LOS ANGELES: Jayson Tatum's 41 points and Boston's 25 three-pointers propelled the league-leading Celtics to a 40th win of the NBA season on Friday (Saturday in Manila), 127-116 over the Charlotte Hornets.

Tatum posted his eighth 40-point game of the season. But with Jaylen Brown sidelined by a facial fracture and Al Horford out with a sore knee, he didn't have to carry the offensive load alone.

Derrick White scored a career-high 33 points and handed out 10 assists. His output included eight of the Celtics' 25 three-pointers, which came on 55 attempts.

'Shot was feeling good,' White said. 'I was getting some good looks and just letting it fly.'

Less than a minute into the contest, Sam Hauser and White drilled back-to-back three-pointers and the Celtics cruised from there.

They had a franchise-record 16 three-pointers in the first half, and even when the Hornets put together a 15-0 scoring run in the third quarter the Celtics' lead remained in double digits.

Tatum drained five from beyond the arc, and became the first NBA player to make 1,000 three-pointers before his 25th birthday.

Things were much closer in Miami, where Jimmy Butler jammed home the game-winner with three-tenths of a second remaining in the Heat's 97-95 victory over the Houston Rockets.

Tyler Herro led the Heat with 31 points, nine rebounds and eight assists, Bam Adebayo added 20 points and Butler scored 16 — but the Heat looked in danger of losing to the league-worst Rockets when they trailed by five with 3:40 remaining.

Two free throws from Butler trimmed the deficit and the Heat led 93-91 after an Adebayo steal and Herro three-pointer. The Rockets, however, kept responding. Houston guard Jalen Green's driving layup with seven-tenths of a second left knotted the score at 95-95, but on Miami's ensuing inbounds Gabe Vincent found Butler for the alley-oop dunk.

It went to double-overtime in Detroit, where the Pistons edged the San Antonio Spurs 138-131.

Bojan Bogdanovic scored 32 points and Jalen Duren added 30 and 17 rebounds for the Pistons.

Elsewhere, Lauri Markkanen and Walker Kessler scored 23 points apiece to help the Utah Jazz erase a 12-point deficit with 4:53 remaining in a 122-116 victory over the Raptors in Toronto.