NBA Dallas, 3 wins first… Jokic vs Doncic Will they meet in the West finals?

East Boston advances to conference finals for 3rd consecutive year.

The first playoff match between Nikola Jokic (Denver) and Luka Doncic (Dallas) is imminent.

The Dallas Mavericks took on the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 5 of the 2023-2024 National Basketball Association (NBA) Playoffs (PO)

Western Conference 2nd round (4 wins out of 7) held at the Paycom Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on the 16th (Korean time).

They won the away game 104-92. 바카라사이트

Dallas, which has 3 wins and 2 losses, will advance to the Western Conference finals for the first time in two years after the 2021-2022 season if it wins one of the remaining 6th and 7th games.

Game 6 between Dallas and Oklahoma City will be held at Dallas’ home game on the 19th.

The other matchup in the second round of the Western Conference is between Jokic’s Denver Nuggets and the Minnesota Timberwolves,

and Denver is ahead with 3 wins and 2 losses until game 5.

If Denver and Dallas advance to the West finals, the two team’s signature players, Jokic and Doncic,

will face each other in the playoffs for the first time.

Nikola Jokic, from Serbia, was selected as the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the regular season this season and received the honor of regular season MVP for the third time in his career.

He also showed a perfect performance in Game 5 against Minnesota on the 15th,

scoring 40 points, 13 assists, and not making a single mistake.

Doncic, from Slovenia, does not have MVP experience yet,

but he was the top scorer in the regular league this season and boasts a record of being selected as an All-Star five times and the 2019 Rookie of the Year.

On this day, in Game 5 against Oklahoma City, he achieved a triple-double with 31 points, 11 assists, and 10 rebounds.

The positions are different, with Jokic being a big man and Luka Doncic being a guard,

but both are from Eastern European countries and have outstanding passing skills that are pleasing to the eyes of fans,

ranking second (Doncic) and third (Jokic) in assists in the regular league this season.

In the regular league rankings, Denver was 2nd and Dallas was 5th.