{"id":272461,"date":"2021-06-19T23:59:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-19T23:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/giannis-antetokounmpo-scores-40-as-bucks-top-nets-in-epic-game-7\/"},"modified":"2021-06-20T04:15:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-20T04:15:14","slug":"giannis-antetokounmpo-scores-40-as-bucks-top-nets-in-epic-game-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/giannis-antetokounmpo-scores-40-as-bucks-top-nets-in-epic-game-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Giannis Antetokounmpo scores 40 as Bucks top Nets in epic Game 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 40 points, including the tying basket in overtime and Khris Middleton hit the go-ahead shot with 40.7 seconds left as the Milwaukee <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/mlb\/mlb-team-detail\/MIL\/home\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bucks<\/a> pulled out a 115-111 victory over the host Brooklyn Nets Saturday night in Game 7 of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eastern Conference semifinals<\/a>.<\/h1>\n<h2>The Bucks survived a 48-point performance by Kevin Durant, overcame losing the first two games, including a 39-point loss in Game 2 and advanced to the conference finals for the 10th time in team history and second time in three seasons.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>Antetkounmpo capped a 15-for-24 shooting performance by hitting a turnaround hook shot in the lane over Kevin Durant with 72 seconds left and the Bucks took the lead for good when Middleton hit a fadeaway 12-footer just over 30 seconds later.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Following Middleton&#8217;s clutch shot, Durant missed a 10-foot fadeaway with 34.7 seconds left. After Middleton missed a 12-footer with 14.9 seconds left, Durant missed a 23-foot turnaround jumper with three-tenths of a second left and Brook Lopez sealed it at the line.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Nets had taken a 111-109 lead on a putback by Brown 22 seconds into overtime and neither team scored until Antetokounmpo&#8217;s turnaround hook shot over Durant.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Bucks vs Nets EPIC Overtime Game, Bucks Advance | NBA Playoffs Recap | CBS Sports HQ\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mRI7D2BsUEs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The third-seeded Bucks will face Sunday&#8217;s Game 7 winner between the Philadelphia 76ers and Atlanta Hawks in the conference finals.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Nets forced overtime in dramatic fashion after blowing a five-point lead in the final four minutes of regulation. Durant forged a 109-109 deadlock when he hit a well-contested 23-footer over P.J. Tucker with 1.6 seconds left. Officials confirmed via replay that Durant&#8217;s toe was on the 3-point line.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Middleton added 23 points, 10 rebounds and five steals. Brook Lopez chipped in 19 and Jrue Holiday contributed 13 despite 5-for-23 shooting. The Bucks shot 43.9 percent, hit 15 3-pointers and survived Middleton and Holiday going a combined 14-for-49 from the field.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Durant went the distance for the second time in the series. He shot 17 of 36, knocking down four 3-pointers, from the field as the Nets shot 46.4 percent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>James Harden also went the distance in his second back from right hamstring tightness and added 22 points on 5-for-17 shooting as the Nets were without Kyrie Irving (sprained right ankle). Blake Griffin added 17 points and 11 rebounds and Bruce Brown contributed 14 as the Nets lost a Game 7 in <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/mlb\/mlb-team-detail\/BKN\/home\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn<\/a> for the second time since the team moved there (also in 2013, first round against Chicago).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn held a 101-96 lead when Harden banked in a 3-pointer from the left side as the shot clock wound down with four minutes left. Milwaukee tied the game at 101-all on a layup by Antetkounmpo with 2:45 left and took a 104-101 edge on a 3-pointer by Holiday 13 seconds later, but a shot-clock violation set up Durant&#8217;s dramatic shot at the end of regulation.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Field Level Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 40 points, including the tying basket in overtime and Khris Middleton hit the go-ahead shot with 40.7 seconds left as the Milwaukee Bucks pulled out a 115-111 victory over the host Brooklyn Nets Saturday night in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference semifinals. The Bucks survived a 48-point performance by Kevin Durant, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":272218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,103,51],"tags":[557,530],"class_list":["post-272461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brooklyn-nets","category-milwaukee-bucks","category-nba","tag-giannis","tag-khris-middleton"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}