Wednesday NBA night: Houston stays perfect and Maxey's fourth quarter sinks Indiana

Wednesday's NBA slate ended with Houston still unbeaten and Philadelphia at 4-1. Nine games went final in the early windows. We have separate recaps of three of them: Stephen Curry's 44 in Golden State's win at Minnesota, AJ Dybantsa's debut in Cleveland and Nikola Jokic's 200th triple-double in New Orleans.

Rockets 132, Bucks 100. Houston is 5-0 after a rout in Milwaukee played without its leading scorer, Alperen Sengun, who sat with low back soreness, according to the Associated Press. Fred VanVleet scored 24 points, including 15 in a row midway through the third quarter, in his comeback from a torn ACL that cost him all of last season. Amen Thompson added 23 on 10-of-16 shooting, Kevin Durant had 18 and Bogdan Bogdanovic scored 16 in 15 minutes. The Rockets won the second quarter 34-14 and led 57-35 at halftime. Tyler Herro scored 23 for the Bucks, who are 1-4.

76ers 114, Pacers 109. Indiana scored the first 17 points of the third quarter and led 88-75 going into the fourth, then Tyrese Maxey took over. He scored 17 of his 27 points in the final quarter, including two 3-pointers in the last 90 seconds, the second for a 112-106 lead with 46 seconds left, the AP said. Joel Embiid had 21 points and 11 rebounds, Jaylen Brown had 20 and 10, Anfernee Simons scored 20 off the bench and LeBron James had 13 points and 10 assists. Pascal Siakam scored 26 for Indiana before fouling out with 12 seconds left. Tyrese Haliburton sat with his left hamstring strain, and coach Rick Carlisle said he expects Haliburton to miss at least two weeks.

Heat 129, Hawks 117. Giannis Antetokounmpo had 24 points and 18 rebounds for his first win with Miami, which scored 70 points in the paint. Bam Adebayo also scored 24 and passed Udonis Haslem as the franchise's career rebounding leader.

Pistons 97, Hornets 89. Cade Cunningham scored 30 points, and Detroit forced 25 turnovers, according to the AP, to move to 4-1. Brandon Miller had 31 points and 12 rebounds for Charlotte but missed five of seven shots in the fourth quarter.

Raptors 129, Magic 99. Scottie Barnes scored 28 and RJ Barrett had 25 points and nine rebounds as Toronto won by 30 without Kawhi Leonard, who is recovering from swelling in his left knee. The teams meet again Friday in Toronto in an NBA Cup game.

Knicks 133, Bulls 127. Jalen Brunson scored 38 points and New York came back from 19 down in the second half for its second straight win. Karl-Anthony Towns had 19 points and 13 rebounds after appearing to hurt his left wrist in the first half.

Three West games were still going at deadline, including the Lakers at the Clippers.