Joe Murphy/Getty ImagesJosh MartinNBA Lead WriterFebruary 11, 2017
Kevin Durant doesn’t wish to speak anymore about his initial lapse outing to Oklahoma City, that is due adult on Saturday night.
“I ain’t got zero for y’all!” Durant pronounced after a Golden State Warriors’ 123-92 obliteration of a Chicago Bulls on Wednesday, per Bleacher Report’s Erik Malinowski.
Draymond Green, on a other hand, has never shied divided from a spotlight, for improved or worse. On Friday, he spent reduction time lighting a fire underneath Durant and some-more time helmet him from attention, intentionally or otherwise, by putting together one of a many conspicuous performances in NBA history.
Green finished a Warriors’ 122-107 win over a Memphis Grizzlies with a initial triple-double on record yet double-digit points (four points, 12 rebounds, 10 assists, 10 steals, 5 blocks). According to ESPN Stats Info, he’s usually a second actor ever to record double total in boards, dimes and thefts.
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Draymond Green:2nd in NBA story with during slightest 10 rebounds, 10 assists and 10 steals in a diversion (Alvin Robertson, 1986)
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And had he been somewhat some-more inclusive on a scoreboard—or doubled his strike total—he would’ve assimilated Alvin Robertson, David Robinson and Hakeem Olajuwon with a fourth famous quadruple-double in joining story (the NBA started tracking blocks and steals in 1973-74).
One some-more point, and Green would’ve had himself a 5×5—five or some-more in any of a 5 vital statistical categories. Instead, he became a initial actor ever to tumble brief of that symbol on points, per FanRag Sports.
Not that Golden State indispensable Green to measure more.
Klay Thompson held glow early, scoring 14 points in a initial quarter, and stayed hot, attack 8-of-15 from 3 amid a 36-point night. Stephen Curry chipped in 18 points and 5 assists. Andre Iguodala poured in 15 of his 22 points in a initial half. And Durant did his part, putting adult 24 points and nailing 11-of-14 from a free-throw line.
But it was Green, during a game-best plus-26, who glued those efforts together and incited invulnerability into offense—sometimes literally.
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He didn’t single-handedly reason a Grizzlies to 39.1 percent shooting, yet he did copiousness to provoke Marc Gasol into 4-of-14 from a margin with 4 turnovers. He wasn’t usually obliged for a Warriors pier adult 30 or some-more assists a league-best 35th time, yet his unselfishness on that finish is zero if not contagious.
Green has enlarged been a engine that drives a Warriors’ two-way dominance. This season, he’s driven what looks to be a most fit offense in NBA story and a invulnerability that sits within sniffing distance of initial place, usually behind a San Antonio Spurs.
Those feats are many standard for a march with a organisation as gifted as Golden State. Last season, a Warriors led a joining in descent potency and finished fourth on a defensive finish while winning an NBA-record 73 regular-season games. The year prior, they wound adult second in offense and initial in invulnerability en track to a franchise’s initial championship in 40 years.
Green was constituent to both runs—for improved and, in a box of a 2016 Finals, for worse—and will be usually as infamous to Golden State’s office of another ensign in 2017. On a bar installed with sharpshooting limbs, he’s a junction hankie that keeps it all together. He does a unwashed work while his luminary teammates razzle and daunt with their fun finesse. He’s a instigator, a pot stirrer, on a patrol famous best for a good guys and delicately manicured open personas.
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Taking a feverishness doesn’t make Green a martyr, not when he’s brought some of a past negativity toward him on himself. But each title-worthy organisation needs that dude—to do a small things and some large things and all a other things that competence or competence not uncover adult on a stat sheet.
Green won’t be means to strengthen Durant from whatever vitriol he competence hear in OKC. Nor can he pledge another Larry O’Brien Trophy for Golden State, generally if his signature fury reaches over even his possess control.
But, for one night during least, he dripping adult copiousness of gleam as usually Green can: by doing all other than putting a leather round by a hoop during a high rate, and doing it improved than anyone in basketball.
Another Nasty Night For a Knicks
Feb. 10, 2012: Linsanity lights adult Madison Square Garden. Jeremy Lin outguns Kobe Bryant, 38-34, and a New York Knicks kick a Los Angeles Lakers, 92-85.
