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John Salmons scored 22 points on 9-of-11 shooting and the Milwaukee Bucks never let up after a hot start in a 107-89 victory over the Atlanta Hawks on Saturday night.

The Atlanta Hawks are off to a good start in the playoffs, even though they barely showed up for the second half.

The San Antonio Spurs have acquired high-scoring forward Richard Jefferson from the Milwaukee Bucks in a three-team trade, the Spurs said on their website (www.nba.com/spurs) on Tuesday.

Bucks forward Charlie Villanueva got a talking-to from coach Scott Skiles after the coach learned Villanueva posted a message to his Twitter feed -- a "tweet" -- from his mobile phone during halftime of Sunday's home victory over the Celtics.

LeBron James scored 55 points, coming up just one shy of his career high and putting together a stunning scoring flourish after halftime, and the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Milwaukee Bucks 111-103 on Friday night.

Luke Ridnour spoke to reporters Friday, then slipped into a back office to talk with Andrew Bogut. With Michael Redd gone, too, the Bucks' injury list is a bigger topic than their first-half success.