Carmelo Anthony reaches 25000-point milestone as Thunder beat Pistons

On the National Basketball Association list there are four active players in the top 25, with Sacramento Kings wing Vince Carter (24,687 points) ranked 23rd.

The Pistons coach was amused when people questioned whether LeBron James could mesh his skills with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh when that trio joined forced in Miami. Paul George scored 18 points and Steven Adams added 12 points and 10 rebounds for Oklahoma City, which has won 20 of 28 after an 8-12 start.

“That’s a hard situation to kind of be up close and personal with that”, Anthony said.

He finished with 21 points and became the 21st player in National Basketball Association history to hit that mark and just the third active player, joining Dirk Nowitzki and LeBron James.

“We complement each other very well”, George said of Westbrook. “It can be tough as an offensive player to really try to attack”.

“So I hope, you know, and again I know maybe it hasn’t received a lot of attention, but it should because of what he’s done in the game of basketball”.

After the game, George (26 points on just 13 field goal attempts) discovered that he will be joining Westbrook for the 2018 All Star Game in Los Angeles. “Teams are so much faster, we turn the ball over we can’t get back, we can’t get floor balance, and it hurts us on the defensive end”. Detroit limited Oklahoma City to 39 second-half points. It was the latest step for a young team that has struggled at times to maintain big leads. They have lost six straight to drop two games below.500. Andre Drummond led the team with a monster night of 30 points and 24 rebounds, Ish Smith added 14 points off the bench while Tobias Harris chipped in with 13 points on six of 17 shooting. “And obviously, with him going down, we’ve got to be able to figure out and make up for the things he bring to the game defensively and offensively”.

“We were trying to get a balance”, Van Gundy said, according to the Detroit Free Press.