Sporati on NBA’s video summary and description
Al Horford led the Hawks with five of a franchise record 15 blocks in Atlanta’s win over Boston. About the NBA: The NBA is the premier professional basketball …
Video information
This NBA’s video is titled Atlanta Hawks Set Playoff Franchise Record with 15 Blocks and credited to NBA. Viewing time is 00:01:19, enjoy our fellow NBA fans!
Sporati on NBA’s video summary and description
Isaiah Thomas’ 27 points and late gamer heroics weren’t enough to get past Al Horford’s 24 and the Hawks balanced attack. About the NBA: The NBA is the …
Video information
This NBA’s video is titled Isaiah Thomas and Al Horford Duel in Atlanta and credited to NBA. Viewing time is 00:01:29, enjoy our fellow NBA fans!
Kobe Bryant finishing his career on a monster offense by scoring 60 point against the Utah Jazz to lead the Lakers to a 101-96 win.
Kobe scored 17 of the final 21 points of the Lakers while providing the assists on the other 4 points. Kobe made the go ahead jumper shot with 30 seconds remaining.
Bryant shot 44% on 22 field goals against 50 attempts which entered the record books as the NBA single-game record for field goal attempts. Kobe finished with 60 points, 4 rebounds, 4 assists, 1 steal and 1 block shot.
Kobe spoke after the game for the final moment and the most memorable one says “Mamba out,”.
Reaction from Kobe Bryant’s 60 point career ending games below:
Even Lebron has respect for Kobe’s 60 points
LeBron can't get enough of Kobe's 60-point finale on Twitter. https://t.co/2iA2gnoK7K pic.twitter.com/tSvv7ufA8u
— FOX Sports (@FOXSports) April 14, 2016
I can’t say the 60 points upstaged the Warriors 73 wins, let us just focus on the 60 Magic
Who would've thought that Kobe scoring 60pts in his last game would upstage the Warriors winning their 73rd game? Well it happened tonight!
— Earvin Magic Johnson (@MagicJohnson) April 14, 2016
Even wife of Stephen Curry was slammed on her status on a Warriors historic night
We don't care. Kobe scored 60 in his last game. https://t.co/1UGW4mvYeM
— Bulletin (@BULLETlN) April 14, 2016
This one is nice and one of the best inspiration for Kobe, which is to be able to show his kids his game, leaving a lasting great game memory
Kobe said the coolest part of hitting 60 was that his kids were here and got a glimpse of what kind of player he used to be.
— Rachel Nichols (@Rachel__Nichols) April 14, 2016
Can’t help but put Michael Jordan in the conversation
Kobe is the oldest player to score 50 Pts since MJ in 2001.
He's the oldest player ever with 60. pic.twitter.com/zHVe7vRI68
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) April 14, 2016
Congratulations and thank you Mamba!
The Golden State Warriors made a Historic run tonight that saw them winning 73 regular season games, breaking the Chicago Bulls Record of 72 wins.
The Warriors came blazing in the 1st Quarter as Stephen Curry started the game strong and refusing for the Warriors to fall behind by hitting two three pointers in the first 4 minutes of the game — the first one giving the Warriors the lead 6-4, and the second 12-9. And with still 4:21 minutes remaining in the first quarter, Curry shot three consecutive three pointers from the top of the key with one of them over 5 feet away from the arc. Curry added another 3 point short with less than a minute to go. By the end of the first quarter the Warriors were leading by 14 points 37-23, on the Warriors’ 9 3 pointers with Barnes and Green adding to Curry’s six.
The 2nd Quarter the Warriors remained in control of the game as Steve Kerr decided to rest Curry until the 5:47 mark with Klay Thompson hitting beyond the arc pushing the lead to 16 points. It was a well balanced offense with Ezeli, Livingston, Barbosa, Barnes, Speights scoring while Thompson adding 4 3 pointers. The Warriors pushed the lead to 22 points with 2:48 remaining on consecutive 3 point shots from Thompson and Curry. The second quarter saw the Warriors with 14 3 pointers ending the first half on the score of 50-70.
3rd Quarter came and Curry conquered as Stephen made another milestone making 400 3 pointers in a season in the first 43 seconds of the third quarter. The quarter saw Curry dishing out 6 assist but the Warriors had a lot of turnovers that allowed the Grizzlies to cut down the lead to 14 via a Farmer floating jump shot with 4:12 remaining. As the Memphis trying to make a comeback, the Warriors answered with Iguodola, Green and Curry with a barrage of points giving the Warriors a 21 point lead ending the 3rd quarter 102-81.
