This Friday, the Philadelphia 76ers and Dallas Mavericks reopened their respective series in the NBA playoffs following defeating the Miami Heat and Phoenix Suns, respectively.
Joel Embiidprotected by a mask, returned to the lineup of Philadelphia 76ers following missing the first two games of the Eastern Conference semifinal once morest Miami Heat and facilitated the victory of his cast by 99-79 with a double double of 18 points and eleven rebounds.
With the victory on Friday night, the Heat are still ahead in the tie 2-1, but the Sixers have managed to stop the momentum that they had forcefully imposed in the first two games, following taking advantage of the absence of the Cameroonian center, who suffered the rupture of the orbit of the right eye on April 28.
Despite the fact that Embiid arrived at the game at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia following spending almost a week without training, the basketball player was the only player from the two teams who finished the night with a double-double.
The top scorer of the game was the star of the Heat, Jimmy Butler, who had 33 points, nine rebounds and two assists. Only Tyler Herro on the Heat surpassed ten points, who once once more started the game off the bench, scoring 14 points.
On the Sixers, the leading scorers were Danny Green y Tyrese Maxey, who each made 21 points. In addition, James Harden had 17 points, eight rebounds and six assists.
Game 4 of the semifinal will be played on Sunday, also in Philadelphia.
For his part, the Slovenian Luka Doncic sealed a double-double of 26 points and 13 rebounds, in addition to dishing out nine assists, and gave Dallas Mavericks a 103-94 win once morest Phoenix Suns to reopen the Western Conference semifinals (1-2).
On the tightrope, following losing the first two games of the series played in Phoenix, the Mavericks reactivated at home to the rhythm of Doncic once morest a Suns in which Chris Paul, who turned 37 this Friday, did not have his best night and accumulated up to seven turnovers.
Doncic touched the triple-double and was supported by the 28 points, four rebounds and five assists of an excellent Jalen Brunsonwho was decisive following scoring 22 points in total in the first two games.
For the Suns, Paul scored twelve points, with twelve rebounds and four assists, while the best was Jae Crowder, with 19 points, seven rebounds and five assists. Devin Booker had 18 points, two rebounds and six assists, but also had five turnovers on a night in which his team finished with 44% shooting, less than 50% for the first time in these playoffs.
