The Dallas Mavericks have made it to the NBA finals for the first time since winning the title in 2011. Luka Doncic’s team beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 4-1.
The Dallas Mavericks have reached the finals of the North American professional basketball league NBA for the third time in their club history. There the team will face the Boston Celtics.
Dallas beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 124-103 (69-40) and thus won the final series of the Western Conference 4-1. The team around star players Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving dominated game five of the series, especially in the first half. Doncic and Irving scored 44 points more than Minnesota before the break. In the end, both had 36 points each. That was also the size of the gap in the third quarter. After that, Dallas brought the victory safely over time.
Maxi Kleber scored three points in just under nine minutes. For the 32-year-old from Würzburg, as well as for Doncic, it is the first NBA final. Dallas has only been in the finals twice so far, in the Dirk Nowitzki era. In 2006, the Texans lost to the Miami Heat, but five years later they got their revenge, with current Dallas head coach Jason Kidd as playmaker. Nowitzki, who attends many of the Mavericks’ games, paid tribute to their entry into the finals in a short and clear manner: “Finals!!! Let’s go!” he wrote on X.
The first final game will take place in Boston on Friday night (2:30 a.m. German time). The Celtics, who beat the Indiana Pacers 4-0 in the Eastern Conference final, were the best team of the regular season.
Source: Stern
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