Stephen Curry has once again caused a sensation in the North American basketball league NBA. The 36-year-old superstar of the Golden State Warriors scored 56 points at the Orlando Magic around world champion Franz Wagner and almost sincerely led his team to the 121:115 success.
Curry met twelve of his 19 attempts from the triple line – including a litter behind the center line just before half -time. Due to its 22 points in the third quarter alone, the Warriors turned a 14-point deficit into a five-point lead. The 36-year-old narrowly missed his career high values of 62 points and 13 transformed threesome.
Franz Wagner puts on 27 points
The fact that the guests came back into the game was also one of the 18 gymnastics of the Magic one at halftime. Three of them went to Franz Wagner’s account, but the German showed a strong performance again and scored 27 points, with two rebounds, four assists and three steals.
Paolo Banchero was even more successful with 41 points. While the Warriors won seven of their last eight games, the Magic 14 of their past 20 games lost. Orlando is currently in seventh place in the Eastern Conference.
“I’m blessed”
“I am blessed, as I always say to play this game, enjoy the competition, creativity,” said Curry after his gala performance. The Magic, in which Tristan da Silva got two points, had to accept the second defeat after the violent 82: 122 against the Cleveland Cavaliers. In the Eastern Conference, team rank seventh – just like the Golden State Warriors in the Western Conference.
The Los Angeles Lakers, who celebrated their third win in series with their new top star Luka Doncic, celebrated two places. In the 111: 102 success against the Minnesota Timberwolves, the Slovenian came to 21 points, but still had problems with his throw. Doncic only sank one of nine trials. The best scorer of the Lakers was LeBron James with 33 points.