BOSTON (AP) The Atlanta Hawks won consecutive games for the first time this season, getting 23 points from Shareef Adbur-Rahim and 22 from Stephen Jackson in a 100-96 victory over the Boston Celtics on Friday night.

It was the Celtics' sixth straight loss and their fifth in a row under interim head coach John Carroll, who took over on Jan. 27 when Jim O'Brien resigned.

The Hawks held a 15-point lead at halftime but watched it disappear in the fourth quarter. After Jackson hit a 3-pointer with 54 seconds left to give the Hawks a 97-92 lead, Paul Pierce hit four throws to cut the Hawks' lead to 97-96 with 17 seconds remaining.

Jackson missed the front end of a pair of free throws with 12 seconds remaining, but Ricky Davis had two shots blocked _ the first by Theo Ratliff, the second by Abdur-Rahim _ as the Hawks escaped.

Pacers 83, Raptors 77

TORONTO (AP) Ron Artest scored 27 points, Jermaine O'Neal added 20 and Al Harrington 19 as the Eastern Conference-leading Indiana Pacers beat Toronto.

Jamaal Tinsley scored five of Indiana's last seven points after Toronto closed within two. O'Neal, who vowed to have a better game after going 6-for-20 from the field in a loss to New York on Tuesday, added 14 rebounds as the Pacers won for the fourth time in five games.

Donyell Marshall had 24 points and 10 rebounds for the Raptors.

Wizards 112, Clippers 110

WASHINGTON (AP) Gilbert Arenas scored 25 points, Jerry Stackhouse added 23 and the Washington Wizards scored 25 of the game's first 28 points to end the Los Angeles Clippers' three-game road winning streak.

Kwame Brown added 22 points and Larry Hughes had 21 points and 12 rebounds.

Los Angeles, bidding for its first four-game road winning streak since March, 1982, got 24 points from Quentin Richardson and 22 from Corey Maggette. The Clippers are 3-2 on a nine-game road trip _ the longest in the NBA this season.

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