The Suns thus become the first finalists of the playoffs and the Western Conference, where they will have as a rival the winner of the one starring the Utah Jazz and Los Angeles Clippers.
The great offensive game headed by the Greek power forward Giannis Antetokounmpo and the best defense allowed this Sunday to Milwaukee Bucks maintain the leading role in the fourth game of the semifinals of the Eastern Conference before the Brooklyn Nets which are now tied (2-2).
While the Phoenix Suns repeated their perfect display of a complete basketball and again beat the Denver Nuggets in the fourth game to sweep (4-0) the best-of-seven series and become the first finalists of the playoffs and the Western Conference, where they will rival the winner of the one starring the Utah Jazz Y Los Angeles Clippers (2-1).
Antetokounmpo claimed its status as being twice consecutive award of Most Valuable Player (MVP) and helped them win 107-96 over the Nets in the fourth game and the fifth will be played on Tuesday night at the Barclays Center de Brooklyn (New York), where Nets they may have to fight it without two of their “Big Three”.
Because the Nets this Sunday not only lost the game but also the All-Star point guard Kyrie Irving, who suffered a sprained right ankle.
Antetokounmpo was in charge of contributing a double-double of 34 points, 12 rebounds and three assists that left the tall men who scored it and the Bucks were always in control of the actions to overcome the 0-2 disadvantage with which they had reached Milwaukee from New York.
Next to Antetokounmpo, the eaves Khris Middleton, who has found his best level of play, was decisive in the attack of the Bucks. The team of Milwaukee he achieved more balance on Sunday after achieving a suspenseful 86-83 victory in the third match of the tie.
Middleton Y Antetokounmpo combined for 68 points, 79% of the scoring production of the Bucks. That marked the highest percentage of team points a team had combined to score in any NBA playoff game.
The forward holder of the Bucks He finished with 19 points, eight assists, four rebounds and two ball recoveries. While the base Jrue Holiday he reached 14 points and the power forward P.J. Tucker contributed 13 -his best game so far in the playoffs- and guard-forward Bryn Forbes I scored another 10 points with Bucks.
The performance of 13 points of Tucker It came after he scored a total of nine goals in the first three games of this series. The Bucks they scored 16 of 47 3-point attempts after going 20 of 88 from outside the perimeter in the first three games of this series.
While the Nets are involved in the immediate concern of seeing how serious Irving’s injury is and how the star guard evolves James Harden, who missed the fourth consecutive game after suffering a muscle contracture that has also prevented her from competing.
James, a nine-time All-Star and 2018 MVP, has not played since the first minute of Game 1 due to a strain on his right hamstring. Irving was injured midway through the second quarter and did not return, leaving the Nets without the leader in the leadership of the team.
The absence of James and Irving puts even more pressure on the forward Kevin Durant, who has led the Nets this series and finished as the leader by contributing a double-double of 28 points and 13 rebounds. The other player of the Nets Who could overcome the 10-point barrier was Irving, who scored 11, grabbed five rebounds and gave two assists before leaving the field.
If in the duel between Bucks and the Nets There is a close fight, none of that happened in the tie between the Suns and the Nuggets after the team of Phoenix dominated again in the fourth game that they won from visitors by 118-125 to Denver and completed the 4-0 sweep and secured the pass to the finals of the Western Conference for the first time since the 2009-2010 season.
Once again, the figure of the veteran base Chris Paul He shone in a special way by becoming the undisputed leader of the team and of the game by scoring 37 points, with 14 of 19 shots from the field and 9 of 9 from the personnel line, in addition to distributing seven assists.
Along with Paul, the Hispanic guard also dominated the defense of Denver by contributing a double-double of 34 points, 11 rebounds and four assists and also scored 10 of 11 personnel shots. Two more headlines, the forward Mikal Bridges and the jamaican pvot Deandre Ayton finished with 14 and 12 points, respectively, to complete the list of the four players of the Suns that had two-digit numbers.
While the Nuggets this time they had the forward Will Barton as his leading scorer by scoring 25 points, his best mark in the playoffs this season, but without being a winning factor, nor could he prevent the elimination of the team from Denver.
Neither was the double-double of the Serbian pvot Nikola Jokic, the current Most Valuable Player (MVP) in the league, who finished with a double-double of 22 points, 11 rebounds and four assists.
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