The Nuggets are really cookin’ right now, having won 13 of 15 since the All-Star break.
In Thursday’s victory over the Knicks, forward Michael Porter Jr.. hit three 3-pointers to break the Nuggets’ single-season record of 193, finishing with 31 points.
“I told him just now, ‘Go to Cabo whenever you want. I’ll pay for it,’” Nuggets coach Michael Malone joked.
The rapidly rising Rockets have won seven straight, and they are getting contributions from just about everywhere. You don’t win that many in a row otherwise.
And they’ve done it without big man Alperen Sengun, out for the season with knee and ankle injuries. Sengun is undoubtedly in the running for the Most Improved Player award.
Anyway, back to the Rockets who are on the floor, and simply put, they’re getting it done.
“Good to get back to playing good basketball,” coach Ime Udoka told reporters after Thursday’s win over the Bulls. “Now you want to ride that momentum and just keep tightening the rope and do a little bit more every game.”
Nobody expected the Kings to drop a game to the Wizards, and perhaps not even the Kings nor Wizards themselves. But that’s what happened on Thursday night.
“Tough loss, especially where we are right now in our race for that playoff spot,” Kings coach Mike Brown told reporters. “But you got to give the Wizards credit, their coaching staff a lot of credit. They basically took it to us. (Kyle Kuzma) was a handful. We did not have answers. We tried to double-team him at times and he still found a way to hit big shots.”
The Kings (40-29) enter Friday as the eighth seed in the Western Conference but are just a half-game behind the Suns and Mavericks. So we know what Brown means when he talks about the playoffs — or perhaps more specifically, avoiding the play-in tournament.
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