{"id":281890,"date":"2025-11-14T05:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T05:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/281890\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T05:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T05:18:09","slug":"jalen-johnson-leads-hawks-over-jazz-with-31-point-triple-double","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/281890\/","title":{"rendered":"Jalen Johnson leads Hawks over Jazz with 31-point triple-double"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 Jalen Johnson had 31 points, 18 rebounds, 14 assists and seven steals, leading the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/atlanta-hawks\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"atlanta-hawks\" data-league=\"nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Atlanta Hawks<\/a> to a 132-122 victory over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/utah-jazz\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"utah-jazz\" data-league=\"nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Utah Jazz<\/a> on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson reached career highs in points and assists in his third career triple-double.<\/p>\n<p>Playing without Trae Young, the Hawks (8-5) have won four straight and made 24 3-pointers, the most by any NBA team this season.<\/p>\n<p>Onyeka Okongwu was 8 for 14 from 3-point range after never having made more than four in a game on his way to a career-high 32 points.<\/p>\n<p>The Hawks set a franchise record with 15 3-pointers in the first half on 25 attempts, led by Vit Krejci\u2019s 5-of-5 shooting from beyond the arc. Krejci made one 3 in the second half and finished with 20 points.<\/p>\n<p>Lauri Markkanen scored 40 points on 15-for-25 shooting. Rookie Ace Bailey notched another career best with 21 points and Keyonte George added 19 for Utah (4-8), which has yet to post consecutive wins this season.<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta clinched the game with an 8-0 late run that included steals by Johnson and Nickeil Alexander-Walker and was capped by Johnson&#8217;s two free throws to make it 127-118 with 3:03 to play.<\/p>\n<p>The Hawks led by as many as 18, but the Jazz mounted a comeback and took a 106-103 lead early in the fourth quarter on Markkanen&#8217;s 3-pointer.<\/p>\n<p>The Hawks have found success without many of their most important players. Young has missed two weeks with an MCL sprain and Kristaps Porzingis missed Thursday\u2019s game to rest.<\/p>\n<p>Without a ball-dominant point guard, the Hawks are spreading the ball around and racking up the assists (36 in this one) while they continue to win with a diminished roster.<\/p>\n<p>The game was delayed more than 10 minutes while arena staff workers repaired one of the baskets.<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta: Finish their four-game road trip at Phoenix on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Jazz: Host Chicago on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 Jalen Johnson had 31 points, 18 rebounds, 14 assists and seven steals, leading the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-281890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}