NBA playoffs: Luka Dončić leads 17-point Mavericks comeback to finish off Thunder

D’Angelo Russell

The Dallas Mavericks are headed to their second Western Conference finals with Luka Dončić, primarily thanks to Dončić.

The Slovenian star led his team to a 17-point comeback to finish off the Oklahoma City Thunder in six games, winning 117-116 on Saturday against the top seed in the Western Conference. Dallas will face the winner of the Game 7 between the Minnesota Timberwolves and Denver Nuggets on Sunday.

Dončić finished the game with 29 points on 9-of-15 shooting with 10 rebounds and 10 assists, the seventh playoff triple-double of his career and his third in a row. The other big contributors were Derrick Jones Jr., with 22 points on 8-of-13 shooting, and Kyrie Irving, who also had 22 on 9-of-23 shooting.

While inefficient, Irving improved his record in closeout games to 14-0, the best mark in NBA history.

The Thunder spent nearly the entire game with the lead, and a late second-quarter run put them up
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