In the strongest basketball League in the world completed the encounters a busy game day.
The tenth triple-double James Harden (24 points+12 rebounds+15 assists) led Houston to an unexpected victory over “San Antonio”. The efforts of one Kawai Leonard (34+7 rebounds) was not enough to avoid a third home defeat in a row, which was not the case with “spurs” from December 2014.
As always active Russell Westbrook (36+7 rebounds+7 assists) did not help Oklahoma in a match with “Toronto” to extend home winning streak.
Canadians, though, and missed from Westbrooke third points, were able to minimize his productivity, what can be said about the leaders of the raptors – Demar derozan scored 37 points, and Kyle Lowry scored a solid double-double (19+13 assists).
Promising duel “clippers” and “Portland” ended with the defeat already in the first quarter – “Sailboats” immediately brought the guests 20 points and without problems held a major victory. Lillard and MacCallum scored only 16 points – Paul, Griffin and Jordan this evening was on the ball. The win brought the clippers to the leaders of the whole League.
Alex Lang made up for yesterday’s failure in the match with “Portland”. On “Detroit” Ukrainian went out again in the starting five, and this time gave a serious selection star his pistons ‘ Andre Drummond for 37 minutes, Lane scored first double-double of the season (16+14 rebounds+3 steals). Phoenix handled the middle East and has recorded on its balance sheet third victory of the season.
Among other events of the day note easy win “Golden State” over reservists “Dallas”, the success of the Knicks in Derby new York, the devastating fiasco of “Boston” in the U.S. capital and the attendant success of the “Charlotte” that’s happened to East Cleveland.
The results of the matches of the day:
New York – Brooklyn— 110:96 (19:29, 31:26, 22:16, 38:25)
Washington – Boston— 118:93 (34:8, 24:35, 31:26, 29:24)
Charlotte – Utah— 104:98 (24:32, 27:26, 25:20, 28:20)
Orlando – Minnesota — 107:123 (17:39, 30:35, 30:23, 30:26)
Indiana – Philadelphia — 122:115 OT (31:26, 23:34, 30:24, 25:25, 13:6)
Atlanta – Chicago— 115:107 (35:27, 33:34, 26:27, 21:19)
Oklahoma Toronto — 102:112 (27:20, 28:42, 20:26, 27:24)
Phoenix – Detroit— 107:100 (19:28, 35:23, 27:25, 26:24)
San Antonio – Houston — 99:101 (24:33, 36:30, 20:22, 19:16)
Clippers — Portland— 111:80 (36:16, 25:16, 32:18, 18:30)
Golden State — Dallas— 116:95 (34:15, 33:21, 17:32, 32:27)
