an outstanding Stephen Curry led the Golden State Warriors to a victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers in a Friday of mixed fortunes for the two most successful franchises in the league: the Boston Celtics added their fifth straight win and the Los Angeles Lakers chained their fifth straight loss.
WARRIORS 106 – KNIGHTS 101
With a Stephen Curry spectacular and lethal in the result (40 points on 15 of 23 shooting), the The Golden State Warriors won against some very combative Cleveland Cavaliers and that they started the season with good feelings.
Donovan Mitchell came close to a triple-double for the Cavaliers with 29 points, 10 rebounds and 9 assists.
LAKERS 114 – KINGS 120
With five straight losses and just two wins in twelve games, The Los Angeles Lakers continue their particular ‘via crucis’ and this time they fell against the Sacramento Kings in a game that LeBron James missed due to injury.
De’Aaron Fox (32 points, 7 rebounds and 12 assists) condemned some Lakers in the last two minutes in which the best were Anthony Davis (24 points and 14 rebounds) and Russell Westbrook (21 points and 11 assists).
CELTIC 131 – NUGGETS 112
Two teams in a row competed in Boston, the Celtics and the Nuggets -both with four consecutive victories-, and the victory was for the locals thanks to Jayson Tatum (34 points and 8 rebounds), Jaylen Brown (25 points, 8 rebounds and 8 assists) and Dominican Al Horford, who broke his personal best for three-pointers in a game (6 of 8) and finished with 21 points, 7 rebounds and 2 assists in 34 minutes.
Nikola Jokic (29 points and 8 rebounds) was Denver’s beacon along with Bruce Brown (16 points, 10 rebounds and 6 assists).
THUNDER 132 – RAPTOR 113
The Oklahoma City Thunder made up for their disappointment on Wednesday when they lost in two overtimes to the Milwaukee Bucks, beating the Toronto Raptors this Friday with a fabulous collective performance: Eight players had more than 10 points and Eugene Omoruyi was the top scorer with 22.
In the Raptors, who have conceded 55.9% in field goals by the Thunder, the presence of the Spaniard Juancho Hernangómez stands out, who until now had had few chances with the Canadians and who played his best game of the season with 9 points, 4 rebounds , 2 assists and 2 steals in 17 minutes.
MAGIC 114 – ONLY 97
The Orlando Magic continue to impress in this first month of the season and, after beating the Dallas Mavericks this Wednesday and the Golden State Warriors last week, this Friday they took down another heavyweight in the league in the Phoenix Suns.
Without Paolo Banchero, number one in the last draft, the Magic were led by Wendell Carter Jr. (20 points and 10 rebounds) while in the Suns, without Chris Paul and with 13 out of 42 in triples, the main reference was Cameron Payne (22 points).
SPURS 111 – BUCK 93
It was also amazing the victory of the San Antonio Spurs over the Milwaukee Bucks who, at least, had as an excuse the huge number of victims they showed up with in Texas (Giannis Antetokounmpo, Jrue Holiday, Kris Middleton, Pat Connaughton, Grayson Allen…).
Keldon Johnson led the Spurs with 29 points and Jevon Carter did the same with 21 points for the Bucks, in which Spaniard Serge Ibaka had an outstanding performance with 11 points and 9 rebounds in 19 minutes.
GRIZZLIE 114 – WOLVES TIMBER 103
Ja Morant (28 points, 10 rebounds and 8 assists) leads Memphis Grizzlies in win against Minnesota Timberwolves in a game in which the Spaniard Santi Aldama left his mark once again with 12 points and 7 rebounds.
In the Wolves, which had a lot of foul problems in their home game, Anthony Edwards was the leading scorer (28 points, 6 rebounds and 6 assists) and Dominican-American Karl-Anthony Towns once again had a gray night (13 points and 10 rebounds).
KNICKS 121 – PISTONS 112
The New York Knicks are back to winning ways beating the Detroit Pistons with 30 points by RJ Barrett and 26 points and 7 assists by Jalen Brunson.
Bojan Bogdanovic, with 25 points, led Detroit in a game that will not be remembered for the success of either team from the triple (10 of 40 for the Knicks and 7 of 31 for the Pistons).
