THE NBA playoffs Continue on Tuesday with three games 2, including the return of the Lakers to the action against the Timberwolves after an astonishing defeat of the game 1 at home.
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Here are the results and key dishes for Tuesday matches:
Pacers 123, Bucks 115
A series already animated between the Milwaukee Bucks and the Indiana Pacers intensified on Tuesday.
But The return of Damian Lillard It was not enough for a Milwaukee victory, the Pacers held a Bucks delay rally for a 123-115 victory. The Bucks set up a 13-0 rally in the fourth quarter to reduce a two-point 115-100 Pacers. But the Pacers found their composure to keep the victory.
The series is now traveling to Milwaukee with the Pacers having a 2-0 lead.
Lillard is not limited, but fight on the ground
Lillard has returned to Bucks programming on Tuesday for the first time since March 18 due to deep vein thrombosis in his right calf. He started and did not take his first break before 2:20 am playing at the first quarter on the way to play the allocation of a complete 37 -minute starter. He had trouble after half-time after scoring 11 points in the first half and finished the match with 14 while pulling 4 out of 13 on the field.
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The Pacers, on the other hand, took an advance of 31-16 that the Bucks have never threatened. It was in addition to a 19 -point victory in match 1 in which Indiana led up to 28 points. Each pacers starter marked two figures while Indiana drew 48.9% in the field and 44.4% (16 out of 36) out of 3.
Milwaukee's attack improved after an effort of 98 points in match 1, but not enough to follow the Indiana's effective attack. Doc Rivers must find an adjustment to Milwaukee to avoid digging a 0-3 hole.
Milwaukee Bucks Center Brook Lopez (11) and Indiana Pacers Center Myles Turner (33) are fighting for a rebound in the first half of an NBA basketball eliminatory match in Indianapolis, Tuesday April 22, 2025. (AP photo / Michael Conroy)
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These teams do not love each other
From Celebration of the time of the lady of Halibruton in 2023 to Ball game game a few days later For the Pacers, upsetting the bucks of the last season, there is a lot of bad blood between these two rivals of division.
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He spilled more heaps in the first two games in the series.
Lillard mixed it in match 1 in street clothes in a back and forth heated with Haliburton who prompted Pascal Siakam and Gary Trent Jr. to get involved.
On Tuesday, Lillard struck his first bucket in the series in the first quarter during his first action in more than a month. Haliburton quickly responded with a 3 -point pointer on Lillard's face and had a few words for the goalkeeper from Bucks going down the ground.
A few minutes later, Trent threw Siakam on the ground during a fight for a rebound.
Siakam returned and went to Trent in front of the players and an official intervened. A brief fight ensued, and Trent and Benédict Mathurin d'Insiana were struck by technical faults.
The series had only five quarters and the players were already in the throat of the other.
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Then, in the fourth quarter, Kevin Porter Jr. de Milwaukee caught the foot of Thomas Bryant of Indiana while Bryant ran on the ground, pulling a blatant fault for anti -portive driving.
Then, with 1:22 to play, Lillard and Haliburton exchanged words once again – and unlikely the last.
With at least two games to play in the series, there is a lot of potential so that things can boil.
Match 3 is scheduled for Friday evening (8 p.m. and | Espnu, Nbatv) in Milwaukee.
Thunder 118, Grizzlies 99
JA MORANT said after the Thunder 131-80 coloring in match 1 that “We will never play so badly. “A match later, it is so good, but not as much that Memphis needed in another two -digit Thunder victory.
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Shai Gilegous-Alexander collected 27 points, Jalen Williams had 24 points and Chet Holmgren collected 20 points (plus 11 rebounds and five blocks) in another victory downstream from the OKC. The best that can be said for Memphis is that they prevented it from being worse.
Grizzlies leaves the Payy Center with somewhat intact dignity
Tuesday's match seemed to be heading for another historic beat, with OKC from 23 to the second quarter, but the Grizzlies managed to look like a real team of playoffs in the third, which they won 27-20.
It is really not an excellent sign that we are talking about the way the grizzly greeks looked competitive after seven quarters of basketball, but there is not much to say on a team against thunder. When OKC plays its defense to sign, harassing the competition at three levels and in seven reversals in attack, it is mathematically impossible to beat them.
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Grizzlies showed life, then the Thunder opened the fourth quarter on a 14-2 sequence to remove it. Maybe the Denver Nuggets or Los Angeles clippers will do the next round.
Alex Caruso remains a threat
The Thunder trade for the veteran guard of the last off -season looked like something like a hat on a hat, but it is quite obvious that the Thunder believes that you can never have too many out -of -competition defenders.
Caruso was up to this billing on Tuesday, stifling each threat of perimeter that approached him. The Thunder has outstripped the grizzlewarms by 18 points with it on the ground, the best of all players.
With 13 points on the bench plus four rebounds and three assists, Caruso was the kind of double -meaning asset of which the team of the playoffs needs. Of course, thunder is full.
Match 3 is scheduled for Thursday evening (9:30 p.m. HE | TNT) in Memphis.
