{"id":207942,"date":"2026-03-17T06:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T06:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/207942\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T06:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T06:49:08","slug":"atlanta-visits-dallas-after-alexander-walkers-41-point-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/207942\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta visits Dallas after Alexander-Walker’s 41-point performance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Atlanta Hawks<\/a> (37-31, eighth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Dallas Mavericks<\/a> (23-46, 13th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Dallas; Wednesday, 8:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Atlanta visits the Dallas Mavericks after Nickeil Alexander-Walker<\/a> scored 41 points in the Hawks’ 124-112 win over the Orlando Magic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Mavericks are 14-20 in home games. Dallas ranks second in the Western Conference with 53.2 points per game in the paint led by Cooper Flagg<\/a> averaging 11.2.<\/p>\n

The Hawks are 18-15 in road games. Atlanta is 6-7 in one-possession games.<\/p>\n

The Mavericks are shooting 46.8% from the field this season, 0.5 percentage points lower than the 47.3% the Hawks allow to opponents. The Hawks average 117.8 points per game, 0.4 fewer than the 118.2 the Mavericks allow.<\/p>\n

The teams play for the second time this season. The Hawks won the last meeting 124-112 on March 10, with Alexander-Walker scoring 29 points in the win.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Flagg is averaging 20.2 points, 6.6 rebounds and 4.5 assists for the Mavericks. Naji Marshall<\/a> is averaging 12 points and 3.3 assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Onyeka Okongwu<\/a> is scoring 15.8 points per game and averaging 7.8 rebounds for the Hawks. Alexander-Walker is averaging 20.3 points and 2.6 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Mavericks: 2-8, averaging 106.1 points, 46.5 rebounds, 25.4 assists, 6.7 steals and 4.6 blocks per game while shooting 43.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 119.7 points per game.<\/p>\n

Hawks: 10-0, averaging 122.9 points, 49.9 rebounds, 30.5 assists, 10.1 steals and 4.6 blocks per game while shooting 48.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 104.8 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Mavericks: Dereck Lively II: out for season (foot), Daniel Gafford: out (illness), Caleb Martin: out (foot), Klay Thompson: out (rest), Kyrie Irving<\/a>: out for season (knee), Brandon Williams<\/a>: day to day (head).<\/p>\n

Hawks: None listed.<\/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":"Atlanta Hawks (37-31, eighth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Dallas Mavericks (23-46, 13th in the Western Conference) Dallas;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6387,31207,4642,102,104,2582,103,64550,4641,31208,16585,73495,81590],"class_list":["post-207942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-atlanta-hawks","tag-brandon-williams","tag-cooper-flagg","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-dallas-news","tag-event_preview","tag-kyrie-irving","tag-naji-marshall","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-nickeil-alexander-walker","tag-onyeka-okongwu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207942","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=207942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}