Spurs roll as Duncan downs Denver

Tim Duncan scored 20 points, grabbed

13 rebounds and blocked five shots to lead the San Antonio Spurs to a 96-91 victory over the Nuggets in Denver and a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven first-round playoff series on

Saturday.

The victory allowed the Spurs to regain the home court

advantage they lost when the Nuggets split the first two games

in San Antonio. Game Four is on Monday night in Denver.

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"Well, it was a heck of a win," Spurs coach Gregg Popovich

told reporters after his team used a late third-quarter run to

take control of the game.

"Obviously, either team could have been there. We had that

one spurt where we went up eight (points) and we just held on

after that."

Tony Parker had 21 points and six assists, Manu Ginobili 19

points and Michael Finley 16 for the Spurs, who also got key

contributions from Robert Horry during their run.

Carmelo

Anthony scored 28 points and gathered 12 rebounds and Allen

Iverson had 20 points for Denver.

"Get this one out of our heads and concentrate on the next

one," Iverson said when asked what his team has to do going

forward.

"That's the only thing we can do. They got their home

court advantage back and it's important for us to come in here

Monday and try to tie the series."

Chauncey Billups scored 25 points and Richard Hamilton had

19 as the Detroit Pistons completed their first series sweep since 1990

with a 97-93 Game Four victory over the Magic in Orlando.

Dwight Howard had 29 points and 17 rebounds for the Magic.

LeBron James scored 30 points and Zydrunas Ilgauskas

posted 24 as Cleveland recovered from blowing a 17-point

second-half lead to beat the short-handed Wizards 98-92 in

Washington to take a 3-0 series lead.

Deron Williams scored 25 points and Carlos Boozer had 15

points and 10 rebounds as the Utah Jazz beat the Rockets 98-85 in

Salt Lake City to even their series at 2-2.