DALLAS — On the one hand, Luka Doncic won another big-time showdown late Friday night, outscoring Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo 33-28. That continued a trend that has the 23-year-old hunting an MVP trophy.
Then there was that other trend that continued, the one that cost Dallas another basketball game.
The Mavericks shot 10-for-24 at the foul line — hideous by high school standards — and that included missing their last six in the fourth quarter to lose to Milwaukee, 106-105. Giannis even fouled out with 2:55 to play, delighting most of the crowd of 20,277 right up until the moment that Tim Hardaway Jr. missed all three free throws.
