Hansbrough, Hibbert lift Pacers by Nets
INDIANAPOLIS (AP)—Rookie Tyler Hansbrough(notes) scored a season-high 21 points, andRoy Hibbert(notes) added a career-best 20 points on his birthday to help the IndianaPacers beat the New Jersey Nets 107-91 on Friday night and snap a six-gamelosing streak.
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The 23-year-old Hibbert also had nine rebounds and three blocks. Troy Murphy(notes)added 15 points and 12 rebounds for the Pacers in their second game withoutDanny Granger(notes). The team’s scoring leader will miss at least four weeks with torntissue on his right heel.
Brook Lopez(notes) had 25 points and 14 rebounds for the Nets, but shot 8 for 23.
Devin Harris(notes) scored 18 points for New Jersey. He left in the second halfwith a sprained left pinky finger, but returned with it taped.
The Nets are 2-3 under coach Kiki Vandeweghe.
The Pacers had lost 10 of 11 and six in a row, but they got off to a goodstart on Friday. Hibbert scored 15 points in the first half, and Indiana shot 52percent to lead 60-51 at the break.
Harris left the game midway through the third quarter holding his fingerwhile groaning in pain. New Jersey rallied without him and closed to within76-71 before Hansbrough hit back-to-back mid-range jumpers to start an 8-0 runthat pushed the lead to 13. Indiana led 87-74 at the end of the third quarter.
Harris returned early in the fourth quarter, but it didn’t matter. ThePacers opened the quarter with a 6-1 spurt to take a 93-75 lead.
The Pacers were scrambling at the end of the shot clock when Murphy savedthe ball to Hibbert, and the 7-foot-2 center made the first 3-pointer of hiscareer as the buzzer sounded with eight minutes to go. The shot gave Indiana a96-75 lead and Hibbert his career high.
New Jersey didn’t make a field goal in the fourth quarter until 5:51remained.
NOTES: Indianapolis native Courtney Lee(notes) started and scored 14 points for theNets. … Indiana shot better than 60 percent for much of the first quarterbefore a flurry of misses at the end dropped the total to 57 percent. …Indiana had scored fewer than 100 points in three straight games.
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