MADRID, 14 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish players present this Monday at the NBA day, Santi Aldama and Usman Garuba, added victories with the Memphis Grizzlies and the Houston Rockets, with a good performance by the power forward from Gran Canaria who bordered on ‘double-double’.
The Grizzlies continue to overcome the absence of their star, Ja Morant, separated from the team after his controversial appearance on social networks with a gun while he was in a club, and added their third straight victory by beating the struggling Dallas Mavericks on their home court by 88-104.
Memphis maintains its second place in the Western Conference after a game where it did take advantage of the losses in the locals of Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving thanks to a good collective game with five players scoring ten or more points, led by Desmond Bane (23 , 8 rebounds and 7 assists).
And among them was Santi Aldama who, in more than 21 minutes on the track, came close to signing a good ‘double-double’ after scoring ten points, with 3/5 shooting two, and grabbing nine rebounds, which that made him the top rebounder of the game.
For his part, power forward Usman Garuba also tasted victory on Monday night with some Rockets that gave one of the surprises by defeating one of the most powerful teams in the Eastern Conference and in the league like the Boston Celtics .
The Texan franchise, last ranked in the West, prevailed by a tight 111-109 against a rival that featured spectacular Jaylen Brown, author of 43 points. Garuba, for his part, stayed at six, as a result of two attempted triples from him, grabbed four rebounds and distributed three assists in more than twelve minutes on the court.
–STATS OF THE SPANISH PLAYERS.
SANTI ALDAMA: 10 points, 9 rebounds and 3 assists.
USMAN GARUBA: 6 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists.
