Khris Middleton scored a game-high 26 points, DeMarcus Cousins capped his season-high 22-point performance with a fourth-quarter flourish, and the Milwaukee Bucks held on for a 102–95 win over the host Dallas Mavericks on Thursday.
Cousins surpassed his season scoring high of 18 points that he set on Wednesday when he scored six of Milwaukee’s 10 points during a stretch spanning a little more than two minutes in the fourth quarter.