Quite unexpectedly, the Charlotte Hornets basketball players are still on a winning streak, and on the night from Thursday to Friday, they won their eighth consecutive victory in the NBA league, defeating Houston away 109-99.
Charlotte is currently in tenth place in the Eastern Conference standings and is among the teams that will qualify for the play-in at the end of the season. Kon Knueppel led Charlotte with 24 points, while LaMelo Ball scored 20 points with four assists and four rebounds.
Great numbers meant little to Houston Kevin Durant who scored 31 points with five steals and six turnovers. Alperen Sengun scored only seven points for the hosts with five successful passes and nine rebounds.
LA Lakers have overcome in front of their fans Philadelphia 119-115, but the bad news for the club from Los Angeles is the injury of the Slovenian basketball player Luka Doncic. At the end of the first half, Dončić left the game limping and holding onto his left thigh muscle. It is not yet known how serious his injury is.
Final stats 📊
AR: 35 pts, 5 rib, 2 dc
LeBron: 17 pts, 4 reb, 10 ast
Rui: 14 pts, 7 rib
Jake: 14 pts, 2 ast, 3 stl pic.twitter.com/gwZ5piLif6— Los Angeles Lakers (@Lakers) February 6, 2026
Austin Reaves was unstoppable and the main player of the Lakers with 35 points, 5-8 for three-pointers and six rebounds, while LeBron James added 17 points and 10 assists.
Joel Embiid led Philadelphia with 35 points, seven assists, seven rebounds and two blocks, and Tyrese Maxey scored 26 points with 13 assists. Philadelphia lost the game after a five-game winning streak.
Washington’s surprise
The surprise of the evening is the victory Washingtonone of the weakest teams in the league Detroitthe leading team in the East, with 126-117. Already the first quarter and 34-21 of the visitors from the capital hinted at the final result, and although Detroit threatened until the end, it failed to avoid its thirteenth defeat of the season.
Will Riley was Washington’s leading scorer with 20 points, and added five assists and six rebounds. Sharife Cooper added 18 points with five assists. A very good game for Detroit was played by its best player Cade Cunningham. He scored 30 points with eight assists and eight rebounds, but it was too little for the host. Croatian basketball player Dario Šarić is not with the team and did not play for Detroit.
He registered his sixth defeat in a row Dallas. In the Texas showdown San Antonio won at Dallas 135-123 with 29 points from Victor Wembanyama. To that, he added 11 rebounds, six assists, three blocks and two steals. All players from San Antonio’s top five scored double-digit points, and the visitors shot over 50 percent from the field.
At Dallas, they scored 32 points each Cooper Flagg and Naji Marshalland both made six jumps each.
Brandon Ingram scored 33 points with six assists and six rebounds for the home celebration Toronto against Chicago from 123-107. Golden State, without Stephen Curry and previously injured Jimmy Butler, beat Phoenix 101-97 away from home, without their best player Devin Booker.
NBA results:
Detroit – Washington 117-126 (Dario Saric did not play for Detroit)
Orlando – Brooklyn 118-98
Atlanta – Utah 121-119
Toronto – Chicago 123-107
Houston – Charlotte 99-109
Dallas – San Antonio 123-135
LA Lakers – Philadelphia 119-115
Phoenix – Golden State 97-101
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