{"id":691769,"date":"2026-04-01T11:44:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T11:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/691769\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T11:44:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T11:44:34","slug":"rollins-scores-24-kuzma-adds-20-and-the-bucks-beat-mavericks-123-99-to-snap-4-game-skid-pro-national-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/691769\/","title":{"rendered":"Rollins scores 24, Kuzma adds 20 and the Bucks beat Mavericks 123-99 to snap 4-game skid | Pro National Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MILWAUKEE (AP) \u2014 Ryan Rollins had 24 points, seven rebounds and nine assists, Kyle Kuzma added 20 points, and the Milwaukee Bucks beat the Dallas Mavericks 123-99 on Tuesday night to snap a four-game losing streak.<\/p>\n<p>Milwaukee (30-45), which had lost 14 of its last 17 games overall, won its eighth straight meeting with the Mavericks.<\/p>\n<p>The Bucks led 65-51 at the break behind 17 points from Rollins and 16 by Kuzma. Milwaukee made 11 of its first 22 3-pointers of the second half to take control.<\/p>\n<p>A Rollins jumper with 6:26 left in the fourth gave Milwaukee a 31-point lead at 115-84.<\/p>\n<p>AJ Green added 17 points off the bench for Milwaukee. Gary Trent Jr. added 13 points, Pete Nance scored 11 and Myles Turner 10.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper Flagg, who entered averaging 22.5 points over his last nine games, had 19 points and 10 rebounds for his 12th double-double of the season for Dallas (24-52). Brandon Williams scored 12 of his 18 points in the first half, and John Poulakidas scored a season-high 11.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas starter Daniel Gafford left the game with just under three minutes left in the third after appearing to injure his right elbow attempting to block a Rollins dunk. Williams and Dwight Powell started the second half in place of Gafford and Ryan Nembhard.<\/p>\n<p>The Mavericks have lost their last four trips to Milwaukee and five of the last six.<\/p>\n<p>The game was originally scheduled for Jan. 25, but was postponed when the Mavericks could not get out of Dallas because of a snowstorm.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Mavericks: Host the Orlando Magic on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Bucks: At Houston on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE (AP) \u2014 Ryan Rollins had 24 points, seven rebounds and nine assists, Kyle Kuzma added 20 points,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3793],"tags":[7,686,149,4057,166,6,68184,68185,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-691769","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-mavericks","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-pro_national_sports","15":"tag-pronational_sports","16":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116329281528650861","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691769","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=691769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}