Oklahoma basketball players beat Denver 102:87 tonight, in the first game of the new NBA season for both clubs.
Oklahoma was led by Shay Gilges-Alexander with 28 points, eight assists, seven rebounds and three blocks and Chet Holmgren with 25 points, 14 rebounds, five assists and four blocks. Aaron Wiggins contributed to the victory with 15 points and six rebounds, and Jalen Williams with 12 points.
In the Denver team, the current MVP, Serbian center Nikola Jokić achieved a triple-double performance of 16 points, 13 assists and 12 rebounds.
Christian Brown had 16 points and seven rebounds, Michael Porter had 15 points and eight rebounds, and Aaron Gordon had 12 points and nine rebounds. Russell Westbrook finished the game with six points, five rebounds and five assists.
Both teams finished last season with the same record of 57 wins and 25 losses, and Oklahoma was the first seed in the Western Conference in the playoffs.
Oklahoma started the season as the youngest team in the league with an average player age of 24 years and 148 days.
The current champion Boston defeated Washington 122:102 and achieved the fifth consecutive victory in mutual duels. In the Celtics team, Jaylen Brown with 27 points and eight rebounds and Jason Tatum with 25 points and 11 rebounds were the most effective.
Derrick White added 19 points and four rebounds and assists each, and Peyton Pritchard 15 points. Tatum did not play in the last quarter, and Brown and White left the game after two minutes of the last period in the Boston team, which achieved its second victory at the beginning of the season.
In the Washington team, Jordan Poole was the most effective with 26 points, 20 of which he scored in the first half, Jonas Valanciunas added 18, and Kyle Kuzma 12 points.
Dallas basketball players beat San Antonio 120:109. Luka Doncic led the reigning Western Conference champions with 28 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists, and Klay Thompson scored 22 points and set a franchise record six XNUMX-pointers in his debut for Dallas.
Thompson is off to a good start compared to last season, when he missed all 10 shots in Golden State's last game loss in the playoffs in April, and hit his first two shots tonight.
Dallas' victory was contributed by Derrick Lively with 15 points, 11 rebounds and six assists, Kyrie Irving with 15 points and Jaden Hardy and PJ Washington with 11 each.
In the San Antonio team, Julian Champagne scored 18 points with seven rebounds, Jeremy Sohan also had 18 points, and Victor Vembanjama had 17 points and eight rebounds. Chris Paul scored three points with eight assists and seven rebounds in his debut for San Antonio.
Minnesota basketball beat Sacramento 117-115 thanks to Anthony Edwards' points from the free throw line with two seconds left. Edwards finished the game with 32 points, seven rebounds and four assists, and Julius Randle scored 33 points with five rebounds and four assists.
Naz Reed added 19 points and 13 rebounds, and Rudy Gober three points and 13 rebounds.
Demar Derozan with 26 points and eight rebounds, Domantas Sabonis with 24 points and eight rebounds and Keegan Murray with 23 points and 11 rebounds were the most effective in the defeated team.
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