The Pacers are conference finalists and the Thunder put a triumph of advancing

The playoff day on Tuesday night had as highlighted events The passage of the Indiana Pacers to the conference finals of the NBA After beating to Cleveland Cavaliers as a visitor in the fifth game. On the other hand, Oklahoma City Thunderin it Duel between the two great candidates for MVP, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Nikola Jokicexpired at home to Denver Nuggets To put the 3-2 tie up.

The sixth game of the series will be played on Thursday in Denver.

The Indiana Pacers will play for the second year the final of the Eastern Conference of the NBA after defeating the Cleveland Cavaliers on Tuesday, which closed this series for a shocking 1-4.

In the regular season, the Tyrese Haliburton Pacers ended in fourth position. But none of that mattered, because on Tuesday night they sentenced some Cavaliers who had signed a historical campaign (64-18) that allowed them to be first of the conference but that were overwhelmed by a set of Indiana that beat them in the three games played in Cleveland.

To the memory were the triple Haliburton winner with 1.1 seconds in the second game or the beating of the fourth game, in which they were winning 41 points to the break.

It was expected much more in the playoffs of the Cavaliers, but those led by Kenny Atkinson were clearly overcome by the Pacers and also greatly affected physical problems during the Donovan Mitchell, Darius Garland series, Evan Mobley, etc.

Indiana’s rival will be the winner of the semifinal among the Boston Celtics and the New York Knicksthat New York dominated by 3-1. It was known that Jayson Tatum, figure of the Celtics, suffered the breakage of the Achilles tendon In the fourth game of the series, something that the franchise map will undoubtedly change in the present and the future.

The entire titular quintet ended in double scoring digits. Haliburton was brilliant (31 points with 10 of 15 in shots including 6 of 10 in triples), 6 rebounds and 8 assists and had an unbeatable support by Pascal Siakam (21 points and 8 rebounds).

But Andrew Nembhard (18 points and 6 assists), Myles Turner (10 points, 7 rebounds and 4 caps) and Aaron Nesmith (13 points and 13 rebounds) were also fundamental.

The Pacers only put 1 of 8 in triples in the first quarter but in the next three they corrected it with a 14 of 27 (15 of 35 in total). On the contrary, the Cavaliers suffered with a 9 of 35 from the perimeter.

In Cleveland, Mitchell was an unknown for this match for ankle problems and, with more pride than success, ended 35 points (8 of 25 in field shots with 4 of 13 in triples in addition to 15 of 21 from the personnel line) and 9 rebounds.

Fas more physically was a Garland with only 11 points (4 of 16 with 0 of 6 in triples) while Mobley contributed 24 points and 11 rebounds.

Nikola Jokic gave his nth masterpiece but Oklahoma City Thunder survived the Serbian genius, traced to win 112-105 to the Denver Nuggets and stood at a single triumph of the west final (3-2).

After this fabulous and exciting game in Oklahoma with two teams giving everything from beginning to end, the series now returns to Denver for the sixth match, which will be played this Thursday.

For the standards of someone who already codes with the best players in the history of the NBA, Jokic was not especially effective in the last three games. But tonight was very different.

The three -time MVP winner gave a recital with 44 points wearing an impressive success: 17 of 25 in shots with 5 of 7 in triples in addition to 5 of 5 from the personnel line. He also contributed 15 rebounds and 5 assists and played 44 minutes including the second part in full.

Jamal Murray also stood out with 28 points (10 of 27) but the Nuggets wasted a +9 in the absence of 10 minutes in a terrible last quarter in which the gasoline was finished with an final 34-19 against.

Those of David Adelman signed a frightful 5 of 21 in shots (1 of 12 in triples) in the last twelve minutes.

For his part, Shai-Gilgeous Alexander, the favorite to be the heir of Jokic as MVP, led the Thunder with 31 points (12 of 23), 6 rebounds and 7 assists. The base put 10 fundamental points in the last quarter.

Five other local players added 10 or more points: Jalen Williams (18 points and 9 rebounds), Isaiah Hartenstein (15 points and 7 rebounds), Chet Holmgren (14 points and 8 rebounds), Lu Dort (12 points with 4 triples, 3 of them essential in the fourth period) and Alex Caruso (13 points).

The Thunder lost the battle for the rebound (49 for the Nuggets with 16 offensives compared to 43) but marked differences from the triple (12 of 29 compared to the 13 of 46 of Denver).