Stephen Curry does not want anyone in the NBA to forget his status as a double MVP in the league and the first to achieve the award unanimously. Eclipsed last season by Westbrook and Harden, the Warriors' base has taken advantage of Durant's absence to claim his throne with his second consecutive game over 35 points, five rebounds and five assists.
CURRY COVER THE ABSENCE OF DURANT
The absence by injury of star forward Kevin Durant was not an impediment for the Golden State Warriors, with the inspiration of baserunner Stephen Curry and guard Klay Thompson, to win at home to the Brooklyn Nets. Curry made himself felt as the leader of the team and contributed a double-double of 39 points, including 22 in the first half, 11 rebounds - 8 defensive -, distributed seven assists, recovered three balls, lost seven and had to leave the field by accumulation of six personal fouls. Before leaving the field with three minutes left, the Warriors were up with a 102-107 partial and that's when the figure of the Thompson emerged, who took charge of scoring seven of the nine points won by the Warriors in the last 120 seconds of the regulation time that ensured the victory, the second consecutive.Thompson, who finished the game with another double-double of 23 points, 10 rebounds, and recovered two balls, also captures He urged a defensive ball with 26 seconds remaining, which allowed reserve baseman Shaun Livingston to score two shots from the personnel line (109-116) that ended the Nets' comeback hopes. Durant missed the game at half-time. suffering a sprained left ankle and is doubtful for next Wednesday when the Warriors face their team of the Oklahoma City Thunder. The post of Durant was occupied by the Israeli forward Omri Casspi, who did a good job of equipment to contribute 12 points with eight rebounds. Reserve guard Andre Iguodala returned to be the sixth player of the Warriors, to which he contributed 12 points with five rebounds and three assists and completed the list of the four players of the Golden State team They had double-digit numbers. The victory, the second consecutive, allowed the Warriors to put on a 13-4 record, the best of the Pacific Division, and tied with the Houston Rockets, who had Ron Carroll scored 25 points and led the attack of the Nets (6-10), who occupy the last position of the Atlantic Division. The base Spencer Dinwiddie got 21 points and 8 assists that left him as second highest scorer of the Nets, who had the absence of his franchise player the guard-forward D'Angelo Russell, low injury. While the eaves, Rondae Hollis-Jefferson and DeMarre Carroll contributed double-doubles for the Nets. Hollis-Jefferson scored 16 points, 12 rebounds - 10 defensive - and five assists, while Carroll contributed 15 points and captured 11 balls under the hoops, in addition to giving three touchdown passes, the best two in the inner game of the Brooklyn team.
THE GIANT SLEEPING ANESTHESIA TO THE WOLVES
The power and dominance of center Andre Drummond in the inside game made the difference in favor of the Detroit Pistons that came from behind to get the win by visitors 100-97 against the Minnesota Timberwolves, which broke a three-game streak triumphs followed. Drummond, who makes his best season since he came to the NBA, contributed double-double of 20 points and 16 rebounds that allowed him to head the list of five Pistons starters who had double-digit numbers. The Pistons also excelled in other facets of the game by handing out four assists, retrieving a ball and putting two blocks. Along with Drummond, forward Tobias Harris and shooting guard Avery Bradley scored 18 points each, which helped the Pistons have a 47 percent (39-83) of hit in field goals and 32 (8-25) of triples, respectively. Reggie Jackson base continued as the leader in the direction of the game of the Pistons to get 16 point s with eight assists, which also helped the victory in the duel of leading division teams. Jackson also did a great defensive job in marking Timberwolves starter Jeff Teague who, in 40 minutes of action, managed only three points by missing 1 of 7 field goals, although he handed out nine assists. The Pistons (11-5) are consolidated in the first place in the Central Division classification, while the Timberwolves (10-6), despite the defeat, they also continue to lead in the Northwest Division. The guard-forward Jimmy Butler with double-double of 26 points, 10 rebounds - nine defensive -, four assists and five recoveries of the ball, this time, was the leader The attack of the Timberwolves, who in the end could not score the decisive ones. The Canadian forward Andrew Wiggins scored 24 points as the second highest scorer of the Timberwolves, but missed the four shots he made from outside the perimeter. The pivot is Dominican citizen Karl-Anthony Towns, this time, could not be a winning factor of the Timberwolves when losing the individual duel against Drummond and finished the game with 16 points (6-13, 2-4, 2-2), nine rebounds - eight defensive--, and three assists.
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