Kenneth Faried played one of his best games of the season. He is averaging 15.7 points and six boards per game while posting a team-high PER of 19.9.
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White threw two interceptions, and Ball returned the second 53 yards for touchdown to tie it at 10 late in the first half. He ran 17 yards on his second play from scrimmage and opened the fourth quarter with a five-yard touchdown run.
“We’ve just got to go out there and attack”, Chicago forward Taj Gibson, who got a double technical with Oklahoma City’s Serge Ibaka, said.
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But Lakers veteran Kobe Bryant was again feeling the physical strain, this time with a sore right knee.
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I d love this to continue but it s not easy. “This league is very insane “, Ranieri said, pointing to Leicester’s status. But Pellegrini has backed his top scorer to come good. “Then we can see more who are the teams involved in the fight”.
“We just have to get ready for Christmas”. We’re with each other 24-7. “We penetrate and we looked to pass tonight”.
The Thunder were led by Russell Westbrook, who loves competing against the Nuggets and almost recorded a triple-double with 30 points, 12 assists, and 9 rebounds.
Oklahoma City shot a season-best 57.8 percent from the field.
“It’s very disappointing”, said coach Fred Hoiberg, whose team departs with a three-game road skid and is opening a demanding stretch that follows with a stop in Dallas before hosting Toronto and Indiana. This is still the Durant Westbrook show, but when the team’s winning, it seems they don’t have to resort to playing one or two on five basketball which is seen as the root cause of their failure to win an NBA championship or even make the Finals since their disappointing trip in 2012, the last time James Harden was on the team. “His intangibles are a lot greater than I thought they would be, not knowing much about him when I got the job”, Malone said.
“You can’t let Kanter, who just manhandled us, come off the bench and get 21 and 8 and five offensive rebounds”, Denver coach Michael Malone said.
With 4:58 left in the second quarter, the Bulls led the Thunder 51-37. Instead, two days later, he scored 11 points and shot 3-for-13 in a loss to the Timberwolves. Durant had a strong showing in that half, dropping 19 points in the first two quarters.
The Thunder came out of the halftime break committed to regaining their composure on both ends of the court, tying the game up mid-way through the 3rd quarter.
OKC trailed by as many as 10 points in the second quarter, but managed to turn up the heat in the third and fourth quarters.
Enes Kanter has been one of the more divisive players for the Oklahoma City Thunder this season as the center has been productive at times and a burden at other times. The Celtics opened an 88-78 lead on Turner’s driving basket with 6:11 to play but the Knicks cut it to 90-85 before Thomas had consecutive driving baskets to push the lead back to nine.
The most glaring statistic in the Nuggets’ loss to the San Antonio Spurs was the discrepancy in points scored off of turnovers. The Bulls are on the verge of setting a season-long losing streak while the Thunder have streaked to success all season long.
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The Bulls led the entire way in a building where they had not won since 2010. Tim Duncan made a hook shot after that, but Harden hit a three-pointer.
