One day before Christmas, the basketball teams of the German professionals suffered defeats in the North American NBA.
Franz Wagner lost with the Orlando Magic on Thursday evening (local time) 104: 110 to the New Orleans Pelicans, although the Berliner contributed 20 points. This means that Orlando remains penultimate in the east with seven wins. Franz’s brother Moritz is in the league’s corona protocol and was not used.
This also applies to Maximilian Kleber from Würzburg and Luka Doncic from the Dallas Mavericks. The strongly weakened Texans drew with 95: 102 the short straw against the champion Milwaukee Bucks.
In the Houston Rockets, which occupy the last place in the west, Daniel Theis was in the squad, but also did not collect any minutes. The Rockets lost at the Indiana Pacers 106: 118.
Stephen Curry was outstanding once again, with 46 points in the 113: 104 home win of the Golden State Warriors against the Memphis Grizzlies. On the other hand, the performance of the Los Angeles Lakers was disappointing. Despite LeBron James’ 36 points at home, they had no chance at 110: 138 against the San Antonio Spurs. It was the last game in the arena under the name Staples Center. In future the venue will be called Crypto.com Arena.