Dwyane Wade, LeBron James: Top individual Performances of the second round of NBA playoffs (Part-1)
Dwyane Wade
The Miami Heat’s Dwyane Wade played brilliantly through-out the second round of playoffs. Wade averaged 30.2 points, 6.8 rebounds and 4.8 assists per game in all five games of their Conference semi-finals against the Boston Celtics. His performance alone
stood tall against the Celtics. Not only Wade helped the Miami Heat defeat the Celtics in second round of playoffs, but he also led his team to advance further into the Conference finals.
In all five games of second round, Dwyane Wade performed wonderfully especially in the opening game where he posted 38 points. Wade went-on to score in double figures in every game he played in the playoffs. Wade scored 28 points in very next game and helped
his team to win the game 102-91. With this second consecutive win the Miami Heat took 2-0 lead in the best of seven series.
Though the game three went into the favour of Boston Celtics when they defeated the Heat 97-81, but Wade’s performance was still brilliant in that particular game as he scored 23 points, six rebounds and seven assists. Wade scored 151 points in total in
all five games.
LeBron James
LeBron James is currently having an average of 25.5 points per game in this year’s National Basketball Association (NBA) playoffs. With this tremendous overall average in the playoffs, James also had a wonderful average in the second round semi-finals against
the Boston Celtics. James possessed 28.0 points, 8.2 rebounds and 3.6 assists per game.
James proved well his valour against the Celtics in their Conference semi-finals where he helped the Miami Heat defeat the Celtics in their best-of-seven 4-1. James performed consistently in all those games and scored 140 points, 41 rebounds and 18 assists
in total in the second round of playoffs.
Dirk Nowitzki
The Dallas Mavericks’ forward Dirk Nowitzki is performing like no other in this year’s payoffs. His individual performance certainly led his team to the NBA finals where they are competing against the Miami Heat for Larry O’Brien trophy.
Dirk Nowitzki’s consisting average has played a huge role in the Mavericks road to the NBA finals. Currently Nowitzki is playing with an average of 28.1 points per game in these playoffs, but his second round’s average of 25.3 points, 9.3 rebounds and 2.5
assists per game was also proved wonderful for him and for his team in the conference semi-finals.
The Dallas Mavericks played their second round games against the mighty Los Angeles Lakers and came out victorious with great fashion as they defeated the Lakers clean sweeping the best-of-seven series 4-0.
Dirk Nowitzki played and played well in all those four games and scored 101 points, 37 rebounds and 10 assists in total. Nowitzki’s performance remained consistent in all four games, but especially in game three he virtually out-played all the Lakers’ roster
when he scored 32 points and nine rebounds and provided match winning performance to the Dallas Mavericks.
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