Seth Curry drops his 5 all-time, LeBron snubbed!”>Steph Curry‘s 33 points are useless, the former DeRozan bends the Spurs, Utah and Denver good
Clear defeat of the Golden State Warriors on the field of Clippers despite Steph Curry’s 33 points. 40 are instead those of DeMar DeRozan, decisive as a former in the success of Chicago over San Antonio. Brooklyn manages to smile again after 11 straight losses thanks to the home win against Sacramento. All easy for Utah against Houston, while Milwaukee ends up ko in Portland without Antetokounmpo. Nikola Jokic drags Denver.
LOS ANGELES CLIPPERS-GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS 119-104
Terance Mann scores 25 points (his highest this season) and gives the Clippers an important success against Golden State, continuing to fight even without Leonard, George, Kennard and even Powell. At the final siren the entire starting quintet is in double figures, while there are 19 points to which Reggie Jackson also adds 8 rebounds and 9 assists. The excellent start of Stephen Curry is not enough for the Warriors, who scores 26 of his 33 final points in the first half: in the end he is 8/13 from the arc, while at his side Klay Thompson cannot find rhythm and closes with only 7 points on the scoresheet and 3/14 on the shot. Then there are 13 points each for Andrew Wiggins and Jordan Poole.
CHICAGO BULLS-SAN ANTONIO SPURS 120-109
Chicago approaches the Miami Heat at the top of the Eastern Conference to 37 wins. A crazy DeMar DeRozan inspires the 37-20 of the partial in the last fraction, once again taking the scene, and the absence of the injured Zach LaVine is thus not made to weigh. It is the seventh consecutive game over 30 points scored for the former of the day: this time they are 40, of which 19 arrived in the fourth period alone, when the decisive paw was to be placed, with 16/24 shooting. For the Spurs, on the other hand, Lonnie Walker IV’s 21 points and Dejounte Murray’s 19 points with 11 assists are not enough: the Texans thus interrupt their run towards the play-in area after two victories in a row.
BROOKLYN NETS-SACRAMENTO KINGS 109-85
Brooklyn manages to return to winning after 11 consecutive defeats and now tries to restart its path in the playoff perspective. In the first game of his career with the Nets jersey, Seth Curry closes with 23 points scored and thus allows the New York team to lay Sacramento. Curry is one of five double-digit players along with Bruce Brown’s 19 (highest this season) and Andre Drummond’s 11 with 9 rebounds, the other new arrival awaiting Ben Simmons. The Kings, returning from two successes in a row, do not go beyond De’Aaron Fox’s 26 points and Donte DiVincenzo’s 12 off the bench.
UTAH JAZZ-HOUSTON ROCKETS 135-101
After nine games, Rudy Gobert returns to the field and Utah dominates the game against Houston, swept away by the parquet despite the five double-digit players led by the 16 points of Kenyon Martin Jr., coming off the bench, and the 13 of Jalen Green, the young leader of a team that arrived at their fifth consecutive defeat and sunk in last place in the West. Enough and advances the 16-0 partial with which between the first two quarters the Jazz put an end to all kinds of ambitions on the part of Utah: thanks to the 30 points scored by Donovan Mitchell with 5/9 from the arc, to which he add 22 by Bojan Bogdanovic, 16 off the bench by Jordan Clarkson and 14 with 7 rebounds and 7/8 to Rudy Gobert’s shot in 22 minutes of use.
THE OTHER MATCHES
Portland takes full advantage of the absence of Giannis Antetokounmpo to beat Milwaukee 122-107 in the sign of Anfernee Simons, author of 31 points with 7/16 from the arc. Nikola Jokic scores 26 points and collects 15 rebounds in the never really questioned success against Orlando (121-111). Washington condemns Detroit to suffer the eighth consecutive victory with Kyle Kuzma’s 23 points, for the final 103-94. The Knicks continue to fall, beaten at home 127-123 at the overtime by Oklahoma; the protagonist of the Thunder success is once again Josh Giddey, author of 28 points, 11 rebounds and 12 assists. New Orleans knocks out Toronto 120-90, with CJ McCollum finishing with 23 points.
