{"id":482606,"date":"2024-05-02T00:53:09","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T04:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=482606"},"modified":"2024-05-02T00:53:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T04:53:38","slug":"doncic-notches-35-as-mavs-beat-clippers-to-take-a-3-2-series-lead","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/doncic-notches-35-as-mavs-beat-clippers-to-take-a-3-2-series-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Doncic notches 35 as Mavs beat Clippers to take a 3-2 series lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/luka-doncic\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/luka-doncic\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/luka-doncic\/\">Luka Doncic<\/a><\/a><\/a> notched 20 of his 35 points in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> half and had 10 assists and 7 boards, leading the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/dallas-mavericks\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/dallas-mavericks\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/dallas-mavericks\/\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a><\/a><\/a> to a 123-93 win against the LA Clippers in Game 5 at crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, CA, and a 3-2 lead in their 1<sup>st<\/sup>-round matchup.<\/p>\n<p>Maxi Kleber finished with 5 three-pointers and <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/kyrie-irving\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/kyrie-irving\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/kyrie-irving\/\">Kyrie Irving<\/a><\/a><\/a> scored 14 points for Dallas, who clamped down on Los Angeles defensively and triumph decisively in California for the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> time in the matchup. Mavericks moved to the brink of its 1<sup>st<\/sup>-round postseason matchup win since 2022 and only its 3<sup>rd<\/sup> since triumphing with the National Basketball Association title in 2011.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BACK TO DALLAS. MAVS WIN!!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Chime?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Chime<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OneForDallas?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#OneForDallas<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/V1CcPFgC6m\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/V1CcPFgC6m<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dallas Mavericks (@dallasmavs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dallasmavs\/status\/1785888879633117375?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Luka is competing on a sprained right knee that limited him at times in the matchup, but the Mavs star, without a doubt, got more comfortable and more dangerous as Game 5 went on. Doncic notched 14 points in the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> quarter, while Dallas stretched their lead to 25 and had a 20-point lead into the 4<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Game 6 is Friday in Texas.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">OH MY J\ud83c\udfb1SH <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J8Peq79GJa\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/J8Peq79GJa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dallas Mavericks (@dallasmavs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dallasmavs\/status\/1785881778181615656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Paul George and Ivica Zubac notched 15 points each for Los Angeles, who played their 2<sup>nd<\/sup> consecutive and 3<sup>rd<\/sup> of the matchup without Kawhi Leonard.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6cd0IxV25ik?si=rO3ngPHskB0u2eRo\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luka Doncic notched 20 of his 35 points in the 2nd half and had 10 assists and 7 boards, leading the Dallas Mavericks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":482607,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16748,17188,17837],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17975,18478,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Dallas defeated Los Angeles at crypto.com Arena in Game 5.","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\/482606"}],"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=482606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482608,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482606\/revisions\/482608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482606"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=482606"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=482606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}