Completed the opening day of the regular season in the strongest basketball League in the world.
The operating champion of NBA “Cleveland” has begun protection of a title with the defeat on the updated “new York”, which debuted derrick rose and Joakim Noah. “Cavaliers” was given ultra-efficient third quarter and brought the match to victory. LeBron James scored 43 first triple-double in his career (19 points, 14 assists, 11 rebounds), at a high level played Kyrie Irving (29 points) and Kevin Love (23+12 rebounds).
In the Central match of the day the formidable Golden state with Kevin Durant and Stef Curry outright failed his first serious test – the “San Antonio” for the first time since November 2014 took the victory from Oakland, and the outcome of the match was decided already in the middle of the third quarter. Star “spurs” Kawai Leonard and Lamarcus Aldridge for two scored 61 points, revelation was the play of Jonathan Simmons (20 points), who ended the match with the indicator-the usefulness of “35”.
The most productive player of the starting day of the regular season was the point guard of Portland, Damien Lillard (39 points+9 rebounds+6 assists). It Lillard in a difficult moment for the team led the team in “Portland” in the final quarter organized a powerful jerk, offset by the efforts of the debutant “Utah” Joe Johnson (29 points) and Rodney Hood (26).
The results of the matches of the day:
Cleveland – New York 117:88 (28:18, 20:27, 34:19, 35:24)
Portland — Utah 113:104 (26:26, 28:20, 23:37, 36:21)
Golden State — San Antonio 100:129 (20:31, 26:33, 31:33, 23:32)
