Overview
- Jaylen Brown posted 33 points and 11 rebounds as Boston handed Dallas a fifth straight loss.
- Rookie Cooper Flagg scored 36 for his third consecutive 30-point game, days after his 49-point outing set a teen scoring record.
- Payton Pritchard delivered 26 off the bench and Luka Garza added 16 on 4-of-4 from deep, powering a 44-22 bench edge.
- Boston held firm without Jayson Tatum, while Dallas stayed shorthanded with Kyrie Irving, Anthony Davis and others out as Daniel Gafford briefly exited with a right ankle issue.
- Anfernee Simons was unavailable after a reported trade sending him to Chicago for Nikola Vucevic, a deal not yet official per the Associated Press.