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Nov 26, 2008 6:02 am US/Central
Mavs Make It Five In A Row With Nail-Biter
Mavericks 109, Pacers 106
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Jason Terry #31 of the Dallas Mavericks celebrates a basket late in the fourth quarter against the Indiana Pacers on November 25, 2008 at the American Airlines Center in Dallas.
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Jason Terry scored 29 points and combined with Jason Kidd to key a fourth-quarter run that rallied the Dallas Mavericks past the Indiana Pacers 109-106 Tuesday night for their fifth straight victory.
Dirk Nowitzki added 24 points and 12 rebounds and Antoine Wright scored a career-high 24 for the Mavericks. Terry and Kidd combined for all of Dallas' points in an 18-8 spurt that helped the Mavs erase a 13-point second-half deficit.
Kidd finished with 11 points and 13 assists as the Mavericks won their second consecutive home game after dropping their first four.
Danny Granger's 22 points and Troy Murphy's 21 points and 14 rebounds led the Pacers. Brandon Rush added 18 points off the bench for Indiana, which has lost five of six.
Indiana held a 95-88 lead with 5:05 left, but Terry scored Dallas' next six points to narrow the gap to 97-94.
Kidd made a 3-pointer, Terry hit a 17-footer to tie the score at 99 and Kidd drained another 3 with 1:22 left to give the Mavericks a 102-99 advantage.
Indiana was unable to get closer than 106-103 the rest of the way.
Murphy scored his team's first eight points of the third quarter, including a pair of 3s as Indiana stretched its lead to 64-51.
Dallas cut the deficit to 83-77 heading into the final quarter, then opened the fourth with an 8-2 spurt to tie it at 85.
But the Pacers went on a 10-3 run capped by Rush's 15-footer with 5:06 left to open a 95-88 lead.
Murphy had 13 points in the first half, including a three-point play with less than a second left before halftime as the Pacers took a 56-49 edge into the break.
Indiana held a 31-20 rebounding advantage at halftime, 13-3 on the offensive boards.
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