Eastern Finals
The American stud of Cuban kinship Brook Lopez scored 29 points and the Milwakee The Bucks go back to the expiration on Wednesday 108-100 to the Toronto Raptors to get top 1-0 in the final of the Eastern Conference of the NBA.
The veteran Lopez scored one of the best games of his career with a series of 12 of 21 in the shot and contributing at the same time 11 rebounds and a defense in the Spanish Marc Gasol, while the Greek forward Giannis Antetokounmpo was the second highest Scorer of the Bucks, with 24 catches, six assists and very plugs.
Toronto, from the hand of the forward Kawhi Leonard, who scored 31 points and there were nine rebounds, came to command by 13 points and had an advantage of 59-51 and almost 50% of efficiency in triples with 10 of 22 converted, while the Bucks had wet gunpowder with only six of 23 made.
But a partial offensive 8-2 at the start of the third quarter, led by four of point guard Eric Bledsoe, approached Milwaukee, 61-59.
With five to finish that period, Leonard got a run after assists by Gasol and put up, 74-64, in Toronto, which ended the third period with a triple sober the Cazorur Pascal Siakam, leaving seven points up.
By Carlos Guerra and Andrés Argel, Step 9