RED HOT: Mavs' Luka Doncic Scorches Hawks with 41 First-Half Points

The Dallas Mavericks are tied at 66-66 with the Atlanta Hawks at halftime, and Luka Doncic is going off, finishing with 41 points at the break. Get to your TVs, everyone!

Dalton Trigg | Jan 26, 2024

RED HOT: Mavs' Luka Doncic Scorches Hawks with 41 First-Half Points /

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After losing three consecutive games, Luka Doncic desperately wants his Dallas Mavericks to get back in the win column against Trae Young and the Atlanta Hawks on Friday night.

In the first half, Doncic was red-hot, going off on the Hawks' home floor with 41 points on 16-21 shooting overall, including 5-8 from deep and 4-4 from the free-throw line. The freshly-minted five-time All-Star also had five rebounds and four assists in the first 24 minutes while keeping his team afloat with Kyrie Irving (thumb sprain) out for a second consecutive game.

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Many more points could be on the way, as the Mavs and Hawks were tied at halftime, 66-66. If Dallas is going to end its losing streak, Doncic might have to surpass the 70-point mark or higher. If your TV isn't tuned into this one, we'd encourage you to turn the channel to Bally Sports Southwest or NBA TV as soon as possible.

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Stay tuned to DallasBasketball.com for extensive postgame coverage, including scoring updates on Doncic.

Published Jan 26, 2024

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.