{"id":349663,"date":"2025-12-15T14:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T14:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/349663\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T14:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T14:05:07","slug":"dyson-daniels-puts-up-season-high-27-in-atlanta-hawks-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/349663\/","title":{"rendered":"Dyson Daniels puts up season-high 27 in Atlanta Hawks’ win"},"content":{"rendered":"

A season-high 27-point haul from Dyson Daniels<\/a> has willed Atlanta past a Paul George<\/a>-inspired Philadelphia for a crucial NBA win.<\/p>\n

The Hawks held off the 76ers 120-117 on Sunday (Monday AEDT) in Atlanta, George’s 35 points on seven-of-10 three point shooting almost dragging the visitors to a comeback win.<\/p>\n

But Australian guard Daniels and his Hawks mates, keen to make up for a 142-115 loss to the struggling Detroit two days earlier, had the answers to improve to 15-12 – good enough for ninth place in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n

Daniels scored four points in a frenetic final 90 seconds that saw the Hawks cling to a one-point lead on back-to-back 76ers possessions.<\/p>\n

Dyson Daniels #5 of the Atlanta Hawks dunks the ball.\u00a0Adam Hagy\/NBAE via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Their shots rattled out and, following a time-out, Nickeil Alexander-Walker<\/a> narrowly avoided a back-court violation as he was fouled and sent to the free-throw line.<\/p>\n

The Hawks guard made both and the hosts – playing without star pair Trae Young<\/a> and Kristaps Porzingis<\/a> – breathed a sigh of relief when Quentin Grimes<\/a>‘ game-tying attempt again rattled out on the buzzer.<\/p>\n

Daniels shot at nearly 70 per cent from the field and added 10 rebounds, four assists, two blocks and a steal, while Jalen Johnson<\/a> (12 points, 12 assists, 10 rebounds) had his fourth straight triple-double.<\/p>\n

Hawks centre Onyeka Okongwu<\/a> (20 points, 15 rebounds, four assists) was stoic in the face of 76ers big Joel Embiid<\/a> (22 points, 14 rebounds).<\/p>\n

It was the Hawks’ seventh straight win against Philadelphia (14-11), dating back to December 2023.<\/p>\n

Boomers star Daniels, who signed a $150 million, four-year contract extension in the off-season, struggled to make an impact offensively early in the campaign.<\/p>\n

But he’s found his touch around the rim in recent games, scoring in double figures in 13 of his past 14 appearances.<\/p>\n

“We’ve been in a lot of close games, we know what to do and that one rattled out, thank god,” Daniels said post-game.<\/p>\n

“We had a double overtime against these guys last time, glad it didn’t go there again.<\/p>\n

“We got smacked last game against Detroit. We wanted to come in and compete and that’s what we did.”<\/p>\n

Josh Giddey<\/a>‘s Chicago Bulls<\/a> fell to 10-15 and lost a fourth straight game at their United Centre home, this time to the lowly New Orleans 114-104.<\/p>\n

The Pelicans, last in the Western Conference, improved to 5-22 behind Trey Murphy’s 20 points and 10 rebounds.<\/p>\n

Giddey scored 11 points to go with seven rebounds and five assists as the Bulls, who ended a seven-game losing streak on Saturday, were blown away in the second quarter and only briefly threatened a comeback early in the fourth term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A season-high 27-point haul from Dyson Daniels has willed Atlanta past a Paul George-inspired Philadelphia for a crucial…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-349663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}