The results of the night in the NBA:
Detroit @ Philly : 106-124
New York @ Atlanta : 136-131
Charlotte @ Miami : 109-98
Denver @ Dallas : 97-113
Jazz @ Thunder: canceled
Pelicans @ Kings: canceled
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-The Sixers game started with good and bad news: the return of Joel Embiid but the absence of Ben Simmons for at least the next three weeks. On the field, Philly was not really worried by a Detroit team completely freewheeling. Injured in the shoulder on February 27, the Cameroonian made a very nice copy with 30 points, 14 rebounds at 9/17.
Joel Embiid goes to work and gets on the board in his return to action!
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– NBA (@NBA) March 11, 2020
Still, if the playoffs ever started without these last regular-season games, which could be the case, the Sixers would be 6th in the East and face Boston in the first round.
-Vince Carter was very emotional after this meeting, he possibly played the very last game of his career. The opportunity to plant 5 points and be honored by the Atlanta public on their likely last basket in 22 seasons. Otherwise, the two teams offered us suspense for 53 minutes. NY had the upper hand in this game, including a 23-point lead at the end of the third quarter. Then, the Trae Young machine started up. 27 points in the last act, ever more distant shots, a lay-up to snatch the overtime 15 ‘from the term, the sophomore was alone on the field.
Trae Young making sure the Knicks WORK for a W in one of the last NBA games in a while!#NYKvsATL #TrueToAtlanta
pic.twitter.com/6jbRAp3WGe— SBR Sports Picks (@SBRSportsPicks) March 12, 2020
But its 42 units in total will not have been enough. Opposite, the duo Randle (33 points) and Barrett (26) were excellent. Very good the day before, Frank Ntilikina delivered a small match with 8 points and 2 assists at 1/7.
-Almost invincible at home this season, Miami has delivered a rather unusual false note. Without Jimmy Butler but with Tyler Herro, back after 15 games of absence, the Heat stammered his basketball after putting 20 lengths to his opponent (40-20). By missing 17 of his 22 shots following this gap, the Floridians, of themselves, put Charlotte back in the game. The Hornets will inflict a scathing 39-11 to take the hand and never let go. In the duel of young pistoleros, De’Vonte Graham (30 points) took the best on Kendrick Nunn and his 24 units. The Heat is now 4th in the East, which could count if the regular season were to be permanently deleted.
-The most bizarre match of the night since it was then, in the middle of the match, that the league announced the provisional suspension of the season. Mark Cuban’s reaction was even like the character when he heard the news via his phone.
Mark Cuban’s reaction to the news that the NBA Season has been suspendedpic.twitter.com/a41ihhXmdk
— Hoop Central (@TheHoopCentral) March 12, 2020
Time for the protagonists to take part, perhaps for the last time, in an NBA match in 2019/20. A unique situation in the history of the league. If Denver led in the third quarter, it was Dallas who then took control of operations. With an unlikely captain. With 31 points, 17 rebounds at 12/20, Boban Marjanovic has perfectly taken over from the absent Kristaps Porzingis. At his side, Luka Doncic made Luka Doncic with a 28-6-9. The Nuggets remain 3rd and the Mavs 7th.
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