Aurélien CANOT, Media365, published on Thursday March 24, 2022 at 08:23
Despite two XXL performances from its stars Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant, Brooklyn lost on the Memphis floor. Currently unstoppable (five wins in a row), Boston has pulverized Utah. Despite Stephen Curry’s absence from the Warriors side, Miami lost to Golden State. In a poorly ranked game, OKC dominated Orlando with 25 points from Theo Maledon.
The evening was almost perfect for Kyrie Irving. Just before learning that he could now also defend the colors of his home team on the floor of the Barclays Center (the mayor of New York will lift this Thursday the ban on a private sector employee working on New York soil without being vaccinated), the Nets point guard did not pass away from playing a nasty trick on the Grizzlies in Memphis, Wednesday evening in one of the shocks of the night. Unfortunately for the one who had already made a splash on the stats sheet on March 8 against Charlotte, with 50 points scored, his 53 points scored Wednesday night on the floor of Desmond Bane (23 points) and his teammates did not allow Brooklyn to return from Memphis with a 39th victory of the season. The star of the team Kevin Durant, passed very close to the triple-double (35 points, 11 rebounds, 8 assists), gave everything too, but without more success.
Boston unstoppable, Maledon on fire
In contrast, the combined performance of Jayson Tatum (26 points) and Jaylen Brown (26 points), authors of 52 points between them on Wednesday, allowed Boston, which has not lost for five games now, to crush Utah (125- 97) and Rudy Gobert, despite the new double-double (14 points, 11 rebounds) from the French pivot. Beautiful evening also for Golden State. Traveling to the leader in East Miami, the Warriors, though deprived of Stephen Curry, took advantage of Jordan Poole’s big performance (30 points) to surprise the Heat a Jimmy Butler very close to coming to blows with his own partner Udonis Haslem at the start of the second half. There will certainly be better days on the Florida side. Théo Maledon, for his part, would gladly sign with both hands to relive evenings like Wednesday. Author of 25 points, 6 assists and 4 rebounds, with OKC against Orlando at home during a meeting between the penultimate of the Western conference against the last of the Eastern conference, the former leader of ASVEL was the best player on his team in this gamemoreover when coming off the bench.
BASKETBALL – NBA / REGULAR SEASON
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
Charlotte Hornets – New York Knicks : 106 – 121
>>> Stats of Evan Fournier (NYK): 34 minutes, 12 points (4 of 14 on shots, including 4 of 10 from three points), 1 rebound, 7 assists, 2 lost balls, 3 fouls
Detroit Pistons – Atlanta Hawks : 122 – 101
>>> Killian Hayes (DET) stats: 33 minutes, 13 points (5 of 9 shots, including 1 of 2 three-pointers), 8 rebounds, 5 assists, 1 interception, 3 drop balls, 4 fouls
>>> Statistics of Timothé Luwawu-Cabarrot (ATL): 22 minutes, 3 points (1 of 7 on shots, including 1 of 6 from three points), 2 rebounds, 3 fouls
Indiana Pacers – Sacramento Kings : 109 – 110
Boston Celtics – Utah Jazz : 125 – 97
>>> Rudy Gobert’s stats (UTA): 30 minutes, 14 points (4 of 6 on shots), 11 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 interception, 1 lost ball, 1 foul
Miami Heat – Golden State Warriors : 104 – 118
Memphis Grizzlies – Brooklyn Nets : 132 – 120
Minnesota Timberwolves – Phoenix Suns : 116 – 125
Oklahoma City Thunder – Orlando Magic : 118 – 102
>>> Stats of Théo Maledon (OKC): 32 minutes, 25 points (9 of 13 on shots, including 2 of 4 on shots), 4 rebounds, 6 assists, 1 against, 1 interception, 2 lost balls, 3 fouls
>>> Olivier Sarr’s stats (OKC): 19 minutes, 8 points (3 of 5 on shots, including 0 of 2 on three points), 2 rebounds, 2 assists, 1 interception, 1 lost ball, 4 fouls
Dallas Mavericks – Houston Rockets : 110 – 91
>>> Stats of Frank Ntilikina (DAL): 21 minutes, 13 points (6 out of 10 on shots, including 1 out of 3 from three points), 3 rebounds, 4 assists, 1 interception, 3 lost balls, 5 fouls
Los Angeles Lakers- Philadelphia 76ers : 121 – 126
Portland Trail Blazers – San Antonio Spurs : 96 – 133
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