NBA: Wagner towers again – Schröder’s throw wobbles
National basketball player Franz Wagner led the Orlando Magic to their fifth win in a row in the North American professional league NBA with another top performance. In the 98:86 win against the Philadelphia 76ers, the 23-year-old scored 31 points and missed his season’s best by just one point.
Orlando, which still has to make do without its injured top star Paolo Banchero, is in third place in the Eastern Conference with eight wins and six defeats. The game against the 76ers was also counted as the second game of the league’s internal NBA Cup competition; Orlando won game one against Charlotte.
In addition to Franz Wagner, who also contributed eleven rebounds, his brother Moritz impressed with 14 points. Rookie Tristan da Silva scored six points.
Dennis Schröder lost with the Brooklyn Nets in the New York duel against the Knicks 122:124. The national team captain scored 14 points, but only hit four of his 17 shots from the field. World champion colleague Daniel Theis was once again not used in the New Orleans Pelicans’ 101:94 defeat of the Denver Nuggets.
The Cleveland Cavaliers also won their 14th game against the Chicago Bulls 144:126 and have now had the fourth best start to the season in history. Only the Golden State Warriors, who won the first 24 games in 2015/16, as well as the Houston Rockets (15:0, 1993/94) and the Washington Capitols (15:0, 1948/49) remained undefeated for longer at the start of a season.
On Sunday against the Charlotte Hornets, the Cavs, where Donovan Mitchell excelled with 37 points, can draw level with Houston and Washington.
4:6 after 3:1: Seider and Detroit collapse
National ice hockey player Moritz Seider suffered a bitter defeat with the Detroit Red Wings in the North American professional league NHL after a slump. Detroit lost to the Anaheim Ducks 4:6 – although the eleven-time Stanley Cup champions were still leading 3:1 shortly before the end of the second period.
Defender Seider was able to convince offensively and with two assists recorded his scorer points nine and ten in the current season. Defensively, the 23-year-old and his teammates remained vulnerable – with seven wins from 16 games, the Red Wings are still falling short of expectations.
