San Antonio’s Tim Duncan drops in 30 points.

SAN ANTONIO – The Los Angeles Lakers had a fourth-quarter plan: Get the ball inside to Shaquille O’Neal. The San Antonio Spurs answered with a better idea: Get the ball outside to Tim Duncan.

Duncan scored 12 of his 30 points in the final period, including three straight jumpers in a decisive 10-0 run, as the Spurs came back for an 88-78 win over the Lakers in Game 1 of their second-round playoff series Sunday.

Los Angeles, leading 65-62 after three, committed 10 turnovers and scored only 13 points in the fourth quarter, being held without a field goal for a six-minute span.

“We tried to force-feed Shaq, and they got four or five turnovers out of that that helped them get back into the game,” Lakers coach Phil Jackson said. “By and large, we were victims of our own inability to execute.”

The win was the Spurs’ 16th straight since late March. Game 2 in the best-of-seven series is Wednesday night.

Duncan drew double-teams almost every time he got the ball in the second half, causing him trouble both posting up and driving. After scoring 15 points in the first two periods, he had only one basket in the third.

He scored on a layup and a jumper in the opening minutes of the fourth, then made his three straight jumpers in the 10-0 run.

“There’s not a whole lot of secrets about what we do and what they do,” Duncan said. “It’s about going out there and imposing your will.”

San Antonio’s 10-0 spurt ended with a breakaway dunk by Manu Ginobili off a pass from Duncan, putting the Spurs ahead 83-71. San Antonio outscored the Lakers 17-3 on fast-break points.

Tony Parker added 20 points and nine assists, while Ginobili had 11 points.

The Spurs also corralled Kobe Bryant in the fourth quarter, limiting him to six points on 2-for-6 shooting after he scored 12 in the third to put the Lakers ahead.

“They did what they wanted to do and then late they had a big spurt in them and we didn’t,” said Bryant, who led the Lakers with 31 points. “They wanted to get into transition and run it, and that’s what they did.”

O’Neal scored 19 points and had a game-high 13 rebounds, but none in the fourth. Karl Malone scored 10, making only one basket in the final period.

“There were times I was in in the fourth quarter where I didn’t do many positive things,” Malone said. “I didn’t produce – not today at all.”

After trailing 41-33 at the break, O’Neal and Bryant got their inside-outside game into a good rhythm as the Lakers opened the third quarter with a 13-4 run to take a lead that grew to as many as seven points.

Hornets 89, Heat 83

NEW ORLEANS – The Heat and Hornets will have one more chance to shove, scream and squabble. The only first-round series in the NBA playoffs to last beyond six games will go the distance.

On a day when the New Orleans Hornets were the verbal and physical aggressors, defensive specialists P.J. Brown and George Lynch gave Baron Davis enough offensive help to force a deciding Game 7 with an 89-83 victory Sunday.

“It’s going to be a war, just like every other game in this series. It might be a little more intense,” said Miami guard Dwyane Wade, who led his team with 27 points. “It’s a great series – two great teams going at it. That’s what you watch the playoffs for, to see who’s going to duke it out in Game 7.”

The series concludes Tuesday night in Miami.

The host team has won each game so far, and the Heat have a 15-game home unbeaten streak. In NBA history, the team with homecourt advantage has won its Game 7 on 70 of 85 occasions.

The mind games and brute force that have helped define this series picked up even more, compounded by a foot injury to senior referee Joe Crawford that left only two referees on the floor for most of the game.

Robert Traylor was called for a technical when flattened Eddie Jones on a shot attempt in the fourth quarter, then Traylor was thrown out of the game as he continued to shout at the Miami bench.

Davis also exchanged words with the Miami bench twice in the final quarter and had to be pulled away by teammates the second time. Lamar Odom, Lynch, Jamaal Magloire and Stacy Augmon also were called for technicals, in every case because of words or gestures.

“It just left a nasty taste in your mouth. I don’t know what they’re were trying to do,” Miami forward Caron Butler said. “All we did was come to play basketball. Now we’re ready to go back to Miami and redeem ourselves. And we look forward to the challenge.”

New Orleans never trailed and led by double digits for most of the game, but Miami – after trailing by as many as 18 in the fourth quarter – got as close as 85-81 on Caron Butler’s runner with 1:07 left. Brown then made a pair of free throws, and Miami could get no closer than four the rest of the way.

“The only positive was we didn’t quit,” Miami coach Stan Van Gundy said. “That could have been a 25- or 30-point game. We got dominated for 42 minutes.”

Davis’ 15 points were his second-lowest total of the series, down from the 33 he scored in the Hornets’ Game 5 loss. But when he found open teammates, they hit clutch shots, and Davis finished with a series-high 12 assists. “I definitely was looking to score a little bit more,” said Brown, who along with Lynch led the Hornets in scoring with 16 points each. “We know they’re going to come at Baron, double-team him any chance they get, because they can’t afford to let him have a 30-point explosion.

“They want other people to make plays for the team, and I thought we stepped up and did a great job of doing that.”

Magloire tied his series high with 14 points and David Wesley added 10 for New Orleans.

Jones had 23 points and Butler 14 for Miami, but Lamar Odom had one of his worst games. He entered averaging 18 points but had only nine when he fouled Davis on a fast-break drive with 2:20 left. Odom fouled out on the play, and Davis hit the free throws to put New Orleans ahead 85-75. That lead proved too much to overcome.

“I had a bad game … It happens like that some times,” Odom said.

Hornets coach Tim Floyd credited Brown’s defense on Odom, and the help he got from teammates who jammed the inside.

New Orleans led 32-15 after the Heat missed 14 consecutive shots, but Miami opened the second half with a 10-2 run to pull to 47-43. Davis responded with a 3-pointer to spark a 16-2 run that included a tip-in, a 3 and a turnaround fadeaway by Lynch.

With about 2:30 left in the period, Davis collided with Jones and got up limping. He went to the locker room briefly as Miami pulled to 69-58 on Wade’s 3 to start the fourth quarter.

Davis returned early in the fourth and immediately got a four assists. He set up Wesley for three open jumpers, including a 3, then found Augmon for a fast-break dunk that sent the sellout crowd of 17,297 into a frenzy and put the Hornets up 80-62 with eight minutes left.

Notes: Crawford sprawled onto the sideline press table after his first-quarter injury, writhing from pain in his right foot. He had to be helped off the floor, and an early examination indicated a torn plantar fascia. … Miami’s bench did not score until Udonis Haslem made a free throw with 1:51 left in the third quarter. The bench finished with four points. … It was the first home sellout in three games for the Hornets.

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