{"id":180761,"date":"2026-03-06T13:48:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/180761\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T13:48:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:48:24","slug":"magic-beat-mavericks-115-114","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/180761\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic beat Mavericks 115-114"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Wendell Carter Jr.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OrlandoMagic\/status\/2029747652728930586\" rel=\"nofollow\">made a go-ahead dunk<\/a>\u00a0with 1.4 seconds left, and the Orlando Magic beat the Dallas Mavericks 115-114 on Thursday night to spoil Cooper Flagg&#8217;s return from injury.<\/p>\n<p>Flagg&#8217;s three-point play with 37.3 seconds left gave Dallas a four-point lead, but Orlando scored the last five points. Jalen Suggs hit a 3-pointer with 32.2 seconds left, and after Flagg missed a jumper, Suggs fed Carter in the paint for the decisive slam.<\/p>\n<p>Tristan da Silva led the Magic with 19 points. Suggs finished with 17 points and seven assists, Paolo Banchero had 16 points and 12 rebounds, and Carter scored 15.<\/p>\n<p>Flagg scored 18 points on 7-of-22 shooting in 26 minutes. The top pick in the NBA draft and the league&#8217;s highest-scoring rookie, he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mavericks-flagg-magic-e99d6c9040d493c0b2938747c311c3e3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">had missed the previous eight games<\/a>\u00a0with a sprained left foot.<\/p>\n<p>Klay Thompson scored 24 points for the Mavericks, coming off the bench to make seven 3-pointers. Khris Middleton scored 10 of his 19 points in the fourth quarter, but the Mavericks lost for the 15th time in 17 games.<\/p>\n<p>Flagg had five rebounds and six assists and blocked four shots. His first basket, a putback early in the fourth quarter, put him above 1,000 points in his 50th career game.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ESPNInsights\/status\/2029716391717167446\" rel=\"nofollow\">The 19-year-old joined Michael Jordan and Luka Doncic<\/a>\u00a0as the only players since the 1976 NBA-ABA merger with 1,000 points, 300 rebounds and 200 assists in his first 50 games, per ESPN Insights.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas played without Brandon Williams, who has a left quad contusion.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Mavericks: At Boston on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Magic: At Minnesota on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Wendell Carter Jr.\u00a0made a go-ahead dunk\u00a0with 1.4 seconds left, and the Orlando Magic beat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2205,28,139,141,1239,140,1240,110],"class_list":{"0":"post-180761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-associated-press","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-orlando","11":"tag-orlando-headlines","12":"tag-orlando-magic","13":"tag-orlando-news","14":"tag-professional-basketball","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}