NBA Euro-watch (1/1 – 16/1)

By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net

Last night belonged to Lebron James, who became the youngest player to reach 20.000 points and 5.000 assists. However, Englishman Luol Deng was the hero of the night, giving the overtime win (107-105) to the Bulls over Toronto. Also Montenegrin Nikola Vucevic had a double double (16 p., 15 r.) in Orlando’s win over Indiana (97-86) and Greek American Kosta Koufos tried his best (16 p., 9 r.) against OKC, which beat Denver 117-97 and has the best record (31-8) in the league.

NBA 2012-2013 – 16/1

BOS	78 – 90	NOH
TOR	105 – 107	CHI
POR	88 – 93	CLE
OKC	117 – 97	DEN
DAL	105 – 100	HOU
ORL	97 – 86	IND
GSW	75 – 92	MIA
ATL	109 – 95	BKN
SAS	103 – 82	MEM
SAC	95 – 94	WAS

On Tuesday, Italian Danilo Gallinari was the top scorer of Denver with 25 points in the overtime win (115-111) over the Blazers.

NBA 2012-2013 – 15/1

PHI	99 – 111	NOH
CHA	76 – 103	IND
HOU	109 – 117	LAC
LAL	104 – 88	MIL
DEN	115 – 111	POR
BKN	113 – 106	TOR

On Monday, Montenegrin Nikola Pekovic tried with 20 points and 12 rebounds against Dallas, but the Mavericks got the 113-98 win over Minnesota.

NBA 2012-2013 – 14/1

CHI	97 – 58	ATL
SAC	124 – 118	CLE
MEM	73 – 99	LAC
UTA	104 – 97	MIA
DAL	113 – 98	MIN
WAS	120 – 91	ORL
BOS	100 – 89	CHA
PHX	90 – 102	OKC

On Sunday, French star Tony Parker had one of his usual good nights (20 p., 6 as.) in the 106-88 win of San Antonio against Minnesota.

NBA 2012-2013 – 13/1

LAL	113 – 93	CLE
DEN	116 – 105	GSW
BKN	97 – 86	IND
TOR	96 – 107	MIL
SAS	106 – 88	MIN
POR	83 – 87	OKC
NYK	100 – 87	NOH

On Saturday, Nikola Vucevic proved himself with 18 points and 15 rebounds in Orlando’s 104-101 win over the Clippers.

NBA 2012-2013 – 12/1

WAS	93 – 83	ATL
PHI	107 – 100	HOU
SAC	99 – 128	MIA
LAC	101 – 104	ORL
CHI	81 – 97	PHX
DET	87 – 90	UTA
DAL	104 – 83	MEM
IND	96 – 88	CHA

On Friday, Luol Deng had 33 points as the Bulls won in New York the Knicks 108-101.

NBA 2012-2013 – 11/1

NYK	101 – 108	CHI
DEN	98 – 91	CLE
MIL	87 – 103	DET
BOS	103 – 91	HOU
NOH	104 – 92	MIN
BKN	99 – 79	PHX
GSW	103 – 97	POR
MEM	101 – 98	SAS
ATL	103 – 95	UTA
TOR	99 – 78	CHA
LAL	101 – 116	OKC

On Thursday, Frenchman Nicolas Batum had 28 points, 7 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 steals in the big win of the Blazers over the defending champions Miami Heat.

NBA 2012-2013 – 10/1

SAC	112 – 117	DAL
POR	92 – 90	MIA
IND	81 – 76	NYK

Last Wednesday, Spaniard Jose Calderon had a double double (14 p., 11 as.) in the win of Toronto over the Sixers (90-72). His compatriot Tony Parker scored 24 points and dished 6 assists in the 108-105 of the Spurs over the Lakers. Russian Alexey Shved was the top scorer of Minnesota with 18 points in the 106-84 defeat by OKC.

