{"id":422331,"date":"2026-01-19T01:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T01:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/422331\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T01:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T01:51:07","slug":"mavericks-notes-christie-thompson-williams-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/422331\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks Notes: Christie, Thompson, Williams, Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Max Christie<\/a> returned to action on Saturday and helped spark a Mavericks victory, writes Eddie Sefko of Mavs.com<\/a>. The 22-year-old guard had missed Dallas\u2019 previous two games because of an illness that has impacted multiple players, Sefko notes.<\/p>\n

Christie finished with 22 points (on 7-of-13) shooting, four assists, two rebounds and two steals and was plus-29 in 26 minutes during Saturday\u2019s 18-point win over Utah.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s one of our best shooters and most athletic guys, so offensively, he helps us there,\u201d head coach Jason Kidd said. \u201cBut we missed him on the defensive end, too. To get him back from illness is good.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe just competes (defensively). He\u2019s one of those guys who can go both ways. He can have an impact on defense, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s more on the Mavs:<\/p>\n

Guard\/forward Klay Thompson<\/a> passed Damian Lillard<\/a> for fourth place on the NBA\u2019s all-time made three-pointers list on Thursday and reached another milestone on Saturday, per Mike Curtis of The Dallas Morning News<\/a>. Thompson, who scored 23 points (on 7-of-11 shooting) in 20 minutes, eclipsed 17,000 career points during the victory. \u201cIt\u2019s been awesome, especially when I shoot the ball well and we win. What a nice combo,\u201d Thompson said of his historic week.
\nBackup guard Brandon Williams<\/a>, who will be a free agent in the offseason, had another productive game, Curtis adds. The 27-year-old finished with 22 points (on 8-of-13 shooting), five assists, four rebounds and two steals and was plus-30 in 28 minutes.
\nWhile his contributions were fairly modest on Saturday (six rebounds, five assists, three points in 21 minutes), veteran wing Caleb Martin<\/a> was coming off his best two-game stretch as a Maverick, averaging 14.5 PPG, 4.5 RPG, 4.5 APG and 3.0 SPG while shooting 83.3% on twos and 60% on threes, Curtis writes in another story<\/a>. The 30-year-old was slowed by a hip injury for several months, but he says he\u2019s feeling much healthier now compared to the start of the season. \u201cJust thinking less. Feeling better,\u201d said Martin, who has started the past two games in place of Cooper Flagg<\/a> (sprained ankle). \u201cJust trying to get as much rhythm as I can. \u2026 I\u2019m one of the guys who tries to impact as much as I can as quick as I possibly can. It\u2019s not always going to be an offensive mindset first coming into the game so just trying to let the game come to me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Christie returned to action on Saturday and helped spark a Mavericks victory, writes Eddie Sefko of Mavs.com.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,222171,60870,14231,23898,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-422331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-brandon-williams-player","12":"tag-caleb-martin","13":"tag-klay-thompson","14":"tag-max-christie","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422331","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=422331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}