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David Sherman | France Media Agency
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The Denver Nuggets and Los Angeles Clippers achieved tight victories this Monday at the start of the first round of the NBA Playoffs, while Donovan Mitchell and Luka Doncic they starred in historic performances that could not prevent the defeats of their Jazz and Mavericks.
Mitchell, the star of the Utah Jazz, scored 57 points in the overtime loss to the Nuggets (135-125), a figure only surpassed in a playoff game by the legendary Michael Jordan and Elgin Baylor.
Nuggets point guard Jamal Murray challenged Mitchell with a spectacular second half and overtime for a total of 36 points and 9 assists, while Serbian center Nikola Jokic scored 29 points and grabbed 10 rebounds.
The record for scoring in a Playoffs game is still held by Michael Jordan with the 63 points he achieved with the Chicago Bulls in the first round against the Boston Celtics in 1986, also with overtime.
The other score higher than Mitchell’s is Elgin Baylor’s 61 points, who reached this mark in the Los Angeles Lakers uniform in the 1962 finals also against the Boston Celtics.
In his turn, Doncic set a new record for precociousness in his blazing career, inscribing his Playoff debut in the NBA history books.
At 21 years old, the Slovenian point guard scored 42 points, the highest figure ever reached by a debutant in a postseason game, to which he added 9 assists and 7 rebounds, which were not enough to prevent the defeat of his Dallas Mavericks in the first game of the series against Los Angeles Clippers por 118 a 110.
The Clippers, whose stars Kawhi Leonard and Paul George scored 29 and 27 points respectively, took advantage of the early dismissal of the other Mavericks star, Latvian Kristaps Porzingis, for two rigorous false techniques early in the third quarter.
Comfortable debut for Celtics and Raptors
In the other games of the first day of the Playoffs, the Boston Celtics they took the first assault before Philadelphia 76ers by 109 to 101 with 32 points and 13 rebounds from his All-Star forward Jayson Tatum.
At 22, Tatum became the youngest player in the history of the Celtics – the NBA’s most successful franchise – to add more than 30 points and 10 rebounds in a Playoff game.
Decimated by the injury loss of their Australian figure Ben Simmons, the 76ers entrusted their dominant center Joel Embiid, who finished with 26 points and 16 rebounds, but could not put Boston in real trouble.
For their part, Toronto Raptors they beat by a comfortable 134 to 110 the Brooklyn Nets, with 30 points and 11 assists from the point guard Fred VanVleet.
For the Nets, who have many casualties at Disney World, center Jarrett Allen had 15 points and 12 rebounds and guard Caris LeVert stayed at 15 points.
The second games of all these series will be played on Wednesday.
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