The NBA opening day first game, turned to the Nets Durant, facing the former owner of the Warriors scored 22 points today, the first time in the Nets officially merged teammates Irving also blasted 26 points, the two teamed up to lead the team 125-99 victory over the Warriors, so that the new head coach Nash received the first win in his coaching career.
After a short break of more than two months in the NBA, the 2020-21 season kicked off today with the opening day game between Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving, who returned from injury to lead the Brooklyn Nets at home against the Golden State Warriors, who have won the championship game five times in the last six years and three times.
Stephen Curry was fouled at the free throw line less than a minute into the game, and then he hit both free throws to open the Warriors’ record; on the next possession, Irving made a sharp jumper to tie the game for the Nets. Then James Wiseman, a rookie center signed by the Warriors as the top pick in the draft, introduced himself to the fans with a dunk, and Durant, who had been out of the game for 18 months due to injury, then put the Bucks ahead with a 3-pointer and led all the way in the first quarter.
In the first quarter, the Bucks shot 5-83 percent from 3-point range and 5-83 percent from the field overall, beating the Warriors’ 3-46 percent and 2-22 percent by a wide margin. The Bucks led by Irving and Durant who scored 17 and 10 points respectively, led by the Warriors 40-25.
The Warriors scored 16 points in the first half with only Curry scoring ten points, while Irving scored a big three-pointer in the reading period before halftime, and he has scored 24 points in the first two quarters alone, plus Durant and Caris LeVert who scored 12 points respectively to give the Bucks a 63-45 lead after halftime.
The Bucks opened the second half with a 17-4 run to stretch the lead to 31 points, and at one point led by as many as 35 points to take a 28-point lead into the final quarter, 99-71.
As the game was split early, the two teams switched to their bench players one after another in the final quarter, and the Bucks eventually beat the Warriors by an easy 26 points.
The Nets picked up their first win of the season when Irving and Durant teamed up for the first time to score together, giving legendary star Steve Nash his first win in his first game at the helm.
Irving scored a game-high 26 points today, while Durant scored the next-highest 22, Leverett and Joe Harris scored 20 and 10, respectively, and senior star center DeAndre Jordan scored only four points but grabbed a game-high 11 rebounds.
Corey scored a team-high 20 points and dished out a game-high 10 assists, while Weisman scored 19 points in his debut and Andrew Wiggins scored 13.
Just over two months before the end of the 2019-20 season, each team’s regular season “shrinkage” to 72 games of the new season begins today, the opening day there are two games, the first game by the Golden State Warriors away to challenge the Brooklyn Nets, which is the U.S. NBA last season in the “bubble” after the resumption of the segregated park, again in the team’s home court for the first regular season.
The Warriors have made it to the championship game five times in the last six seasons and won the title three times, but with Kevin Durant moving on to the Nets, Klay Thompson out for the season with a serious injury and Stephen Curry playing only five games due to injury, the Warriors’ record last season was a miserable 15 wins and 50 losses, bottom of the league. Today’s game saw the return of the team’s top player, Curry, to give the Warriors a shot in the arm.
The Bucks signed Durant and Irving (Kyrie Irving), hoping to use the two as the cornerstone of the team, but last season Durant was lost for the whole season due to a torn Achilles tendon, Irving also missed a lot of games due to a shoulder injury, the Bucks barely made it into the playoffs, but were swept out in the first round by the Toronto Tyranids. This season, Durant returned after an 18-month hiatus and teamed up with Irving for the first time, giving the Bucks a very different look.
The 2019-20 season, the NBA due to the 2019 Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) outbreak on March 12, the season was interrupted for several months before restarting on July 31, teams in the league set up in disney World in Orlando, Florida “bubble” quarantine park and resume the game, until the Los Angeles Lakers won the championship on October 11, the official end of the season.
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