DeMar DeRozan scored a season-high 42 points and made the game-winning floater with 1.9 seconds remaining in overtime, leading the Sacramento Kings to a 129-128 win over the host Dallas Mavericks on Monday.
Klay Thompson buried a deep 3-pointer to give the Mavericks a 128-127 lead with 9.8 seconds remaining in OT.
DeRozan had sent the game to overtime by making a mid-range fadeaway with 3.7 seconds left in regulation, after Kyrie Irving put the Mavericks ahead with a crafty lay-in on the prior possession.
DeRozan made 15 of 22 attempts from the field, including 4 of 6 from 3-point range, and sank all eight of his free-throw attempts. He scored 15 points in the fourth quarter.
Sacramento’s Domantas Sabonis added 16 points, 15 rebounds and eight assists, while Zach LaVine and Malik Monk contributed 17 points each.
Irving led the Mavericks with 30 points on 11-of-25 shooting and tacked on nine rebounds and seven assists. He battled DeRozan in crunch time, scoring 15 in the fourth quarter and overtime combined.
Spencer Dinwiddie scored 20 points off the Dallas bench, while Thompson put up 19 points while making half of his 10 3-point shots.
Right when it looked as if Irving would bury the Kings with his hot hand in the fourth quarter, DeRozan and Sacramento answered with a 15-2 run that erased the Mavericks’ 12-point advantage and put the visitors up 106-105 with 4:25 to go. DeRozan scored 11 points in that surge.
The lead went back and forth between the teams, and Sacramento tied the game at 114 on a Sabonis tip-in with 1:08 remaining.
Sacramento’s Keegan Murray came to life in the third quarter, scoring 11 points on 5-of-8 shooting in the frame after going without a field-goal attempt in the first half. The Mavericks tempered Murray’s onslaught, closing the third quarter on a 7-1 run to take a 93-87 lead into the fourth.
Mavericks center Daniel Gafford left the game in the second quarter and ruled out with what was eventually determined to be a right knee sprain.
Dallas was without newly acquired Anthony Davis, who is expected to miss several weeks with a left adductor strain sustained in his debut Saturday. In addition to Davis, Dallas already entered the game down centers Dereck Lively II (ankle) and Dwight Powell (hip).
–Field Level Media
