By Tyler Keller, Director of Basketball Personnel
Apr 07, 2021

 

The favorites were able to take care of business in six out of eight games during Tuesday night’s NBA action with a couple underdogs pulling off the upset. One of those upsets came from Golden State, where Stephen Curry had 30 of his 41 points in the second half to defeat Milwaukee (without Giannis). The Lake show jumped to a 34-point lead in the first half, and rode that wave to victory over a depleted Raptors club, where things got chippy and resulted in a double ejection of Montrezl Harrell and OG Anunoby

Joel Embiid had 35 points and proved to be too much for Boston to handle. Atlanta made a record-breaking 11 3PM without a single miss in the third quarter on their way to beating New Orleans. Chicago collected a 16-point road victory over division foes Indiana and the Griz looked solid in their triumph over Miami, as another example of them playing well lately. Top Western Conference teams Denver Nuggets and LA Clippers both blew out their opponents, Detroit and Portland, respectively, by 15+ points.

Here are the best NBA highlights, facts, performers, and takeaways from April 6th, 2021:

GAME OF THE DAY

Golden State Warriors (122) [GW-FTs] vs. Milwaukee Bucks (121)

[Highlights] @WARRIORS (+219; $8.74) d. BUCKS (-260; $9.71122-121 (GW-FTs) [GSW +6.5 | o237.5]

[Highlights] LAKERS (-117; $10.15) d. @RAPTORS (-101; $7.62110-101 [LAL -1 | o208.5]

[Highlights] 76ERS (-129; $10.99) d. @CELTICS (+111; $8.12106-96 [PHI -2 | u222]

[Highlights] GRIZZLIES (+180; $11.23) d. @HEAT (-209; $8.98124-112 [MEM +5 | o216]

[Highlights] @NUGGETS (-900; $10.50) d. PISTONS (+621; $10.15134-119 [DEN -12 | o214]

[Highlights] @HAWKS (-162; $12.18) d. PELICANS (+142; $8.69) 123-107 [ATL -3.5 | o228]

[Highlights] BULLS (-113; $11.02) d. @PACERS (-104; $8.66113-97 [CHI -1 | u227]

[Highlights] @CLIPPERS (-231; $9.86) d. BLAZERS (+195; $10.40133-116 [LAC -6 | o229]

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  • Capela rejects Zion at the rim

 

  • LaVine was flying high in Indy

 

 

  • Steph exploded for 41 vs. Bucks

 

 

[Highlights] PG Steph Curry, GS (W v.MIL): 41 PTS (14-21 FG | 5-10 3PT), 4 AST, 6 REB, 0 BLK, 0 STL, 4 TO

[Highlights] C Nikola Jokic, DEN (W v.DET): 27 PTS (13-16 FG | 0-0 3PT), 11 AST, 8 REB, 1 BLK, 1 STL, 1 TO 

[Highlights] C Nikola Vucevic, CHI (W @IND): 32 PTS (14-29 FG | 4-7 3PT), 5 AST, 17 REB, 1 BLK, 0 STL, 4 TO

[Highlights] G/F Paul George, LAC (W v.POR): 36 PTS (11-18 FG | 6-9 3PT), 5 AST, 3 REB, 1 BLK, 1 STL, 3 TO

[Highlights] SF Kawhi Leonard, LAC (W v.POR): 29 PTS (10-18 FG | 1-4 3PT), 7 AST, 12 REB, 0 BLK, 0 STL, 1 TO

NBA TOP PERFORMERS

GOLDEN STATE’S ONLY CHANCE AT SURVIVAL IS WITH SUPER STEPH DOWN THE STRETCH

The Golden State Warriors currently sit in 10th place amongst the Western Conference standings. This is not a position this franchise is accustomed to being in given their recent success, especially with only 21 games left in the season. In this abnormal year, 10th is enough to earn them a play-in opportunity, but Golden State is not satisfied with that.

If they are going to turn their season around and climb up the rankings, a lot of the weight will be on the shoulders of the greatest shooter ever, Steph Curry. Unsurprisingly, much of this team’s success rides on Curry to put together consistent performances. This roster is one of the weaker Warriors ones in recent years given the departure of Kevin DurantAndre Iguodala, and the injury to Klay Thompson, but with Curry playing at his peak, anything is possible.

Curry had 41 points against Milwaukee on Tuesday night, 30 of which came in the second half. He shot 50% from three and 66.7% from the field. This was still barely enough to come out with the dub. Chef Curry will have to put together many more of these kinds of ridiculous stat lines to pull his team up the standings and position his squad better come postseason time. Similar to James Harden’s historic run in January 2019 and LeBron during the 2018 playoffs, this next month or two will define how ‘super’ Steph really is.

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