Suns earn 18th straight win, new franchise record

Johnson and Payne commanded a great job from the Suns backups, who finished with 48 points. Deandre ayton he finished with 17 points and 12 rebounds and Phoenix left his record at 19-3 this season.

Phoenix won despite not having their top scorer, Devin booker, for the first time in the campaign. The star guard suffered a hamstring injury in his left leg in the second quarter of Tuesday’s game against the Los Golden state warriors.

GRIZZLIES 152

THUNDER 79

MEMPHIS.- The Memphis Grizzlies set a new NBA record for margin of victory by beating 152-79 on Thursday Oklahoma city thunder.

The 73-point margin easily surpassed the previous mark, a victory of Cleveland Cavaliers for 68 units about Miami Heat. The Cavaliers defeated the Heat 148-80 on December 17, 1991. Memphis used 12 players and nine of them scored in double digits, led by Jaren jackson jr. and its 27 units. The Grizzlies did not have their best player, the injured Ja morant.

The game came 72-36 at halftime and the Grizzlies continued to extend the lead, which eventually rose to 78.

The Thunder came close to being on the wrong side of that mark last season, trailing 67 points to Indiana on May 1 before coming back, so to speak, and losing by just 57 points, 152-95.

This was worse. Historically worse. The Grizzlies set a franchise record by making 62.5% of their shots. De’Anthony Melton scored 19 points, Santi Aldama added 18 and John konchar he added 17 for the Grizzlies, and none of them started.

No Memphis starters played more than 21 minutes. Lu Dort led the Thunder with 15 points and Oklahoma City made just 33% of their shots.

SPURS 114

TRAIL BLAZERS 83

PORTLAND, Oregon.- Bryn Forbes finished with 18 points off the bench and the San Antonio Spurs extended their winning streak to three, their season record, on Thursday after beating a 114-83 Portland Trail Blazers depleted by the casualties.

Doug McDermott had 16 points and Dejounte Murray had 15 and 13 assists for the Spurs. The loss snapped a 10-win streak for the Blazers at home. CJ McCollum and Norman Powell, who was returning after two games absent due to a hit to the quadriceps in his right leg, were the best of the team with 16 points each.

Portland can’t count on their ace Damian Lillard, who will be out for at least 10 more days due to abdominal tendinopathy.

Anfernee Simons took her place in the starting five, but left the game after spraining her right ankle in the first quarter. RAPTORS 97

BUCKS 93

TORONTO.- Fred VanVleet scored 29 points, Pascal Siakam contributed another 20 and the Toronto Raptors took advantage of the absence of Giannis Antetokounmpo to beat this Thursday 97-93 to Milwaukee bucks, stopping the reigning champions’ eight-win streak.

Antetokounmpo did not play due to a sore right calf one day after scoring 40 points in the win over Charlotte. The two-time NBA MVP was absent for the first time since Nov. 12, when he missed an overtime loss to Boston with a sprained right ankle.

Scottie barnes He scored 13 points and the Raptors added their first win in four games to snap a five-game losing streak at home, their longest since January 2011.

Jrue Holiday scored 26 points, Khris middleton he had 22 and Bobby Portis Jr. finished with 15 and 11 rebounds for the Bucks, who lost for the first time since Nov. 14 against Atlanta. The newly acquired DeMarcus Cousins He didn’t play for Milwaukee. Cousins ​​scored seven points in 15 minutes in his debut for the Bucks on Wednesday.

Gary Trent Jr. returned to starting with Toronto after a two-game absence with a right calf injury, but the forward OG Anunoby (hip) and Khem birch (knee) missed their eighth straight game.

BULLS 119

KNICKS 115

NEW YORK.- DeMar DeRozan scored 34 points, Zach LaVine and Nikola Vucevic added 27 each, and the Chicago bulls clung to a 119-115 victory this Thursday over the New York Knicks.

The three of them were the only Chicago players to score in the fourth quarter, but it was barely enough after the Knicks had erased a 21-point gap to take the lead. DeRozan scored 18 points in the final quarter, including the last six for the Bulls. LaVine had given Chicago the lead with two free throws with 53 seconds left after the game was tied at 111.

Julius Randle he finished with 30 points, 12 rebounds and six assists, but missed a couple of free throws and lost a ball that led to LaVine’s trip to the penalty line. The Knicks hit .500 for the first time this season after a 5-1 start.

Lonzo ball He was three of 14 and two of 10 from 3-point range, but the Bulls overcame it to beat the Knicks for the second time in three games this season. The first two matches were in Chicago.

Alex Burks, Evan fournier and Derrick Rose finished with 16 points each for the Knicks, who did not have the starting forward Rj barrett for a disease. The pivot Nerlens Noel He did not play due to a discomfort in his right knee and the other pivot, Taj gibson, he was expelled in the first quarter.