Feb. 10, 2017: Only stupidity stays during MSG. Fans hearten for Charles Oakley, who was tossed from a World’s Most Famous Arena on Wednesday afterwards criminialized from his aged stomping grounds and trashed by Knicks owners James Dolan during a radio appearance on Friday.
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That stupidity pushes a argument between organisation boss Phil Jackson and brazen Carmelo Anthony to a backburner, even as Anthony scores 33 points in a unsuccessful try to equivocate better to a Denver Nuggets, 131-123.
Meanwhile, a brightest general star during a Garden isn’t Kristaps Porzingis, who finishes with 17 points, 4 rebounds and dual assists. Instead, that respect belongs to Nuggets large male Nikola Jokic, who torches New York for a career-high 40 points to go with 9 rebounds, 5 assists and dual steals.
Oakley, examination from home, takes a high road.
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And a Knicks, yet their former enforcer in a crowd, are infirm to wand off another defeat—their fourth true in a Big Apple—or a tongue lashing from conduct manager Jeff Hornacek.
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Wow. Hornacek killed a Knicks. Said they should be broke and starting lineup is terrible during defense.
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Heat Keep Streaking
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ESPN’s Zach Lowe was gratified to see a Miami Heat morphing into a lean, meant winning machine:
This is awesome. This is literally a many extraordinary enlarged winning strain in NBA history. This is given we follow sports: A organisation of castoffs sitting during 11-30 works, and works, and works, and unexpected lands on a junction sorcery that carries them all to a aloft plane.
After examination a Heat reason off a Brooklyn Nets, 108-99, Lowe must’ve been definitely giddy. With Goran Dragic spinning his approach to 21 points and 5 assists, James Johnson scoring a game-high 26 points off a hunger and former castoffs Tyler Johnson (18 points), Rodney McGruder (11 points) and Okaro White (10 points) all finishing in double figures, Miami managed to extend a intolerable emanate to 13 games.
And that was yet Dion Waiters, who had averaged 22.0 points on 49.4 percent sharpened (49.2 percent from three) during a Heat’s dominant strain before spraining his left ankle.
Now, a organisation that once looked like a prime claimant to tank a rest of a deteriorate sits usually a diversion behind of a Detroit Pistons in a East’s competition for eighth place.
“Good things happen,” organisation boss Pat Riley pronounced during a new season-ticket-holder eventuality in Miami, per a Associated Press’ Tim Reynolds. “That’s given we adore this organisation given they have that attitude.”
And that’s given spectators around a Association—not usually in a Lowe household—should be hopping on a Heat bandwagon if they haven’t already.
Brow Beats KAT…Again
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Karl-Anthony Towns looked like he competence finally get a best of Anthony Davis. The Minnesota Timberwolves’ Kentucky stud-turned-No. 1 collect exploded out of a embankment with 19 first-quarter points, all yet assuring that he’d measure some-more than 20 points opposite a New Orleans Pelicans for a initial time.
Towns finished with 36 points and 8 rebounds on a night, yet a Brow once again got a best of his associate former Wildcat, both one-on-one and team-wide. Davis, who forsaken 13 points of his possess in a opening frame, finished with a game-high 42 with 13 rebounds and dual assists to lift New Orleans to a 122-106 win.
The Wolves were down Zach LaVine, who’s finished for a rest of a 2016-17 deteriorate after ripping his ACL, yet his deficiency couldn’t utterly explain a messy defensive bid that saw a Pelicans fire a sizzling 60 percent from a building and 48 percent from three.
The outcome changed Davis to a ideal 4-0 opposite Towns and usually combined to a former’s challenging corner in head-to-head production.
Bucks Battle Without Jabari
On Thursday night, a Inside a NBA organisation clowned on a joining for charging $6.99 to watch a Milwaukee Bucks horde a Los Angeles Lakers.
But a Lakers’ 122-114 win over a Bucks on Friday was no laugher—not entirely, anyway. After ceding 47 points in a initial entertain and descending behind by as many as 27, Milwaukee managed to make a diversion of things opposite L.A. notwithstanding blank Jabari Parker in a team’s initial diversion given he re-tore his left ACL.
