Sporting will spend the night in isolated leadership of the regular phase of the Basketball League, after the categorical triumph against Imortal (83-64), in the game that opened the last day of the first round of the championship. Os lions They won the four partials, but it was in the third that they definitively took the lead. If the advantage at halftime was seven points (39-32), it expanded to 17 at the end of the third period (61-44), after a 22-12 partial. North American center Brandon Johns stood out again for Sporting, with 22 points and nine rebounds. In the Algarve, the highlight was Keonte Kennedy's 21 points. The triumph allows the Leonine team to reach 20 points in the classification, which now leads alone, with two more points, but also two games played, than Benfica. On Saturday, the 11th round of the regular phase of the League continues, with Benfica and FC Porto visiting Vasco da Gama and Esgueira, respectively. The journey ends on Sunday with Sp. Braga-Ovarense.
