The ocean continues regular season in the strongest basketball League in the world.
The highlight of the day was the completion of the winning streak Cleveland – the reigning NBA champion at home unexpectedly lost “Atlanta”, so hopelessly disconnected from the Cavaliers in the recent battles in the playoffs. To a sensational victory “hawks” led by Dennis Schroder and Kent Baskar scored 53 for two points with excellent percentage. This evening the leaders of the “Cleveland” too often missed, to expect to win – James, Love and Irving made a game with 35 mistakes in completed 26 throws.
Center “Memphis,” Marc Gasol ripped his team’s victory over “Denver”. After intercepting Conley “Grizzlies” on the winning shot was only 0.7 seconds – the Carter when entering the ball from the end line found in the paint Gasol, and the Spanish his one touch sent the sphere into the basket.
Portland and Phoenix scored almost 250 points – scoring shootout was won by the hosts, traditionally took its due to a couple of Lillard, McCallum. Striking duet “Portland” shipped to cart “Phoenix” 71 points. Alex Lang was not ready to debut in the starting five – the Ukrainian was not able to replace the injured Tyson Chandler (4 points and 9 rebounds in 16 minutes).
Among other events of the day note record the performance of the forward of “Minnesota” Andrew Wiggins (36 points), second win of the season for “Dallas” and another defeat of the “new Orleans”, walking for the first pick of the draft next year.
The results of the matches of the day:
Cleveland – Atlanta — 106:110 (20:20, 22:33, 37:31, 27:26)
Brooklyn – Minnesota— 119:110 (33:33, 33:32, 22:19, 31:26)
Memphis – Denver— 108:107 (26:26, 30:30, 23:20, 29:31)
Portland – Phoenix— 124:121 (42:25, 21:30, 26:27, 35:39)
Lakers – Dallas — 97:109 (27:25, 27:33, 23:25, 20:26)
Sacramento – New Orleans— 102:94 (33:26, 20:20, 23:24, 26:24)
