Pierce’s buzzer-beater lifts Wizards over Hawks (AFP)

Paul Pierce banked in the game-winner to lift the short-handed Washington Wizards to a 103-101 NBA playoff victory over the Atlanta Hawks. Pierce's heroics gave the Wizards a two-games-to-one lead over Eastern Conference top seeds Atlanta in their best-of-seven second-round series -- and thwarted the Hawks' bid to rally from a 21-point fourth-quarter deficit. There was no such drama in Memphis, where the Grizzlies took a 2-1 series lead over Western Conference top seeds Golden State with a 99-89 victory over the Warriors.