After the All-Star celebration at the beginning of the week and a number of days off that the players received afterwards to recharge batteries, tonight (between Thursday and Friday) the NBA league returned from a nine-game hiatus, with the focus being the joint first victory of Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving in Dallas and the victory of Los Angeles Les Lakers over the champion Golden State.
Dallas (29:32) - San Antonio (46:14) 116:142
After three consecutive losses, the new and intriguing duo in the best league in the world achieved their first joint victory with a purposeful display that left no real chance for the Spurs.
Doncic led the Mavericks in scoring with 28 points while also adding 10 assists and 7 rebounds, while Kyrie provided 23 points and 6 assists.
Tim Hardaway Jr. assisted with 22 points and 6 three-pointers.
For San Antonio, which lost 15 in a row (the biggest negative streak in its history), Malachi Burnham was the leading scorer with 23, while Charles Basie with 16 and Keita Bates Diop with 15 were unable to prevent the scenario that was pretty well known at the beginning of the evening.
Los Angeles Lakers (32:28) - Golden State (30:29) 111:124
The team from the City of Angels took advantage of the fact that Steph Curry is not playing for the guest and continued to look as good as in their last games.
Malik Beasley stole the show with 25 points including seven 3-pointers.
Austin Reaves contributed 17, Roy Hachimura 14, when LeBron James finished with only 13 points along with 9 rebounds and 8 assists and Anthony Davis who is starting to recover slowly provided 12. For the Warriors, 22 points from Klay Thompson and 20 Ty Jerome's were not enough for the champion.
LeBron on his way to the ring, tonight, photo: AP
Indiana (35:26) - Boston (17:43) 142:138 in overtime
After breaking the All-Star game scoring record with 55 points at the beginning of the week, Jayson Tatum showed that he is also very hot in the league games and finished the evening with 31 points plus 12 rebounds and 7 assists, including four points that decided this exciting and great game when Jaylen Brown contributed 30 and assisted his friend.
For Indiana, Myles Turner equaled a career high with 40 points, Tyrese Halliburton provided 22 points and 14 assists but it was not enough as stated.
Tatum celebrates, tonight, photo: AP
Other results tonight:
Cleveland (24:38) - Denver (18:42) 115:109, Orlando (35:25) - Detroit (45:15) 106:108, Philadelphia (19:39) - Memphis (23:35) ) 105:110, Toronto (31:29) - New Orleans (30:30) 110:115, Utah (31:30) - Oklahoma (30:28) 119:120 (after overtime), Sacramento (25:33) - Portland (31:28) 116:133.
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