2023-12-13 10:30:57
“NBA”: An exciting victory for the Mavericks over the Lakers… and another expulsion for Green
Slovenian star Luka Doncic continued his fiery performances, leading his team, the Dallas Mavericks, to victory over the Los Angeles Lakers, 127-125, in the NBA, on Tuesday.
According to Agence France-Presse, Doncic was able to score more than 30 points for the eighth game in a row, as he finished the match with 33 points, 17 assists, and 6 rebounds in an exciting confrontation once morest the Lakers, who played their first match since winning the modern competition, the In-Season Cup, on Saturday. .
The two teams exchanged the lead 8 times, while the Lakers overcame a 15-point deficit through a strong performance in the third quarter before taking a four-point lead at the beginning of the fourth.
But Australian Mavericks player Dante Exum shined in the final quarter, scoring 17 points, including five triples, to lead the Mavericks to victory.
Exum finished with 26 points, while Tim Hardaway Jr. added 32 points off the bench.
James was unable to win once more for the Lakers following the In-Season Cup (AP)
On the other hand, Anthony Davis stood out from the Lakers, scoring 37 points following he succeeded in making 15 shots out of 21 attempts, and James added 33 points.
Doncic remained in the match despite suffering an ankle injury in an extremely physical confrontation between the two teams from the Western Region.
The Mavericks raised their tally to 15 victories and 8 defeats, while the Lakers’ tally froze at 14 victories and 10 defeats, in sixth place in the Western Conference.
In another match, Draymond Green faces the risk of being subjected to a new punishment following he was expelled for the third time this season during his team, the Golden State Warriors, loss to the Phoenix Suns, 116-119.
Green, who was previously suspended for five games last month for grabbing French center Rudy Gobert by the neck, was once more eliminated from the match once morest the Suns following a blow he directed with his hand to the head of Bosnian player Jusuf Nurkic.
Devin Booker scored 32 points for the Suns, while the Warriors suffered their sixth loss in a row away from home.
Also, the Denver Nuggets and Chicago Bulls match witnessed the controversial ejection of Serbian Nikola Jokic following the latter objected to the referee during the second quarter of the match, which ended with the Bulls winning 114-106.
In Boston, the Celtics defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers 120-113 to maintain their record without a loss at home. Jason Tatum and Jaylen Brown each scored 25 points, while Latvian center Kristaps Porzingis added 17 points on a night in which the five starting players exceeded the ten-point threshold. However, the leaders of the Eastern Region suffered twice before deciding the result following falling behind by 15 points in the first quarter following a series of missed balls and weak attack.
The Cavaliers led by 10 points following the first quarter, but the Celtics responded strongly by scoring 38 points in the second quarter, reducing the gap to one point at the halftime break. In a match that witnessed the exchange of leads nine times, the Celtics were able to ultimately settle the result following seizing a clear advantage in the middle of the final quarter. Donovan Mitchell was the best scorer for the Cavaliers with 29 points, and Darius Garland added 26. Tatum said following the game: “We started slow, but we gathered our strength and our shots started coming in.”
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