Resume and Highlights: Thunder 120-114 Mavericks in NBA Season
Thunder beats Mavericks in a very close game that was defined in overtime, Dort had a great night scoring 30 points while Doncic with 40 points could not give the victory to his team.
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The Thunder are coming off one of their best defensive performances of the season as they held the Portland Trail Blazers to just 18 percent shooting from behind the 3-point line and 81 points, the second fewest this season.
Giddey appeared in 14 games (all starts) for the Thunder and averaged 13.3 points, 8.6 rebounds and a team-high 6.1 assists in 33.2 minutes per game. He earns his third consecutive Rookie of the Month award and becomes the first Thunder player to win the honor three times.
The last meeting took place on January 17 in Dallas, where the Thunder rallied from 22 points down before falling 104-102 . Dončić led the Mavs with 20 points and 11 assists, but Dorian Finney-Smith was not far behind with 17 points.
Offensively, the Mavs average the second fewest turnovers of any team in the league while allowing the sixth fewest points off turnovers in the NBA. Defensively, Dallas has been improving as its defensive rating has increased each month and now ranks second in the league.
The Thunder will have the big task of limiting Dallas' leading scorer, Luka Dončić, all night long. The two-time All-Star is averaging 25 points, nine rebounds and nine assists on the season and is coming off a 34-point, 12-rebound, 11-assist performance against Orlando Magic on Sunday.
With his 14-point, 12-rebound performance on Monday, Thunder rookie Josh Giddey recorded his 11th double-double of the season, which set a new record for a Thunder rookie. In addition, Giddey became the league's rookie leader in double-doubles so far this season.
Sterling Brown (left foot soreness), Tim Hardaway Jr. (left foot surgery) and Kristaps Porzingis (right knee bone bruise) will miss tonight's game against the Thunder.
We are back for the rebroadcast of the game between Oklahoma City Thunder vs Dallas Mavericks, Dallas is looking to get back to winning ways after losing their last game, the Thunder is looking for their second consecutive win and try to get closer to the Kings.
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Near downtown Dallas Texas is located the American Airlines Center, home of the Dallas Mavericks, this enclosure was inaugurated in 2001 and has a capacity of 19,200 spectators, the construction was a little controversial since they began to charge taxes in the state in hotels and rental cars to give life to this enclosure.
Luka Doncic, the young player who is attracting attention around the world, has become the main figure of the Mavericks, for this season the Slovenian records: 25.6 points, 8.9 rebounds, 8.9 assists and 1.2 steals, the Mavericks have this great player in their ranks and will surely be fighting in the Playoffs.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, the young player from the University of Kentucky has been responsible for being the team's leading scorer this season, despite not being in one of the best moments, Alexander has this season the mark of: 22.7 points, 4.7 rebounds, and 5.5 assists, with these numbers the player is one of the most productive for the Oklahoma City team.
Thunder and Mavericks have faced each other three times this season with a balance in favor of Mavericks 3-0, the last duels have been very tight, however the first one was more marked the difference, with these results and the general positions of each team, point to the fact that game four will be for Dallas and with this whitewash Oklahoma City Thunder in the series.
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One of the youngest franchises in the NBA is also one of the ten most valuable franchises in the United States, the franchise has managed to stand out despite the fact that the state of Texas has many successful franchises in both NBA and other sports, the team always had high expectations for its fans but could not make that leap in quality, not being a constant in the Playoffs in the 1987-88 season, the team began to show signs of champion in the Playoffs, but the Lakers got in their way and left them out, after that season they went through dark times, by 2011, 5 years after being runner-up to Miami Heat the Mavericks took revenge and won their first NBA title, this being their greatest achievement so far, in the current season they have Luka Doncic Slovenian player who has shown that he can compete with the great figures of the league, currently the Dallas Mavericks are in sixth place with a balance of 29-22 only below Nuggets.
The Thunder history begins in Seattle with the extinct Seattle Supersonics in 1967, being a practically new team at the end of the 70's they won their first and only NBA title, however for the 90's the team achieved record wins in the league but failed in the first round of Playoffs, for the 2007-08 season, the team closed the season with only 20 wins, the team improved economically and was being built, a young James Harden joined the team to share the court with Kevin Durant, as the seasons went by the team was improving economically and athletically, reaching its first final in the 2011-12 season, in which they faced the Miami Heat of LeBron James, which ended with the championship and being MVP of the finals, prior to this season the team lost great players like Chris Paul, Russell Westbrook, Paul George, among other great players, is currently one of the worst teams in the western conference with a negative record of 15-34 and are coming from a victory after seven consecutive losses.
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