{"id":175382,"date":"2020-10-01T10:08:56","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T08:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=175382"},"modified":"2020-10-01T10:08:56","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T08:08:56","slug":"anthony-davis-scores-34-points-with-9-rebounds-in-nba-finals-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/anthony-davis-scores-34-points-with-9-rebounds-in-nba-finals-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Davis scores 34 points with 9 rebounds in NBA Finals debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Davis ended Gam e 1 of the NBA Finals with 34 points, 9 rebounds, 5 assists and 3 blocks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/30013440\/los-angeles-lakers-anthony-davis-shines-nba-finals-debut-says-job-not-done\">Per ESPN<\/a>, Davis&#8217; Finals debut performance is surpassed only by some all-time greats. Since the NBA-ABA merger (1976-77), only Allen Iverson (48 points), Kevin Durant (36 points) and Michael Jordan (36 points) have scored more points than Davis in their first Finals game.<\/p>\n<p>And when it comes to the Lakers&#8217; storied franchise history, Davis&#8217; 34-point Game 1 performance is behind only Shaquille O&#8217;Neal&#8217;s 43 points and George Mikan&#8217;s 42 points for most points by a player in his Lakers Finals debut.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a great honor to be in that category with those guys,&#8221; said Davis, who made 10 free throws, one fewer than the entire Heat team made in Game 1. &#8220;I mean, they have done so much for the game, Hall of Famers, and for me to come out and perform that way and be mentioned with those guys &#8230; obviously that&#8217;s a great honor, but I also want to be mentioned in categories with champions, so that&#8217;s the next step.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"715\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C4JEoeh833A\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Davis\u2019 historic outing (34 PTS, 9 REB, 5 AST) in Game 1 lifted the Lakers to a 1-0 series lead in the NBA Finals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[92,26],"tags":[2620,509],"rumors":[],"typology":[19],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-175382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","category-serie-a","tag-anthony-davis","tag-los-angeles-lakers","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175382"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=175382"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=175382"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=175382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}