The Jazz were victorious over the Pelicans 101-87 on Saturday.
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Pau Gasol scored 18 points and pulled down 13 rebounds as the Chicago Bulls skirted past the San Antonio Spurs 92-89. Gordon Hayward leads in points with 17.7 per game.
Stopping the Warriors, the league’s highest-scoring team at 115.3 points per game, figures to be a considerably tougher task. Love has now scored in double-digits in all but one game this season and has topped 20 points nine times.
– How Curry managed to create just enough space to get late-game shots off over the outstretched arms of Hood and Favors, although most of that might be impossible to prevent because of the MVP’s elusiveness and skill. This will be tough game for the Jazz.
Griffin’s 450 points are the most by a Clippers player through the first 18 games of a season since the franchise relocated from San Diego to Los Angeles in 1984-85.
Charlotte won’t have one of its top scorers available for Wednesday’s matchup, however, as center Al Jefferson will be sidelined two to three weeks after straining his left calf against the Bucks.
Griffin, who began the day with an NBA-best. However, the Warriors are on another planet and Utah simply doesn’t have the horses offensively to keep up, especially if Favors doesn’t play. They have the best assist-to-turnover ratio in the league at 1.88. Defensively, the Warriors yield 99.8 points against the opposing teams. The Minnesota Timberwolves are one game behind the Jazz, the Portland Trailblazers are a game behind the Timberwolves. You don’t know. Golden State went to their star at the end and he made the plays that mattered.
This is the first meeting of the season for the conference rivals.
And that’s the difference between beating the best team on the planet, a team with the best player, a team that is now 19-0, and tasting the bitterness of defeat – for the eighth time now. At 5-5, they are even ATS.
Burns 6, Ketford 4, Peterson 15, Hainline 1, Rossman 2, Kramer 2. Other than last night and a couple of other games, they’ve blown everybody out.
Philadelphia’s last five losses were 8, 2, 4, 5 and 5.
MCEVERS: I mean, a year ago Golden State had this historically great season on the way to winning the title.
MILWAUKEE – Jabari Parker scored 16 points as Milwaukee snapped a three-game losing streak.
This is how a team succeeds on the road with one of its starters (Harrison Barnes) out injured, while another (Andrew Bogut) fouls out in 22 minutes and yet a third key contributor (Andre Iguodala) is scoreless in 27 minutes.
Utah is 3-6 ATS in its last 9 games when playing at home against Golden State.
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The game got so out of hand that Curry went to the bench for the entire fourth period for the fourth straight game, which once again denied him a chance to play against his brother, Seth, who played much of the final quarter for Sacramento. If they win, they’ll tie a 131-year-old record for the longest season-opening winning streak by any professional sports team, which was set by the St. Louis Maroons baseball team in 1884.
