No rest needed for Cavs

CLEVELAND — LeBron James scored 19 points and added a season-high 13 rebounds, helping the Cleveland Cavaliers cap their most successful week in nearly 14 years with a 96-91 victory over the New Jersey Nets on Saturday night.

By beating San Antonio, Boston, Milwaukee and New Jersey since Tuesday, the Cavaliers have won four games in five nights for the first time since Feb. 2-6, 1993. It's just the streak they were looking for before departing on a seven-game, two-week road trip.

Larry Hughes and Drew Gooden scored 21 points apiece and Zydrunas Ilgauskas added 16 as the Cavaliers improved to 15-3 at home this season — and 26-3 since March 5 at Quicken Loans Arena.

Vince Carter and Mikki Moore had 18 points apiece and Richard Jefferson 17 for the Nets, who pulled within 93-91 on Jefferson's 3-pointer with 17 seconds left.

Gooden gave the Nets a chance to tie it by missing one of two free throws with 9.3 seconds to go. However, Carter misfired on a 3-pointer with 2.9 seconds remaining and Gooden sealed Cleveland's seventh win in eight games by hitting a pair of free throws in the final second.

HAWKS 86, CLIPPERS 74: At Atlanta, Joe Johnson scored 27 points, Zaza Pachulia added 22, and the Hawks snapped an eight-game losing streak.

Atlanta won for the first time since a Dec. 15 victory at Memphis. It won at home for the first time since beating Charlotte on Nov. 29.

Elton Brand led Los Angeles with 26 points, including 12 in the first quarter, and Tim Thomas had 14.

The Clippers fell to 0-11 on the road when trailing after three quarters.

PACERS 100, HORNETS 93: At Oklahoma City, Al Harrington and Stephen Jackson each scored 27 points and Jermaine O'Neal made two key layups in his first game since issuing a challenge to his Indiana teammates.

O'Neal hit back-to-back layups from the left block to break away from an 83-all tie and spark a 10-3 run that gave the Pacers control of the game in the final 4 minutes.

O'Neal finished with 22 points in his first game since calling the Pacers "a very average team" and suggesting that he and the team should go "separate ways" at the end of the season "if I can't take this team to another level."

Desmond Mason scored 28 points for New Orleans.

BULLS 106, PISTONS 89: At Chicago, Luol Deng scored 30, Ben Wallace finished with 12 points and 14 rebounds in his first game against his former team, and the Bulls beat Detroit.