Giannis Antetokounmpo, a Bucks’ sole remaining cornerstone, played that way, pier adult a career-high 41 points, 8 rebounds, 6 assists, dual steals, 3 blocks and one infamous impact over Lakers rookie Brandon Ingram.
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The team’s initial All-Star given Michael Redd helped to hint a 14-0 convene in a fourth and tighten to usually 5 points with underneath a notation to play in a game. Michael Beasley (15 points) and rookie Malcolm Brogdon (18 points) both strike double digits off a bench. Khris Middleton, in his second diversion behind from a hamstring injury, chipped in 6 points, 6 assists and 3 steals.
But no other starter so many as sniffed 10 points. Thon Maker, tapped to fill Parker’s spot, finished with 7 points on 3-of-6 sharpened (1-of-4 from three) with 6 rebounds.
“I’m going to be an All-Star,” Maker told Bleacher Report’s Howard Beck.
Unless a 19-year-old can play like one this season, a Bucks, now 22-30, will have a tough time enormous a East’s tip eight.
Most Valuable Wizard
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He’s not usually a “Wall-Star” anymore. On Friday, Washington Wizards fans once again serenaded John Wall with “M-V-P” chants.
Wall, for his part, warranted each decibel. He scored or assisted on 8 of Washington’s final 9 points in a 112-107 win over a Indiana Pacers.
“Just be aggressive, like Coach tells me,” Wall said, per a Associated Press. “No matter how good or how bad you’re playing, this is a categorical partial of a diversion where we try to win.”
The Wizards’ star indicate ensure wound adult with 26 points and 14 assists, restraining a authorization record with his fifth true diversion of during slightest 20 points and 10 assists. Markieff Morris combined a season-high 26 points with 10 rebounds, while Bradley Beal poured in 20 points and 4 assists.
The win was Washington’s 18th in a final 19 games during a Verizon Center, and changed a Wizards into third place in a Eastern Conference, a half-game forward of a Toronto Raptors.
The aloft Washington climbs, after starting a deteriorate in a 6-12 hole, a louder those “M-V-P” invocations for Wall figure to be—and a some-more accurate they’ll become.
Kings Won’t Quit
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The Atlanta Hawks were good on their approach to toll in Paul Millsap’s 32nd birthday with a bang. By a end, it was a Sacramento Kings who were celebrating.
DeMarcus Cousins and association erased what had been a 22-point third-quarter necessity with a overwhelming 59-36 run, fueled by a franchise-record 18 done threes, to provide fans during Golden 1 Center to a stirring 108-107 win. The Kings didn’t take their initial lead until a discerning cleanup by Matt Barnes with 1:14 to go and weren’t positive of feat until Barnes followed adult Darren Collison’s game-winning layup—one that Dwight Howard might’ve contested had he not fouled out beforehand—with a contact-riddled retard on Tim Hardaway Jr.
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Collison tied Cousins and Ben McLemore for a organisation lead with 22 points, followed by Anthony Tolliver’s 15 points on 5 threes off a bench. The Hawks had 3 20-point scorers of their own: Hardaway with 28, Millsap with 25 and Dennis Schroder with 20.
It was a tough better for Atlanta to swallow, yet Sacramento, during a insistence of a NBA’s ban on Twitter wars between central organisation and actor accounts, did a best to play nice.
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2/11/2017, 6:11:47 AM
Not that a Kings were in any position to massage it in. They’re still two-and-a-half games bashful of a playoff spot, while a Hawks, notwithstanding a loss, are still within distinguished stretch of a top-four seed in a East.
Friday’s Final Scores
Denver Nuggets 131, New York Knicks 123
Miami Heat 108, Brooklyn Nets 99
Golden State Warriors 122, Memphis Grizzlies 107
Los Angeles Lakers 122, Milwaukee Bucks 114
San Antonio Spurs 103, Detroit Pistons 92
New Orleans Pelicans 122, Minnesota Timberwolves 106
Washington Wizards 112, Indiana Pacers 107
Sacramento Kings 108, Atlanta Hawks 107
Phoenix Suns 115, Chicago Bulls 97
All stats and income information via NBA.com and Basketball-Reference.com unless differently noted.
Josh Martin covers a NBA for Bleacher Report. Follow him on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, and listen to his Hollywood Hoops podcast with B/R Lakers lead author Eric Pincus.