Add San Antonio to the impressive list of places the Orlando Magic have won in this season.
And with that, add the Magic to a group of 30-win teams that also includes last year’s NBA finalists.
Dwight Howard scored 24 points, Jameer Nelson had eight of his 22 in the final two minutes, and the Magic beat the Spurs 105-98 on Sunday night.
Hedo Turkoglu added 21 points for the Magic (30-8), who are tied with the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers for the NBA lead in victories. Orlando has won four straight and 13 of 15.
“It feels good,” Howard said. “We’ve been playing great basketball, but to come here and beat a great San Antonio team says a lot about our growth and maturity.”
Boston reached 30 wins first by beating Toronto 94-88 earlier Sunday to snap its four-game losing streak. The Lakers got there with a 108-105 victory over Miami later in the night.
In other NBA games Sunday, it was: Philadelphia 109, Atlanta 94; Phoenix 109, the Los Angeles Clippers 103; Sacramento 102, Dallas 95; and Golden State 120, Indiana 117.
The win Sunday gave them a sweep of the season series with the Spurs.
“We knew the team that made the stops toward the end was going to win,” Howard said. “We came up with some good stops and got a good win.”
Tony Parker scored 31 points for the Spurs (24-12) but missed a pair of layups in the final two minutes. San Antonio closed the game by missing six of seven shots.
The Magic were 14-of-22 from 3-point range.
“They did a great job from the 3-point line and really knocked them down,” said Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, whose team has the best 3-point percentage in the NBA this season but was 3-of-13 on Sunday. “Some nights we don’t shoot as well or get as many shots. That’s just the way it is, and that was the difference.”
Celtics 94, Raptors 88
At Toronto, Ray Allen scored a season-high 36 points, including eight 3-pointers, and Boston withstood a late rally to snap a four-game losing streak.
Allen, who made a career-high 10 3-pointers against Charlotte on April 14, 2002, finished 8-for-10 from 3-point range.
Rajon Rondo had 14 points and 11 assists and Kevin Garnett added 10 points and 11 rebounds for Boston, which had lost seven of nine coming in.
Andrea Bargnani led Toronto with 17 points while Chris Bosh and Jamario Moon each had 15.
Lakers 108, Heat 105
sket with 18.5 seconds remaining for Los Angeles.
Kobe Bryant added 19 points and seven assists, Pau Gasol had 14 points and 18 rebounds to match a career high, and Derek Fisher had 13 points and a season-high 11 assists as the Lakers (30-6) won for the ninth time in 10 games.
Dwyane Wade led the Heat (19-17) with 27 points and nine assists, and rookie Michael Beasley scored 17 of his 23 points in the fourth quarter.
76ers 109, Hawks 94
At Atlanta, Andre Iguodala scored 27 points, and Philadelphia took advantage of Al Horford’s absence to dominate near the basket and notch its first four-game winning streak of the season.
The 76ers scored 56 points in the paint and had a combined 49 points by their starting forwards. Thaddeus Young added 22 points and nine rebounds as the Hawks struggled without Horford, the starting center who was held out with a knee injury.
The Hawks have lost four of five in January, including their first three-game losing streak since Dec. 6-10. Joe Johnson led Atlanta with 25 points and Mike Bibby had 22.
Suns 109, Clippers 103
At Los Angeles, Amare Stoudemire overcame early foul trouble to score 26 points, Jason Richardson and Grant Hill each had 21, and Phoenix sent the Clippers to their 11th straight loss.
have won five of their last six overall, including a 106-98 home victory over the Clippers on Jan. 2.
Shaquille O’Neal had 15 points and 10 rebounds.
Al Thornton had 23 points and eight rebounds for the Clippers, whose losing streak is their longest since a 13-game stretch late in the in 2003-04 season.
Kings 102, Mavericks 95
At Sacramento, Calif., Kevin Martin scored 21 points, Francisco Garcia had seven during a key fourth-quarter stretch, and the Kings ended a five-game losing streak.
Beno Udrih had 16 points, five rebounds and six assists for Sacramento, which hadn’t won since beating the Clippers 92-90 on Dec. 30 and won only its second in its last 10 games against the Mavericks.
Jason Terry scored a season-high 33 points for Dallas.
Warriors 120, Pacers 117
At Oakland, Calif., Jamal Crawford scored 32 points and hit the go-ahead 3-pointer with 11.3 seconds left, and Golden State snapped its five-game losing streak.
Kelenna Azubuike added 21 points and eight rebounds for the Warriors, hitting a free throw with 5.6 seconds left as road-weary Golden State opened a seven-game homestand with its first victory since Dec. 29.
Danny Granger scored 15 of his career high-tying 42 points for Indiana in the fourth quarter, including a 3-pointer that put the Pacers up 117-116 with 23.8 seconds left in a wild final period that had 12 lead changes.
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