NBA The escort makes up for Durant’s absence with a recital
El listen James Harden had another triumphant return to Oklahoma City by achieving a triple-double that helped the Brooklyn Nets to win visitors this Friday by beating 125-147 to his former Thunder team.
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The triumph of the Nets, the fourth consecutiveIt happened despite the absence of their starting forward and leading scorer, Kevin Durant, another former Thunder player, who had a bye.
Nets rookie coach, Canadian Steve Nash, said he was protecting Durant, who rested and is the second scorer in the league.
But the Brooklynites made the move work, given that the team scored the 57 percent (57 of 100) of his field goals and scored his highest score of the season.
In 32 minutes of play Harden logr 25 points, 10 rebounds – all defensive – and 11 assists.
The base Kyrie Irving aggregate 25 points and seven assists, while the eaves Joe Harris scored 20 points to complete the list of the three Nets players who had at least 20 points.
The victory allowed the Nets to go 13-8 and move up to 2nd place in the Eastern Conference after the Milwaukee Bucks (11-7) lost 131-126 on the road to the New Orleans Pelicans.
The Canadian escort Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and French rookie point guard Theo Maledon scored 24 points each with the Thunder (8-10), who lost their sixth game in their last 10 games.
Reserve guard Hamidou Diallo scored 18 points and Dominican power forward Al Horford scored 16 points in 24 minutes of action.
Horford, who in the previous game against the Phoenix Suns set the 12,000-point mark since joining the NBA, and became the first Dominican to do so, made 6 of 15 shots from the field, including 4 of 6 triples. , had six rebounds and four assists.
This time the veteran Dominican pvot could not overcome the marking made by rookie power forward Reggie Perry, who starred in the surprise of the game and the Nets by contributing a double-double of 10 points and 11 rebounds in just 19 minutes of action. .
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