ROMA (ITALPRESS) – A comeback from -19, ended with a basket of Anthony Edwards (23 points for him). On the Italian night of the NBA regular season, the Minnesota Timberwolves won a high-ranking battle point-to-point (104-103 the final result) against the San Antonio Spurs, to which the 29 points of Victor Wembanyama are not enough to avoid a defeat but does not run second to the West behind the Oklahoma City Thunder. The defending champions beat the Miami Heat (124-112) and find the third consecutive success in what is the 110th consecutive game with at least 20 points reported by Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (the record is 126 of Wilt Chamberlain in 1963). Well also Jalen Williams (19) and Chet Holmgren and Ajay Mitchell (16 per head), while Heat is not enough a 23-point Andrew Wiggins (7 triples out of 10 attempted), with Simone Fontecchio in the field at a time expired, what is enough to achieve a three-point shot. The Denver Nuggets also won without the injured Nikola Jokic. The costs for 108-104 are the Milwaukee Bucks of a Giannis Antetokounmpo that touches the triple double (31 points, 8 rebounds and 11 assists).
Third consecutive defeat for the Houston Rockets, which fall on the parquet of the Sacramento Kings, dry of successes from seven races before today. It ends 111-98 and party is all for DeMar DeRozan, who scores 22 points and touches 26,000 in career, while Rockets is not enough neither the 31 points of Amen Thompson (with 13 rebounds) nor the 23 of Kevin Durant. In sixth place, above Houston, there are the Phoenix Suns that surpass the Washington Wizards with a score of 112-93 with Devin Booker (17 points) leaving the scene at Royce O’Neale (19). Housewife (111-124) for the Golden State Warriors, defeated by the Atlanta Hawks that with six double-digit players (Alexander-Walker 24, Johnson 23, Kennard 22, Okongwu 18, McCollum 12, Daniels 11) make the 31 Steph Curry points useless and Jimmy Butler’s 30. The New York Knicks (according to Detroit) beat the Portland Trail Blazers (114-123), while the Toronto Raptors popped off at the overtime against the Philadelphia 76ers (116-115).
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