{"id":951801,"date":"2026-11-04T02:54:15","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T02:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/951801\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T02:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T02:54:15","slug":"kings-beat-mavericks-for-first-win-as-darius-acuff-jr-scores-25-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/951801\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings beat Mavericks for first win as Darius Acuff Jr. scores 25 \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rookie Darius Acuff Jr. scored 25 points, and the Sacramento Kings won for the first time in seven games this season, beating the Dallas Mavericks 115-100 on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Malik Monk added 24 points, and Zach LaVine had 23 for the Kings, the last NBA team this season to win.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Gafford and Walter Clayton Jr. each had 20 points for Dallas. Cooper Flagg added 17 on 3-of-19 shooting. He did make all 11 of his free throws.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas guard Kyrie Irving sat out to rest his left knee. The Mavericks dropped to 4-3. They had won three in a row.<\/p>\n<p>The Kings led 54-53 at the half.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Kings: Host the Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Mavericks: At San Antonio on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rookie Darius Acuff Jr. scored 25 points, and the Sacramento Kings won for the first time in seven&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":951802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,7235,590,85],"class_list":["post-951801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951801","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=951801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/951802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}