{"id":483693,"date":"2024-05-31T01:27:11","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T05:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=483693"},"modified":"2024-05-31T01:27:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T05:27:11","slug":"doncic-leads-the-way-for-mavericks-to-beat-minnesota-in-game-5","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/doncic-leads-the-way-for-mavericks-to-beat-minnesota-in-game-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Doncic leads the way for Mavericks to beat Minnesota in Game 5"},"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\/\"><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><\/a><\/a> had a standout performance with 36 points, 10 rebounds, and five assists, 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\/\"><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><\/a><\/a> to a 124-103 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves in Game 5 of the Western Conference finals in Minneapolis. This win secured a 4-1 series victory for the Mavericks, propelling them into the NBA Finals for the first time since their 2011 championship run led by Dirk Nowitzki.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Dallas Mavericks ELIMINATE the Minnesota Timberwolves to ADVANCE to the NBA Finals!<\/p>\n<p>Luka &amp; Kyrie both dropped 36 PTS in G5 \ud83d\udd25 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1eIVhHxMlS\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/1eIVhHxMlS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Basketball Forever (@bballforever_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bballforever_\/status\/1796375170237808698?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 31, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Dallas will face the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/boston-celtics\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/boston-celtics\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/boston-celtics\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/boston-celtics\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/boston-celtics\/\">Boston Celtics<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a> in a seven-game series set to begin on June 6 in Boston. The Celtics, likely favored in the championship series, will present a formidable challenge for the Mavericks.<\/p>\n<p><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\/\"><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><\/a><\/a> also played a crucial role in the Mavericks&#8217; victory, scoring 36 points on 14-for-27 shooting. P.J. Washington added 12 points and seven rebounds to the effort. On the Timberwolves&#8217; side, Karl-Anthony Towns led with 28 points and 12 rebounds, while <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/anthony-edwards\/\">Anthony Edwards<\/a> matched him with 28 points. Despite their impressive regular season and reaching the conference finals for the first time since 2004, Minnesota&#8217;s season came to an end.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\">Your WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS MVP: Luka Don\u010di\u0107.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OneForDallas?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#OneForDallas<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MFFL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#MFFL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZSe5b3UktR\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ZSe5b3UktR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dallas Mavericks (@dallasmavs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dallasmavs\/status\/1796382344334696458?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 31, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead to the finals, Doncic emphasized that the key to winning the championship would be maintaining focus and executing their game plan effectively.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mRUc5sXmlm8?si=v-EsUfQGYzVABtO7\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luka Doncic had a standout performance with 36 points, 10 rebounds, and five assists, leading the Dallas Mavericks to a 124-103 victory over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":483694,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16748,16747,17159],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17975,18115,18338],"acf":{"announce":"Dallas book a spot in the Finals to face Boston Celtics in the battle for the title","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\/483693"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483696,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483693\/revisions\/483696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483693"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=483693"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=483693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}