This is the longest hitting streak in the league this season and the longest for the Nets since the 2005-06 season, when they also went 10-game hitting streak, similar to the 2002-03 season, while it remains the longest hitting streak in the league. history of the club. in a row in the 2003-2004 and 2005-2006 seasons.
And the Nets emerged victorious for the 14th time in their last 15 games, taking their total win tally in 35 games to 23, capitalizing on the Hawks’ lack of Tray Young, who pulled out of the game early with a calf injury. injury, and both Clint Capella and DeAndre Hunter, who weren’t even in the squad due to their injury.
The basket scored by Japanese Yuta Watanabe in the last minute of the third quarter, making the score 81-80 in favor of the Nets, was the first advance for the guests since the beginning of the second quarter (33-32), before Durant added two free throws to improve the progress of his team, which has not lagged since.
Dijonte Murray scored 24 points and John Collins 21 for Atlanta, who tied it 104-104 with a hat-trick from Aaron Holiday, but didn’t get ahead once in the crucial moment of the match, in which he also emerged from the master of home, Onika Okongo, scoring 18 points and 13 rebounds without hitting It would be enough to save his team from an 18th loss in 35 games.
Durant commented on this victory, saying: “I think we fought for each other throughout the second half. We made some changes to the way some of our guys played and we managed to get it right. We managed to slow them down a bit.”
– Williamson’s best offensive game –
Zion Williamson had the best offensive game since coming to the league, scoring 43 points, including the last 14 points for his team, as the New Orleans Pelicans emerged victorious from his game, and the Minnesota Timberwolves, by one point, also 119 -118.
“I love to win. This team loves to win. This organization loves to win,” Williamson said after his team’s 22nd win in 34 games, praising his teammate CJ McCollum, who urged him to take the lead at the crucial moment in the game. match .
He revealed, “Si Djay looked at me and said, ‘You want to be great, this is the right time to do it.’ It didn’t provoke me, but it motivated me.”
The Kings end the Nuggets’ winning streak
And from two free throws in the last 0.7 seconds, brought his score to 33 points in the game, Malik Mank led his team, the Sacramento Kings, to upset the Denver Nuggets 127-126 and stop his streak consecutive in 5 matches, so much so that the 40 points scored by the Serbian Nikola Jokic went to waste after failing in an attempt the last time out of the group.
Jordan Paul scored 26 points and made a game-winning free throw in the final 1.27 minutes, putting the defending champion Golden State Warriors, missing trio Stephen Curry, Clay Thompson and Canadian Andrew Wiggins, to their third and eighteenth consecutive victory. season and came at the expense of the Utah Jazz 112-107.
The Chicago Bulls defeated the Milwaukee Bucks 119-113 after an extension, the Washington Wizards defeated the Phoenix Suns 127-102, the Miami Heat defeated the Los Angeles Lakers 112-98, and the Detroit Pistons defeated the Orlando Magic 121-101.
