{"id":251312,"date":"2026-04-04T07:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T07:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/251312\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T07:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T07:37:08","slug":"los-angeles-visits-dallas-following-flaggs-51-point-outing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/251312\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles visits Dallas following Flagg’s 51-point outing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> (50-27, third in the Western Conference) vs. Dallas Mavericks<\/a> (24-53, 13th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Dallas; Sunday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Lakers -6.5; over\/under is 235.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Dallas faces the Los Angeles Lakers after Cooper Flagg<\/a> scored 51 points in the Dallas Mavericks’ 138-127 loss to the Orlando Magic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Mavericks are 13-34 against Western Conference opponents. Dallas gives up 119.3 points to opponents and has been outscored by 5.7 points per game.<\/p>\n

The Lakers are 30-17 against conference opponents. Los Angeles ranks eighth in the NBA<\/a> scoring 52.1 points per game in the paint led by LeBron James<\/a> averaging 11.0.<\/p>\n

The Mavericks average 113.6 points per game, 1.4 fewer points than the 115.0 the Lakers allow. The Lakers average 11.9 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.0 fewer made shot on average than the 12.9 per game the Mavericks allow.<\/p>\n

The teams square off for the fourth time this season. The Lakers won the last matchup 124-104 on Feb. 13. James scored 28 points to help lead the Lakers to the win.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Flagg is averaging 20.8 points, 6.6 rebounds and 4.5 assists for the Mavericks. Naji Marshall<\/a> is averaging 15.5 points and 3.7 assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

James is scoring 20.6 points per game and averaging 6.0 rebounds for the Lakers. Austin Reaves is averaging 1.7 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Mavericks: 2-8, averaging 117.8 points, 43.4 rebounds, 26.9 assists, 9.1 steals and 4.3 blocks per game while shooting 45.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 127.9 points per game.<\/p>\n

Lakers: 8-2, averaging 116.9 points, 40.5 rebounds, 23.9 assists, 9.3 steals and 5.4 blocks per game while shooting 51.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 113.3 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Mavericks: Dereck Lively II: out for season (foot), Caleb Martin<\/a>: day to day (foot), P.J. Washington: day to day (illness), Kyrie Irving<\/a>: out for season (knee), Marvin Bagley III<\/a>: day to day (shoulder).<\/p>\n

Lakers: Marcus Smart<\/a>: day to day (ankle), Luka Doncic: out (hamstring).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Lakers (50-27, third in the Western Conference) vs. Dallas Mavericks (24-53, 13th in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[111716,42740,7015,80631,33233,48,52,51,13505,47,50,2497,49,1420,111715,104888,20784],"class_list":{"0":"post-251312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-caleb-martin","9":"tag-cooper-flagg","10":"tag-dallas-mavericks","11":"tag-event_preview","12":"tag-kyrie-irving","13":"tag-la","14":"tag-la-headlines","15":"tag-la-news","16":"tag-lebron-james","17":"tag-los-angeles","18":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","19":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","20":"tag-los-angeles-news","21":"tag-marcus-smart","22":"tag-marvin-bagley-iii","23":"tag-naji-marshall","24":"tag-national-basketball-association"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}