Jaylen Brown posted 33 points and 11 rebounds as the Boston Celtics extended their winning streak to three with a 110-100 victory over the host Dallas Mavericks on Tuesday.

Boston’s bench was productive with Peyton Pritchard contributing 26 points and seven assists, and Luka Garza scoring 16 points, including 4-of-4 on 3-point attempts.

The Celtics went in short-handed with Anfernee Simons — who scored 27 points against the Milwaukee Bucks on Sunday — unavailable after reportedly being traded to the Chicago Bulls with a second-round pick for Nikola Vucevic.

Cooper Flagg scored 36 points with nine rebounds and six assists — his third straight game with 30 or more points — for Dallas, which lost its fifth consecutive game.

The Mavericks’ next highest scorer was Caleb Martin with 13 points.

Brown had 15 points and five boards in the opening frame, while Pritchard added eight points as Boston led 32-29 after one.

Klay Thompson’s 3-pointer early in the second period knotted the score at 32, before the Celtics took control with an 18-2 burst, capped by a Garza trey, to move in front 50-34.

The Mavericks scored just 15 in the second — their lowest in any quarter this season.

Flagg revived Dallas late by hitting a floater to end the Mavericks’ cold streak, then made an athletic block on Brown’s drive right before halftime, with the Celtics leading 52-44.

Dallas experienced a scare when center Daniel Gafford left the game with 3:05 remaining in the second quarter after injuring his right leg in a collision with Brown, but he came back with 5:18 left in the third.

Boston continued to keep the Mavericks at arm’s length after the break, before pulling away with 14 of the last 18 points of the third quarter, including three Garza 3-pointers.

The Celtics’ lead was up to 88-67 early in the fourth before Flagg minimized some of the damage with the Mavs’ first nine points of the quarter and 15 for the frame.

–Field Level Media

Hannes Steinbach is becoming a double-double machine for Washington.

The 6-foot-11 German freshman brings a string of four straight double-doubles into Wednesday night’s home game against Iowa in Seattle. The latest was a 22-point, 14-rebound performance Saturday in a 76-62 win at Northwestern, giving him team-leading averages of 17.6 points and 11.4 rebounds for the season.

Steinbach’s 14 double-doubles are tied with Isaiah Stewart for the Huskies’ freshman record. He has seven games with at least 20 points and 10 rebounds, five against Big Ten Conference foes.

“I could go on and on about Hannes,” said second-year coach Danny Sprinkle. “Every time they made a run, he made a 3 to stymie their momentum. We did a decent job of getting the ball to Hannes, and he did a good job of finding the open man.”

Washington (12-10, 4-7 Big Ten) also got 22 points, six rebounds and six assists from Zoom Diallo, who’s second on the team with 15.2 points per game. Wesley Yates III added 21 points and made a career-high five 3-pointers.

Meanwhile, the Hawkeyes (16-5, 6-4) are trying to complete a sweep of their road trip after beating Oregon 84-66 on Sunday in Eugene. Senior point guard Bennett Stirtz lit up the Ducks for a career-high 32 points on just 15 shots in Iowa’s fourth consecutive win.

Stirtz also dished out seven assists without a turnover, making him the first Iowa player to put up a 30-5-0 stat line since Jordan Bohannon in 2022. Stirtz, who earlier last week scored 20 in a win over Southern California, shared Big Ten Player of the Week honors with Michigan State’s Jeremy Fears Jr.

In addition to Stirtz’s performance, first-year coach Ben McCollum liked his team’s defense. The Hawkeyes held short-handed Oregon to 41.1% shooting from the field (23 of 56), including 6 of 25 from the 3-point line.

“We were really engaged defensively,” he said. “I thought they did a great job.”

One concern for Iowa is the status of forward Tavion Banks, who played a season-low 11 minutes at Oregon due to injury. McCollum said Tuesday that he thinks Banks will play at Washington.

–Field Level Media

There could be familiar faces in different places when the Cleveland Cavaliers visit the Los Angeles Clippers on Wednesday at Inglewood, Calif.

Multiple reports on Tuesday had the Clippers sending 11-time All-Star guard James Harden to the Cavaliers for two-time All-Star guard Darius Garland and a second-round draft pick.

Harden, 36, has not played in either of the Clippers’ past two games, with his official designation listed as “personal.” If the trade is made in time, he presumably could take the court against his former team Wednesday.

Garland, 26, has missed the Cavaliers past nine games with a toe sprain, leaving his potential availability in doubt.

While Cleveland will enter the game following a 130-111 victory at Portland on Sunday, Los Angeles will try to bounce back following a 128-113 loss to the visiting Philadelphia 76ers on Monday.

Despite the loss, Los Angeles is still 17-5 since Dec. 20 and 1-1 without Harden the past two games. Kawhi Leonard scored 29 points in the loss but was held to 0-of-5 shooting in the opening quarter when the 76ers raced to an early double-digit lead and never relented.

Leonard, who was named an All-Star for the seventh time in his career Tuesday, was double-teamed as soon as he touched the ball in the early going against the 76ers, and no teammate emerged as an alternate scoring threat.

“I’m not necessarily sure … it’s more than one thing,” Clippers forward John Collins said when asked what went wrong. “Offensive execution. They were making a lot of tough shots. Second night of a back-to-back. I mean those are all excuses. Just got to step up and play better.”

Jordan Miller scored 21 points, rookie Kobe Sanders had 17 and Collins added 15 for the Clippers, who lost despite shooting 59.0% from the floor. Their typically strong defense saw the 76ers go 17 of 39 (43.6%) from 3-point range.

The Cavaliers received a career-high 40 points and also 17 rebounds from center Jarrett Allen in Sunday’s win over the Trail Blazers. Sam Merrill scored 22 points and Jaylon Tyson added 18 as Cleveland won going away on a below-average night from star Donovan Mitchell (14 points).

The Cavaliers did make a trade Saturday, acquiring guards Keon Ellis and Dennis Schroder from the Sacramento Kings for forward De’Andre Hunter in a three-team deal that included the Chicago Bulls.

“I’m excited to be on a winning team,” the defensive-minded Ellis said Tuesday. “(The Cavaliers) are a great team with some good pieces. I’m playing hard every night and being a great teammate. I feel like I just play winning basketball night in and night out.”

The Cavaliers have won six of their past seven games, with their only loss in the stretch at Phoenix on Friday. The Clippers won at Phoenix on Sunday but stumbled one day later.

If a Harden-Garland deal is not made by the time the teams meet Wednesday, there will be less than 24 hours to make roster adjustments via trade before Thursday afternoon’s league deadline.

Clippers players do not want to see Harden depart, but they have no hard feelings over his reported request for a trade.

“It was a surprise,” Leonard said of the trade rumor, which surfaced while the Clippers were playing the 76ers. “… I respect his decision, or whoever’s decision it is. He’s still going to be my boy, and I trust the front office.”

–Field Level Media