{"id":481656,"date":"2024-04-07T19:00:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T23:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=481656"},"modified":"2024-04-07T19:02:21","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T23:02:21","slug":"irving-notches-48-as-mavs-defeat-rockets-147-136-after-ot","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/irving-notches-48-as-mavs-defeat-rockets-147-136-after-ot\/","title":{"rendered":"Irving notches 48 as Mavs defeat Rockets 147-136 after OT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/kyrie-irving\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/kyrie-irving\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/kyrie-irving\/\">Kyrie Irving<\/a><\/a><\/a> finished with a campaign-high 48 points, Dante Exum forced OT with a buzzer-beating 3-pointer, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/dallas-mavericks\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/dallas-mavericks\/\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a><\/a> comeback from 22 points behind for a 147-136 win against the Houston Rockets at American Airlines Center in Dallas, TX.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/luka-doncic\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/luka-doncic\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/luka-doncic\/\">Luka Doncic<\/a><\/a><\/a> finished with 37 points, 12 assists, and 9 boards \u2013 1 rebound shy of a triple-double as Dallas took another step toward the 5<sup>th<\/sup> seed in the West.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CAME BACK &amp; WON IT. MAVS WIN!!!!! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Chime?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Chime<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MFFL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#MFFL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dFiHTmXUm3\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/dFiHTmXUm3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dallas Mavericks (@dallasmavs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dallasmavs\/status\/1777104072048337229?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 7, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/dillon-brooks\/\">Dillon Brooks<\/a> notched a campaign-high 29 points, and <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/fred-vanvleet\/\">Fred VanVleet<\/a> added 24 points and 12 assists for Houston, who were eliminated from the playoffs after not being behind until the final 3 minutes of the regular time.<\/p>\n<p>It was 5<sup>th<\/sup> straight defeat for the Rockets after the 11-match winning streak that is evened for the longest in the league this campaign.<\/p>\n<p>With the Rockets leading by 3 with 9 seconds until the end of the match, <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/jabari-smith-jr\/\">Jabari Smith Jr<\/a>. missed 2 free throws. Mavericks were out of timeouts, and Exum gave the ball to Luka. The Slovenian star dribbled toward midcourt and faked a shot before returning the ball to Exum, who scored a 3-pointer to even the game.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DANTE TAKIN&#39; US TO OT \u203c\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BVtEtwQzJw\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/BVtEtwQzJw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dallas Mavericks (@dallasmavs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dallasmavs\/status\/1777098662109184149?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 7, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Dallas dominated in overtime and won 18-7 points.<\/p>\n<p>Houston will welcome the Magic on Tuesday, while Dallas will face the Hornets in Charlotte on the same day to begin a road back-to-back.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X_8WiD4DiC4?si=KGOWkjuCpiFXIixq\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyrie Irving finished with a campaign-high 48 points, Dante Exum forced OT with a buzzer-beating 3-pointer, and the Dallas Mavericks comeback from 22 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":481660,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16748,17044,17837],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17975,18346,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Exum forced overtime with a buzzer-beating 3-pointer in the Texas derby.","video":["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\/481656"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481658,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481656\/revisions\/481658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481656"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=481656"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=481656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}