Stephon Castle’s 40-point triple-double propelled the San Antonio Spurs to a fourth straight NBA victory on Saturday with a 138-125 win over the reeling Dallas Mavericks.<\/p>\n
In addition to a career-high in points, Castle grabbed 12 rebounds and handed out 12 assists, coming up with three steals and a blocked shot for good measure.<\/p>\n
The 2025 Rookie of the Year became at 21 the third-youngest player to record a 40-point triple-double, behind LeBron James and Luka Doncic. He joined Hall of Famer David Robinson as the only Spurs players with 40-point triple-doubles.<\/p>\n
Castle was brutally efficient, connecting on 15 of his 19 shots to help the Spurs post their second win in three days over the Mavs, who have lost seven straight.<\/p>\n
Devin Vassell added 17 points and Victor Wembanyama had 16 points and 11 rebounds for the Spurs, who led 81-67 at halftime.<\/p>\n
Klay Thompson led the Mavericks with 19 points while sensational rookie Cooper Flagg finished with 14 — ending his streak of four games with 30 or more.<\/p>\n
Flagg didn’t play in the fourth quarter, with Mavs coach Jason Kidd saying after the game that the 19-year-old was battling a stiff back.<\/p>\n
Castle reached 40 points with a put-back dunk midway through the fourth quarter that put San Antonio up 129-108.<\/p>\n
“It felt good, but more importantly it felt good to do that knowing we were going to get the win as well,” he said.<\/p>\n
– Rockets silence Thunder –<\/p>\n
The Houston Rockets, fueled by Alperen Sengun’s triple-double and some timely baskets from superstar Kevin Durant, rallied to beat the short-handed NBA champion Thunder 112-106 in Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n
Houston trailed by as many as 15 in the second quarter against a Thunder team missing reigning NBA Most Valuable Player Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, who is out through the All-Star break with an abdominal injury<\/p>\n
But they chipped away to take the lead in the third period and held on down the stretch to snap a two-game losing streak.<\/p>\n
Durant, bottled up in a first half that saw him attempt just three shots, finished with 20 points on 6-of-10 shooting.<\/p>\n
Turkish center Sengun scored 17 points with 12 rebounds and 11 assists and added three steals and three blocked shots.<\/p>\n
Tari Eason led Houston’s scoring with 26 points as all five Rockets starters finished with at least 16.<\/p>\n
Cason Wallace scored 23 points to lead the Thunder, who still boast the league’s best record at 40-13.<\/p>\n
A milestone night for Nikola Jokic helped the Denver Nuggets bounce back from a double-overtime loss to the New York Knicks with a 136-120 victory over the Bulls in Chicago.<\/p>\n
Jokic scored 22 points, grabbed 14 rebounds and handed out 17 assists, his 182nd career triple-double moving him past Oscar Robertson for second on the all-time list headed by Russell Westbrook’s 207.<\/p>\n
Charlotte’s Miles Bridges scored 26 points and rookie Kon Knueppel added 23 as the Hornets posted their ninth straight victory with a 126-119 win over the Hawks in Atlanta.<\/p>\n
The Hornets’ streak is the longest active streak in the league and the club’s longest since they won nine in a row in 1999.<\/p>\n
In Los Angeles, LeBron James scored 20 points with seven rebounds and 10 assists to lead the Lakers to a 105-99 victory over the Golden State Warriors.<\/p>\n
Moses Moody led the Warriors with 25 points in a California clash that lost some of its luster with the injury absences of Warriors star Stephen Curry and the Lakers’ Luka Doncic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stephon Castle’s 40-point triple-double propelled the San Antonio Spurs to a fourth straight NBA victory on Saturday with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3797],"tags":[22985,7,6,969,474,4075,4074,534],"class_list":{"0":"post-590166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio-spurs","8":"tag-afp","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-san-antonio","12":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","13":"tag-sanantonio","14":"tag-sanantoniospurs","15":"tag-spurs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116034133290858441","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590166","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=590166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}