{"id":270063,"date":"2020-09-27T07:47:31","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T11:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=270063"},"modified":"2020-09-27T07:47:31","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T11:47:31","slug":"lakers-clinch-nba-finals-berth-after-ousting-denver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/09\/27\/lakers-clinch-nba-finals-berth-after-ousting-denver\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers clinch NBA Finals berth after ousting Denver"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_237947\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-237947\" style=\"width: 755px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/photo-1532040683343-edbde6dd500d.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-237947\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/photo-1532040683343-edbde6dd500d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"755\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/photo-1532040683343-edbde6dd500d.jpg 755w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/photo-1532040683343-edbde6dd500d-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 755px) 100vw, 755px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-237947\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Lakers went berserk late in the fourth quarter, going on a deciding 12-4 run to pull away from the Nuggets. (File Photo by Ramiro Pianarosa on Unsplash)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Los Angeles Lakers clinched the first seat in the National Basketball Association Finals after knocking out the Denver Nuggets, 117-107, in Game 5 of the Western Conference Finals at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando on Sunday (Philippine Time).<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers went berserk late in the fourth quarter, going on a deciding 12-4 run to pull away from the Nuggets.<\/p>\n<p>LeBron James made 14 of his 38 points in the pivotal final frame while adding 16 rebounds and 10 assists for the Lakers, who won their best-of-seven series, 4-1.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Davis added 27 points, five rebounds, three assists, one block, and two steals.<\/p>\n<p>Jerami Grant and Nikola Jokic each scored 20 markers for the Nuggets, whose historic playoff run that saw them coming back from 1-3 deficits twice to steal a series came to an end.<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers will meet either the Miami Heat or the Boston Celtics in the NBA Finals.<\/p>\n<p>Miami, up 3-2 against Boston, has another chance at clinching the Eastern Conference title on Monday (Philippine Time).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The Los Angeles Lakers clinched the first seat in the National Basketball Association Finals after knocking out the Denver &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":237947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","mauthors-ivan-stewart-saldajeno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270064,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270063\/revisions\/270064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}