HOUSTON – The Greek power forward Giannis Antetokounmpo and Slovenian point guard Luka Doncic confirmed their status as winning leaders with brilliant individual performances that saw their respective teams, the Milwaukee Bucks and Dallas Mavericks, win., on the last day of the NBA. Their individual contributions keep them in the pool of contenders to fight for the NBA’s Most Valuable Player (MVP) award, which Antetokounmpo has won over the past two seasons.
Antetokounmpo had a triple-double of 21 points, 14 rebounds and 10 assists. that left him at the forefront of the Bucks attack in the game that they comfortably beat the Indiana Pacers 130-110, in a duel between leading teams in the Central Division.
He didn’t need to play the fourth quarter because he completed the triple-double in the last minute of the third, when he got his 10th assist, passing power forward Bobby Portis who scored a triple and capped a 10-0 streak with a 34-point lead for Bucks.
The Milwaukee team has scored at least 20 triples in five of its 21 games this season. Before, the Bucks had made 20 triples in a game just four times in their history.
Dallas Mavericks was able to break a six-game losing streak thanks to the contribution of Doncic, who approached the triple-double (27 points, 14 assists and eight rebounds) and led the team to a 116-122 away win over the Atlanta Hawks.
Doncic had no problems against the Hawks and continually outperformed his defense, forcing 10 personnel shots that he scored without fail and won the singles match against point guard Trae Young, the player with whom they swapped positions in the 2018 college draft.
The eaves Paul George had 36 points and the LA Clippers defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers on the road 99-12124 hours after losing to the Brooklyn Nets.
The Clippers, who finished a six-game road trip with a winning record of 4-2 and leaders of the Pacific Division (17-6), scored 20 triples to avoid two losses in a row for the first time this season, the only team in the league to do so. has gotten so far.
The Cameroonian center Joel Embiid had a double-double of 34 points and 11 rebounds in the attack of the Philadelphia 76ers They beat the Charlotte Hornets 111-118 away from home and consolidated their leadership in the Eastern Conference.
Philadephia added its fourth consecutive victory and extended its winning streak against the Hornets to 14 games, tied for the longest active streak in the NBA with the Clippers, who have also achieved it against the Orlando Magic.
The base DeAaron Fox contributed a double-double of 26 points and 11 assists and led the Sacramento Kings’ comeback They beat the Boston Celtics 116-111.
Bahamian guard Buddy Hield, who also had a double-double of 15 points and 11 rebounds, made two free throws with six tenths of a second to play and secured the victory for the Kings.
Backup guard Kenrich Williams scored 19 points and the Oklahoma City Thunder defeated the Houston Rockets 104-97, who broke a six-game winning streak.
The Thunder, who had allowed 147 and 136 points in their previous two games, both losses, this time had the lowest scoring conceded to a rival so far this season.
The guard DeMar DeRozan scored 30 and led the attack of the San Antonio Spurs, who beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 111-108 after coming back from a 16-point deficit, and completed a five-game stay in a row in their field with a 3-2 record, after having lost the previous two against the Memphis Grizzlies.
Forward Zion Williamson scored 28 points for the New Orleans Pelicans that beat the Phoenix Suns 123-101 and broke a two-game losing streak.
Guard Bradley Beal scored 32 points and the Washington Wizards defeated the Miami Heat 100-103 at home, after coming back from a 13-point deficit in the second half, in the duel of losing teams in the Southeast Division.
Washington, which had its season postponed for nearly two weeks in January due to coronavirus problems, limited Miami to 32 points in the final 23 minutes of the game.
Beal has scored at least 25 points in all of his 17 games this season, the fifth player to do so in NBA history and the first since Rick Barry did so in 25 straight games at the start of 1966-67.
Power forward Julius Randle scored 27 points and the New York Knicks beat the Chicago Bulls 103-107 on the road in just their second win in the last seven games.
Randle, who scored three triples in a row late in the first quarter, tied a career-high five, which he had set against the Nets, on December 26, 2019.