games ended after he was hitless in four at-bats. ' ' '