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BOSTON (Reuters) – The metropolis Mavericks, paced by Dirk Nowitzki, long their get streak to heptad games by scoring the test 10 points in a gripping 101-97 victory over the Boston Celtics on Friday.

Jason captain exhausted a three-point goal soured a busted endeavor with meet 2.5 seconds mitt at the TD Garden to put the Mavericks ahead 99-97.

An interior transfer to Nowitzki was fumbled and, after securing the ball, the German passed it out to captain at the crowning of the curve for the shot.

Following Kidd's basket, the Celtics called a timeout. On the ensuing inbounds play, Rajon Rondo's attempted backdoor alley-oop transfer to Kevin Garnett sailed beyond the forward's reach and out of bounds.

The Eastern Conference-leading Celtics then unclean Nowitzki on the inbound transfer and he impact both free throws to put the mettlesome out of reach.

Nowitzki led the Mavericks with 29 points, 21 in the ordinal half, and was a amend 10-for-10 from the free throw line. Jason Terry added 17 points soured the bench.

The Celtics held a share of the advance for such of the ordinal half but were unable to pull absent from the Mavericks who equal the mettlesome on sextet occasions. The mettlesome was close throughout with neither aggroup holding a advance larger than octad points.

Ray comedienne led the Celtics with 24 points, Garnett had 16 points and Kendrick Perkins, who scored the Celtics' test goal with 2:43 remaining, ended with 13.

(Reporting by Mike Mouat in Windsor, Ontario; redaction by Mark Lamport-Stokes)

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