Jalen Brunson

The Dallas Mavericks were united in their appreciation of Jalen Brunson after he scored 31 points in...

"His shot-creating and shot-making has been amazing all season," he said. "I just told the guys – we haven’t done anything. "It gave me a little mojo to come back out there and do my thing.

Jalen Brunson was lying flat and still, watching his Dallas teammates build a 17-point lead before halftime on the monitor in the locker room.

He’s able to play with his feet on the floor, so if you do try to come over and help, he has the ability to find people and spray the ball out," Utah coach Quin Snyder said. … Dirk Nowitzki and Mark Cuban celebrated with the team in the locker room. Brunson now has 96 points in the three games of the series. Brunson didn’t want to elaborate on the hit after the game. We need to put this game behind us and figure out what we need to do better." "It gave me a little mojo to come back out there and do my thing."

That's about the only way the Jazz have managed to slow down Brunson over the past couple of games. The Mavs seized a 2-1 series lead with a 126-118 win in ...

"Everybody expects us to take care of business, and we didn't in the first half," Mitchell said. All 31 of Brunson's points in Game 3 came off the dribble, according to ESPN Stats & Information research. Kleber had 17 points in 22 minutes on Thursday, when he made four of his five 3-point attempts. It's the first time Brunson, a four-year veteran, has scored 30 or more points in consecutive games in his NBA career. Brunson, the Mavs' second-leading scorer with 16.3 points per game, has starred in the series as Dallas' primary ballhandler with Doncic sidelined. Doncic has been ramping up his basketball activity and hopes to make his series debut in Saturday's Game 4.

Last night's Game 3 loss to the Mavericks felt like a dam breaking for Utah. The Jazz are supposed to have the most imposing home court advantage in the league, ...

Jalen Brunson has earned himself a shit ton of money this offseason, and also the respect of the rest of the NBA for putting the final nail in this duo’s coffin. The Jazz were the one seed in last year’s playoffs, and aside from ditching Ingles, they have the same core that earned them the top spot. The Mavericks, without Doncic, are admittedly a horrid matchup for the Jazz, but also, you cannot let Maxi Kleber turn into Dirk Nowitzki, and matchup woes do not nearly account for how clearly fractured they are. The Jazz are uniquely susceptible to this sort of style, as Rudy Gobert gives them both the best rim protector in the game but also a mismatch to be hunted and exposed 30 feet from the basket. They got all their good work done in the late-third and early fourth quarters, in smallball units where Gobert was on the bench and Donovan Mitchell got to target the suspect lateral movement abilities of Davis Bertans. Mitchell indeed got his, scoring 32 and punishing Bertans repeatedly, and the Jazz got within one point with six-and-a-half minutes left. I am not in the Jazz locker room, though one does not need to be to see how broken this team is.

27 seconds agoDallas Mavericks point/shooting guard Jalen Brunson led the way offensively during the team's pivotal Game 3 series win Thursday, ...

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He would fill a major void in the New York Knicks lineup, which has to be appealing to him. There is something different about winning in New York and Brunson would be lauded if he joined the team and helped them do that. Jalen Brunson would be afforded the chance to become the starting point guard in New York. In Dallas, it will always be Doncic’s team. They haven’t had the same starting point guard on opening night since Chris Duhon, which speaks volumes to how much of a black hole the position has been. Instead, they will have to compete with other teams around the league for his services. In Game 3, it was much of the same, Brunson paced the offense with 31 points, picking up a huge victory in Salt Lake City, 126-118, taking a 2-1 series lead.

The Dallas Mavericks hold a 2-1 series lead over the Utah Jazz without reigning All-NBA first-team guard Luka Doncic having played for a second of the ...

On Thursday, it was reported that the Mavericks plan to bring back Doncic for Saturday's Game 4. There will be multiple dynamic options on the floor to attack weak points in the Jazz defense. The result was a tougher short-range jumper, but those are looks he's accustomed to taking and making. Even with a 33.6 percent usage rate, he's rising to the occasion in the playoffs with strong efficiency. Starting at the 4:35 mark of the fourth quarter, he scored six consecutive points to push the Mavericks' lead back to 112-104. It takes a steady hand running the offense to keep things stable.

Mavs star Jalen Brunson's 72 points and one turnover in two games has only been done by the likes of Michael Jordan and Karl Malone...

To score that many points and barely turn the ball over is impressive in itself. After the Mavs guard scored a combined 72 points in Game 2 and Game 3, he’s only the sixth player ever to do so and commit only one turnover in the process, joining the likes of LeBron James, Michael Jordan, and Karl Malone. The 25-year-old is proving he’s up for the task.

Dallas Mavericks star Jalen Brunson will be a free agent this summer. His father, Rick, shared his thoughts.

"Jalen is a Maverick at the end of this season if we all sit down as a family and try to make the right decision for Jalen," Rick said. "But it’s not just what he did (Monday), and it’s not what he’s going to do going forward. His future will be impacted significantly by his ability to stay consistent. Brunson has led the Mavericks to a 2-1 series lead over the Utah Jazz despite Luka Doncic being sidelined for all three games. I know he enjoys it here. I don’t know if he needs an agent, but I’m going to put my name in the hat," Mavericks coach Jason Kidd said about Brunson's play after Game 2.