Maybe the cold weather found its way inside American Airlines Center on Saturday night. With the morning temperature the coldest it’s been in nearly six years, the Dallas Mavericks neither started nor ended the game hot against the Atlanta Hawks.
The Mavericks shot just 18 of 50 (36 percent) in the last two-plus quarters as the Hawks won their sixth-consecutive game 97-82.
Dallas (11-26) used a 9-0 run to tie the game 51-51 midway through the third quarter, but Atlanta scored 11 of the next 13 points to go up 62-53, and led 66-59 after three.
Dirk Nowitzki got Dallas within 67-65 with his 11-foot banker early in the fourth before the Hawks went on a 9-2 run.