This is the longest winning streak in the league this season and the longest for Nets since the 2005-2006 season when it also achieved 10 consecutive victories, similar to the 2002-2003 season, while it remains the longest winning streak in the club’s history 14 in a row in the 2003-2004 and 2005-2006 seasons.
And the Nets emerged victorious for the 14th time in the last 15 games, raising the number of its total wins to 23 in 35 games, taking advantage of the Hawks’ lack of Tray Young, who withdrew from the match before starting due to a calf injury, and both Clint Capella and DeAndre Hunter, who were not even in the game. squad due to their injuries.
The basket scored by Japanese Yuta Watanabe in the last minute of the third quarter, making the score 81-80 in favor of the Nets, was the first advance for the guests since the beginning of the second quarter (33-32), before Durant added two free throws to enhance the progress of his team, which has not fallen behind since then.
Dijonte Murray scored 24 points and John Collins 21 for Atlanta, who equalized 104-104 with a hat-trick from Aaron Holiday, but he did not advance even once at the crucial time of the match, in which he also emerged from the host, Onika Okongo, by scoring 18 points with 13 rebounds without hitting That would be enough to spare his team an 18th defeat in 35 matches.
Durant commented on this victory, saying: “I think we were fighting for each other throughout the second half. We made some adjustments in terms of the way some of our boys played and managed to get it right. We managed to slow them down a bit.”
– Williamson’s best offensive game –
Zion Williamson presented the best offensive game since his arrival in the league, scoring 43 points, including the last 14 points for his team, so that the New Orleans Pelicans emerged victorious from his match, and the Minnesota Timberwolves, by a point, also 119-118.
“I love to win. This team loves to win. This organization loves to win,” Williamson said following his team’s 22nd win in 34 games, praising his teammate C. J. McCollum, who urged him to take the lead at the crucial time of the match.
He revealed, “Si Djay looked at me and said, ‘You want to be great, this is the right moment to do it.’ He didn’t provoke me, but motivated me.”
Kings halt Nuggets winning streak
And from two free throws in the last 0.7 seconds, he raised his score to 33 points in the match, Malik Mank led his team, the Sacramento Kings, to topple the Denver Nuggets 127-126 and stop his series of consecutive victories at 5 matches, so that the 40 points scored by Serbian Nikola Jokic went to waste following he failed in an attempt The last one outside the bracket.
Jordan Paul scored 26 points and succeeded in a decisive free throw in the last 1.27 minutes, to lead the defending champion Golden State Warriors, who are missing the trio Stephen Curry, Clay Thompson and Canadian Andrew Wiggins, to their third successive and eighteenth victory this season and came at the expense of the Utah Jazz 112-107.
The Chicago Bulls defeated the Milwaukee Bucks 119-113 following extension, the Washington Wizards defeated the Phoenix Suns 127-102, while the Miami Heat beat the Los Angeles Lakers 112-98, and the Detroit Pistons defeated the Orlando Magic 121-101.
