The rough start of the 2020-2021
NBA season
is leaving us with more scares and more injuries than usual.
The basketball course ended in the
Orlando
bubble
in October and recovered, now throughout the country, on December 22.
Two months in which the players who played in the
Florida mini-league
have hardly had time to recover physically, something that is being noticed at this start of the regular league.
The game is being rough, without great performances or excellent matches.
Not even
Christmas Day
, the quintessential event of the season, left us matches to remember.
The stars of the bubble, starting with the
Lakers
and continuing with the
Bucks or Clippers,
are not performing at the level expected of them, and the viewer notices it.
During these first days, we have already seen breaks for
LeBron James, Anthony Davis, Kawhi Leonard or Russell Westbrook
, and we have encountered the
first serious injuries
, such as the ruptured ligaments of Spencer Dinwiddie, a vital player for the aspirations of the Brooklyn Nets. .
All this brings us to the
strange leaderships of the East and West
of the
Cleveland Cavaliers
(3-0) and
New Orleans Pelicans
(2-1), a franchise that was not in the bubble and another that only lasted a few days.
The Orlando Magic
(3-0) and the
Atlanta Hawks
(3-0) have also started undefeated after their absence from Disneyworld.
The league leaves us
surprises
like the triumph of the New York Knicks over the Milwaukee Bucks or the
50 points
difference at halftime that the Mavericks achieved against the Clippers, one of the favorites for the ring.
The day
This past dawn, the Grizzlies defeated the Nets without Durant or Irving and took the great scare of
Ja Morant
, their star, who had to leave the pavilion in a wheelchair after a severe ankle sprain.
Pending future tests, it seems that the player will have to be out for several weeks.
The Jazz, candidates for the top 5 of the West, suffered to defeat the
Thunder
, one of the youngest teams in the league, while the Rockets, still in the
draw
due to the
Covid-19 outbreak
that the franchise has suffered, fell to the Nuggets.
Jokic
led Denver's game with an exhibition: 19 points, 18 assists and 12 rebounds, for James Harden's 34 points.
In Portland, and despite the return of Davis and LeBron, the Lakers could not beat the Blazers in their second consecutive game.
They suffered the second loss of the season in four games, with 29 goals from James and only 13 from their star power forward, with obvious fatigue.
Marc Gasol
was away from his performance 24 hours ago and could not distribute any assists, staying at four points in just 19 minutes.
An inertia that will be accentuated in the coming weeks, in a constant of games without truce to complete a regular season of
72 games
, prior to the Playoffs, which will end just before the celebration of the
Tokyo Olympics
.
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