After a fairly calm evening yesterday, the NBA returns with great fanfare this evening. Big posters, the star, and the stake. Everything is there to create an atmosphere all night long. In addition, it still starts very early (7 p.m.) with a big game, let’s go!
Forget the Nets – Kings and the Pelicans – Wizards, tonight we’re taking out heavy artillery in the bubble. And it sends from 7 p.m. with a big Blazers – Clippers to warm up. A good poster, even if there are people missing: Kawhi Leonard, Patrick Beverley and Montrezl Harrell will not be on the Los Angeles side, and Portland pivot Hassan Whiteside should also miss the meeting. Fortunately, with Damian Lillard, Paul George and Cie, there will remain stars on the ground to stick it well as it should. The Blazers need to keep climbing to eighth place, now is the time for another big shot. We go live, at 9:30 p.m., for another match that counts for the seeding for the Playoffs: Nuggets – Jazz. We should logically review the absent yesterday (Rudy Gobert, Mike Conley, Donovan Mitchell, Royce O’Neale) on the Jazz side, but with the Nuggets, Will Barton, Gary Harris and Paul Millsap will be missing, while Jamal Murray is uncertain. Despite all these absences, Denver will still try to ensure its beautiful third place. The rest will be for midnight with a game between the Pacers and the Lakers. Not much for the gang to play at LeBron James (game uncertain), who secured first place in the West, but Indiana must win to break away from the Sixers in the standings. To see if the Lakers will respond to the challenge. However, we note that among the Pacers, TJ Warren and Myles Turner are uncertain because of a few minor injuries.
We arrive in the dark, and the posters are more and more enticing. 1:30 am, get ready for a hell of a game: Heat – Suns. On the one hand, revenge Floridians after the defeat against Milwaukee and on the other, the last unbeaten team in the bubble (4-0). Phoenix is full of confidence and must chain to clinch the play-in tournament, while Miami must make a gap with the Pacers and Sixers, who are only one game behind. In terms of absences, Jimmy Butler and Kendrick Nunn will be out, while Goran Dragic is questionable. On the Phoenix side, Frenchy Elie Okobo and Aron Baynes will not play. Finally, we end with the last match of this beautiful evening: Mavericks – Bucks. Big poster between the first of the Eastern Conference and the Mavs of Luka Doncic, who will perhaps have to do without Seth Curry and Dorian Finney-Smith. If the Bucks secured first place in the East this week, the Mavericks are still seventh in the West. Even if it promises to be complicated to climb the standings, Dallas would probably like to avoid the Clippers in the first round and for that, we will have to stuff the Deers, who will probably not force since they are guaranteed to finish at the top. .
We are ready for tonight and we hope you will too, because there is going to be sports. Posters in all directions, some playoffs to pick up, others to secure places. We can not wait. The evening promises to be hot, and not only because of the heatwave.
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