{"id":395812,"date":"2023-01-25T01:15:17","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T06:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=395812"},"modified":"2023-02-03T10:32:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T15:32:52","slug":"wizards-hang-on-to-defeat-mavericks-for-third-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/wizards-hang-on-to-defeat-mavericks-for-third-straight-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Wizards hang on to defeat Mavericks for third straight win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">Kyle Kuzma had 30 points and made one of two free throws to break a tie with 4.2 seconds remaining, lifting the Washington Wizards to a 127-126 win over the host Dallas Mavericks on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dallas starts with D and so does DUUUUUUUUB \ud83d\udc50<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DCAboveAll?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#DCAboveAll<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ticketmaster?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Ticketmaster<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LbcRkJwvm3\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/LbcRkJwvm3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Washington Wizards (@WashWizards) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WashWizards\/status\/1618099311568621575?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 25, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there was some debate about whether he stepped out, whether he (was) fouled,\u201d Wizards coach Wes Unseld Jr. said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThankfully, fouled. Those types of situations happen fast. You\u2019ve got to make a split-second decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s easy to get excited about one performance. We\u2019ve got along road trip ahead. It could be a catalyst for something, to be a little short-handed, able to compete on the road, an area which we\u2019ve struggled at times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">Luka Doncic had 41 points and 15 rebounds for Dallas while Corey Kispert scored his 1000th career point.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">count it up. <\/p>\n<p>congrats to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/corey_kispert?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@corey_kispert<\/a> for reaching 1k career points \ud83d\ude4c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eaZsRBeSD7\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/eaZsRBeSD7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Washington Wizards (@WashWizards) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WashWizards\/status\/1618084892608286720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 25, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">It was the Mavericks\u2019 first game since sending Rui Hachimura to the Los Angeles Lakers for Kendrick Nunn and draft picks. Nunn was available but didn\u2019t play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">The Wizards opened a five-game trip with a third straight win while Dallas finished a 1-3 homestand with its eighth loss in 11 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">Washington swept the two-game series for the second consecutive season after going 14 years without a sweep of Dallas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">The Wizards visit Houston Rockets next on Wednesday while the Mavericks travel to Phoenix, where Dallas blew a 22-point lead in the second half of a 107-105 loss in the season opener against the Suns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyle Kuzma had 30 points and made one of two free throws to break a tie with 4.2 seconds remaining, lifting the Washington [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":395813,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16748,16747,17235],"news_category":[16706,16715],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Luka Doncic finished with 41 points for Dallas","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395812"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=395812"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=395812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}