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Warriors' Kristaps Porzingis hopes to bring revenge tour to Boston
Mar 16, 2026; Washington, District of Columbia, USA; Golden State Warriors center Kristaps Porzingis (7) looks to shoot over Washington Wizards forward Julian Reese (15) during the second half at Capital One Arena. Mandatory Credit: Brad Mills-Imagn Images Golden State center Kristaps Porzingis has been seeing a lot of familiar faces lately, and that will continue when the Warriors visit the Boston Celtics on Wednesday night.
Porzingis spent two seasons with the Celtics before he was traded to Atlanta after the 2025 season. The Hawks shipped him to Golden State in exchange for guard Buddy Hield and forward Jonathan Kuminga in February. Porzingis has also spent time with the New York Knicks, the Dallas Mavericks and the Washington Wizards during his NBA career.
“He’s quite a talent,” Golden State coach Steve Kerr said. “We’re also on the Kristaps Porzingis reunion tour. It’s kind of crazy, we are playing every one of his former teams. The Knicks, Washington, Atlanta, Boston, Dallas. All five of his teams, we’re seeing on this trip. Players usually get up for playing against their old team and I think that’s the case with Kristaps.”
Porzingis had a 30-point performance — the most points he’s scored in a game since joining the Warriors — to help Golden State end a five-game losing streak by beating Washington 125-117 on Monday night. He shot 8-for-13 from the field and made 13 of 14 free throws.
“He’s gotten his legs underneath him,” Kerr said. “You could see it. He just scores so easily. Really closed the game with his free throws.
“Not a great basketball game, but we needed the win and were good enough to get the win.”
Porzingis played against Boston in his debut with Golden State on Feb. 19, but Wednesday’s game will be the first time he’s played in Boston since he left the Celtics. He was a big piece of the puzzle when Boston won the 2024 NBA championship.
The Celtics are coming off Monday’s 120-112 home victory over Phoenix, but are 2-2 in their last four outings. Jaylen Brown scored a game-high 41 points in Monday’s win, and Jayson Tatum finished with 21. Brown tossed in 18 points in the final quarter, when Boston scored 14 of the game’s final 16 points.
Tatum said he and Brown have always fed off each other during crunch time.
“I think we’ve done a really good job of that over the last nine years, especially probably these last six,” Tatum said. “We’ve just found a way to really complement each other on both ends of the floor and win a bunch of basketball games and win a bunch of playoff series and win a championship, so just something we’ve been doing for a long time.”
Monday’s victory over Washington was Kerr’s 600th coaching victory of his NBA career. He became the 28th NBA coach to win at least 600 games.
Kerr reached 600 wins in 943 regular-season games. Only three NBA coaches have needed fewer games to achieve 600 victories: Phil Jackson (805), Pat Riley (832) and Gregg Popovich (887).
“It’s surreal to hear my name in that group,” Kerr said. “But I can tell you one thing that bonds us all together, those names and mine, (and) it’s talent. You can’t win in this league without great players, and I was blessed from the day I took this job with incredible talent.”
–Field Level Media
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Donovan Mitchell, Cavs end Pelicans' 7-game home win streak
Mar 21, 2026; New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; New Orleans Pelicans forward Zion Williamson (1) battles Cleveland Cavaliers guard Donovan Mitchell (45) during the first half at Smoothie King Center. Mandatory Credit: Matthew Hinton-Imagn Images Donovan Mitchell scored 27 points, James Harden went for 20 points, 10 assists and six rebounds, and the Cleveland Cavaliers used a fourth-quarter rally to snap the New Orleans Pelicans’ seven-game home winning streak 111-106 on Saturday.
Cleveland (44-27) came back from down as many as 15 points, going on runs of 16-2 and 10-0 in the final period to pull ahead.
After an offensively lackluster first three quarters, Harden came alive late. He scored 13 of his points in the final period, including knocking down a trio of 3-pointers during the initial Cavaliers run.
Sam Merrill also provided timely plays in Cleveland’s comeback, pulling down three of his 10 rebounds in the fourth quarter and scoring on a crucial bucket at the rim to give the Cavaliers a six-point cushion with 1:24 remaining.
New Orleans (25-47) answered with baskets from Zion Williamson and Dejounte Murray to cut the deficit to one possession.
But Mitchell effectively put the game away for Cleveland when, with 4 seconds remaining, he scored under contact from Trey Murphy III and made the free throw.
Mitchell’s game-high in scoring marked a successful return to the lineup for the guard, who missed Cleveland’s win at Chicago on Thursday after sustaining an eye injury in practice.
