MWhile half the world looks to Melbourne to see what about Novak Djokovic and his deportation process of Australia for not presenting the documentation of the vaccination against the coronavirus necessary to enter the country, the other half turns their attention to Indiana where another anti-vaccine confessed as Kyrie Irving was playing his first game of the season with the Brooklyn Nets.
The New York team decided reverse to your starting position (He removed Irving from the team due to his refusal to be vaccinated, which made it impossible for him to play home games due to New York regulations regarding vaccination) and due to the casualties caused by injuries and by the COVID protocols, he changed his principles and opened the doors to a Kyrie Irving who remains unvaccinated and that he has won the battle against the franchise and the NBA.
The league that recovers one of its best players as it demonstrated in its first game of the season with 22 points and four assists in a game in which the Nets offered a small dose of all the offensive potential they have in their hands with Harden, Durant and the controversial Irving. Between the three scored or assisted in 58 of the 69 points the team scored in the second half of the game against the Nets who stayed at 48 points.
A demonstration of talent -that’s more than enough Irving- that, nevertheless, supposes a defeat for some Nets that have changed of principles and have ended up yielding before the will of a single player. Is it worth it for a possible champion ring? Time will tell.
Danny Green, veteran player of the Philadelphia 76ers, will never forget January 5, 2022. A day when the shooting guard made NBA history, although not in the way he would have liked. Green ended the clash that the Sixers took against the Magic (106-116) with zero points, zero rebounds, zero assists, zero steals and zero blocks in 28 minutes of play. A statistic not seen in the NBA since Tony Snell in 2017.
RESULTS OF THE DAY
- Hornets 140-111 Pistons
- Magic 106-116 76ers
- Wizards 111-114 Rockets
- Celtics 97-99 Spurs
- Pacers 121-129 Nets
- Mavericks 99-82 Warriorrs
- Bucks 111-117 Raptors
- Nuggets 109-115 Jazz
- Timberwolves 98-90 Thunder
- Trail Blazers 109-115 Heat
- Kings 102-108 Hawks
Stephen Curry is the perfect guest to any party. You know when you have to stand out, like it happened at Madison, and when you have to step back to leave the focus to others like it did in Dallas. There, everything was prepared to pay tribute to Dirk Nowitzki and the Warriors point guard did not want to spoil the festivities, starring in one of the worst nights that he has been remembered since the triple (1 of 9) and letting the Mavs give him a dream victory to the best player in his history.
What the NBA has, no other competition in the world has. In less than a week Kevin Porter has gone from being separated from the Rockets after leaving the team in the middle of a game to becoming the hero of the Texas team with a winning basket at the home of the Washington Wizards.