Oklahoma City Thunder @ Dallas Mavericks
Monday, October 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM ET
American Airlines Center, Dallas, TX | Game ID: 22500119
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
DAL 24 18 27 25 94OKC 28 20 39 14 101
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Thunder withstand furious Mavericks rally to win 101-94, improving to 4-0
DALLAS -- — Isaiah Hartenstein had 16 points and 12 points — and scored Oklahoma City’s only two field goals of the final 8:28 — as the Thunder withstood a furious Dallas rally to beat the Mavericks 101-94 on Monday night to improve to 4-0.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 23 points to lead the defending NBA champions. Chet Holmgren had 18 points, 11 rebounds and four blocks.
Anthony Davis had 26 points and 11 rebounds for the Mavericks (1-3), playing their fourth straight home game to open the season.
Oklahoma City led 93-74 before Dallas went on a 13-0 run before Hartenstein’s tip-in gave the Thunder a 95-89 lead with 2:52 to play. The Mavericks pulled within one point on a jumper by D’Angelo Russell with 54 seconds left, and Hartenstein answered with a left-handed layup with 33 seconds to play. Gilgeous-Alexander hit two free throws with 21.3 seconds left, and Holmgren added two more with 3.3 left.
Dallas’ Cooper Flagg , last summer’s No. 1 draft pick , had his lowest scoring game with two points on 1 of 9 shooting after suffering a contact injury to his left shoulder during the game’s first possession. Flagg held his shoulder multiple times during the first half and used a heat wrap when out of the game in the second half.
Gilgeous-Alexander went into play leading the NBA averaging 40.0 points, topped by a career-best 55 in a double-overtime win at Indiana last Thursday.
The Mavericks’ “jumbo” forecourt was downsized with center Dereck Lively II sidelined with a knee contusion. The Thunder outscored the Mavericks 68-36 in the paint and outrebounded Dallas 55-36.
Up next The Thunder host Sacramento on Tuesday.
The Mavericks’ season-opening five-game homestand, the first in the NBA since the 1983-84 Kansas City Kings, will end Wednesday against Indiana.
Who is who
the initials in the Players column
OKCAM A. Mitchell
AW A. Wiggins
BB B. Barnhizer
CH C. Holmgren
CW C. Wallace
IH I. Hartenstein
JW J. Williams
LD L. Dort
SG S. Gilgeous-Alexander
DALAD A. Davis
CF C. Flagg
CM C. Martin
DR D. Russell
JH J. Hardy
KT K. Thompson
MC M. Christie
NM N. Marshall
PW P. Washington
OKC/DAL the team itself, not a player
-- the feed named nobody
What
What happened
the codes in the Events column
M2 / M3 made 2 / made 3
X2 / X3 missed 2 / missed 3
FT / X1 free throw made / missed
AST assist
OR / DR offensive / defensive rebound
STL steal
BLK block
TO turnover
FL foul
OF offensive foul — ends the possession
VIOL violation
JUMP jump ball
TM timeout
IR instant replay
HE heave at the buzzer, filed to the team
Where
Where a shot came from
the middle field of M3.LW.25
RM at the rim inside 4 ft
RC right corner
RW right wing
SO straight on
LW left wing
LC left corner
M3.LW.25 made 3, left wing, 25 ft
X2.RM.01 missed 2, at the rim, 1 ft
When
When it happened
the Offset column
one number per event, in the Events order:
whole seconds from the start of the
possession to that event
Events FL X3.RC.23 OR M2.RM.01
Offset 0 18 22 24
the foul opens the possession at 0s;
the putback ends it at 24s, which is
the possession's own Dur