{"id":149927,"date":"2026-02-04T01:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T01:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/149927\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T01:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T01:38:09","slug":"celtics-mavericks-facing-off-in-dallas-nbc-sports-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/149927\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics, Mavericks facing off in Dallas \u2013 NBC Sports Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Celtics get their first look at 19-year-old phenom Cooper Flagg when they visit the struggling Dallas Mavericks on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Flagg, a Maine native selected with the first pick in last year&#8217;s NBA Draft, has been a bright spot lately for a Mavs team that has lost four straight games. The Duke product dropped a career-high 49 points vs. the Charlotte Hornets on Thursday, followed by a 34-point performance against the Houston Rockets on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Celtics are seeking their third consecutive win. They will be without their top bench scorer Anfernee Simons as they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsboston.com\/nba\/boston-celtics\/celtics-trade-anfernee-simons-to-bulls-for-nikola-vucevic-report\/765212\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsboston.com\/nba\/boston-celtics\/celtics-trade-anfernee-simons-to-bulls-for-nikola-vucevic-report\/765212\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">traded the 26-year-old guard<\/a> to the Chicago Bulls in exchange for big man Nikola Vucevic on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Follow our live blog below for score updates, highlights, news, and reaction throughout Tuesday&#8217;s game:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Celtics get their first look at 19-year-old phenom Cooper Flagg when they visit the struggling Dallas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6384,102,104,2582,103,20729],"class_list":["post-149927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-boston-celtics","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-dallas-news","tag-jaylen-brown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}