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Trae Young’s 3-pointer with 1.8 seconds left capped a 38-point performance as the Atlanta Hawks stayed alive by rallying to beat the host Boston Celtics 119-117 in Game 5 of their Eastern Conference first-round playoff series on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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Boston now has a 3-2 lead in the series. Game 6 will be played Thursday in Atlanta.<\/p>\n

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Young scored the final 14 points for Atlanta, which was playing without the league-suspended Dejounte Murray after he made contact with an official at the end of the previous game. Young added 13 assists and a pair of steals. John Collins contributed 22 points and Bogdan Bogdanovic had 18 to support Young.<\/p>\n

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Boston’s Jaylen Brown (35 points) posted his second straight 30-plus-point game and Jayson Tatum had 19 points, eight rebounds and eight assists.<\/p>\n

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Nuggets 112, Timberwolves 109<\/p>\n

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Nikola Jokic had 28 points, 17 rebounds and 12 assists to lead host Denver past Minnesota, closing out their first-round Western Conference playoff series in five games.<\/p>\n

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Jamal Murray scored 35 points, Bruce Brown and Aaron Gordon each had 14 and Michael Porter Jr. grabbed 10 rebounds for Denver. The top-seeded Nuggets are headed to the Western Conference semifinals for the fourth time in five seasons.<\/p>\n

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Anthony Edwards put up 29 points, Karl-Anthony Towns had 26 points and 11 rebounds and Rudy Gobert had 16 points and 15 rebounds for the eighth-seeded Timberwolves.<\/p>\n

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Suns 136, Clippers 130<\/p>\n

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Devin Booker scored 47 points, including 25 in the third quarter, as Phoenix roared back from a double-digit, second-half deficit against visiting Los Angeles and advanced to the Western Conference semifinals.<\/p>\n

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Kevin Durant scored 31 points and Deandre Ayton added 21 points and 11 rebounds for the No. 4 seed Suns, who recovered from a Game 1 defeat to roll through the remainder of the series. Phoenix is set to face the No. 1-seeded Denver Nuggets in the second round, which starts Saturday in Denver.<\/p>\n

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Norman Powell scored 27 points, Mason Plumlee had 20 and Ivica Zubac added 16 points and 10 rebounds for the short-handed Clippers, who played without Paul George (knee) the entire series and lost Kawhi Leonard (knee) following Game 2.<\/p>\n

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