MINNEAPOLIS-. Luka Doncic He felt like a fish in water. She fired shots from every corner, quieted the crowd and smiled as the Mavs They gave a knockout.
Now, one of the young stars of this global sport will travel to the NBA Finals.
Doncic scored 20 points in the first quarter alone and ended up contributing 36, his highest number in this postseason, for the Dallas Mavericks They will crush the 124-103 on Thursday Minnesota Timberwolvessealing his passage.
“He let his teammates know that their time had come and that they had to work a little harder,” Dallas coach Jason Kidd said. “He sent out the invitations and everyone came.”
Kyrie Irving also scored 36 points for the Mavs, who went into halftime with a lead of 29 points by hitting 61% of their shots, to deflate the public’s mood before they could even go for a snack.
Dallas extended the lead to 36 points in the third quarter, without allowing Minnesota’s attack to relax.
“I just had that confidence going to the max last night when I was going to sleep and this morning when I went to shootaround,” Irving. “I felt like we were going to play one of our best games.”
Thus, the Mavericks won 4-1 in the Western Conference final. They will have a full week off before June 6, when the NBA Finals begin in Boston. Dallas, fifth seed in the West, will appear in the NBA championship series for the first time since 2011, when it was crowned.
Kidd then played in their ranks.
The Celtics will have rested 10 days between games after sweeping Indiana in the Eastern Conference finals.
Anthony Edwards scored 28 points, while Karl-Anthony Towns added 28 and grabbed 12 rebounds for the Wolves, who were third in the West but ran into the devastating duo of Doncic and Irving, after sweeping Phoenix in the first round of the playoffs and eliminate Denver, the defending champion, in a series that required all seven games.
“We never connected as a team in this series, not even in a game,” Edwards lamented. “In the last two series we were plugged in at the same time, doing the shots and other things. It didn’t work once here.”
Irving improved his career record in playoff series-clinching games to 15-1.
Source: AP
