James Harden eventually returned to the field as well.
The giant of the Rockets, a striker with over 30 points per game, who started his preparation late, and had to undergo 6 negative swabs having violated the anticovid safety protocol, saw himself on the parquet for the first time after the end of the troubled 2020 tournament.
The 'beard', who has long asked his club to be sold, played just twenty minutes of the game that his team won against the Spurs in San Antonio for 112-98.
He scored with 12 points and signed several assists.
But there has been a lot of talk about the champion, especially on the web, for a photo with the warm-up uniform that highlights a few extra kilos, arousing many doubts about his real condition a few days before the start of the championship scheduled for next December 22nd.
Great form instead showed Steph Curry, author of 29 points in the challenge that his Golden State Warriors lost 114-113 against the Sacramento Kings with a basket at the sound of the siren hit by Kyle Guy.
In the third game tonight Philadelphia beat Boston 108-99.
The most substantial 'victory' of these pre-season days is however that of the Greek giant Gianns Antetokounmpo who announced via social media his signature on a pharaonic five-year contract with the Milwaukee Bucks for the sum of 228 million dollars, to which are added the over 27 already agreed for the season that is about to begin.