Anthony Davis had 26 points and 12 rebounds and Max Christie scored 24 points, hitting 4 of 6 3-pointers, as the Mavericks beat the Houston Rockets 110-104 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
The Mavericks snapped a four-game losing streak, which tied their longest of the season. They have won six of their last seven home games, two of those against the Rockets ( 122-109 on Dec. 6 ).<\/p>\n
Dallas saw a 17-point lead early in the fourth quarter shrink to 106-101 with 1:07 to play before Christie, fourth in the NBA shooting 45.9% from downtown, drove in for a dunk.<\/p>\n
Kevin Durant scored 34 points, playing the entire second half with four fouls, to lead the Rockets, who had a four-game winning streak snapped. Amen Thompson had 20 points and 12 rebounds while Tari Eason had 19 points and 10 rebounds.<\/p>\n
Houston center Alperen Sengun left the game only 1:04 into play with a sprained right ankle. Sengun landed awkwardly after grabbing a defensive rebound and fell to the court.<\/p>\n
The Rockets were already playing without reserve big man Steven Adams, who missed his second consecutive game with an ankle sprain.<\/p>\n
The Mavericks also lost a starter early. Forward P.J. Washington Jr. played all 12 minutes of the first period and was then ruled out with a sprained right ankle.<\/p>\n
With Houston’s forecourt shorthanded, the Mavericks outscored the Rockets 66-54 in the paint though the Rockets had 17 offensive rebounds to Dallas’ 2 and outscored the Mavericks 15-0 on second-chance points.<\/p>\n
The Mavericks shot 55.0% to Houston’s 38.7%; the Rockets’ low for the season is 38.6%<\/p>\n
Dallas rookie Cooper Flagg scored 10 points, his fewest since a two-point game in a loss to league-leading Oklahoma City in his fourth game. He shot 3 of 12, scoring two points in the second half.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Rockets: Host Phoenix on Monday.<\/p>\n
Mavericks: Start a three-game road trip on Tuesday at Sacramento.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Davis had 26 points and 12 rebounds and Max Christie scored 24 points, hitting 4 of 6…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[402,760,5050,355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-387411","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-dallas-mavericks","10":"tag-houston-rockets","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}