{"id":566758,"date":"2026-03-28T14:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T14:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/566758\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T14:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T14:52:09","slug":"bagley-scores-26-points-and-mavericks-snap-a-5-game-skid-in-a-100-93-win-against-trail-blazers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/566758\/","title":{"rendered":"Bagley scores 26 points and Mavericks snap a 5-game skid in a 100-93 win against Trail Blazers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/OTU37TJAOJGBDFLUJMQP42ADKU.jpg\" alt=\"Portland Trail Blazers guard Jrue Holiday (5) shoots as Dallas Mavericks forward Cooper Flagg defends shoot during the second half of an NBA basketball game Friday, March 27, 2026, in Portland, Ore.\" class=\"width_full\" style=\"aspect-ratio:4017 \/ 2678;width:100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Portland Trail Blazers guard Jrue Holiday (5) shoots as Dallas Mavericks forward Cooper Flagg defends shoot during the second half of an NBA basketball game Friday, March 27, 2026, in Portland, Ore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__image-by color_dgray f_s_xxs m-none\">Jenny Kane \/ AP<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Marvin Bagley III scored a season-high 26 points off the bench and Cooper Flagg had 24 to lead the Dallas Mavericks past the Portland Trail Blazers 100-93 on Friday night, snapping a five-game skid. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Naji Marshall had 19 points and five steals for the Mavericks, who had dropped seven of their previous nine games on the road and bounced back from a 142-135 loss at Denver on Wednesday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Bagley, who had his most points since scoring 25 last April, shot 11 of 14 from the field, including 3 of 5 from 3-point range, and had nine rebounds. Flagg had four steals for Dallas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Jrue Holiday scored 23 points and Deni Avdija had 20 points and nine rebounds for the Trail Blazers, who had their two-game winning streak stopped and fell below .500 at 37-38. Portland, which has clinched a playoff spot and is currently in ninth place in the Western Conference, had won five of its previous six to get back to .500 for the first time in over two months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Donovan Clingan had 17 rebounds and six points for the Trail Blazers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">The game was tied at 92 with 2:25 remaining after Holiday made a 3-pointer, but the Mavericks sealed the victory with an 8-1 run to end it. Bagley had a layup and a dunk to start the run and Marshall and Brandon Williams combined to make four free throws. <\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Mavericks: Host Minnesota on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Trail Blazers: Host Washington on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">\u2014<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">AP NBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Portland Trail Blazers guard Jrue Holiday (5) shoots as Dallas Mavericks forward Cooper Flagg defends shoot during the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,183823,82],"class_list":["post-566758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-portland-trail-blazers-trail-blazers-nba-basketball-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566758","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=566758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}