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NEW YORK -- Dwight Howard and Jeremy Lin got off to winning starts with their new teams.Change is also working perfectly for the Indiana Pacers, who are delivering the type of offense Larry Bird wants.Howard had six points and seven rebounds in about 18 minutes of his Atlanta debut, helping the Hawks to a 104-83 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies on Thursday night.Howard is now playing for his hometown team, while Lin is back in the city where he was a breakout star with the New York Knicks. Now playing for the crosstown Nets, he scored 21 points in 17 minutes of Brooklyns 101-94 victory over Detroit.The Pacers became the first team to start 2-0 by beating Chicago 115-108. Bird sought a higher-scoring, faster-playing team when he fired coach Frank Vogel and replaced him with Nate McMillan, and Indiana is averaging 114 points thus far.HAWKS 104, GRIZZLIES 93MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Walter Tavares had 15 points and 10 rebounds for Atlanta, going 7 for 8 from the field.Troy Williams led Memphis with 15 points.HAWKS: Howard was 3 for 7 from the field. ... Rookie DeAndre Bembry scored 12 points in his debut. ... With Al Horford gone and Paul Millsap recovering from knee surgery, Howard and Mike Muscala started in the frontcourt with Kent Bazemore.GRIZZLIES: Zach Randolph, now coming off the bench, had 10 points in 16 minutes. ... Marc Gasol finished with seven points and one rebound in 15 minutes of his second game since returning from a broken foot. ... DJ Stephen scored 13 points.UP NEXT: Atlanta (1-0) visits San Antonio on Saturday. Memphis (1-1) hosts Philadelphia on Tuesday.NETS 101, PISTONS 94NEW YORK -- Lin made five 3-pointers and shot 7 for 11 from the field as the Nets won their opener under new coach Kenny Atkinson.Andre Drummond finished with 17 points and 21 rebounds in Detroits opener.PISTONS: Ish Smith had four points starting for injured point guard Reggie Jackson, who has left knee tendinitis. The Pistons hope there will be a treatment plan for Jackson in the coming days, after which they could determine how long he will be sidelined. ... Marcus Morris scored 17 points and Tobias Harris had 15. ... Drummond played 24 minutes, likely keeping him from a 20-point, 20-rebound game. He led the NBA with five last season. Nobody else had more than two.NETS: Joe Harris scored 12 points and Luis Scola had 10, making his first three 3-point attempts. ... The Nets made 10 of their first 14 shots. ... Sean Kilpatrick shot 0 for 7. ... The Nets will visit the New York Knicks on Saturday and host them on Oct. 20 in their exhibition finale. Its the first time the city rivals have played in the preseason since Oct. 24, 2012, when they met at the Nassau Coliseum.UP NEXT: Detroit (0-1) hosts San Antonio on Monday. Brooklyn (1-0) visits New York on Saturday.PACERS 115, BULLS 108INDIANPOLIS -- Rodney Stuckey came off the bench for 20 points and seven assists to lead Indiana.Al Jefferson finished with 15 points and 11 rebounds, also coming off the bench.Rajon Rondo had 14 points on 6-of-7 shooting, adding five rebounds and five assists.BULLS: Dwyane Wade shot 3 for 9, finishing with 10 points. ... Nikola Mirotic was 1 for 7 for the second straight game, missing all five 3-point attempts. He was 0 for 3 behind the arc in the opener against Milwaukee. ... Spencer Dinwiddie led the Bulls with 19 points.PACERS: Thaddeus Young scored 20 points on 8-for-12 shooting and added eight rebounds and four assists. ... Paul George was just 3 for 11, finishing with seven points and six rebounds. ... The Pacers beat New Orleans 113-96 in their opener.UP NEXT: Chicago (0-2) and Indiana (2-0) meet again Saturday in Chicago.CELTICS 107, HORNETS 92GREENBORO, N.C. -- All-Star Isaiah Thomas scored 15 points and Al Horford had 13 as the Celtics got their first preseason victory.Avery Bradley and Terry Rozier both scored 14 points in the first of two straight neutral-site games between the teams.Kemba Walker scored four points in 9 minutes of his preseason debut.CELTICS: No. 3 pick Jaylen Brown scored 12 points. ... Thomas and Bradley had five assists each.HORNETS: Jeremy Lamb led Charlotte with 16 points and 10 rebounds, going 7 for 11 from the field. ... Nicolas Batum was just 3 for 11 from the field. ... 