{"id":210917,"date":"2026-03-19T04:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T04:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/210917\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T04:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T04:33:09","slug":"hawks-beat-mavericks-for-11th-straight-as-dallas-skid-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/210917\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawks beat Mavericks for 11th straight as Dallas skid continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 CJ McCollum scored 24 points, Nickeil Alexander\u2011Walker added 22, and the Atlanta Hawks beat the Dallas Mavericks 135\u2013120 on Wednesday night for their 11th straight win.<\/p>\n<p>Dyson Daniels finished with 19 points on 9\u2011of\u201113 shooting, and Jalen Johnson had 17 points and 11 rebounds for the Hawks, who improved to 38\u201331 as they continue to push for a play\u2011in spot.<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta hasn&#8217;t won at least 11 in a row since its franchise\u2011record 19\u2011game streak in the 2014\u201315 season. The current run is tied for the fourth\u2011longest in team history.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Gafford came off the bench to lead Dallas with 24 points. P.J. Washington scored 23, and Cooper Flagg added 17. The Mavericks have dropped 11 of their last 13 and fell to 23\u201347, putting them on track for the draft lottery.<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta&#8217;s Onyeka Okongwu scored the first 10 points of the game, and the Hawks never trailed, leading 67\u201356 at halftime. Dallas committed 18 turnovers, seven more than Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Kuminga hit a 75\u2011foot shot in the win \u2014 the longest made basket by a Hawk in the play\u2011by\u2011play era and the sixth\u2011longest among all players since 1997\u201398, according to Elias Sports. The previous Hawks record was a 63\u2011footer by Jason Terry on Jan. 5, 2000.<\/p>\n<p>UP NEXT\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hawks: At Houston on Friday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mavericks: Host the Los Angeles Clippers on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 CJ McCollum scored 24 points, Nickeil Alexander\u2011Walker added 22, and the Atlanta Hawks beat the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6387,1770,102,104,2582,103,3080,154],"class_list":["post-210917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-atlanta-hawks","tag-basketball","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-dallas-news","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210917","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=210917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}