Depending on what you were rooting for, you got exactly what you wanted in this game. Unless you wanted a loss for the Mavericks.

Cooper Flagg scored 27 points and matched a season high with three steals, and Naji Marshall had three straight baskets down the stretch and finished with 22 points as the depleted Dallas Mavericks beat the Brooklyn Nets 113-105.

The Brooklyn Nets (11-26) came into Monday's game at the Dallas Mavericks (15-25) on the second night of a back-to-back after a tough loss at the Memphis Grizzlies on Sunday. Brooklyn was dealing with two key players out of the lineup in rookie Egor Demin and Cam Thomas, but the Nets just didn't show up the way they needed to for all four quarters.

Monday’s 113-105 loss to the Dallas Mavericks at American Airlines Center marked the Nets’ fourth straight defeat, dropping them to 11-26 and extending a slide that has now reached seven losses in their last eight games. And for the second straight night, the Nets were undone by a slow start and late execution.

According to the NBA's latest injury report for Monday's slate of games, the Nets will be without Egor Demin (back), Cam Thomas (hamstring), Ziaire Williams (illness), and Haywood Highsmith (knee) for Monday's game vs. the Mavericks.

DALLAS — Young teams have to learn how to win in the endgame. Friday’s fourth quarter folding was an example of that. The Nets lost 119-111 to the Mavericks before 19,032 at American Airlines Center, a game where they couldn’t buy a basket or a ...

The Brooklyn Nets will face off against the Dallas Mavericks for the second time this season. The Nets are coming off a 103-98 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies on Sunday, squandering a 98-90 lead with three minutes left to go in the game.