DALLAS (AP) — Luka Doncic had 28 points and 13 assists, Kyrie Irving scored 28 of 30 points in a second-half surge and the Dallas Mavericks advanced to the second round of the playoffs with a 114-101 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers. Doncic pushed through another rough shooting night with his ailing right knee to do what the Slovenian superstar couldn’t three years earlier — close out the Clippers in Dallas in Game 6 of a first-round series. The fifth-seeded Mavericks beat the Clippers for the the first time in three first-round tries over the past five seasons. Dallas will play top-seeded Oklahoma City in the Western Conference semifinals. Paul George had 18 points and 11 rebounds as the Clippers lost in the first round for the second consecutive season.
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