With the victory, the Sacramento team ended a four-game losing streak and scored 9 of 16 3-pointers.
The Cleveland Cavaliers they wasted the excellent performance of the Spanish base Ricky Rubio and fell before Boston Celtics 98-92 on Monday’s game in the NBA.
Rubio stood out with 28 points, but the Celtics took advantage of the forward’s 23 points, eight rebounds and five assists. Jayson Tatum.
The Dominican forward Al Harford He also stood out for the Boston team by totaling 17 goals and nine balls recovered in the rebounding fight.
Another who was decisive for Boston was Dennis Schroder, who scored six points in the final 76 seconds. Schroder and Marcus Smart they scored 14 cards each and Boston (7-7) won for the third time in four games.
Schroder hit back-to-back baskets to extend Boston’s lead to 94-89, then hit two free throws to close the score.
For his part, 26 of Rubio’s 28 points came in the second half, while his teammate Cedi Osman had 26 points and five assists coming off the bench to the Cavaliers (9-6), who had won six of eight challenges before this defeat.
Cleveland rookie, Evan Mobley, missed all 11 field goal attempts and finished with one point, nine rebounds and five assists before heading to the locker room for undisclosed reasons early in the fourth quarter.
The Cavaliers had led by 11 in the first and second quarters before taking a 39-37 lead at the break.
Sacramento masacra a Pistons
In Detroit, with excellent performances by Buddy Held y Tyrese Haliburton, with 22 points the first and 17 with 10 assists the second, the Sacramento Kings they massacred the Pistons 129-107.
With the victory the ‘Kings’ ended a streak of four consecutive defeats. They took control with a 26-2 offense for a 33-12 lead early in the second quarter.
Richaun Holmes scored 19 points and eight rebounds to also stand out for the Kings, followed by his teammate De’Aaron Fox with 19 points and nine touchdowns for Sacramento, which had six players with at least 15 cards.
By Detroit, Cade Cunningham had 25 points, eight rebounds and eight assists, followed by Saddiq Bey with 28 points, but no one else reached double figures for the Pistons.
Detroit shot just 20% from the paint in the first quarter, but bounced back in the second to get into the fight by approaching 46-32.
Sacramento then responded with a 14-2 offense and led 68-44 at halftime.
The Kings shot 56.3% from the paint at the half, including 9 of 16 on 3s, while the Pistons shot just 31.4% and missed 21 of 27 3-point attempts.
Monday’s results:
Boston a Cleveland 98-92
Washington a New Orleans 105-100
NY Knicks to Indiana 92-84
Sacramento a Detroit 129-107
Atlanta to Orlando 129-111
Phoenix a Minnesota 99-96
Memphis a Houston 136-102
Dallas a Denver 111-101
Miami a Oklahoma City 103-90
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