ROMA (ITALPRESS) – A week to live before the end of the regular season Nba. Three more games to test and improve their placement. West is still the fight for the first position, currently occupied by Oklahoma City Thunder. The only ones to be able to insidiate it are the San Antonio Spurs who give in the night the 60th victory of the season, to -2 from the first of the class who have a race to be recovered. The success for 115-102 on the Philadelphia 76ers, however, leaves a half smile, in light of the contusion to the ribs suffered by Victor Wembanyama, forced to leave the parquet a few moments from the end of the second quarter. The French refer to 17 points, 5 rebounds and 3 stoppages, but the scene takes Stephon Castle, author of a double triple with 17 points, 13 assists and 10 rebounds. The Denver Nuggets, capable of reassembling a 16-point disadvantage in the fourth quarter, then beating the Portland Trail Blazers 137-132 at the overtime, are held close. The signature on the ninth consecutive victory (seasonal record) puts the usual Nikola Jokic who realizes his 33rd double triple with 35 points, 13 rebounds and 13 assists.
In the East the leader falls. The Detroit Pistons, already certain of the first place, lose against the Orlando Magic for 123-107. Without eight players, including Tobias Harris, Duncan Robinson, Caris LeVert and the All-Star Cade Cunningham, who jumped his eleventh consecutive game due to a pneumothorax, the Pistons collapse under the blows of Paolo Banchero (31 points) and Desmond Bane (25). In the East the top-4 dreams for the Atlanta Hawks, beat 105-108 by the New York Knicks (thirds in the standings) with Jalen Brunson author in the last quarter of 17 of his 30 points. They win and armor a placement between the first four the Cleveland Cavaliers that exceed 142-126 Memphis. The Grizzlies is not enough for the Nba record of triples in a single game (29, shared with the Milwaukee and the Boston Celtics) to deny the Cavs the 50th victory of the season. Evan Mobley, author of 24 points, and Dennis Schroder adds 22 with 11 assists.
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