{"id":282270,"date":"2025-11-14T09:29:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T09:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/282270\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T09:29:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T09:29:18","slug":"jalen-johnson-leads-the-hawks-past-the-jazz-with-a-triple-double-and-a-career-best-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/282270\/","title":{"rendered":"Jalen Johnson leads the Hawks past the Jazz with a triple-double and a career-best effort"},"content":{"rendered":"

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) \u2014 Jalen Johnson<\/a> had 31 points, 18 rebounds, 14 assists and seven steals, leading the Atlanta Hawks<\/a> to a 132-122 victory over the Utah Jazz<\/a> on Thursday night. <\/p>\n

Johnson reached career highs in points and assists in his third career triple-double. <\/p>\n

Playing without Trae Young<\/a>, the Hawks (8-5) have won four straight and made 24 3-pointers, the most by any NBA team this season. <\/p>\n

Onyeka Okongwu<\/a> 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

The Hawks set a franchise record with 15 3-pointers in the first half on 25 attempts, led by Vit Krejci<\/a>\u2019s 5-of-5 shooting from beyond the arc. Krejci made one 3 in the second half and finished with 20 points.<\/p>\n

Lauri Markkanen<\/a> scored 40 points on 15-for-25 shooting. Rookie Ace Bailey<\/a> notched another career best with 21 points and Keyonte George<\/a> added 19 for Utah (4-8), which has yet to post consecutive wins this season.<\/p>\n

Atlanta clinched the game with an 8-0 late run that included steals by Johnson and Nickeil Alexander-Walker<\/a> and was capped by Johnson\u2019s two free throws to make it 127-118 with 3:03 to play.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s 3-pointer.<\/p>\n

The Hawks have found success without many of their most important players. Young has missed two weeks with an MCL sprain and Kristaps Porzingis<\/a> missed Thursday\u2019s game to rest.<\/p>\n

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

The game was delayed more than 10 minutes while arena staff workers repaired one of the baskets.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Atlanta: Finish their four-game road trip at Phoenix on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Jazz: Host Chicago on Sunday.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/p>\n

Matthew Coles, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALT LAKE CITY (AP) \u2014 Jalen Johnson had 31 points, 18 rebounds, 14 assists and seven steals, leading…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-282270","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\/282270","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=282270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}