{"id":484843,"date":"2026-02-23T01:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T01:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/484843\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T01:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T01:55:07","slug":"mavericks-minus-flagg-top-pacers-to-snap-10-game-losing-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/484843\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks, minus Flagg, top Pacers to snap 10-game losing streak"},"content":{"rendered":"

INDIANAPOLIS \u2014 Khris Middleton scored 25 points and P.J. Washington added 23 to lead the Dallas Mavericks over the Indiana Pacers 134-130 on Sunday, snapping a 10-game losing streak.<\/p>\n

Middleton also had seven rebounds and seven assists and was one of six Mavs players to score in double figures. Washington grabbed nine boards, and Marvin Bagley III had 12 points and 11 rebounds.\u00a0Dallas ended its longest slide<\/a>\u00a0since skids of 10 and 15 games in 1997-98, and won for the first time since Jan. 22 against Golden State.<\/p>\n

Dallas rookie and Newport native Cooper Flagg also sat out for the third straight game with a sprained left foot, missing his only appearance in Indianapolis this season.<\/p>\n

All-Star forward Pascal Siakam returned<\/a>\u00a0from a three-game absence and led the Pacers with 30 points while grabbing eight rebounds. Andrew Nembhard had 22 points and 11 assists. Jarace Walker added 18 points, nine rebounds and six assists.<\/p>\n

Kobe Brown scored a career-high 15 as Indiana fell to 0-3 since the All-Star break, losing its first home game since Feb. 3 \u2014 the longest stretch between home games in the franchise\u2019s NBA history.<\/p>\n

The Pacers played without Aaron Nesmith,\u00a0recently acquired Ivica Zubac<\/a>\u00a0and T.J. McConnell because of injuries, and coach Rick Carlisle said before tip-off that injured All-Star guard Tyrese Haliburton is also now suffering from shingles. <\/p>\n

Dallas led most of the game but struggled to put this one away.<\/p>\n

The Mavs led 36-33 after one quarter, 71-66 at halftime and then used a 12-3 third-quarter run to take a 94-84 lead. Indiana closed to 117-114 midway through the fourth but never regained the lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDIANAPOLIS \u2014 Khris Middleton scored 25 points and P.J. Washington added 23 to lead the Dallas Mavericks over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-484843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484843","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=484843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}