{"id":484048,"date":"2024-06-09T23:53:18","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T03:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=484048"},"modified":"2024-06-09T23:53:18","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T03:53:18","slug":"holiday-notches-26-and-celtics-defeat-mavs-to-take-2-0-lead","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/holiday-notches-26-and-celtics-defeat-mavs-to-take-2-0-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday notches 26, and Celtics defeat Mavs to take 2-0 lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jrue Holiday finished with 26 points and 11 boards, and <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/jayson-tatum\/\">Jayson Tatum<\/a> compensated for a low-scoring game with 12 assists and 9 boards as 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> won 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\/\"><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> 105-98 at TD Garden in Boston, MA, to take a 2-0 advantage in the NBA Finals.<\/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>, who was listed as questionable to participate in the match 2 hours before the game, finished with a triple-double \u2013 32 points, 11 assists, and 11 boards \u2013 the 1<sup>st<\/sup> NBA Finals triple-double in Dallas organization history. But the Slovenian failed to score a running floater from 3-point range with 28 seconds left, ending Mavs\u2019 last opportunity at a comeback.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">TWO MORE \u2705\u2705<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\/x8VbCCJBZS\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/x8VbCCJBZS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Boston Celtics (@celtics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/celtics\/status\/1799994877259989471?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 10, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The series continues in Dallas as Game 3 is in 3 days. Mavs must triumph in the upcoming match or in Game 4 at the end of the week to avoid sweep and play again at TD Garden.<\/p>\n<p>Boston triumphed in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> 2 matches in the NBA Finals for the 9<sup>th<\/sup> time. They won the title in the previous 8, and have closed the series before Game 7 in any of them.<\/p>\n<p>Jaylen Brown finished with 21 points, Jayson scored 18, and Derrick White also notched 18 for top-seeded Celtics.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BLOCKED BY WHITE \ud83d\udde3\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Tonight&#39;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DraftKings?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@DraftKings<\/a> Play of the Game was an all-timer. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7FDjJYyK2y\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/7FDjJYyK2y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Boston Celtics (@celtics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/celtics\/status\/1799998877463887995?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 10, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/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> finished with 16 points as he has lost 12 straight matches vs. Boston.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KdsTcOjyIP0?si=jPD1Y0NCzrHENkES\" 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>Jrue Holiday finished with 26 points and 11 boards, and Jayson Tatum compensated for a low-scoring game with 12 assists and 9 boards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":484049,"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 took a 2-0 series lead in the Finals against Dallas.","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\/484048"}],"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=484048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484050,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484048\/revisions\/484050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484048"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=484048"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=484048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}