It was therefore a night to revolt, to remove your old clothes and to go up to the front. The Detroit Pistons, last in the Eastern Conference before the meeting, with the saddest record of the NBA this season (6-28), have indeed imposed themselves on the floor of the franchise, defending champion, the Milwaukee Bucks (106 -115). Everything, however, matched so that this did not happen. The Bucks double MVP, Giannis Antetokounmpo, were on a run of six straight wins and Detroit, which had won only two games in its last ten outings, remained on twelve straight losses in the regular season once morest the Wisconsin team!
But now, in a messed up context and a hierarchy inevitably distorted by the health situation and the Covid protocols which have been making and destroying the workforce for weeks, Detroit wore handsome and clinched its second victory in a row, the seventh of the season and its third only outside. He owes it a lot, once once more to his winger, Saddiq Bey, who is living happy days this week. After his decisive overtime shot once morest Spurs in the previous game, the Pistons winger set his career record once morest the Bucks with 34 points.
Opposite, the triplet star of the Bucks, Giannis Antetokounmpo (31 pts, 10 rebounds, 7 assists), Jrue Holiday (29 pts) and Khris Middleton, was however there, but she might not make up the thirteen points behind at the entrance of the last three minutes. “Growing up in this League is not easy, but this victory is a big step forward for us”, might conclude the coach of the Pistons, Dwane Casey, at the exit.
This defeat is in any case the business of the leader in the East, Chicago, winner of an eighth consecutive game, once morest Orlando this time (102-98), in the footsteps of DeMar DeRozan, still hot as a hot water bottle, with 29 points, well supported by Zach Lavine (27 pts) and Nikola Vucevic (13 pts, 17 rebounds). For its part, Philadelphia, carried by a huge Joel Embiid, author of his third career triple-double (31 points, 15 rebounds, 10 assists), chained a fourth victory in a row once morest the red lantern in the West, Houston (133-113). The Rockets now weighed down by eight defeats in a row and who suspended Kevin Porter Jr and Christian Wood for this game for breach of the team’s rules of conduct. In a close battle in the East for accessit to the play-offs, Washington dominated Charlotte (124-121), with a tandem Kyle Kuzma (36 pts, 14 rebounds) – Bradley Beal (35 pts, 8 assists) thundering. In the West, Dallas got the better of Denver (103-89), with a Luka Doncic in the distribution (15 assists, his season record) and despite the 27 units and 16 rebounds from the hub of the Nuggets, Nikola Jokic .
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