Nets hold off Jazz 111-110, move closer to playoff berth

NEW YORK (AP) — Mikal Bridges had 30 points and seven rebounds,helping the Brooklyn Nets move closer to clinching a playoff berthin the Eastern Conference by holding off the Utah Jazz 111-110 onSunday.

Spencer Dinwiddie had 17 points and 12 assists, his eighthdouble-double in 23 games for Brooklyn, and Cam Johnson had 18points. The Nets won their third straight, and fourth in their pastfive games, opening a two-game lead over Miami for the No. 6 seedand dipping their magic number to two to clinch the last guaranteedplayoff spot in the East.

Talen Horton-Tucker scored 32 points and Lauri Markkanen had 23points and nine rebounds for the Jazz, who lost for the fifth timein six games and are 12th in the West, two spots behind the lastplay-in spot. Ochai Agbaji had 19 points.