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2021 NBA Playoffs: Bucks blast Nets despite historic Durant

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20/06/2021

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En one of the best seventh playoff games in living memory, the first with an extension in 15 years, the Bucks beat the Nets 115-111 to advance to the Eastern Finals. But the luck of the tie could change if Kevin Durant would have filed barely a few millimeters in his throw or if his foot had been smaller.

And it is that ‘Durntula’ played the last shot in regular time with 107-109 that the player intended to be a triple winner. “But my fucking foot stepped on the line. I know how close I’ve come to closing the series with that shot“Durant sent the game into overtime and there Wisconsin were better.

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Durant finished with 48 points to be the leading scorer in a seventh game in NBA history. He also had nine rebounds and six assists: “We were lucky that his foot narrowly stepped on the line and scored only two,” Middleton recalled.

Milwaukee took advantage of the second chance that Durant’s shot gave them to prevail in overtime, 2-6 and take home the seventh game. The Bucks took in Giannis Antetokounmpo el lder slido that the Greek was not other times: 40 points and 10 rebounds. He became the fifth player to score 40 + 10 in a seventh game joining Elgin Baylor, Jerry West, Charles Barkley and Tim Duncan.

On the winners, Middleton, who could have sentenced with a triple (which was an airball) just before Durant’s play, contributed 23 points, 10 rebounds and six assists and Brook Lopez he had 19 points and 8 rebounds.

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On the Nets, in addition to Durant, Harden he made 22 + 9 + 9 but 2 of 12 in triples, and Griffin, 17 points and 11 rebounds. Only 8 players played on both teams and, in the case of the Nets, only the starters scored. Durant He played all 53 minutes of the game, something no one did in the playoffs since Jimmy Butler for Chicago in 2014.

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