{"id":9611,"date":"2025-10-28T07:52:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T07:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/thunder-withstand-furious-mavericks-rally-to-win-101-94-improving-to-4-0\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T07:52:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T07:52:20","slug":"thunder-withstand-furious-mavericks-rally-to-win-101-94-improving-to-4-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/thunder-withstand-furious-mavericks-rally-to-win-101-94-improving-to-4-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder withstand furious Mavericks rally to win 101-94, improving to 4-0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>DALLAS (AP) &mdash; Isaiah Hartenstein had 16 points and 12 points &mdash; and scored Oklahoma City&rsquo;s only two field goals of the final 8:28 &mdash; as the Thunder withstood a furious Dallas rally to beat the Mavericks 101-94 on Monday night to improve to 4-0.<\/p>\n<p>Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 23 points to lead the defending NBA champions. Chet Holmgren had 18 points, 11 rebounds and four blocks.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Davis had 26 points and 11 rebounds for the Mavericks (1-3), playing their fourth straight home game to open the season.<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma City led 93-74 before Dallas went on a 13-0 run before Hartenstein&rsquo;s tip-in gave the Thunder a 95-89 lead with 2:52 to play. The Mavericks pulled within one point on a jumper by D&rsquo;Angelo Russell with 54 seconds left, and Hartenstein answered with a left-handed layup with 33 seconds to play. Gilgeous-Alexander hit two free throws with 21.3 seconds left, and Holmgren added two more with 3.3 left.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas&rsquo; Cooper Flagg, last summer&rsquo;s No. 1 draft pick, had his lowest scoring game with two points on 1 of 9 shooting after suffering an apparent injury to his left shoulder during the game&rsquo;s first possession. Flagg held his non-shooting shoulder multiple times during the first half and had it wrapped when out of the game in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Gilgeous-Alexander went into play leading the NBA averaging 40.0 points, topped by a career-best 55 in a double-overtime win at Indiana last Thursday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>The Mavericks&rsquo; &ldquo;jumbo&rdquo; forecourt was downsized with center Dereck Lively II sidelined with a knee contusion. The Thunder outscored the Mavericks 68-36 in the paint and outrebounded Dallas 55-36.<\/p>\n<h2>Up next<\/h2>\n<p>The Thunder host Sacramento on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Mavericks&rsquo; season-opening five-game homestand, the first in the NBA since the 1983-84 Kansas City Kings, will end Wednesday against Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/NBA<\/p>\n<p>Source<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/migrant-acquitted-in-first-trial-over-us-border-military-zones\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">Migrant acquitted in first trial over US border military zones<\/span><\/a><\/div><p><sub>Thunder withstand furious Mavericks rally to win 101-94, improving to 4-0<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DALLAS (AP) &mdash; Isaiah Hartenstein had 16 points and 12 points &mdash; and scored Oklahoma City&rsquo;s only two field goals of the final 8:28 &mdash; as the Thunder withstood a furious Dallas rally to beat the Mavericks 101-94 on Monday night to improve to 4-0. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 23 points to lead the defending NBA&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/thunder-withstand-furious-mavericks-rally-to-win-101-94-improving-to-4-0\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Thunder withstand furious Mavericks rally to win 101-94, improving to 4-0&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}