CLEVELAND (AP) -LeBron James scored 19 points and added a season-high 13 rebounds, helping the Cleveland Cavaliers cap their most successful week in nearly 14 years with a 96-91 victory over the New Jersey Nets on Saturday night.
By beating San Antonio, Boston, Milwaukee and New Jersey since Tuesday, the Cavaliers have won four games in five nights for the first time since Feb. 2-6, 1993. It's just the streak they were looking for before departing on a seven-game, two-week road trip.
Larry Hughes and Drew Gooden scored 21 points apiece and Zydrunas Ilgauskas added 16 as the Cavaliers improved to 15-3 at home this season - and 26-3 since March 5 at Quicken Loans Arena.
Vince Carter and Mikki Moore had 18 points apiece and Richard Jefferson 17 for the Nets, who pulled within 93-91 on Jefferson's 3-pointer with 17 seconds left.
Gooden gave the Nets a chance to tie it by missing one of two free throws with 9.3 seconds to go. However, Carter misfired on a 3-pointer with 2.9 seconds remaining and Gooden sealed Cleveland's seventh win in eight games by hitting a pair of free throws in the final second.
Bulls 106, Pistons 89
CHICAGO (AP) - Luol Deng scored 30, Ben Wallace finished with 12 points and 14 rebounds in his first game against his former team, and the Bulls beat Detroit.
Ben Gordon scored 23 and Andres Nocioni added 21 points for Chicago.
It was a good ending to a tough week for the Bulls, who lost 97-96 to Phoenix on Leandro Barbosa's 3-pointer with 1.5 seconds left on Tuesday and fell 91-86 at New Jersey on Friday after scoring the first 18 points. Chicago had dropped 14 of 16 overall to the Pistons and 12 straight at home.
Richard Hamilton had his second straight 27-point game for the Pistons, and Nazr Mohammed scored 15.
Jazz 96, Nuggets 84
DENVER (AP) - Deron Williams tied a career high with 28 points and Carlos Boozer shrugged off a slow start to finish with 24 for Utah.
Williams also had 12 assists and Boozer grabbed 12 rebounds. The Jazz are now 21-5 when Boozer records a double-double.