He paced five Cavaliers scoring in double figures, with Merrill adding 15 points. Evan Mobley went for 18 points and eight rebounds, and Thomas Bryant added 11 points on 5-of-7 field-goal shooting off the bench.
Williamson shot 10 of 14 from the floor to lead New Orleans with 25 points. Saddiq Bey shot 4 of 8 from 3-point range on the way to 19 points, and Murray posted a double-double with 12 points and 10 assists. Yves Missi came off the bench to grab a game-high 10 rebounds.
Murphy’s 10 points were the season-long Pelicans scoring leader’s lowest output since scoring just eight points against Memphis on Jan. 30.
–Field Level Media
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Pavel Buchnevich, Blues stifle Canucks for road win
Mar 21, 2026; Vancouver, British Columbia, CAN; St. Louis Blues center Robert Thomas (18) skates with the puck against Vancouver Canucks left wing Liam Ohgren (92) during the third period at Rogers Arena. Mandatory Credit: Simon Fearn-Imagn Images Pavel Buchnevich had a goal and an assist for the St. Louis Blues in a 3-1 win against the host Vancouver Canucks on Saturday.
Pius Suter and Jordan Kyrou also scored for the Blues (28-30-11, 67 points), who snapped a two-game skid and pulled within six points of the second and final wild-card spot in the Western Conference. Jordan Binnington made 14 saves.
Filip Hronek scored and Kevin Lankinen made 18 saves for the Canucks (21-40-8, 50 points), who are 13 points behind the rest of the league.
It was a quiet first period between the two, with minimal chances and St. Louis edging Vancouver 5-4 in shots on goal. The Canucks didn’t register their first shot on goal until nearly six minutes into the frame.
The second period started off slow for both sides, with no shots on goal through the first six minutes before Vancouver notched a pair. The Blues got their first of the frame moments later and then started to pick up the pace and control the play.
Suter gave St. Louis a 1-0 lead at 10:17 of the middle period. Robert Thomas took a feed from Dylan Holloway in the slot but was denied by Lankinen. The rebound bounced out in front and Suter got a piece of the rolling puck, which then hit him as he slid toward the net with the puck rolling past Lankinen.
Buchnevich made it 2-0 just 79 seconds later. Philip Broberg found him uncovered at the top of the right circle and fed Buchnevich a no-look pass for a one-timer that beat the outstretched glove of Lankinen.
The Blues thought they had a 3-0 lead off a Holloway tally with just under four minutes remaining in the period, but Vancouver challenged for a missed stoppage. The goal was overturned after video review showed Jimmy Snuggerud had knocked the puck down with a high stick four seconds earlier.
Hronek cut it to 2-1 on the power play at 8:32 of the third period, firing a snap shot from the middle of the blue line that deflected off Logan Mailloux’s stick past Binnington’s glove.
Kyrou scored an empty-net goal on the power play with 48 seconds left to close out the scoring.
–Field Level Media
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DC United, Atlanta United struggle to find chances, play to 0-0 draw
Mar 21, 2026; Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Atlanta United midfielder Miguel Almirón (10) steals the ball against D.C. United defender Silvan Hefti (5) during the first half at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jordan Godfree-Imagn Images Host Atlanta United and D.C. United ended their meeting on Saturday night the same way it started as the Eastern Conference foes played to a 0-0 draw.
Atlanta (1-3-1, 4 points) came into the night having picked up its first win of the season a week ago, a 3-1 victory against the Philadelphia Union to give Atlanta five goals over its previous two matches.
D.C. (2-2-1, 7 points), which snapped a two-match losing streak in its last outing, kept a clean sheet for the second time this season and for the first time since its season opener, a 1-0 win over the Union on Feb. 21.
Chances were at a premium for both sides as neither Atlanta’s Lucas Hoyos nor D.C.’s Sean Johnson had much to do in their respective goals. In fact, the best chance of the first half for either side was a Cooper Sanchez’s attempt just outside the box in the 13th minute that Johnson was able to deal with.
D.C., on its end, came close to the opening goal in the 61st minute after poor defending for Atlanta led to a flurry of activity in front of its own net. Hoyos, though, made a save on Jackson Hopkins’ attempt.
In the 83rd minute, Caden Clark had a chance to put D.C. in front, but his attempt struck the right post. Then, in the 87th minute, Brandon Servania’s long-range effort rang off the crossbar.
That was the final meaningful opportunity of the evening for both teams as they each walked off the pitch with a point apiece.
Atlanta held a 64.8% to 35.1% advantage in possession for the match and outshot D.C. 9-4. But it was held scoreless for the third time this season.
Hoyos ended the night with a single save en route to the first clean sheet of his MLS career. Johnson stopped both Atlanta shots he faced.
–Field Level Media
