{"id":482577,"date":"2024-05-01T00:55:27","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T04:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=482577"},"modified":"2024-05-01T00:55:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T04:55:45","slug":"bucks-avoid-elimination-with-115-92-win-vs-pacers-in-game-5","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/bucks-avoid-elimination-with-115-92-win-vs-pacers-in-game-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucks avoid elimination with 115-92 win vs. Pacers in Game 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Khris Middleton and Bobby Portis each notched 29 points, and the short-handed <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/milwaukee-bucks\/\">Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> kept their campaign alive by shocking the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/indiana-pacers\/\">Indiana Pacers<\/a> 115-92 at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, WI, in Game 5 of their Eastern Conference 1<sup>st<\/sup>-round postseason matchup.<\/p>\n<p>Bobby had the highest point total of his postseason career and finished also with 10 boards to reestablish himself 2 days after he got ejected from a Game 4 defeat. Khris had his 3<sup>rd<\/sup> consecutive match with at least 25 points and also finished with 12 boards and 5 assists.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">HEADED BACK TO INDY.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FearTheDeer?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#FearTheDeer<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ukp1ZfudWh\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ukp1ZfudWh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Milwaukee Bucks (@Bucks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bucks\/status\/1785522317269090688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Indiana still leads the best-of-7 matchup 3-2 before Game 6 on Thursday at their venue. The Pacers are trying to advance beyond the 1<sup>st<\/sup> round for the 1<sup>st<\/sup> time since 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Bucks, which have never triumphed in a matchup in which it is 3-1, made sure Indiana will not close it at their city tonight. Milwaukee held the Pacers to its lowest point total of the campaign and triumphed without superstars <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/giannis-antetokounmpo\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/giannis-antetokounmpo\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/giannis-antetokounmpo\/\">Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a><\/a><\/a> and Damian Lillard as the fans chanted \u201cMilwaukee in 7\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A big playoff double-double from Big Bob.<\/p>\n<p>29 PTS | 10 REB | 58% FG <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/X9MeSC1Pdj\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/X9MeSC1Pdj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Milwaukee Bucks (@Bucks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bucks\/status\/1785530052458770623?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Giannis hasn\u2019t played this entire matchup as Damian sat out a 2<sup>nd<\/sup> consecutive match after sustaining an Achilles tendon problem in Milwaukee\u2019s 121-118 Game 3 defeat on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f3HPRydbeug?si=3avUdohk4GfQBxok\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khris Middleton and Bobby Portis each notched 29 points, and the short-handed Milwaukee Bucks kept their campaign alive by shocking the Indiana Pacers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":482579,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16971,16726,17837],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[18386,17841,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Middleton and Portis each scored 29 points for Milwaukee\u2019s victory.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482582,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482577\/revisions\/482582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482577"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=482577"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=482577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}