Wembanyama winner of a duel of giants against Jokic, LeBron overtakes Jordan, OKC no longer stops

The San Antonio Spurs, with Victor Wembanyama who, for his 100th game in the NBA, stood out by scoring 35 points and grabbing 18 rebounds, narrowly beat the Denver Nuggets (113-110).

On the eve of his 21st birthday, the French giant was very valuable in the final, decisive seconds of the match. By sending an assist to Chris Paul for a basket with 54 seconds left, then intercepting a pass from Nikola Jokic four seconds from the end before serving Devin Vassell, author of a final dunk.

This season, “Wemby” is averaging 25.6 points, 10 rebounds, 3.9 assists and 3.9 blocks per game. In the ranks of the Nuggets, Jokic flirted with the triple-double: 41 points, 18 rebounds and 9 assists for the triple MVP (2021, 22 and 24).

14 in a row for the Thunder

The Oklahoma City Thunder, with 33 points from Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, obtained its fourteenth victory in a row against the New York Knick on Friday (117-107), and remains very well at the top of the Western Conference standings in NBA. The Thunder thus ends the series of the Knicks, who remained on nine victories before their visit to Oklahoma City.

The New York team sold their skin dearly. She led 88 to 80 at the end of the third quarter, before taking on water in the last, won 37 to 19 by the Thunder.

The Knicks, third in the Eastern Conference, are losing ground on Boston. The outgoing champion beat Houston (109-86), deprived for one to two months of Jabari Smith (left hand broken in training on Friday). Gilgeous-Alexander helped the Thunder, scoring 33 points including 7/7 on free throws.

New record for “King James”

For the record, LeBron James, the superstar of the League and the LA Lakers, broke yet another record, that of the player having scored the greatest number of times 30 points in a match, which belonged to the legend Michael Jordan: in scoring 30 points during the Lakers’ victory over the Atlanta Hawks (119-102), the young “quadra” achieved this performance for the 563rd time!

Cleveland tames Dallas

Led by Evan Mobley (34 points and 10 rebounds), Cleveland, the team which outrageously dominates the other Conference, defeated the Mavedricks (134-122) in Dallas, where it increased its number of victories to 30 this year. season, for only four defeats. The Mavericks had to deal with the absence of their star player Luka Doncic, suffering from a strained left calf.

In the match between the two red lanterns, New Orleans and Washington, CJ Collum stood out by scoring 50 points for the Pelicans, winners 132-120.