Clippers 100, Heat 93

Chris Paul had the worst possible start to his shooting day.

His finish, however, was perfect.

Paul's consecutive 3-pointers in the final minutes were daggers to a Miami comeback, and his game-high 22 points helped Los Angeles hang on to beat the Heat on Sunday.

"I kept shooting it," Paul said, "because sooner or later it had to go in."

J.J. Redick scored 14 points, Wesley Johnson had 10 and DeAndre Jordan and Cole Aldrich grabbed 11 rebounds each for the Clippers, who won despite a 1-for-15 start from the field and swept the two-game season series with Miami.

"That was a team win because nobody really had it going," Clippers coach Doc Rivers said. "But our defense really had it going all game."

Chris Bosh, Dwyane Wade and Goran Dragic all scored 17 points for Miami. Luol Deng added 15 points for the Heat, and Hassan Whiteside finished with 10 points and 10 rebounds off the bench.

"They did to us what we've been doing the last few games, just grinding an opponent," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. "That's what they did to us, then made the bigger plays down the stretch."

Paul was 0 for 7 in the opening period, the worst one-quarter shooting performance of his NBA career, and was 0 for 9 before he finally got a shot to fall. But his 3-pointers in the fourth snuffed out a Miami rally, and his lob that set up Jordan for a dunk was the clincher for the Clippers — who, after that horrid start, shot 55 percent the rest of the way.

Redick made a layup on the game's first possession and the Clippers proceeded to misfire on their next 14 shots, but recovered to win for the 11th time in their last 13 road games, most of that with Blake Griffin sidelined by injuries.

"We're just trying to hold it down until our big fella comes back," Paul said.

Miami went to the oft-used strategy of intentionally fouling Jordan in the third quarter to slow the Clippers' offense. And while it worked to a point — Jordan went 3 for 10 from the free throw line in the quarter — Miami couldn't score. The Heat were 4 for 20 in the third, got down by as many as 11 and never led again.

"They made big plays down the stretch," Wade said. "That's the way we've been winning of late, so we can't be mad at that. We got a little taste of our own medicine."

Magic 96, Hawks 94

Nik Vucevic hit an 18-footer at the buzzer and the Magic beat the Hawks.

Elfrid Payton, who set up Vucevic's winning shot with an inbounds pass, scored or assisted the Magic's final six baskets as they won for only the third time in 18 games in 2016.

The Magic had gone scoreless since Payton's jump shot with 3:41 left, squandering a 94-86 lead.

Vucevic led Orlando with 22 points and nine rebounds and Evan Fournier, starting in place of the injured Tobias Harris, added 21 points. Payton had 12 points and 12 assists.

Jeff Teague scored 24 for the Hawks.