Paul George’s record-setting first regular-season game for Boston included seven threes and five steals, but Detroit’s fourth-quarter surge delivered a 121–113 win.
Category: Basketball
Joventut turned a 16-26 deficit into a 43-28 lead against Barcelona on October 18, with Ricky Rubio’s 19 points and six assists helping deliver a 113-89 derby win.
Sergio Llull scored 19 points in under 13 minutes against Bilbao on October 18, with his fifth three-pointer taking Madrid to a club-record 20 in an ACB game.
Karl-Anthony Towns’s 13 points, 15 rebounds and nine assists helped New York beat Toronto 122–120 on October 15, two days after losing to the Raptors by 50.
Jaylen Brown scored a game-high 22 points in about 17 minutes during his October 5 Sixers preseason debut, without playing after halftime.
Jordin Canada scored 20 of her 25 points after halftime and collected five steals in Atlanta’s October 4 semifinal win over New York.
Giannis Antetokounmpo made all three field-goal attempts and delivered seven assists in 14:07 during Miami’s October 3 preseason win in Quebec City.
A’ja Wilson, Chelsea Gray and Jackie Young supplied almost 82 percent of Las Vegas’ scoring in its deciding WNBA playoff win on October 1.
New York swept top-seeded Minnesota by double digits in both games to produce the WNBA playoffs’ first 8-over-1 series upset.
Golden State’s first postseason victory became its highest-scoring game ever and featured a record-breaking second quarter plus 18 three-pointers.