The 4th quarter it was already evident that there is no comeback run and the Memphis traded basket with the Warriors who mostly fielded their second unit with only Thompson in the starting five. The fans gave the Warriors a standing ovation with 4:18 remaining as Speights pushes the lead to 22 on a driving layup with the score of 120-98. The game finishes on the score of with Stephen Curry leading the game with 46 points, 6 assists and 10 3 pointers.
Congratulations to the Golden State Warriors for this historic night.
The Golden State Warriors Vs Memphis Grizzlies was an important win for the Warriors not only as the Warriors got win 71 in the regular season but a confidence and momentum builder as they drive to break the 72 wins of the Chicago Bulls.
Relive this very intense, exciting game as we saw Draymond Green giving the edge for the win.
The Warriors has lost the game against Minnesota and earlier before that against the Boston Celtics. The run towards breaking the Chicago Bulls record of 72 wins was not looking good. Was the regular season run finally caught up with the Warriors? Were they tired?
Nonetheless, the game against the Grizzlies was supposed to be an easy one for the Warriors as the Memphis Grizzlies is hanging on at the lower end of the playoff picture, they haven’t been winning in their last 10 games and two of their star players Mike Conley and Marc Gasol are out because of injuries. Apparently, the Grizzlies have a mission of making the Warriors work very hard and deny them of breaking the 72-win regular season. For a moment there Memphis looks like it will be upsetting the Warriors as they led by ten points with the just 6 minutes left. For the Warriors, this is the game they need to breathe life to their run and give them the confidence to finally break the home winning streak of the San Antonio Spurs.
Draymond Green’s excellent all-around play helped them push forward to win their 71st game on the slimmest of margin 100-99. 71 wins in a single regular season is a lot and most teams can only dream of reaching this milestone.
This was a hard fought game as the Warriors had to climb back from 10 points in the last 6 minutes and were still 5 points down in the last 2 minutes and 48 seconds in the game. The game winning shot was a follow-up tip-in by Draymond Green off a Stephen Curry layup miss while having 4 Grizzlies defending for a defensive rebound. On the next play, Draymond forced Randolph to shoot an airball.
Grizzlies still had the opportunity to deliver a heart-breaking upset as Lance Stephenson had two shot attempts in the last 10 seconds, the final shot came at .8 seconds but couldn’t deliver the points.
Even when Memphis seemed to be in control of the remainder of the 4th quarter, the Warriors required the contribution from four players – three points from Curry, Igoudala, a driving two points by Green, another three on the top right key by Harrison Barnes, and the go ahead two points while having four Grizzlies on the defensive end.
When the Buzzer sounded, the Warriors won their 71st game and 33rd road game, an achievement that puts them in the history books only occupied by the Chicago Bulls 1991-1996.
The Golden State Warriors joined the 70-win club making them the only team alongside the Chicago Bulls for this milestone.
The most important thing is that the Warriors were able to bounce back from a crushing defeat against the lowly Minnesota Timberwolves as they suffered on their second home loss in the last three games. The Warriors looked tired the last few games and going up against a streaking San Antonio Spurs who is second in the league and looking more and more confident, could have crushed their hopes to reaching 70 games and possibly breaking the Chicago Bulls record.
Steve Kerr has downplayed the achievement of breaking the record of the Bulls and winning 73 games in the regular season. Most teams making the playoffs are already resting their starters to come fresh in the first round and while Steve insists that the record 73 wins is not their priority, the way they played Minnesota Timberwolves and the Spurs says otherwise.
It would be foolish for the Warriors to let go of this achievement and should go after the 73 wins like it is a Championship Game.
The Warriors will have to remain focus on the last three games against Memphis Grizzlies on Saturday & Wednesday and the Spurs on Sunday. The Warriors need to win the game against the Grizzlies as effortlessly as possible to rest and recharge against the Spurs on Sunday. The Spurs has not lost a home game this season and Popovich said he will be resting his players and be on full attack on Sunday against the Warriors.
Despite what Steve Kerr says, his boys and the Golden State Warriors are going after the 72 regular win NBA record of the Chicago Bulls. Instagram user thehoopnut has posted the image above which shows the triple connection of Steve Kerr for this record.
“His Teammates have two chances” – Steve Kerr played for the San Antonio Spurs and they are playing against them in two of the last four games of the season.
“To Prevent His Team from” – should I say more?
Breaking his Team’s 72-10 record – it is more like, “breaking his former team’s record”.
If Steve Kerr and the Golden State Warriors beat the Chicago Bulls record, Steve will have his own record that would probably take forever to break.
