In the strongest basketball League in the world completed the next day.
Cleveland began the defense of last year’s title with three victories – today “Cavaliers” without any problems, organized the third defeat for Orlando. James, Irving and Love, the three of us scored 62 points for the first time in the season about his sniper qualities recalled Smith, who made two important threes in the final quarter.
“San Antonio” easily won the first home match of the season “spurs” have managed to minimize the effectiveness of Anthony Davis, who scored just 18 points. Closing leader “new Orleans”, team Gregg Popovich has automatically solved all their problems – Kawai Leonard scored 20 points and Patty mills (18+5 assists) efficiently replaced the rested Tony Parker.
Along with “Cleveland” in the East without a loss are “Atlanta” and “Chicago” – “Atlanta” has not met serious resistance from the “Philadelphia” and “bulls” shipped 118 points add to cart “Indiana.”
The main character of the day was point guard of Portland, Damien Lillard is the leader of the “Blazers” turned the match with “Denver” in an overtime, and then scored the winning throw. Just on account of Lillard 37 points and a “plus sign” in the race for the title of most valuable player of the season.
The results of the matches of the day:
Philadelphia — Atlanta 72:104 (24:29, 15:24, 19:21, 14:30)
Charlotte — Boston 98:104 (19:28, 22:16, 31:26, 26:33)
Cleveland — Orlando 105:99 (33:29, 29:25, 18:17, 25:37)
New York — Memphis 111:104 (32:19, 25:30, 25:28, 29:27)
Chicago — Indiana 118:101 (24:20, 38:21, 30:26, 26:34)
Milwaukee — Brooklyn 110:108 (24:18, 22:23, 34:32, 30:35)
San Antonio — New Orleans 98:79 (28:23, 27:22, 28:15, 15:19)
Denver — Portland 113:115 FROM (28:33, 26:29, 34:19, 16:23, 9:11)
Sacramento — Minnesota 106:103 (25:34, 29:31, 31:12, 21:26)
