2023-05-13 10:38:54
American Basketball: The Lakers eliminate the defending champion and the Miami Heat qualify
The Los Angeles Lakers continued its strong performances in the NBA competitions this season, and eliminated its rival, the Golden State Warriors, at dawn on Saturday, in the sixth game of the semi-finals of this season, at a time when the Miami Heat qualified for the final match of the Eastern Province.
The Los Angeles Lakers team outperformed its rival, the Los Angeles Warriors, in the semi-finals of the Western Region (122-101), to end the series (4-2). The legend, LeBron James, was the star of the confrontation, scoring 30 points with 9 rebounds and 9 assists, and added to the winner. Anthony Davis 17 points and 20 rebounds, D’Angelo Russell 19 points, and Austin Reeves 23 points, to set the Lakers up for a meeting against the Denver Nuggets in the final match for this region.
It is noteworthy that since he made his way to the elimination rounds with difficulty through the play-in supplement, the Lakers achieved 7 consecutive victories at home, on the other hand, this is the first time that the Warriors lost in the wonderful era with his distributor Stephen Curry and his coach Steve Kerr that began in 2015, A series in the knockout roles within the western region.
The Warriors reached the league final 6 times in the last 8 years, winning the title four times, and missed the playoffs in 2020 and 2021. Curry scored 32 points in the match, but he succeeded in only 4 attempts out of 14 from behind the arc, and the other veteran star did not succeed, Klay Thompson scored only two hat-tricks from 12 attempts.
In the second match, the Miami Heat team outperformed the New York Knicks (96-92), finished the series (4-2), and qualified for the final match of the Eastern Province. Things were not that clear, but 24 points for the star of the team, Jimmy Butler, and 23 for the pivot player. Bam Adebayo put the Heat on the right track to reach the Eastern Conference Finals for the third time in 4 years.
Miami became the first eighth-ranked team to reach the Eastern Region final since the Knicks in 1999, noting that it eliminated its rivals, the league leaders Milwaukee Bucks, in the first round of the “Playoffs”.
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