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American Basketball League .. Final of the Lakers for the first time in 10 years.
The Los Angeles Lakers qualified for the NBA Finals for the first time in ten years, at the expense of the Denver Nuggets.
LeBron James scored 38 points, grabbed 16 rebounds and 10 assists, to lead the Los Angeles Lakers to the final with a 117-107 win over the Nuggets in Game 5 of their meeting in the West Division final last night.
Anthony Davis scored 27 points for the Lakers, who reached the league final for the first time since 2010 when they defeated the Boston Celtics in seven games.
The Lakers will meet in the final with the Boston Celtics or the Miami Heat, according to Reuters.
Nikola Jukic scored 20 points and rebounded 7 rebounds for Denver, and Jeremy Grant scored 20 points while Jamal Murray, who suffered a right knee injury during the first half, finished the game with 19 points and 8 assists.
The Lakers won 4-1 in the best game of 7 games.
The Nuggets, third-seeded in the West, were behind 3-1 in the previous two rounds in the knockout rounds against Utah Gas and the Los Angeles Clippers, but the task was difficult for the Lakers, who ranked first in the league. West Division.
The Nuggets cut the lead to 103-99 thanks to a Jukic hat-trick 4 minutes and 35 seconds before the end, but James scored 9 points in a row to secure the Lakers victory.
Source: Sky News
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