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Victor Wembanyama had 17 points, 14 rebounds and six blocks arsenic nan San Antonio Spurs eliminated nan Portland Trail Blazers and won a playoff bid for nan first clip since 2017.
De’Aaron Fox had 21 points, Julian Champagnie added 19 and Dylan Harper scored 17 for nan Spurs, who led by arsenic galore arsenic 28 successful their 114-95 victory, which secured a 4-1 bid win.
“We didn’t want to spell backmost to Portland,” Champagnie said. “That was benignant of nan accent for nan guys connected nan team. We conscionable didn’t want to alert backmost to Portland. It’s a four-hour flight. So being up 3-1 and playing astatine home, it’s a bully chance to adjacent it retired and not spell back. So, that was each of nan information we needed tonight.”
Wembanyama, nan recently crowned NBA protect subordinate of nan year, was stellar arsenic nan Spurs closed retired nan Blazers connected Tuesday night.
“It’s highly difficult,” Portland coach Tiago Splitter said of Wembanyama’s defense. “You’ve sewage to do a batch of tricks and effort to group backscreens and seals and rotation actions. It’s not easy, because he tin title nan 3 and nan rim astatine nan aforesaid time, basically. He’s going to create a batch of problems for a batch of teams for a agelong time.”
The Spurs will look nan victor of nan bid betwixt nan Denver Nuggets and Minnesota Timberwolves. The Timberwolves lead that bid 3-2, pinch Game 6 scheduled for Thursday.
Philadelphia 76ers 113-97 Boston Celtics
Joel Embiid scored 33 points and added 8 assists arsenic Philadelphia avoided elimination by beating Boston successful Game 5 of their first-round playoff series.
Tyrese Maxey added 25 points and 10 rebounds for nan 76ers, who way 3-2 successful nan best-of-seven series. Philadelphia entered nan 4th fourth down by 1 but outscored nan Celtics 28-11 complete nan last 12 minutes. Boston sewage 24 points and 16 rebounds from Jayson Tatum, and 22 points from Jaylen Brown. The Celtics changeable 3-for-22 from nan level successful nan last period.
Atlanta Hawks 97-126 New York Knicks
Jalen Brunson scored 39 points to assistance New York to triumph complete Atlanta successful Game 5 of their series. The Knicks, who clasp a 3-2 lead successful nan best-of-seven series, sewage 17 points and 10 rebounds from OG Anunoby. New York held a decisive 48-27 separator connected nan boards. Jalen Johnson recorded 18 points, 10 rebounds and six assists for nan Hawks, while Dyson Daniels had 17 points. Atlanta were constricted to 4 fastbreak points.
