The Wagner brothers won the duel between the basketball world champions and are still involved in the fight for the play-off places.
The basketball world champions Franz and Moritz Wagner won the German duel with national team captain Dennis Schröder in the NBA. The two brothers and the Orlando Magic defeated Schröder’s Brooklyn Nets 108:81. Franz Wagner impressed as his team’s best thrower with 21 points, followed by Moritz Wagner with 16 points. Schröder scored 15 points on the opposing side.
“It was an important game for us, considering how the last two games against them went,” said Franz Wagner, referring to the previous defeats against Brooklyn: “I was very happy with how focused everyone was throughout the whole game were.” Orlando remains in the race for a direct play-off spot in seventh place in the Eastern Conference. Brooklyn is in eleventh place.
Maximilian Kleber suffered a defeat. The 32-year-old lost with the Dallas Mavericks to the Cleveland Cavaliers 119:121. Star player Luka Doncic couldn’t prevent the second defeat in a row with 45 points, Kleber got four points. Without Isaiah Hartenstein, the New York Knicks lost 92:115 to the New Orleans Pelicans.
2024-02-28 20:14:41
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