LOS ANGELES.- Bam Adebayo shined for him Miami Heat in his victory over the Houston Rockets this Saturday, on a day of the NBA in which the star Luka Doncic celebrated his birthday with 26 points to boost the team’s playoff ambitions Los Angeles Lakers in the 129-101 beating of the decimated Golden State Warriors.
Adebayo scored 24 points and grabbed 11 rebounds in Miami’s 115-105 victory over Houston, snapping the Rockets’ three-game winning streak. Kevin Durant.
The veteran Adebayo respected his home, the Kaseya Center, where the Heat imposed conditions on defense and limited their errors in the final stretch to secure their 32nd victory of the season.
The South Florida team, eighth in the Eastern Conference (32-29), takes the victory as an incentive after winning five of the last ten games and staying in the fight for the last places to qualify for the playoffs.
“We have done what we had to do,” Adebayo said. “We have seen a change in the decisive moments of the game, it is a step in the right direction, but we must continue looking for our best level at the end of the season.”
The Heat forward, Pelle Larssonscored 10 of his 20 points in the fourth quarter to help Miami resist in a tense outcome, in which the Rockets, third in the West (37-22), came within one with 7:21 remaining.
Durant scored 32 points and distributed eight assists and Amen Thompson added 20 points and 11 rebounds for the Rockets, who were coming off a tough comeback victory over orlando in which they erased a 19-point deficit.
Happy birthday, Luke
On his 27th birthday, Doncic hit four three-pointers and added six rebounds and eight assists in a dominant victory for the Lakers (6th in the Western Conference, 35-24) at the Chase Center in San Francisco.
LeBron James supported the Slovenian with a harvest of 22 points, while Austin Reaves He finished with 18 points to give the Angelenos a morale-boosting victory after three consecutive losses.
The Warriors (8th in the West, 31-29), without the injured Stephen Curry and Jimmy Butlerwere forced to limit damage throughout the game after trailing by 13 points at the end of the first quarter.
