Hey basketball fans! 🏀 Guess what? The Liaoning Flying Leopards just had an awesome game! They beat the Beikong Royal Fighters 115-100 in Beijing on Wednesday night. 🎉
This win keeps Liaoning in fourth place in the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). If they stay there, they’ll get a special pass called a “bye” in the first round of the playoffs. That means they skip ahead! Cool, right?
In the first quarter, Liaoning’s players were on fire 🔥, scoring lots of three-pointers (that’s when you score from far away and get 3 points!). They ended the quarter with a 29-19 lead.
Players Dez Wells and Fu Hao kept scoring in the second quarter, while Beikong struggled. Beikong didn’t score for two whole minutes! 😳 By then, Liaoning was ahead 35-21.
Beikong had a tough time, especially after they put Grant Riller on the bench (that’s when a player isn’t playing on the court). They made some mistakes and couldn’t stop Liaoning from scoring. After Zhao Jiwei made a three-pointer, Liaoning led by 62-40!
In the second half, Beikong tried to come back. Players like Zhang Fan, Liao Sanning, and Grant Riller attacked Liaoning’s defense. But Liaoning kept scoring easily. When Li Xiaoxu made a three-pointer in the fourth quarter, Liaoning’s lead grew to 97-68. That’s a 29-point lead! 😮
Liaoning won the game, making it their 31st win this season. Zhao Jiwei scored 19 points and reached over 5,000 career points! Way to go! 🏅
In other games, the Qingdao Eagles beat the Shanghai Sharks 119-107. The Shanghai Sharks were winning at first, but after Kenneth Lofton was ejected (that’s when a player has to leave the game), the Eagles took over.
Also, the Shandong Kirin defeated the Xinjiang Flying Tigers 116-79. Shandong’s strong defense helped them win their sixth game in a row!
Basketball is so exciting! Do you have a favorite team or player? Let us know! 🏀💬
Reference(s):
cgtn.com
