Tyrese Haliburton scored 26 points, including 1.4 seconds before the excess of overtime, and Indiana Pacers walked to 119-118 victories against Milwaukee Bucks to fold the Eastern Conference quarter-final series in Indianapolis.
Haliburton jumped on the scorer table and raised his arms towards the crowd to celebrate the wild return that won 4-1 in the seven best series. The fourth -seed Pacers has moved into the eastern semifinals and will encounter Cleveland Cavaliers with the top seed at the top.
Indiana followed 118-111 40 seconds before overtime. They closed the game by Haliburton in a 8-0 run behind the three pointers of Andrew Nembhard, a three-point game, and finally a driving order that Haliburton detonated Giannis Anthetokounmpo for a determinant basket.
Antetokounmpo met 30 points, 20 rebounds and 13 assists for Bucks, who played their first matches without the wounded guard Damian Lillard (Achilles). Gary Trent Jr. scored 33 points, including 12 points. Trent made eight 3 points, but he founded the winner of Haliburton’s winning pulley of 10.8 seconds in OT.
Celtics 120, Magic 89
Jayson Tatum won 35 points to help Boston’s first round playoff series Orlando with 5 wins.
Tatum was 16 years old and added eight rebounds and 10 assists, while he made 11 free throw attempts and Celtics completed his first round series in five matches in five consecutive matches. Jaylen Brown added 23 points for Celtics, who left 73-40 Magic behind in the second half.
Despite the 25 points of Franz Wagner, the magic lost the sixth first round series until 2010-11. Paolo Banchero collected 19 points, nine rebounds and six assists.
Nuggets 131, Clippers 115
Jamal Murray scored 24 of 43 points in the second half, and the host Denver pushed Los Angeles to the Western Conference on the 5th game of the quarter -final series.
Denver won the last two matches to get ahead 3-2 in the first round match. The game is in Los Angeles on 6 Thursday night. Murray threw a number that returned the momentum in the third quarter and added 13 more. Nikola Jokic’s 13 points, 12 assists and 10 rebounds-Series for Nuggets never watched.
Los Angeles’s James Harden received 11 points in 9 shots, but Kawhi Leonard’s 20 points, 11 assists and nine rebounds and Ivica Zubac added 27 points. Bogdan Bogdanovic scored 18 points, Kris Dunn 15 and Norman Powell Clippers 12.
Pistons 106, Knicks 103
Cade Cunningham scored 24 points, Ausar Thompson added 22, and each made a clutch to help Detroit’s visit in the last two minutes.
Pistons sent the series back to Detroit for Game 6 on Thursday. Tobias Harris added 17 points and Dennis Schroder contributed 14 to the counter for the pistons with 42.4 percent. Malik Beasley finished with 10 points and Jalen Duren added nine points and 14 rebounds.
OG Anunoby scored 19 points to lead Knicks, who had not prepared a series in his own courts for the first time since he beat Indiana Pacers in the 6th game of the 1999 Eastern Conference Finals. Karl-Anthony Towns and Mikal Bridges finished with 17, but Jalen Brunson was held at 16 in 4 of 16.
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