The Milwaukee Bucks and Oklahoma City Thunder punched their ticket to the NBA Cup final, defeating the Hawks of French rookie Zaccharie Risacher and the Houston Rockets respectively on Saturday in Las Vegas.
🏆 THE CHAMPIONSHIP IS DONE 🏆
A game to decide who will win the NBA Cup!
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The Bucks won 110-102, while the Thunder won 111-96. The two teams will compete in the final this Tuesday in the city of the game, where the last four of this competition that was created last year will be contested.
Giannis Antetokounmpo (Bucks) and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (Thunder), stars of the competition, scored 32 points each.
Antetokounmpo, the league’s top scorer (32.7 points per game average), had his fifth straight game with at least 30 points, while Gilgeous-Alexander recorded his 13th game of the season with at least 30 points. on the clock.
Gilgeous-Alexander gave a commendable performance with 8 rebounds, 6 assists and 5 interceptions, while for the Bucks, the “Greek Freak” grabbed 14 rebounds, offered 9 assists and made no less than 4 blocks, including a decisive Clint Capela at the end of the game.
“We turn our season around, but we have to continue, because our job was not finished,” answered Antetokounmpo, whose team won only two of the first ten games this season before rising to sixth place (14 wins, 11 losses) .
With 57 games left in the season, “we have to keep playing together and we hope we keep improving,” added the Greek, MVP (best player) in 2019 and 2020.