Jazz 90, Spurs 81
Trey Burke scored 23 points off the bench and Gordon Hayward added 18 points as host Utah knocked off San Antonio.
Derrick Favors had 14 points, 10 rebounds and three steals for the Jazz, who have defeated Portland and San Antonio in back-to-back games. Rudy Gobert collected 14 rebounds and three blocked shots as Utah defeated the Spurs for the second time in the last eight meetings.
Tim Duncan had 14 points and 10 rebounds and Boris Diaw scored 13 points for the Spurs, who lost their third straight game. San Antonio matched its season low for points and committed 22 turnovers while dropping to 2-4 on the nine-game rodeo road trip.
The Spurs went more than three minutes without a field goal after Duncan’s basket with 7:11 to play and Utah stretched it out to 84-69 on Hayward’s reverse layup with 4:19 to go. San Antonio soon cleared the bench as players like Tony Parker (five points on 2-of-9 shooting), Kawhi Leonard (eight points) and Manu Ginobili (eight points on 3-of-9 shooting) all had subpar games.
Utah led by as many as 10 points in the second quarter before settling for a 47-40 lead at the break. The Jazz led by 14 points early in the third quarter and again after Hayward’s basket with 3:12 left in the period before San Antonio cut its deficit to 73-64 entering the final stanza.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Utah racked up 14 steals with SF Joe Ingles and SG Elijah Millsap joining Favors with three thefts. … The Spurs were 5-of-19 from 3-point range and 12-of-21 from the free-throw line. … The double-double is the 15th of the season for Favors.