{"id":522387,"date":"2026-03-14T03:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T03:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/522387\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T03:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T03:00:07","slug":"cavaliers-138-105-mavericks-mar-13-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/522387\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavaliers 138-105 Mavericks (Mar 13, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DALLAS &#8212; \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4432158\/evan-mobley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Evan Mobley<\/a> matched his season high with 29 points, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3908809\/donovan-mitchell\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donovan Mitchell<\/a> had 24 and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/cle\/cleveland-cavaliers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> beat the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/dal\/dallas-mavericks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a> 138-105 on Friday night in the opener of a home-and-home series.<\/p>\n<p>              Mobley had 16 points in the first quarter and was already up to 23 by halftime, the second-highest scoring half of his career. He went 12 for 15 from the field and grabbed seven rebounds while playing just 23 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3992\/james-harden\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Harden<\/a> finished with 17 points, seven rebounds and seven assists for the Cavaliers, who shot 61.5% from the field and were 18 for 38 (47%) from 3-point range.<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/5041939\/cooper-flagg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cooper Flagg<\/a> scored 25 points for the Mavericks, who were coming off a victory in Memphis that snapped an eight-game losing streak. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4278594\/naji-marshall\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Naji Marshall<\/a> had 17 points.<\/p>\n<p>              The Cavs led 38-21 after shooting 60% overall and on 3-pointers in the first quarter. Mitchell then scored 10 points in the second quarter and it was 67-50 at the break, with Mobley 10 for 12. The forward&#8217;s best half was 28 points on Dec. 7, 2024, against Charlotte.<\/p>\n<p>              Mitchell made all five shots and scored 12 more in the Cavs&#8217; 41-point third quarter and Cleveland led by 35 in the final period.<\/p>\n<p>              Cleveland beat Dallas for the seventh straight time.<\/p>\n<p>              Up next&#13;<\/p>\n<p>              The teams meet Sunday in Cleveland.<\/p>\n<p>              &#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>              AP NBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS &#8212; \u2014 Evan Mobley matched his season high with 29 points, Donovan Mitchell had 24 and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-522387","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\/522387","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=522387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}