Dyson Daniels scored 19 points on 9-of-13 shooting and Jalen Johnson scored 17 points with 11 rebounds for the Hawks, who at 38-31 are in the thick of the race for a playoff spot.
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Atlanta hasn’t won at least 11 in a row since winning a franchise-record 19 in a row during the 2014-2015 season. Their current streak is tied for the fourth-longest winning streak in club history.
Daniel Gafford came off the bench to lead the Mavericks with 24, PJ Washington had 23 and Cooper Flagg added 17.
The Mavericks have now lost 11 of their last 13 and appear destined for the draft lottery at 23-47.
Atlanta’s Onyeka Okongwo scored the first 10 points of the game and the Hawks never trailed. The score was 67-56 at halftime.
The Mavericks turned the ball over 18 times, seven more than the Hawks.
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Jonathan Kuminga scored a 75-foot basket in the victory, the longest basket by a Hawk in the play-by-play era and the sixth-longest among all players in the play-by-play era since 1997-98, according to Elias Sports. The previous longest basket by a Hawk was a 63-foot bucket by Jason Terry on January 5, 2000.
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Hawks: In Houston on Friday night.
Mavericks: Host the Los Angeles Clippers on Saturday night.
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.