Houston (USA), Feb 13 (EFE) .- Star forward Kevin Durant finally had the opportunity to return to the San Francisco Bay and did it with the Brooklyn Nets, whom he helped to achieve the victory in front of his former Golden State Warriors team.
The Saturday NBA session also left another triumph for the Utah Jazz, unstoppable, in their individual and team game, while the reverse of the coin was the Philadelphia Sixers who were defeated again on their tour of the West.
The Nets annihilated the Warriors with Durant as part of the “Big 3” who completed a great offensive job to win at home 117-134.
It was Brooklyn’s seventh 130-point game, the best record in the league so far this season, and Durant acknowledged that from the start they always had good feelings for a good game, in which he reiterated that he had nothing. to prove.
Durant, who played for the Warriors for three seasons, finished with 20 points, while guard James Harden added a double-double of 19 points and 16 assists and point guard Kyrie Irving led the way in scoring for Brooklyn with 23 points. The Nets’ five starters ended up with double-digit numbers.
For the Warriors, again the leader was point guard Stephen Curry with 27 points, but could never compensate for the greater offensive power of the Nets.
During a time out of the first quarter, a tribute video was played at the Chase Center, thanking Durant for his stay with Golden State. During his three years with the Warriors, the team won two NBA championships and Durant was named Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the Finals twice.
Guard Donovan Mitchell scored 26 points as the Jazz leader, which they easily beat 112-94 over the Miami Heat and achieved the seventh consecutive victory, and the eighteenth in the last 19 games they have played.
Croatian forward Bojan Bogdanovic added 19 points and French center Rudy Gobert obtained a double-double of 16 points, 12 rebounds and three blocks as the leader in the inner game of the Jazz (22-5), best record in the Western Conference and in the league.
Senegalese American forward George Niang came out of reserve and contributed 14 points and five assists, a best professional record, which left him as the sixth player on the Utah team.
Point guard Kendrick Nunn scored 20 points as the Miami team’s leading scorer, which missed 11 shots in a row to open the third quarter.
Forward Jimmy Butler added 15 points, eight rebounds and five assists, while center Bam Adebayo finished with a double-double of 14 goals, captured 10 balls under the hoops and gave six assists, which did not prevent defeat and the end of a streak of four straight wins for the Miami team.
The Hispanic guard Devin Booker maintains his best level of play since he arrived in the NBA five weeks ago and with 36 points he was again the leader of the attack of the Phoenix Suns that beat the Sixers 120-111, in what was his fifth consecutive victory.
Veteran point guard Chris Paul added a double-double of 18 points and 10 assists, which also helped the Suns win (16-9), third in the Pacific Division and fourth in the Western Conference.
The Suns have won eight of their last nine games and received a great contribution from the bench with Croatian power forward Dario Saric leading the way after scoring 15 points in his first game after missing 13 in a row due to health protocol reasons and Covid-19 safety and pain in the right ankle.
Cameroonian center Joel Embiid scored 35 points on 12 of 23 shots from the field and grabbed eight rebounds as the leader of the Sixers (18-9), who lost the second consecutive game, but remain leaders of the Eastern Conference.
Australian point guard Ben Simmons and forward Tobias Harris added 18 points each, which also didn’t prevent defeat.
Forward Doug McDermott scored 26 points as the attacking leader of the Indiana Pacers, who defeated the failing Atlanta Hawks 113-125 on the road for their second straight win.
The Hawks blew a nine-point lead in the fourth quarter when Indiana scored 41 points in the final period and used a 27-7 streak to take control of the game. It was the first time this season the Pacers scored 40 or more points in a quarter.
Power forward Julius Randle approached the double-double with 22 points and nine rebounds in the victory of the New York Knicks, who easily beat the Houston Rockets 121-99 and won the second consecutive game, while that the Texan team suffered the fifth loss in a row.
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