NBA ROUNDUP : Short a Rebounder, Dallas Beats Boston

Roy Tarpley? Who needs Roy Tarpley?

Not Dallas on Thursday. The Mavericks dominated the backboards without their insubordinate seven-foot rebounder and matched last season’s home victory total by beating the Boston Celtics, 122-113.

Tarpley was suspended for a run-in with Coach Dick Motta during Wednesday’s game against the Lakers, but that didn’t stop Dallas from outrebounding the Celtics, 49-30.

“Are we scoring enough to win? Yes,” said Boston assistant Don Casey, filling in while Chris Ford recuperates from colon surgery. “But teams are rebounding with four players. We’ve lost the threat of our defensive rebounding to start the break.”

Dallas had no such trouble. Its rebounding put Jim Jackson into position to score 40 points and Jamal Mashburn 27 in its sixth home victory. The Mavericks are 10-8 overall. They didn’t win 10 games until April 12th, their 76th game of last season.

Popeye Jones had a career-high 25 points with 20 rebounds.

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Denver 101, Miami 99--Rodney Rogers hit a game-winning eight-footer with three seconds to play at Miami, where the Nuggets overcame 29 turnovers and a 20-point deficit and sent the Heat to its fifth defeat in six games.

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Utah 95, Washington 85--Jeff Hornacek scored a game-high 22 points, and Karl Malone added 17 points and 13 rebounds for the Jazz.

Utah’s sixth consecutive road victory matched the franchise’s longest road streak, set in 1983-84. Washington has lost four in a row and five of six at home.

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Seattle 114, Portland 103--Shawn Kemp scored eight of his 26 points in the fourth quarter as the SuperSonics won at Tacoma, Wash.

Portland lost its fourth in a row on the road.

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New York 94, Sacramento 84--Patrick Ewing had 27 points and 18 rebounds and John Starks broke out of a slump with 19 points to lead the Knicks at Sacramento.

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NBA Notes

Lionel Simmons scored three points in playing for Sacramento for the first time this season after recovering from knee surgery. . . . New York’s Charles Oakley sat out the game against the Kings because of a dislocated toe. That breaks his consecutive regular-season games streak at 268. . . . New York waived 12-year veteran guard Doc Rivers.