{"id":483941,"date":"2024-06-07T02:20:52","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T06:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=483941"},"modified":"2024-06-07T02:20:52","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T06:20:52","slug":"celtics-trash-mavericks-107-89-in-game-1-of-nba-finals","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/celtics-trash-mavericks-107-89-in-game-1-of-nba-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics trash Mavericks 107-89 in Game 1 of NBA Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kristaps Porzingis didn\u2019t want to predict how he would feel when he is back on the court in the NBA Finals after he missed more than a month with a calf problem.<\/p>\n<p>However, he seemed the same.<\/p>\n<p>Jaylen Brown notched 22 points, Kristaps helped with 20 points from the bench and 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> defeated <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> 107-89 at TD Garden in Boston, MA in Game 1.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">THAT&#39;S ONE \u261d\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DifferentHere?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#DifferentHere<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0PLNoZMIjX\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/0PLNoZMIjX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Boston Celtics (@celtics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/celtics\/status\/1798913341454528894?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 7, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Derrick White scored 15 points for the Celtics, which led by 29 points in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> half and notched 16 times from the 3-point line as they showed that they want and can win the franchise\u2019s 18<sup>th<\/sup> NBA trophy.<\/p>\n<p>The center, who hasn\u2019t played since April 29<sup>th<\/sup>, also had 6 boards and 3 blocks in 21 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGame 1 showed that I\u2019m still a very good basketball player,\u201d Porzingis shared. &#8220;I\u2019m not perfect, but if I play like tonight, I can help Boston to be successful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Superstar <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/jayson-tatum\/\">Jayson Tatum<\/a> had 16 points and 11 boards. Six basketballers notched double-digits for Boston, who host Game 2 at the end of the weekend.<\/p>\n<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> finished with 30 points for the Mavericks, and P.J. Washington had 14 points and 8 boards. Dallas failed to notch more than 24 points in any quarter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&#39;s a block party \ud83c\udf89<\/p>\n<p>JB shut it down on defense in tonight&#39;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DraftKings?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@DraftKings<\/a> Play of the Game <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mUb0FRLMXk\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/mUb0FRLMXk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Boston Celtics (@celtics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/celtics\/status\/1798935533827305558?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 7, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ex-Boston guard <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> finished with only 12 points.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EdLkwOLukak?si=9VlopweccChwTfD0\" 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>Kristaps Porzingis didn\u2019t want to predict how he would feel when he is back on the court in the NBA Finals after he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":483942,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16890,16748,17837],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[18062,17975,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Boston dominated vs. Dallas behind Brown, returning Porzingis.","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\/483941"}],"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=483941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483943,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483941\/revisions\/483943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483941"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=483941"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=483941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}