SAN ANTONIO -- Blake Griffin scored a season-high 28 points and the Los Angeles Clippers handed the San Antonio Spurs a second straight home loss, 116-92 on Saturday night.
The Spurs have dropped two straight at the AT&T Center after losing just two regular-season home games in the previous 600 days, including a 40-1 mark last season.
The Clippers shot 50 percent from the field while dominating the battle between one-loss teams.
Jamal Crawford finished with 16 points, J.J. Redick had 14 and Chris Paul had nine points and 10 assists (see full recap).
Howard, Millsap lead Hawks to 112-97 win over Rockets
ATLANTA -- Dwight Howard had 20 points and 14 rebounds in his first game against his former Houston teammates, Paul Millsap scored 23 points and the Atlanta Hawks beat the Rockets 112-97 on Saturday night.
The Hawks' scoring was unusually top-heavy. Kent Bazemore shook out of his early season scoring slump with 20 points.
James Harden scored 30 points and continued his hot start to the season by making 10 of 19 shots. He had 12 assists and nine rebounds.
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Most of Harden's scoring came in the first half, when he had 24 points and all of his four 3-pointers in the game.
Harden has recorded at least 30 points and 10 assists in four of Houston's first six games (see full recap).
Westbrook scores 28, leads Thunder past Timberwolves, 112-92
OKLAHOMA CITY -- The Thunder showed no lingering effects from their emotional loss at Golden State.
Russell Westbrook scored 28 points to help Oklahoma City beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 112-92 on Saturday night.
Enes Kanter had 20 points and 10 rebounds, Steven Adams scored 14 points and Victor Oladipo added 12 for the Thunder in their first game since being blown out by Golden State and former teammate Kevin Durant on Thursday.
"We'll take something from that game to help us learn going forward," Thunder coach Billy Donovan said. "And it was all about us tonight. It was all about what we need to do, how we needed to play defensively, how we needed to play offensively."
Westbrook also had eight assists and six rebounds. The Thunder improved to 5-1 on the season, matching their best six-game start since moving to Oklahoma City for the 2008-09 season (see full recap).
Persistent Pacers take advantage of weary Bulls, 111-94
INDIANAPOLIS -- After spending two days dissecting the problems from their last loss, the Indiana Pacers found some solutions Saturday.
And they didn't even need their best player, Paul George, to bail them out.
Instead, Indiana made a season-high 12 3-pointers, forced 18 turnovers and pulled away from the struggling Chicago Bulls for a resounding 111-94 victory, after George was banished to the locker room for the final 13 1/2 minutes after inadvertently kicking the ball into the stands.
"This is what we feel we can do out on the floor," Pacers coach Nate McMillan said. "Again, it's going to be a process and it's going to take time for us to continue to build. But this is the type of game we want to build off of."
There was a reason this one looked easy (see full recap).