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BOSTON -- Stunned by an eight-run rally Sunday night that cost them the series finale against the Kansas City Royals, the Boston Red Sox look to Rick Porcello to reverse their fortunes.Porcello brings a 12-0 home record to the mound in the opener of a three-game series against the Tampa Bay Rays on Monday night at Fenway Park.Porcello will face fellow right-hander Matt Andriese in a rematch of a game last Wednesday in St. Petersburg, Fla. Neither pitcher earned a decision in that game, won 4-3 by the Rays in 11 innings, and Porcello takes his second shot at a major-league-leading 18th win in the rematch.He will bid to become the first Red Sox pitcher in 70 years to start a season 13-0 at home.In the first year of a five-year contract extension worth $82.5 million, Porcello (17-3, 3.23 ERA) is a legitimate Cy Young Award candidate.I think the one thing was that we werent sure as time went on if he would take the jump to be a top-of-the-rotation guy once we had him, Red Sox president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski said in a recent WEEI interview. We looked at him maybe as a middle-of-the-rotation type.As David Price has lived through his ups and downs in his first year in Boston, and as Steven Wright has emerged as a pleasant surprise, Porcello has flown under the radar and run up his strongest major league season.Dombrowski traded Porcello away from the Tigers to the Red Sox and then inherited the pitcher during Porcellos 9-15 first season in Boston. The Red Sox signed him to the big contract four months after acquiring him from Detroit but before he threw a regular-season pitch with his new team.Since May 22, he is 11-1 with a 3.12 ERA, and he is 3-1 with a 2.39 ERA in August. At Tampa Bay last week, Porcello pitched 7 2/3 innings of three-run ball, striking out eight without issuing a walk.The current Rays roster has a collective .272 batting average against Porcello, with Brad Miller hitting three home runs among his four hits in 15 at-bats against the right-hander. Evan Longoria (10-for-40) and Corey Dickerson (3-for-13) have also homered against Porcello.Longoriia has 15 homers in 72 games at Fenway Park.ddddddddddddAndriese (6-5, 3.71 ERA) has pitched twice against Boston this year -- an impressive two-inning relief outing at Fenway Park on July 10, during which he struck out five, and last weeks quality start, when he gave up three runs in six innings. Andriese fanned eight and walked one Wednesday.He is 0-3 with a 5.63 ERA in eight appearances since the All-Star break, but Andriese, who turned 27 on Sunday, said he was eager to face the potent Red Sox again.The last-place Rays (55-74) won the final two games to earn a split of the four-game series with the Red Sox last week. Tampa Bay lost the first two in Houston before beating the Astros 10-4 on Sunday.Tampa Bay manager Kevin Cash is not pleased with his clubs fundamentals.As a staff, were losing sleep over it, Cash said Sunday, according to the Tampa Bay Tribune. Look, weve got a group of some young players here. Were always going to have young players. But at some point those young players, even though they are young, weve got find a way to impact them to where theyre making positive decisions and adjustments in their game.Weve spent a lot of time talking about it, what can we do better this last month, what we can address more of. Its going to take all of us, myself, getting a little more hands-on and coaching these guys, trying to play it out how its going to happen before it actually does. I think thered be some benefit to that.The Red Sox, who still have to go back to St. Petersburg from Sept. 23-25, lead the season series with the Rays 7-6, going 4-2 at Fenway Park.Boston lost two of three to the Royals over the weekend, including a 10-4 setback Sunday night. Kansas City trailed 4-2 entering the sixth inning before erupting for its biggest inning in three years.The Red Sox (72-58) are two games behind the first-place Toronto Blue Jays in the American League East, and they are a game ahead of the Baltimore Orioles for the first AL wild card. ' ' '