12/26/2020 3:50 AM
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Updated 12/26/2020 3:56 AM
Facundo Campazzo played
three minutes and could not score
in his second official participation in the NBA.
It was in the Denver Nuggets' loss over the Los Angeles Clippers 121-108.
At the end of the holiday season, the Clippers started with a shower of 3s and
dominated the game from start to finish.
The Nuggets trailed 27-22 when the Argentine guard entered with 1:49 left to close the first quarter.
With clear dominance of the triples (6/10),
Kawhi Leonard's team
- it turned on in the second quarter
- went ahead to the locker room
with a score of 72-55 and
only three minutes from Cordoba
at the Ball Arena in Denver , Colorado.
In that span, Campazzo - had no action in the second half - took no pitches and had a loss.
Paul George was the Angelenos' leading scorer with 23 points, followed by Leonard (21), who could not finish the game after receiving an involuntary elbow from his teammate Serge Ibaka.
The image of his bleeding face alerted everyone.
The image of Leonard that alerted everyone.
Photo: AFP
The last quarter was passing and there were just over six minutes left, when the Congolese-born player went to fight a rebound on offense with all vehemence and did not realize that the former San Antonio Spurs was ahead.
When Ibaka raised his right arm he ended up taking Leonard's jaw and knocked him out.
With blood in his mouth and nose
, the forward recovered and was able to retreat on his own after a few tense moments.
With the victory, the Clippers
took revenge
on the Nuggets who knocked them out in the second round of the Western Conference semifinals last season.
Nikola Jokic
finished with 24 points, 10 assists and nine rebounds for Denver.
Jamal Murray added 23 points, 13 in the fourth quarter.
Denver's next game, which has two losses in the Western conference, will be
on Monday at 11pm against the Houston Rockets.
There, Campazzo will seek to add more minutes.
974 days later, Argentina once again officially had a compatriot playing in the NBA last Wednesday, when the former Real Madrid became the thirteenth in history.
The Cordoba made his debut in the highest basketball league in the loss to the Sacramento Kings: he scored a triple in his eight minutes on the court.
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