The Brooklyn Nets are starting to look like the team that was so potent a season ago.
Kevin Durant scored 32 points and led the spurt that broke open the game late in the third quarter, and the Nets beat the Atlanta Hawks 117-108 on Wednesday night for their third straight victory.
“We’re finding that rhythm, we’re finding each other and it’s just getting a lot easier,” James Harden said.
Birthdays are one of life’s special moments for any individual. Celebrating another year spent with family and friends is always a joy and a birthday cake is always the centerpiece during this event. This is why Quezon City 4th District Councilor Hero Bautista has been sending birthday cakes since he took office in 2016.
CJ McCollum scored 28 points and the Portland Trail Blazers handed the Detroit Pistons their seventh straight loss with a 110-92 victory on Tuesday night.
Ben McLemore, who had played in just six previous games for the Blazers this season, had 17 points off the bench. Portland, with Damian Lillard looking on from the bench in street clothes, snapped a three-game losing streak.
Portland has won 10 straight at home for the first time since 2009.
Mikal Bridges and Deandre Ayton were all smiles at the postgame podium, reminiscing about a four-year turnaround for the Phoenix Suns that’s in some ways still hard to believe.
The Suns won just 19 games during their rookie seasons. Now, they’ve tied a franchise record with 17 wins — in a row.
Ayton scored 24 points, Chris Paul added 15 points and 11 assists, and the Suns won their 17th straight by beating the Golden State Warriors 104-96 on Tuesday night in an early showdown between the NBA’s top teams.
“It’s just a lot of work, a lot of mental toughness, staying with it,” Bridges said. “We knew when we first got here that we wanted to turn it around.”
Anthony Davis scored 25 points, Russell Westbrook added 23 and the Los Angeles Lakers overcame the absence of LeBron James to beat the Sacramento Kings 117-92 on Tuesday night.
The Lakers sent James home earlier in the day after he was placed in the NBA’s health and safety protocol. Davis said James told him he felt good and was asymptomatic, but the Lakers will have to play at least a few games without him.
“We still have to find ways to win,” Davis said. “We can’t let that affect us. Obviously, he’s a huge part of our team. But we’ve played a huge amount of games without him. So we kind of know how that is already. We’ve got to continue to play like we did on the defensive end until he’s able to come back.”
The Lakers got more than enough from their other two big stars and took over with a dominant third quarter to win back-to-back games for the first time since Nov. 8-10.
LeBron James has been placed in the NBA’s health and safety protocols, and was ruled out for the Los Angeles Lakers’ game against the Sacramento Kings on Tuesday night.
Such a move almost certainly means one of two things: that James, who said earlier this season that he is vaccinated, either tested positive for COVID-19 or had an inconclusive result.
A person with knowledge of the situation said the Lakers are preparing for James to miss multiple games. The person spoke on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press because neither the team nor James had revealed that detail publicly. ESPN previously reported that James is “expected” to miss several games.
MANILA---Papangunahan ni Anthony Capco ang pagtumbok ng mga Filipino pool wizards sa pag sarago ng J and P 9-Ball Cup 2021 tournament mula Disyembre 6 hanggang 11, 2021 na gaganapin sa House Manila Pool Bar & Lounge, basement 1 sa Holiday Inn Express, Resorts World Manila.
Tangan ni Capco ang impresibong record matapos magkampeon sa 2018 edition sa Games and Amusements Board (GAB) sanctioned tournament na may total pot prize P108,000 na naghihintay sa mga magwawagi sa event na magkatuwang na inorganisa nina God Father of Philippine Billiards Aristeo "Putch" Puyat at DMC Entertainment and Production management top honcho Jesse Gonzales Cambosa Sr.
IF you are annoyed by the recent acrobatics and screenplays of Senators Bong Go and Bato Dela Rosa in the presidential race, it’s because their political patron, President Rodrigo Duterte, appears to be the one making them look like stupid.
We can’t blame them if apparently they’re making a fool of themselves by presenting as presidential candidates today, and withdrawing thereafter.
Their acts don’t only mock the electoral system, they also degrade the standard of leadership in the country.
In chess, Mr. Duterte is using a two-pawn attack. They exist and are utilized only to be fed to the lions, not to be thrust into the pedestal as what many of their fanatics falsely think.
It’s their bad luck that they’ve been chosen from among Mr. Duterte’s coterie of clowns to dance naked in public with no regard to their dignities as members of the national legislature.
NOBODY knows Filipino pastor Apollo Quiboloy in Africa, where the Omicron Covid-19 variant was reportedly first detected.
Thus it is not true that the latest Covid-19 variant that has threatened to torment people around the world in another wave of panic and fear brought by pandemic, “is a curse from God” because the United States has indicted this loquacious Bible-toter for child sex trafficking, among other criminal cases.
The more we use the name of God in vain as a defense mechanism for our foolishness, the more we reveal our true character and true mental and emotional state.
We won’t be surprised if Quiboloy will again invoke superstition and create another hilarious excuse to strike fear in the hearts of the gullible once a warrant for his arrest will be issued by the US Federal Government.
It may not seem like much, but winning consecutive games proved to be an arduous step for San Antonio, one the Spurs finally accomplished on Monday night.
Derrick White had a season-high 24 points, Dejounte Murray had 22 points and 10 rebounds, and the San Antonio Spurs defeated the Washington Wizards 116-99 to win consecutive games for the first time this season.
San Antonio had not won back-to-back games in a stretch since late April (when they won three straight), sandwiching losing streaks in between all but one victory this season.
“I just told them right now, this one’s over, too,” Murray said. “On to the next and let’s build from it.”
