{"id":541579,"date":"2026-03-15T08:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T08:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/541579\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T08:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T08:04:17","slug":"hawks-122-99-bucks-15-mar-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/541579\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawks 122-99 Bucks (15 Mar, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

ATLANTA — \u2014 CJ McCollum<\/a> scored 30 points, Jalen Johnson<\/a> had his 12th triple-double of the season and the Atlanta Hawks<\/a> beat the Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> 122-99 on Saturday for their ninth straight victory.<\/p>\n

Johnson finished with 23 points, 12 assists and 10 rebounds as Atlanta extended the longest current winning streak in the NBA. McCollum made seven 3-pointers and moved ahead of Paul Pierce into 16th place on the career list with 2,147.<\/p>\n

Nickeil Alexander-Walker<\/a> had 20 points for the Hawks, who led 60-52 after a first half with six lead changes and four ties. The Hawks then broke it open in the third quarter by outscoring Milwaukee 35-26, with McCollum scoring 11.<\/p>\n

Ryan Rollins<\/a> scored 22 points for the Bucks, who were without Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a> after he sprained his left ankle during Milwaukee\u2019s 112-105 loss<\/a> to Miami on Thursday. Kevin Porter Jr<\/a>. added 18 points, seven rebounds and seven assists. <\/p>\n

Dyson Daniels<\/a> had eight points, seven rebounds, four assists and three steals in his first game back after a one-game absence due to a toe sprain. Jonathan Kuminga<\/a> was ruled out with a knee injury that has kept him sidelined for three of the past four games for the Hawks, whose winning streak began with a 115-104 victory over Brooklyn on Feb. 22. <\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

The Hawks host the Magic on Monday night. <\/p>\n

The Bucks host the Pacers on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA — \u2014 CJ McCollum scored 30 points, Jalen Johnson had his 12th triple-double of the season and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-541579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541579","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=541579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}