{"id":21323,"date":"2017-02-04T07:08:02","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T07:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=21323"},"modified":"2017-02-04T07:08:02","modified_gmt":"2017-02-04T07:08:02","slug":"yogi-ferrell-lights-blazers-mavericks-win-fourth-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/sports\/nba\/yogi-ferrell-lights-blazers-mavericks-win-fourth-straight.html","title":{"rendered":"Yogi Ferrell lights up Blazers as Mavericks win fourth straight"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yogi Ferrell lights up Blazers as Mavericks win fourth straight<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Yogi Ferrell lights up Blazers as Mavericks win fourth straight:- Yogi Ferrell scored 32 points to help the Dallas Mavericks beat the Portland Trail Blazers 108-104 on Friday night.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ferrell, who signed a 10-day contract with the Mavericks six days ago, had 22 points at the half \u2014 shattering his previous career-high of 17. He’s scored 71 points so far this week.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dallas built its lead up to 22 points before Portland rallied to within one. Farrell answered with a 3-pointer with 19 seconds left to give the Mavericks a cushion.<\/span><\/p>\n

Former Blazers guard Wesley Matthews added 27 points for the Mavericks.<\/span><\/p>\n

CJ McCollum scored 28 points, including buzzer-beaters at the end of the 2nd and 3rd quarters, to lead the Trail Blazers. Evan Turner added 24 points.<\/span><\/p>\n

After a 4-17 start to the season, the Mavericks are well within striking distance for the eighth seed after winning eight of their last 11 games and four straight.<\/span><\/p>\n

“It’s great that we’ve put ourselves in a position for these games to be meaningful,” Carlisle said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dallas is now two games back of the Denver Nuggets for final playoff spot in the Western Conference.<\/span><\/p>\n

TIP-INS<\/span><\/p>\n

Mavericks: Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle is the President of the NBA Coaches Association. Over the past few weeks, NBA coaches have worn bow-ties to honor the passing of their Executive Director Michael Goldberg. Coaches will wear pins to honor Goldberg for the rest of the season. “It will be a remainder of the year-long tribute to a great man. A great advocate for coaches in the NBA,” Carlisle said. “A guy who was part a key part of history, like the NBA-ABA merger in 1976. He’s done so many important groundbreaking things for coaches of the last 37 years that will be felt for decades.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Blazers: The Blazers are 4-2 since moving Evan Turner and Noah Vonleh into their starting line-up. “The starting line-up has been very effective, especially defensively. That’s a nice bi-product of that,” head coach Terry Stotts said. Portland’s Ed Davis returned to the line-up for the first time since missing six games with a left wrist injury. Davis played 17 minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/2017\/02\/04\/ferrell-leads-mavericks-to-108-104-win-over-trail-blazers\/97482730\/<\/span><\/div>\n

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