Mavericks Set Club Record at Home

With Josh Howard hurt and the Dallas Mavericks struggling, Dirk Nowitzki knew he had to start scoring.

Nowitzki had 31 points and Jason Terry scored 23, and they sparked the two key runs that pushed host Dallas to a 97-87 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies on Thursday night. It gave the Mavericks a franchise-record 13-game home winning streak.

Howard, the team’s leading scorer in six of his last 10 games, hurt his right ankle in the first quarter but returned in the second half after having X-rays. The injury was called a mild sprain.

After Dallas trailed by 19 points in the second quarter, Nowitzki or Terry made all but one field goal in a 21-2 run that continued into the third quarter. Dallas never trailed again.

“[Memphis] had that look in their eyes like it was going to be their night,” Terry said. “But we started to feed off the crowd, and the momentum started to shift.”

Pau Gasol and Bobby Jackson led Memphis with 18 points each.

Detroit 88, Indiana 83 -- Rasheed Wallace scored 11 of his game-high 28 points during a fourth-quarter surge that lifted the Pistons at Auburn Hills, Mich. With Detroit leading, 70-64, Wallace made four consecutive shots -- three from three-point range -- in 97 seconds. Stephen Jackson led the Pacers with 15 points.

From the Associated Press