Lakers 112, Pacers 111

Indianapolis: Lebron James just put his head down and repeatedly drove to the basket Thursday night. It was his vintage move.

The same late-game philosophy that led to four NBA championships and has him on the precipice of becoming the NBA’S new career scoring champ worked perfectly again at Indiana. James finished with 26 points, seven rebounds and seven assists and fueled another frantic fourth-quarter rally, helping erase a 14-point deficit to lead the Los Angeles Lakers over the Pacers.

He’s now 63 points away from breaking Kareem Abdul Jabbar’s career record, 38,387 points.

Mavericks 111, Pelicans 106

Dallas: Luka Doncic scored 31 points before leaving with a right heel injury, and Dallas held on without their All-star, handing the travel-weary Pelicans their 10th consecutive loss.

Doncic stayed in the game after taking a hard fall in the third quarter when he was winding up for a one-handed dunk.

Cavaliers 128, Grizzlies 113

Cleveland: Darius Garland scored 32 points shortly after being left off the All-star team and carried Cleveland following Donovan Mitchell’s ejection, leading the Cavaliers over the slumping Memphis Grizzlies.

Mitchell was tossed in the third quarter for throwing the ball at Grizzlies guard Dillon Brooks.

Bulls 114, Hornets 98

Chicago: Ayo Dosunmu matched a season high with 22 points, Coby White scored 20 points and the Chicago Bulls overcame shaky outings by Demar Derozan and Zach Lavine.

Dosunmu made 9 of 10 shots, and White hit three 3-pointers. Nikola Vucevic had 17 points, 12 rebounds.

Knicks 106, Heat 104

New York: R.J. Barrett rebounded from a late-game benching with 30 points, Isaiah Hartenstein made big plays on both ends of the floor in the final minute and the New York Knicks beat the Miami Heat.

The Knicks pulled within a game of Miami for sixth place in the East, the final guaranteed playoff spot.

Embiid, Morant, Brown lead NBA All-star reserve class

Philadelphia’s Joel Embiid, Oklahoma City’s Shai Gilgeous-alexander and Portland’s Damian Lillard had to have known they were going to the All-star Game.

Other players — like Miami’s Bam Adebayo, Indiana’s Tyrese Haliburton and Utah’s Lauri Markkanen — had reason for concern.

The reserves for the Feb. 19 AllStar Game in Salt Lake City were announced Thursday night. From the Eastern Conference, it was Embiid, Adebayo, Haliburton, Boston’s Jaylen Brown, Chicago’s Demar Derozan, Milwaukee’s Jrue Holiday and New York’s Julius Randle.

From the Western Conference, the picks were Gilgeous-alexander, Lillard, Memphis teammates Ja Morant and Jaren Jackson Jr., Markkanen, Sacramento’s Domantas Sabonis and the Los Angeles Clippers’ Paul George.

“Every single year, starter or not, I’m competitive,” Embiid said. “Obviously you want to be the best. I felt like I put myself in position to be up there and the best.”