Ben Simmons has had an evening to overlook in Phoenix, getting ejected early in third quarter after receiving his second technical foul for arguing with a referee within the loss to the Suns.
It marked the 26-year outdated Australian’s first ejection this NBA season.
Brooklyn had been as soon as once more lacking the companies of All Star Kevin Durant (knee) and Simmons’s early departure did little to assist finish their current stoop, a fourth straight defeat confirmed with a 117-112 defeat.
In his 18 minutes on court docket earlier than he was despatched to the locker room, Simmons contributed seven factors, 4 rebounds and 6 assists.
The Nets dropped to 27-17 and fourth within the Eastern Conference standings, having gone 12-1 in December.
Kyrie Irving valiantly led Brooklyn, who made a late push within the fourth quarter after beginning it 20 factors down, with 30 factors.
He had 21 within the ultimate time period alone, backed up by Nic Claxton (20 factors, 11 rebounds), however ran out off steam with the sport within the steadiness.
It was a primary win in 4 video games for Phoenix (22-24) who bought 28 factors out of Mikal Bridges and 24 from Deandre Ayton.
In Boston, Jayson Tatum scored 34 factors with a career-high 19 rebounds, following Al Horford’s time beyond regulation three-pointer with considered one of his personal to assist the Celtics draw back from Golden State to win 121-118.
Jaylen Brown added 16 factors and 9 rebounds, making a triple with 18 seconds left in regulation to ship the sport into OT. Horford had 20 factors, 10 boards and three blocked photographs for the East-leading Celtics (34-12), who misplaced to the Warriors in final season’s Finals in six video games after which misplaced a fourth straight sport to them of their first regular-season matchup in December.
“The fact of the matter is we lost. We lost the championship,” Tatum mentioned.
“We can’t bring that back. We can’t go back in time and change that.
“So we did not have a look at this as a rematch of the finals … It’s only one sport.”
Stephen Curry scored 29 points with Jordan Poole and Klay Thompson both adding 24 for the defending champions, who fell to 22-23 and 5-18 on the road this season for ninth in the West.
Curry wowed the TD Garden crowd at the end of the first half with a buzzer-beater that was officially listed as 50 feet.
The Warriors had the ball with the clock running down, and Curry lined up a three-pointer from the far side of the halfcourt circle.
It swished through the net, giving the Warriors a 55-54 lead.
In Portland, Joel Embiid scored 32 points and Philadelphia stretched their winning streak to four games, all on the road, with a 105-95 victory.
James Harden added 16 points and 14 assists for the 76ers (29-16), who led by as many as 26 points before holding off a late Trail Blazers rally.
Elsewhere, Chicago beat Detroit 126-108 and Minnesota were 128-126 winners over Toronto.
With AP.
