During the early hours of Tuesday, an exhausting and peculiar day in the NBA came to an end: for the first time this season, the 30 teams in the league played games, causing the best basketball to be seen in all the big cities of the United States. of the world.
15 meetings that left much to comment on in the NBA. While some teams like the Lakers and Nets fell again, others like the Mavs, 76ers and Warriors had their stars guide them to victory. The Boston Celtics for their part made history thanks to a triple statistic.
It has not been the beginning of the year neither for the Los Angeles Lakers nor for the Brooklyn Nets. On the one hand, the Los Angeles team has not lived up to history and at this start it is the penultimate in the Western Conference, with only two wins in ten games played. Yesterday they added another defeat by falling to the surprising Utah Jazz, who despite parting with their two best players earlier in the season are first in the West.
In the case of the Brooklyn Nets, the situation is just as complex, although with different overtones. The East team seemed poised to finally make it to the ring this year, as Durant was coming in healthy and Irving was free of the Covid ban. But again something happened with the Nets.
The first thing was a bad streak at the start, which came to have them with a balance of two wins and five losses, causing the dismissal of their coach: Steve Nash. Something that surprisingly helped decompress a dressing room that currently has Irving suspended indefinitely for supporting an anti-Semitic film.
Of course, they fell again this Monday in a match where Luka Doncic shone at the MVP level. The European led the Mavs to a 96-94 victory over the Nets, managing to finish with a 6-3 record and fifth in the West. The Slovenian, for his part, had 36 points, 6 assists and 6 rebounds.
The 2021 champions were the only unbeatens left in the league. They were 8-0 and seemed intractable in short order. Everything until Atlanta arrived and surpassed them with an unappealable 117 to 98. A blow that in any case does not take away the favoritism to take the ring to some Bucs who have managed to perform without Middleton, second squire of a team dominated by the Greek Giannis Antetokounmpo.
Of course, it was another team from the East that got the applause on the last day, since the Boston Celtics signed a milestone never seen before in the history of the league: For the first time in the NBA, all players on a squad scored three-pointers in a game.
It was in the duel before the Memphis Grizzlies, the one they won by 109 to 106 and where all their players converted from three. Tatum and Brown were the top scorers, shooting 6-for-3 each.
