Four players under the age of 25 scored 30 or more points at the start of the playoffs in the American basketball league NBA on Monday. Most impressive including Donovan Mitchell. The 23-year-old point guard of the Utah Jazz scored 57 points against the Denver Nuggets. This is the third-best line ever shown in a playoff game after Michael Jordan (63 points) and Elgin Baylor (61). But the victory went to the Denver Nuggets with 135: 125 after extra time, in which Jamal Murray made ten of his 36 points for the Nuggets.
Luka Doncic also delivered a statistically impressive performance and came up with 42 points for the Dallas Mavericks – a record for a 21-year-old in his first playoff game of his career. In addition, nine assists and seven rebounds, the 110: 118 against the Los Angeles Clippers, the second best team in the Western Conference, the point guard could not prevent. A sticking point of the game was the suspension of Mavericks star Kristaps Porzingis early in the second half after the second technical foul. At this point, Dallas was still leading by five points.
In the two other duels on the first playoff day in the spectatorless NBA bubble in Orlando, the Boston Celtics and German international Daniel Theis won 109: 101 against the Philadelphia 76ers, defending champions Toronto Raptors defeated Brooklyn Nets 134: 110.