NBA 2012-2013 – 9/1

CLE	99 – 83	ATL
LAC	99 – 93	DAL
NOH	88 – 79	HOU
SAS	108 – 105	LAL
CHI	96 – 104	MIL
OKC	106 – 84	MIN
DEN	108 – 105	ORL
TOR	90 – 72	PHI
BOS	87 – 79	PHX
CHA	102 – 112	UTA
GSW	87 – 94	MEM

The previous Tuesday, Nikola Pekovic with 25 points and 18 rebounds had a career night in the 108-103 win of Minnesota over Atlanta. Slovenian Goran Dragic had 21 points in the Suns‘ defeat by Milwaukee.

NBA 2012-2013 – 8/1

MIN	108 – 103	ATL
HOU	125 – 112	LAL
IND	87 – 77	MIA
PHI	89 – 109	BKN
MIL	108 – 99	PHX

The previous Monday, German superstar Dirk Nowitzki was the top scorer of Dallas with 20 points but Utah got the 100-94 win.

NBA 2012-2013 – 7/1

NYK	96 – 102	BOS
CHI	118 – 92	CLE
UTA	100 – 94	DAL
POR	125 – 119	ORL
NOH	95 – 88	SAS
SAC	81 – 113	MEM
WAS	101 – 99	OKC

The previous Sunday, Memphis got the 92-81 win over Phoenix with Spaniard Marc Gasol having as usual a double double and a full stat line (10 p, 12 r., 5 as., 3 bl.).

NBA 2012-2013 – 6/1

LAL	105 – 112	DEN
PHX	81 – 92	MEM
MIA	99 – 71	WAS
DET	101 – 108	CHA
TOR	92 – 104	OKC

The previous Saturday, Portland won the euro-derby against Minnessota (102-97) as Nicolas Batum had 26 points, 5 rebounds, 3 assists, 3 blocks for the winners and on the opposite side Nikola Pekovic had 21 points and 15 rebounds.

NBA 2012-2013 – 5/1

ATL	81 – 89	BOS
DAL	96 – 99	NOH
LAC	115 – 89	GSW
CLE	104 – 112	HOU
IND	95 – 80	MIL
ORL	106 – 114	NYK
SAS	109 – 86	PHI
MIN	97 – 102	POR
BKN	113 – 93	SAC
DEN	110 – 91	UTA

The previous Friday, Marcin Gortat from Poland had a double double (18 p., 11 r.) but it was not enough for the Suns to beat the Jazz. Utah got the 87-80 win.

NBA 2012-2013 – 4/1

DET	85 – 84	ATL
MIA	89 – 96	CHI
CHA	104 – 106	CLE
MIL	101 – 115	HOU
BOS	94 – 75	IND
LAC	107 – 102	LAL
WAS	113 – 115	BKN
OKC	109 – 85	PHI
MEM	84 – 86	POR
TOR	96 – 105	SAC
PHX	80 – 87	UTA

The previous Thursday, Andrey Kirilenko (14 p.), Alexey Shved (17 p.) and Nikola Pekovic (11 p.) scored in double digits in the 101-97 win over the Nuggets, which got 16 points, 7 rebounds and 4 steals by Koufos.

NBA 2012-2013 – 3/1

DEN	97 – 101	MIN
NYK	100 – 83	SAS

The previous Wednesday. Turkish center Enes Kanter had 15 points and 8 rebounds for Utah in the victory over Minnesota (106-84).

NBA 2012-2013 – 2/1

HOU	104 – 92	NOH
ORL	94 – 96	CHI
MIA	119 – 109	DAL
GSW	115 – 94	LAC
UTA	106 – 84	MIN
OKC	93 – 110	BKN
PHX	95 – 89	PHI
TOR	102 – 79	POR
CLE	94 – 97	SAC
MIL	110 – 117	SAS
BOS	83 – 93	MEM
IND	89 – 81	WAS

On the first day of the year, Nicolas Batum had an excellent game (26 p., 4 r., 6 as.) for Portland in the 105-100 win over the Knicks.

NBA 2012-2013 – 1/1

NOH	86 – 95	ATL
WAS	94 – 103	DAL
DEN	92 – 78	LAC
LAL	99 – 103	PHI
NYK	100 – 105	POR
DET	103 – 97	SAC