'Getting boring' jokes Kidd after Luka's latest feat

DALLAS -- The afloat database of 40-point triple-doubles successful the NBA this season: Luka Doncic 3, the remainder of the league 0.

"It's getting boring," Dallas Mavericks manager Jason Kidd said aft Doncic's 41-point, 12-rebound, 12-assist show successful Tuesday's 116-113 win implicit the Golden State Warriors. "I mean, let's spot thing different. Maybe bash it with his near hand. I'm conscionable joking.

"Look, he's 1 of the champion successful the world, and that's what helium does. Some of america tin instrumentality him for granted. The antheral is special."

Dallas desperately needed a peculiar show from Doncic connected Tuesday. The Mavericks had mislaid their erstwhile 4 games and 5 of the past six to autumn a crippled beneath .500 earlier hosting the defending champion Warriors, who eliminated Dallas successful the Western Conference finals past season.

Doncic, the NBA's starring scorer, was ascendant passim the crippled portion posting his league-high 5th triple-double of the play and 51st of his career. It was the 5th 40-point triple-double of his career, ranking down lone Oscar Robertson, Russell Westbrook, James Harden and LeBron James successful NBA history, according to ESPN Stats & Information research.

"His size and his ball-handling skills support you connected borderline the full game, [and] that positive him being a three-level scorer, you've got to interest astir everything," said Warriors prima Stephen Curry, who had 32 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists successful the loss. "Then evidently his tribunal imaginativeness is unreal. It's an violative bundle of being a playmaker and scorer, and erstwhile he's knocking down shots similar helium did tonight, it's tough. You privation to instrumentality thing distant from him, but helium tin marque play aft play."

The Mavs built a 17-point pb successful the archetypal quarter, erstwhile Doncic scored 11 points, but had to travel from down successful the fourth. Golden State seized the pb with a tally aft Dallas defender Spencer Dinwiddie, the lone different proven ballhandler connected the Mavs' progressive roster with new summation Kemba Walker watching successful thoroughfare clothes, was ejected from the crippled with 10:52 remaining owed to a flagrant 2 foul for elbowing Warriors defender Jordan Poole.

Kidd called timeout with 9:46 remaining to get Doncic backmost successful the crippled a fewer minutes earlier than helium usually returns aft his remainder astatine the opening of the 4th quarter. He had 9 points and 3 assists down the stretch, feeding teammates for go-ahead buckets connected each 3 occasions. And Doncic was peculiarly arrogant that helium had 3 of his 4 steals successful the 4th quarter, arsenic good arsenic a blocked changeable connected a Curry layup attempt.

"I conscionable participated, giving everything I got," said Doncic, who was 14-of-27 from the floor. "I was truly bushed astatine the end, but we needed this game. I deliberation we deserved this win, and we for definite needed this win."

Curry had a accidental to necktie the crippled oregon instrumentality the pb but was called for a traveling usurpation portion trying to acceptable up for a 3 with 10.1 seconds remaining. He said helium didn't deliberation it was a travel, but Curry criticized himself for a making a "dumb play" by not driving for a layup and attempting to motorboat a "hero shot."

After Dallas guardant Dorian Finney-Smith made 1 of 2 escaped throws with 4.4, Golden State got an accidental to nonstop the crippled into overtime. A beautifully designed out-of-bounds play resulted successful a wide-open 3-point look for Klay Thompson from the near wing, but the shot rimmed out, punctuating an disconnected nighttime for Thompson (five points, 2-of-9 shooting) and sealing the Mavs' win.

"I was scared, I'm not going to lie. It's Klay," Doncic said. "He's not going to miss galore unfastened shots. I was truly blessed erstwhile it didn't spell in."

ESPN's Kendra Andrews contributed to this report.