{"id":117689,"date":"2024-06-11T23:24:39","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T23:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globeecho.com\/ar\/sports\/rewrite-this-title-in-arabic-mavericks-still-massive-long-shots-to-win-the-nba-finals-despite-kristaps-porzingis-injury\/"},"modified":"2024-06-11T23:24:40","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T23:24:40","slug":"rewrite-this-title-in-arabic-mavericks-still-massive-long-shots-to-win-the-nba-finals-despite-kristaps-porzingis-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/sports\/rewrite-this-title-in-arabic-mavericks-still-massive-long-shots-to-win-the-nba-finals-despite-kristaps-porzingis-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"rewrite this title in Arabic Mavericks still massive long shots to win the NBA Finals despite Kristaps Porzingis injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic <\/p>\n<p>\t\tCommercial Content 21+<\/p>\n<p>The Mavericks trail 2-0 in the NBA Finals to the Boston Celtics and their prospects for a comeback seem bleak given historical precedents.<\/p>\n<p>While having a 2-0 lead in the NBA Playoffs, teams are 424-34 to win the series (92.6 percent). <\/p>\n<p>In the NBA Finals specifically, teams are 31-5 when having a 2-0 lead (86.1 percent).<\/p>\n<p>DraftKings has the Celtics at -800 to win the NBA Finals, equating to an 88.89 implied percent chance that they go on to win the NBA Finals. <\/p>\n<p>The Mavericks come in at +550, or a 15.38 implied percent chance to win the NBA Finals as they return home to Dallas. <\/p>\n<p>The odds could be changing slightly, though, as BetMGM initially had the Celtics at -1000 to win the championship before dropping down to -800 after the Kristaps Porzingis injury uncertainty began to trickle out of media day on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Porzingis had said he would play, but the use of the words \u201cmajor injury\u201d is certainly concerning. <\/p>\n<p>In theory, the Mavericks returning home would be a welcomed sight, but the Celtics are impressively 6-0 on the road during these playoffs, with their only two playoff losses coming at home. <\/p>\n<p>Boston is 78-20 combined this season including the playoffs, with a 45-6 record at home and a 33-14 record on the road. <\/p>\n<p>The Mavericks have struggled to get off the ground in the first two games, with guard Kyrie Irving playing far below his previous series playoff standards. <\/p>\n<p>Irving is a combined 13 of 37 from the field and just 28 points through two games. <\/p>\n<p>Betting on the NBA? <\/p>\n<p>The Mavericks guard has comeback down 0-2 in the NBA Finals once before, as a member of the 2016 Cleveland Cavaliers \u2014 the only team to ever comeback from a 3-1 deficit.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021 the Milwaukee Bucks came back from 0-2, preceded only by the 2006 Heat, 1977 Trail Blazers, and 1969 Boston Celtics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Commercial Content 21+ The Mavericks trail 2-0 in the NBA Finals to the Boston Celtics and their prospects for a comeback seem bleak given historical precedents. While having a 2-0 lead in the NBA Playoffs, teams are 424-34 to win the series (92.6 percent).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":117690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-117689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117691,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117689\/revisions\/117691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}