{"id":10184,"date":"2025-02-03T17:53:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T17:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/nba-round-up-dallas-mavericks-beaten-by-cleveland-cavaliers-hours-after-luka-doncic-trade\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T17:53:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T17:53:50","slug":"nba-round-up-dallas-mavericks-beaten-by-cleveland-cavaliers-hours-after-luka-doncic-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/nba-round-up-dallas-mavericks-beaten-by-cleveland-cavaliers-hours-after-luka-doncic-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA round-up: Dallas Mavericks beaten by Cleveland Cavaliers hours after Luka Doncic trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">The Dallas Mavericks were beaten 144-101 by the Cleveland Cavaliers just hours after Luka Doncic&#8217;s shock trade to the Los Angeles Lakers. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Five-time NBA All-Star Doncic was part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/basketball\/articles\/cvgejglklnko\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">three-way deal<\/a> involving Lakers&#8217; Anthony Davis and Max Christie, who made the move to Dallas but were unable to play in Sunday&#8217;s game at Cleveland. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sam Merrill came off the bench to score nine three-pointers as Eastern Conference leaders Cavaliers cruised to a comfortable victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Evan Mobley scored 22 points with 11 rebounds and Darius Garland finished with 17 points and 10 assists. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Boston Celtics came back from a 26-point, second-half deficit to defeat the Philadelphia 76ers 118-110. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Philadelphia, who were missing Joel Embiid and Paul George through injury, dominated the early stages before defending champions Celtics rallied to outscore the hosts 54-20 in the final 15 minutes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jaylen Brown had 21 points, 10 rebounds and six assists for Boston, while Kristaps Porzingis scored 18 points with seven rebounds. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Celtics, who are second in the Eastern Conference, play the Cavaliers on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Elsewhere, the Detroit Pistons had seven players in double figures, including Cade Cunningham with 22 points, as they defeated the Chicago Bulls 127-119. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">RJ Barrett had 20 points and seven assists as the Toronto Raptors secured a 115-108 victory over the visiting Los Angeles Clippers. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/basketball\/articles\/cp82r2e16xdo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Mavericks were beaten 144-101 by the Cleveland Cavaliers just hours after Luka Doncic&#8217;s shock trade to the Los Angeles Lakers. Five-time NBA All-Star Doncic was part of a three-way deal involving Lakers&#8217; Anthony Davis and Max Christie, who made the move to Dallas but were unable to play in Sunday&#8217;s game at Cleveland. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10186,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10184\/revisions\/10186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}