Los Angeles.- An outstanding Stephen Curry led the Golden State Warriors’ win against the Cleveland Cavaliers in a Friday of mixed fortunes for the league’s two most successful franchises- the Boston Celtics added their fifth straight win and the Los Angeles Lakers chained their fifth straight loss.
With a spectacular and lethal Stephen Curry in the result (40 points on 15 of 23 shooting), the Golden State Warriors clinched the victory against some very quarrelsome Cleveland Cavaliers who 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 consecutive losses and only two wins in twelve games, the Los Angeles Lakers continue their particular ‘via crucis’ and this time they lost to 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).
Two teams in a row competed in Boston, the Celtics and the Nuggets -both with four consecutive victories-, and the victory went to 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 3-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).
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The Oklahoma City Thunder compensated for their disappointment Wednesday, when they lost after two overtimes against the Milwaukee Bucks, defeating the Toronto Raptors this Friday with a fabulous collective performance: eight players scored more than 10 points and Eugene Omoruyi was the leading 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.
The Orlando Magic continue to impress in this first month of the season and, after beating the Dallas Mavericks on Wednesday and the Golden State Warriors last week, they took down another league heavyweight in the Phoenix Suns this Friday.
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).
Also striking is the victory of the San Antonio Spurs over the Milwaukee Bucks, which, at least, had as a pretext the huge number of losses with which they showed up 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.
Ja Morant (28 points, 10 rebounds and 8 assists) led the Memphis Grizzlies in a victory against the Minnesota Timberwolves in a game in which Spaniard Santi Aldama once again left his mark 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 returned to victory by defeating 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).
