{"id":585585,"date":"2026-02-06T05:44:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T05:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/585585\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T05:44:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T05:44:19","slug":"wembanyama-drops-29-as-spurs-beat-mavericks-despite-cooper-flaggs-30-point-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/585585\/","title":{"rendered":"Wembanyama drops 29 as Spurs beat Mavericks despite Cooper Flagg&#8217;s 30-point streak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Wembanyama had 29 points and 11 rebounds, and the San Antonio Spurs overcame rookie No. 1 pick Cooper Flagg&#8217;s fourth consecutive 30-point game in a 135-123 victory over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/sports\/mavericks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-absolute=\"true\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a> on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Flagg scored 32 points to extend his NBA record for consecutive games with at least 30 points by a teenager. The 19-year-old joined Michael Jordan, Bernard King, Allen Iverson and Jalen Green as the only rookies to score at least 30 in four straight games since the NBA-ABA merger in 1976-77. <\/p>\n<p>Dallas lost all four games and is on a six-game losing streak, its longest of the season. <\/p>\n<p>Harrison Barnes was another of seven San Antonio players in double figures with 19 points, and De&#8217;Aaron Fox scored 17 points while pushing through a rough shooting night with two clutch 3-pointers in the fourth quarter. The second came on Wembanyama&#8217;s sixth assist and gave the Spurs a 131-123 lead with 1:24 remaining.<\/p>\n<p>Stephon Castle had 18 points and seven rebounds, the last board coming on his emphatic and punctuating follow dunk for the final points.<\/p>\n<p>Naji Marshall matched Flagg with 32 points for Dallas, and Daniel Gafford had 16 points and 10 rebounds, a few hours after the trade deadline passed without the center leaving in a deal when he was the subject of speculation.<\/p>\n<p>The Mavericks were playing their first game since trading 10-time All-Star Anthony Davis, who had been sidelined for a month with a left hand injury.<\/p>\n<p>Wembanyama made his first five 3-pointers and had 20 points at halftime as the Spurs led by double digits several times but couldn&#8217;t put the Mavericks away until the final two minutes. The 7-foot-4 French star missed his last four 3s and was 9 of 14 from the field.<\/p>\n<p>Flagg did most of his damage after halftime, scoring 22 points as the Mavericks cut a 13-point deficit to one but never could go in front.<\/p>\n<p>These teams play again in San Antonio on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victor Wembanyama had 29 points and 11 rebounds, and the San Antonio Spurs overcame rookie No. 1 pick&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3793],"tags":[7,686,149,4057,78782,166,935,6,474,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-585585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-mavericks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-mavericks","11":"tag-dallasmavericks","12":"tag-de039aaron-fox","13":"tag-mavericks","14":"tag-michael-jordan","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116022101333767895","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}