{"id":446672,"date":"2026-02-01T06:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T06:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/446672\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T06:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T06:05:08","slug":"amen-thompsons-near-triple-double-lifts-houston-rockets-over-dallas-mavericks-in-thrilling-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/446672\/","title":{"rendered":"Amen Thompson’s near triple-double lifts Houston Rockets over Dallas Mavericks in thrilling finish"},"content":{"rendered":"

HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Amen Thompson<\/a> had 21 points, nine assists and eight rebounds to lead the Houston Rockets<\/a> to a 111-107 victory over the Dallas Mavericks<\/a> on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

An alley-oop dunk by Thompson put Houston up four with under two minutes left before the Mavericks scored the next four points, with baskets from rookie Cooper Flagg<\/a> and Naji Marshall<\/a>, to tie it about a minute later.<\/p>\n

Alperen Sengun<\/a>\u2019s layup put Houston on top with 28.6 seconds left before Flagg missed a shot in the lane on the other end. The Rockets grabbed the rebound and a dunk by Tari Eason<\/a> made it 111-107 with 14.4 seconds remaining. <\/p>\n

A 3-point attempt by Flagg bounced off the rim after that to end it.<\/p>\n

Flagg led the Mavericks with 34 points and 12 rebounds a game after the 19-year-old set the NBA record for points by a teenager with 49 in a loss to Charlotte on Thursday night. Saturday was the fifth game this season with at least 30 points for the No. 1 pick in last year\u2019s draft. <\/p>\n

Jabari Smith Jr.<\/a> added 19 points for the Rockets and Sengun had 14 points and 14 rebounds.<\/p>\n

A 7-2 run by Houston extended the lead to 11 with about seven minutes to go before Klay Thompson<\/a> made consecutive 3-pointers to power a 6-3 run by Dallas that cut the lead to 99-91 midway through the quarter.<\/p>\n

The Mavericks trailed by 10 before Flagg scored all their points in a 6-2 run that got them within 103-97 with 3 1\/2 minutes remaining. Kevin Durant<\/a> made a jump shot for the Rockets after that, but Dallas scored the next six points to cut the lead to 105-103 with two minutes left.<\/p>\n

The Rockets were up by 13 after a 3-pointer by Josh Okogie<\/a> with about 5 1\/2 minutes in the third quarter before the Mavericks used a 13-5 run to cut the lead to 87-82 entering the fourth quarter. <\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Mavericks: Host Boston on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Rockets: At Indiana on Monday night.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

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

Kristie Rieken, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Amen Thompson had 21 points, nine assists and eight rebounds to lead the Houston Rockets…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-446672","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\/446672","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=446672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}