{"id":483064,"date":"2024-05-14T00:39:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T04:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=483064"},"modified":"2024-05-14T00:39:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T04:39:05","slug":"thunder-beat-mavs-100-96-in-dallas-to-tie-the-series-2-2","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/thunder-beat-mavs-100-96-in-dallas-to-tie-the-series-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder beat Mavs 100-96 in Dallas to tie the series 2-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shai Gilgeous-Alexander notched 34 points to lead the Oklahoma City Thunder to a crucial 100-96 victory against 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> at American Airlines Center in Dallas, TX, in Game 4 to even the West \u00bd finals matchup at 2-2.<\/p>\n<p>Gilgeous-Alexander also grabbed 8 boards and had 5 assists to help OKC to even the series and take back the home advantage. Chet Holmgren and Lu Dort scored huge 3-pointers late, and Jalen Williams drove for a dunk and a 94-91 lead with less than 90 seconds on the clock as the Mavericks bench demanded a double-dribble call.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Never quit! \ud83d\ude24\u2070<br \/>Series is even. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Eij6RyOBSm\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Eij6RyOBSm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; OKC THUNDER (@okcthunder) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/okcthunder\/status\/1790235081769902196?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The franchises split a pair on each other&#8217;s venues. Game 5 is Wednesday in OKC.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas\u2019 last opportunity to even come with 10 seconds until the end with only 2 points behind and <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> at the free throw line. However, the Slovenian star missed the 1<sup>st<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Shai tonight:<\/p>\n<p>34 PTS<br \/>8 REB<br \/>5 AST<br \/>2 STL<br \/>2 BLK<\/p>\n<p>Three straight 30-point games. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/H2HY995s1t\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/H2HY995s1t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; StatMuse (@statmuse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/statmuse\/status\/1790234387222573290?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Mavericks blew 14 14-point lead at the beginning of the 2nd half as their offense struggled from there, and OKC returned to win the match.<\/p>\n<p>P.J. Washington led the Mavs with 21 points, while Luka finished with a triple-double &#8211; 18 points, 12 boards, and 10 assists. <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> had his 2<sup>nd<\/sup> single-digit scoring match of the series with 9 points.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1uJONqAXFRY?si=zvX7mGeAX825sOpG\" 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>Shai Gilgeous-Alexander notched 34 points to lead the Oklahoma City Thunder to a crucial 100-96 victory against the Dallas Mavericks at American Airlines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":483065,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16748,17837,16786],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17975,17840,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Oklahoma City with 2nd half comeback to defeat Mavericks.","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\/483064"}],"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=483064"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483067,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483064\/revisions\/483067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483064"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=483064"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=483064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}