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Originally published Monday, February 6, 2012 at 10:01 PM

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Oklahoma City gets by Portland in overtime | NBA

Kevin Durant had 33 points, including a dunk with 2. 9 seconds left in overtime, and the Oklahoma City Thunder defeated the Portland Trail...

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PORTLAND — Kevin Durant had 33 points, including a dunk with 2.9 seconds left in overtime, and the Oklahoma City Thunder defeated the Portland Trail Blazers 111-107 on Monday night.

Russell Westbrook had 28 points, 11 rebounds and eight assists for the Thunder, who upped their NBA-best record to 19-5.

LaMarcus Aldridge had 39 points for Portland, which led 103-101 with six seconds left in regulation before a goaltending call that drew the ire of the Rose Garden crowd and seemed to take the energy out of the Blazers.

With the score knotted at 103 to force overtime, Westbrook hit a jumper and James Harden added a fast-break dunk to give the Thunder a 107-103 lead. Jamal Crawford's pull-up jumper narrowed it to 109-107 for the Blazers, but Durant dunked with 2.9 seconds left to put it away.

Love suspended two games

MINNEAPOLIS — Kevin Love's frustration with physical play and officiating have been apparent early and often this season.

Emotion got the best of him on Saturday night against the Rockets, and now he and the Minnesota Timberwolves have to pay the price: Love, his team's leading scorer and rebounder, was suspended for two games by the NBA for "driving his foot into the upper body and face of the Rockets' Luis Scola as Scola was lying on the floor."

The play happened in the third quarter of Saturday's victory over the Rockets after the two tangled while going for a rebound. As Love went to step over Scola, who a week earlier had thrown a ball off Love's groin while trying to save it from going out of bounds, he looked down at the Rockets forward and stepped on him as he headed back up the court.

Love apologized to Scola both after the game and in a statement issued by the team on Monday following the suspension, and said he has to do a better job handling his emotions.

He will miss Tuesday's game against Sacramento and Wednesday's game at Memphis.

Notes

Lou Williams nailed the go-ahead three-pointer, scored 14 of his 24 points in the fourth quarter, and spoiled Kobe Bryant's record-setting night while leading the host Philadelphia 76ers to 95-90 win over the Los Angeles Lakers.

Bryant scored 24 of his 28 points in the first half. He passed former teammate Shaquille O'Neal and moved into fifth place on the NBA's career scoring list. Bryant got 24 points in a hurry to pass O'Neal, but stumbled down the stretch and missed nine of his 10 shots in the fourth.

Lakers coach Mike Brown was suspended from the game without pay and fined $25,000 for making contact with a game official and failure to leave the court in a timely manner after his ejection in Saturday's game.

Jeremy Lin scored a career-high 28 points in his first career start, and New York overcame the absence of Amare Stoudemire and early loss of Carmelo Anthony to beat the visiting Utah Jazz 99-88. Stoudemire left the team to join his family in Florida after older brother Hazell was killed there earlier Monday in a car crash, then Anthony left after just six minutes with a strained right groin.

Luis Scola scored 25 points as Houston handed Denver a 99-90 loss. The Nuggets not only lost for the fifth time in six games but they lost budding star forward Danilo Gallinari, who rolled his left ankle in the third quarter. X-rays revealed a chip fracture of the foot and he was scheduled for further tests Tuesday "for a definitive diagnosis," the team said.

Chris Paul scored 29 points, and the visiting Los Angeles Clippers slipped by Orlando 107-102, in overtime.

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