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In an exciting game, Houston advanced (103-102) thanks to a basket by BJ Tucker with 1.25 minutes remaining. The ball then traveled between the two games before reaching the top scoring session of the night with 30 points, but Harden was in his favor on the lookout. Roberto Covington hit a two-shot free throw for the Rockets, 1.4 seconds before the final whistle, to give him the lead (104-102). Then Harden made a mistake on Italian Danilo Galinari while playing the ball from a throw-in in Oklahoma, giving the Italian a free kick and his team possession of the ball. However, Galinari missed the shot and then turned the ball over to his team to snatch a tough victory from Houston. Harden, the league’s top scorer this season, was satisfied with 17 points in the game, recording five attempts out of 14. After winning, he said: “I couldn’t score attempts, and I lost the ball several times, everything that should have happened. past”. He continued: “But I kept insisting. Defensively, I had to try.”
Eric Gordon and Covington were the Rockets’ top scorers with 21 points each, plus 10 rebounds for the latter, while Russell Westbrook scored 20 points against his former team.
On the Thunder side, Dort was the best with 30 points, while playmaker Chris Paul, who moved to Oklahoma, made a deal with Westbrook before the season started, a triple-double “Triple Double” with 19. points, 12 assists and 11 rebounds.
And meet the Rockets in the semifinal with the Los Angeles Lakers and star LeBron James.
In another afternoon game in Orlando’s “bubble,” the Heat, whose first-game Eastern Semifinal victory over the Bucks League leaders came as a surprise, continued their brilliance and led with a score (2 -0) in the series after a difficult victory (116-114). Greek Yannis Antitokombo, the best player in the league last season, made a mistake on Jimmy Butler with the final whistle when he was shooting towards the basket, to score the free throws and settle the confrontation in Hit’s favor. “I knew I was going to score one in two,” Butler said after the victory. “That was all we needed.”
Seven Heat players have crossed the ten-point threshold, with Goran Draic of Slovenia the best with 23 points. Butler fumbled to give Brooke Lopez an easy basket, cutting the Bucks lead to (111-113), 8.5 seconds before the end. Then Butler hit a free throw from two to give his team the lead (114-111), but Chris Middleton matched the numbers with three successful free throws after he received an error from Dragic when he was shooting from behind the arc. However, the final word came to Butler thanks to an error by Anticombo with the final whistle, which was met with objections from the players and coach Mike Bodenholzer, who confirmed that he was “disappointed” with this decision. He said, “He hit the ball while time was running out, but I think the mistake was made after paying.” He continued: “We will not agree with this decision, but we have to turn our attention to the third game and prepare for it and understand that that is the most important thing now.” Antitokumbo scored 29 points in the game against 14 rebounds, while Middleton added 23 points.
Heat is two wins away from reaching the Eastern District final for the first time since 2014 when LeBron James was still on the team.
Regular league leaders with the best tournament record, Bucks is in trouble for the second year in a row after losing the Eastern Conference final last year to the Toronto Raptors, who went ahead and won the title. Ironically, Milwaukee won its first two games of the series before the Raptors made up for the delay.
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