Dallas Basketball

Mavs WATCH: Kyrie's Unbelievable Layup Over Wemby - ‘Lucky Shot,’ Says Rookie

In the third quarter of the Dallas Mavericks' Wednesday night matchup against the San Antonio Spurs, Kyrie Irving got an insane layup attempt to go in over 7-5 rookie sensation Victor Wembanyama.

Dalton Trigg

Mavs WATCH: Kyrie's Unbelievable Layup Over Wemby - ‘Lucky Shot,’ Says Rookie
Mavs WATCH: Kyrie's Unbelievable Layup Over Wemby - ‘Lucky Shot,’ Says Rookie /
In this story:

After getting off the a sluggish start in the first quarter, the Dallas Mavericks poured it on the San Antonio Spurs over the next two quarters, turning a 15-point deficit into a 23-point lead heading into the fourth quarter.

Star point guard Kyrie Irving was a huge reason for that Mavs surge, as he tallied 26 points in the first three quarters. During that third quarter, where the Mavs outscored the Spurs by a 32-14 margin, Irving challenged 7-5 rookie sensation Victor Wembanyama in the paint and finished an insane layup over him.

USATSI_22524189
Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports

"Big fella [Wembanyama] just came over and said that was a lucky shot,” Irving said in his postgame interview with Bally Sports Southwest.

For the second consecutive game, the Mavs came out flat against a bottom-dwelling team, but perhaps that is due to the team still getting used to having newcomers Daniel Gafford and P.J. Washington on the roster. Despite those growing pains, it's encouraging that Dallas has been able to continue racking up wins while still trying to figure things out.

If Irving is going to play with this kind of fire for the rest of the season, alongside Luka Doncic playing like an MVP candidate, expect the Mavs to make a big push up the Western Conference standings after the All-Star break.

Luka Doncic's Historic NBA Season: How Many Mavs Wins Can Claim MVP?

Check back into DallasBasketball.com for extensive postgame coverage following the conclusion of Mavs-Spurs.

Published
Dalton Trigg
DALTON TRIGG

Dalton Trigg is the Editor-In-Chief for Dallas Basketball, as well as the Executive Editor overseeing Inside The Rockets, Inside The Spurs, All Knicks, and The Magic Insider. He is the founder and host for the Mavs Step Back Podcast, which is a proud part of the Blue Wire podcast network. Trigg graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi’s College of Business and Economic Development with a bachelor’s degree in entrepreneurship in 2016. After spending a few years with multiple Dallas Mavericks-related blogs, including SB Nation’s Mavs Moneyball, Trigg joined DallasBasketball.com as a staff writer in 2018 and never looked back. At the start of 2022, he was promoted to the EIC title he holds now. Through the years, Trigg has conducted a handful of high-profile one-on-one interviews to add to his resume — in both writing and podcasting. Some of his biggest interviews have been with Mavs owner Mark Cuban, Mavs GM Nico Harrison, now-retired legend Dirk Nowitzki and many other current/former players and team staffers. Many of those interviews and other articles by Trigg have been aggregated by other well-known sports media websites, such as Yahoo Sports, CBS Sports, Bleacher Report and others. You can find Trigg on all major social media channels, but his most prevalent platform is on Twitter. Whether it’s posting links to his DBcom work, live-tweeting Mavs games or merely giving his opinions on things going on with Dallas and the rest of the NBA, the daily content never stops rolling. For any inquiries, please email Dalton@MavsStepBack.com.

Home/News