[Post Game Thread] The Dallas Mavericks (4-2) defeat the Houston Rockets (5-1), 116-111 handing them their first loss of the season as Cooper Flagg and Kyrie Irving's combine for 68 points

Dallas Mavericks: What Happened

Fans on r/nba on Reddit were talking about this on Friday, October 30, 2026. Here is the post:

111 - 116 Box Score: ESPN GAME SUMMARY Location: American Airlines Center Officials: Zach Zarba, Ashley Moyer-Gleich, and Robert Hussey Team Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Total Houston Rockets 20 31 33 27 111 Dallas Mavericks 27 17 32 40 116 TEAM STATS Team PTS FG FG% 3P 3P% FT FT% OREB TREB AST PF STL TO BLK Houston Rockets 111 40-96 41.7% 7-29 24.1% 24-33 72.7% 20 48 26 23 12 13 3 Dallas Mavericks 116 42-81 51.9% 12-33 36.4% 20-27 74.1% 12 41 24 24 8 18 4 PLAYER STATS Houston Rockets MIN PTS FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A ORB DRB REB AST STL BLK TO PF ± Kevin Durant F 37:00 28 9-20 1-6 9-13 1 4 5 1 0 0 3 2 8 Jabari Smith Jr. F 35:00 22 7-15 3-7 5-5 0 3 3 2 1 0 3 2 -6 Clint Capela C 30:00 5 2-6 0-0 1-2 6 5 11 5 2 2 0 2 0 Fred VanVleet G 33:00 16 6-17 3-10 1-2 1 4 5 6 1 0 0 5 2 Amen Thompson G 39:00 15 7-15 0-1 1-4 0 3 3 6 4 0 0 4 -7 Tari Eason F 26:00 11 4-12 0-2 3-3 8 5 13 2 1 0 0 3 -3 Oscar Tshiebwe C 11:00 0 0-1 0-0 0-0 3 2 5 0 0 1 2 2 7 Marcus Smart G 17:00 8 4-6 0-1 0-0 1 1 2 4 3 0 3 3 -8 Bogdan Bogdanovic G 11:00 6 1-4 0-2 4-4 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 -9 Jae'Sean Tate F 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Isaiah Crawford F 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Alperen Sengun C 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Reed Sheppard G 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Bruce Thornton G 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Dallas Mavericks MIN PTS FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A ORB DRB REB AST STL BLK TO PF ± Daniel Gafford F 29:00 18 6-7 0-0 6-9 4 3 7 2 0 2 3 2 10 P.J. Washington F 34:00 3 1-8 1-5 0-0 2 8 10 1 0 0 1 2…

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Key Takeaways

• The story: [Post Game Thread] The Dallas Mavericks (4-2) defeat the Houston Rockets (5-1), 116-111 handing them their first loss of the season as Cooper Flagg and Kyrie Irving's combine for 68 points
• Who’s involved: Dallas Mavericks, FTM-A ORB DRB REB AST STL BLK, OREB TREB AST PF STL TO BLK Houston Rockets and Houston Rockets MIN PTS FGM-A
• League: NBA
• First reported: Friday, October 30, 2026 by r/nba on Reddit

How Other Outlets Are Covering It

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• Mavericks vs. Rockets Quoteboard: “We’re deep, we’re young, we have great character.”Yahoo Sports Cooper Flagg, Kyrie Irving and Dusty May talk about what the Mavericks did well in the team’s 116-111 win over the Rockets

Background: National Basketball Association

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada). The NBA is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada and is considered the premier basketball league in the world. The league is headquartered in New York City and Secaucus, New Jersey.

The NBA was created on August 3, 1949, with the merger of the Basketball Association of America (BAA) and the National Basketball League (NBL).

Text from Wikipedia’s National Basketball Association article, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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