Despite 4th-Quarter Rally, Kings Fall To Mavs 105-99

DALLAS (AP) — Luka Doncic made a 36-foot 3-pointer to bushed the changeable timepiece and blunt a precocious Sacramento rally and finished with 23 points successful the Dallas Mavericks’ 105-99 triumph implicit the Kings connected Sunday.

The Kings chopped a 12-point shortage to 92-89 with 4:53 to play. With astir 2 seconds near connected the 24-second clock, Doncic deed the 3 from the rim of the center-court logo aft dribbling the shot disconnected a defender’s ft to determination him backmost down the midcourt line.

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“I’m assured successful each my 3s,” said Doncic, who missed his different six attempts from down the line. “That changeable goes in, but past each my mean shots can’t spell in. I’ve got to enactment connected those mean shots.”

“That was a big-time shot,” Mavericks manager Jason Kidd said. “I deliberation we each cognize helium has that benignant of range.”

“I’d instrumentality our likelihood with him shooting a 40-footer, and helium made it,” Kings manager Luke Walton said. “So, springiness him credit. It was really a bully antiaircraft possession for america up to that point.”

Tim Hardaway Jr. added 16 points to assistance the Mavericks rebound from a 31-point nonaccomplishment successful Denver connected Friday night. Dallas mislaid 3 meetings with Sacramento past season.

“They took attraction of concern each azygous clip they played america past year,” Hardaway said. “We conscionable wanted to bash a large occupation of putting retired ft down.”

Richaun Holmes had 22 points and 13 rebounds for Sacramento, and Harrison Barnes added 15 points. The Kings mislaid for the archetypal clip successful 4 roadworthy games this season.

Doncic changeable 10 for 21 from the level and had 8 rebounds and 10 assists.

The Mavericks were 12 for 37 down the arc, and the Kings 7 for 36.

Maxi Kleber made his archetypal commencement of the play for Dallas successful spot of Kristaps Porzingis, who missed his 3rd consecutive crippled with little backmost tightness. But Kleber — who had 7 points and 5 rebounds successful 7 minutes, strained his backmost precocious successful the archetypal 4th and didn’t return.

RARE FAST START FOR DALLAS

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The Mavericks broke to a 22-7 pb and led 31-22 aft 1 period. That was rather a opposition to the squad that ne'er led aft the opening play successful its archetypal 5 games and was outscored by a corporate 31 points successful those games.

Walton said his squad came retired soft. He turned to a four-guard portion with reserve large antheral Tristan Thompson, who scored 8 points successful the archetypal 4th and finished with 13 points and 5 rebounds.

“Tristan with the remainder of that 2nd portion came successful and astatine slightest got america to backmost to wherever we’d been playing (in erstwhile games),” Walton said, “which is simply a physical, fighting, scrapping benignant of basketball”.

HEY, SMALLS!

With Porzingis retired again and Kleber sidelined aft the archetypal quarter, Ntilikina, Bullock and Sterling Brown were called upon to bolster Dallas’ wrong play.

“All the smalls got excited,” Kidd said. “I recognize Sacramento’s not a large team. Everybody’s going to person to enactment successful helping connected our interior, rebounding. We don’t privation to play similar that each the clip but we recognize that sometimes injuries happen.”

TIP-INS

The Kings came successful averaging 111 points per game, 11th successful the NBA, and were held to their play low. … The Mavericks outscored the Kings 13-1 connected fast-break points. … Doncic picked up his archetypal method foul of the play midway done the 3rd quarter, with Tyrese Halliburton hitting the escaped propulsion and Barnes pursuing with a dunk that gave Sacramento a 60-59 lead, its lone pb of the game. … The Kings sought their archetypal 4-0 roadworthy commencement since moving to Sacramento successful 1985.

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Kings: At Utah connected Tuesday night.

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Mavericks: Host Miami connected Tuesday night.