James Harden and the Brooklyn Nets took the opportunity to squeeze the head of the Eastern Conference with their resounding victory against the New Orleans Pelicans (120-105) in a game marked by the injury of Kevin Durant and for the record that ‘La Barba’ would never want to have beaten.
In a game where the Nets couldn’t count on Kyrie Irving -The point guard is still unable to play the home games due to his refusal to be vaccinated- all eyes were on Kevin Durant and James Harden to pick up the slack after their uneven start to the year with five losses in nine games.
Harden took on the responsibility of guiding the Brooklyn Nets, in a game in which Kevin Durant had to leave the game due to a sprained left knee.. The forward was on the court for 12 minutes, in which he scored 12 points, before leaving the game due to injury. Durant will have to undergo different tests to see the extent of the injury after leaving the court on his own feet.
For your part ‘La Barba’ scored 27 points and distributed 15 assists to be the best in a game that, however, remain in his memory for a not-so-positive record. The shooting guard missed three of the five triples he attempted and became the player who has missed the most three-pointers in NBA history with 4,457, for the 4,456 that Ray Allen missed.
Brandon Ingram, with 22 points and eight assists, was the most outstanding player for the Pelicans who added their sixth defeat in the last 10 games and in which the Spaniard Willy Hernangmez I ran out of game minutes again.
