Luka Dončić had 15 of his 33 points in the fourth quarter to lift the Dallas Mavericks to a 108-105 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves in Game 1 of the Western Conference finals on Wednesday night. Kyrie Irving scored 24 of his 30 in the first half for the Mavericks, who trailed 102-98 after a three-pointer by Anthony Edwards with 3:37 left before an 8-0 run the Wolves didn't stop until a tip-in with 10.5 seconds to go.
“I was in a restaurant with my wife when I found out,” PJ Washington tells me. This is surely not the typical NBA player's recounting of the moment he finds out he's been traded. Five years after he was drafted in the first round by the longtime cellar-dwelling Charlotte Hornets, Washington got a call at the trade deadline in February that was life-changing: he was headed home to Texas.
The Minnesota Timberwolves are the favorite according to many analysts heading into the Western Conference Finals. All season long, though, the Dallas Mavericks have made it clear that they do not care what anyone has to say. Dallas believes in their ability to win games and they have consistently upset the odds. PJ Washington does not even consider the Mavs to be the underdog heading into the Western Conference Finals.
No | Player | P |
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13 | PF | |
77 | PG | |
0 | PG | |
3 | SF | |
21 | PF | |
8 | SG | |
10 | SG | |
1 | SG | |
11 | PG | |
55 | SF | |
42 | PF | |
9 | SG | |
2 | C | |
88 | PF | |
7 | C | |
18 | PF | |
25 | PF | |
00 | PG |