Quentin Grimes scored 44 points career height when the Philadelphia 76ers shocked the Golden State Warriors 126-119 to snap their NBA-skid with nine games on Saturday after confirmation of the superstar center Joel Embiid would miss the rest of the season.
The Sixers brought Stephen Curry and the warriors a dozen three-pointers on their way to 56 points in Orlando two days after the Curry drilling.
Curry ended with 29 points and a high season of 13 assists, but the Warriors missed the offensive spark of Jimmy Butler, who was a late scratch with back spasms.
Philadelphia took control with a second quarter of 37 points, which she carried to a 67-55 half-time lead.
Golden State moved to 116-116 with 2:01 with 2:01, but Grimes drove for a layup and Guerschon Yabusele drilled a three-pointer, and the 76 recorded the victory.
Despite the loss of Embbiid against a continued knee injury, the most remarkable series of injury backs for the Sixers-War Grimes optimistically because they have chances.
“We still have a lot of games and the chance to play the game,” he said.
The Milwauke star Giannis Antetocounmpo scored 29 points with nine rebounds and nine assists, and Damian Lillard added 28 points for the goats in a victory of 132-117 against the Mavericks in Dallas.
Milwaukee closed the first half with a 15: 4 value of 71: 63 at half-time, and Kyrie Irving, who led Dallas with 31 points, was limited to four points in the third quarter when the Bucks drove away in the second half.
A day after Detroit’s winning streak with eight game-the longest in 17 years, the pistons against Denver with an 115-94 victory over the Brooklyn Nets.
Tobias Harris, Jalen Duren and Malik Beasley each scored 18 points to lead six piston players in double -digit numbers – Beasley made six of his ten attempts at the shot before he was raised in the middle of the fourth quarter after receiving his second technical foul.
Duren added 11 rebounds and six of the 15 blocked shots of the pistons.
Cade Cunningham scored nine of his 15 points in the fourth quarter and distributed nine templates for the pistons, whose sloppy third quarter had their 23-point half-time lead over six into the final phase.
– Spurs Edge Grizzlies –
San Antonios de’aaron Fox remained the playing basket with 2.6 seconds when the Spurs achieved a four-game crack with a win from 130 to 128 over the grizzlies in Memphis.
The Spurs led from up to 22 against a Grizzlies team that missed injured stars Morant and Desmond Bane.
But the grizzlies have tied together twice in the last minute-to the first time on Jaren Jackson’s Jr.’s car with 49.8 seconds and again on Jackson’s steps step back, which made it to play 128-128 with 23.4 seconds.
Jackson led all the scorers with 42 points. Fox and Devin Vassell each scored 20 points to assess the Rookie Stephon Castle, the Memphis Bench 71-41.
It was a moral profit for San Antonio, who announced last month that Victor Wembanyama would miss the rest of the regular season with a blood clot in the shoulder in the second year, and confirmed on Thursday that the legendary coach Gregg Popovich would not return this season, since he continued to recover from a stroke in November.
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