Quentin Grimes delivered a career-best 44-point efficiency to guide the Philadelphia 76ers to a 126-119 upset over the Golden State Warriors on Saturday, ending their nine-game shedding streak only a day after the staff introduced Joel Embiid’s season-ending absence.
The Sixers introduced Stephen Curry and the Warriors again to earth with a thud two days after Curry drilled a dozen 3-pointers on the best way to 56 factors in a win at Orlando.
Curry completed with 29 factors and a season-high 13 assists, however the Warriors missed the offensive spark of Jimmy Butler, who was a late scratch with again spasms.
Philadelphia seized management with a 37-point second quarter that propelled them to a 67-55 halftime lead.
Golden State pulled stage at 116-116 with 2:01 remaining, however Grimes drove for a layup and Guerschon Yabusele drilled a 3-pointer and the 76ers held on for the win.
Despite the lack of Embiid to a lingering knee harm – essentially the most notable of a string of harm setbacks for the Sixers – Grimes was bullish on their probabilities of making the post-season.
“We’ve still got a lot of games and a chance to make the play-in,” he mentioned.
Milwaukee star Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 29 factors with 9 rebounds and 9 assists and Damian Lillard added 28 factors for the Bucks in a 132-117 victory over the Mavericks in Dallas.
Milwaukee closed the primary half on a 15-4 scoring run to take a 71-63 lead at halftime and Kyrie Irving, who led Dallas with 31 factors, was restricted to 4 factors within the third quarter because the Bucks pulled away within the second half.
One day after Detroit’s eight-game successful streak – their longest in 17 years – ended with a loss to Denver, the Pistons bounced again with a 115-94 victory over the Brooklyn Nets.
Tobias Harris, Jalen Duren and Malik Beasley scored 18 factors apiece to guide six Pistons gamers to attain in double figures – Beasley making six of his 10 shot makes an attempt earlier than he was ejected halfway via the fourth quarter after receiving his second technical foul.
Duren added 11 rebounds and 6 of the Pistons’ 15 blocked pictures.
Cade Cunningham scored 9 of his 15 factors within the fourth quarter and handed out 9 assists for the Pistons, whose sloppy third quarter had seen their 23-point halftime lead sliced to 6 going into the ultimate interval.
Spurs edge Grizzlies
San Antonio’s De’Aaron Fox drained the game-winning basket with 2.6 seconds remaining because the Spurs snapped a four-game skid with a 130-128 victory over the Grizzlies in Memphis.
The Spurs led by as many as 22 in opposition to a Grizzlies staff lacking injured stars Ja Morant and Desmond Bane.
But the Grizzlies tied it up twice within the last minute – first on Jaren Jackson Jr.’s driving basket with 49.8 seconds left and once more on Jackson’s step-back 3-pointer that made it 128-128 with 23.4 seconds to play.
Jackson led all scorers with 42 factors. Fox and Devin Vassell scored 20 factors every to guide the Spurs starters and the Spurs reserves – led by 24 factors from rookie Stephon Castle – out-scored the Memphis bench 71-41.
It was a morale-boosting win for San Antonio, who introduced final month that second-year star Victor Wembanyama would miss the remainder of the common season with a blood clot in his shoulder and confirmed Thursday that iconic coach Gregg Popovich would not return this season as he continues to get better from a stroke suffered in November.
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