The NBA duel of the two German world champions went to Dennis Schröder. His Golden State Warriors gave Orlando Magic around Franz Wagner the fourth defeat in a row.
In San Francisco, the Warriors prevailed against the Magic with 104: 99 and in turn celebrated the fourth victory in the past six games. Schröder played inconspicuously and came from the bank to nine points, Wagner scored 21 points and Orlandos Rookie Tristan da Silva two.
Orlando (24:27 victories) does not get going despite the return of his long -injured stars Wagner and Paolo Banchero and, after just one win from the past ten games, is only eighth in the Eastern Conference. The Warriors (25:24) have a positive balance again, but are currently not eleventh in the west on a play-off or play-in-place.
Hartenstein is allowed to breathe after a half
Isaiah Hartenstein and the Oklahoma City Thunder continued their impressive season with a 125:96 against the Milwaukee Bucks and, with 39 wins from 48 games, are the clearly best team in Western Conference. Against the strong replacement weakened Bucks, who had to do without superstar Giannis Antetocounmpo, “OKC” already led 78:44 at half -time, which were allowed to protect themselves around Hartenstein at an early stage. The German Center posted six points and twelve rebounds in 18 minutes.
Rookie Ariel Hukporti came with the New York Knicks a 124:118 at the Houston Rockets, but stayed in eight minutes without points. At the sixth victory of the Knicks in the past seven games, Jalen Brunson towered with 42 points.