{"id":412544,"date":"2026-01-16T06:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T06:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/412544\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T06:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T06:25:07","slug":"klay-thompson-moves-up-3-point-list-as-cooper-flagg-less-dallas-mavericks-cruise-past-utah-jazz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/412544\/","title":{"rendered":"Klay Thompson moves up 3-point list, as Cooper Flagg-less Dallas Mavericks cruise past Utah Jazz"},"content":{"rendered":"

DALLAS (AP) \u2014 Klay Thompson<\/a> matched his season high with six 3-pointers and moved into fourth place on career list, scoring a season-best 26 points to help the Dallas Mavericks<\/a> beat the Utah Jazz<\/a> 144-122 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

The Mavericks (16-26) played without rookie star Cooper Flagg<\/a> after he sprained his left ankle Wednesday night in the first half of a home loss to Denver.<\/p>\n

Thompson has 2,809 3-pointers, passing Damian Lillard<\/a> (2,804) on the career list. Stephen Curry<\/a> is the leader, followed by James Harden<\/a> and Ray Allen, who had 2,973. Thompson shot 10 for 18 overall and had a season-high six assists.<\/p>\n

The teams \u2014 both coming off losses Wednesday night \u2014 will meet again Saturday in Dallas.<\/p>\n

Naji Marshall<\/a> added 22 points to help Dallas improve to 16-26. The Mavs had season highs in points and 3-pointers (19) against the team that allows the most points (127.0) and 3-pointers (15.6) in the NBA.<\/p>\n

Brice Sensabaugh<\/a> scored 27 points for Utah as the Jazz dropped to 14-27. Scoring leader Lauri Markkanen<\/a> sat out for the second consecutive game because of illness.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

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

The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS (AP) \u2014 Klay Thompson matched his season high with six 3-pointers and moved into fourth place on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-412544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412544","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=412544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}