Jalen Brunson was lying flat and still, watching his Dallas teammates build a 17-point lead before halftime on the monitor in the locker room. "I saw how hard the team was playing when I was laying back there," Brunson said. "It gave me a little mojo to come back out there and do my thing." Brunson scored 31 points playing with a bruised back and the Mavericks — without the injured Luka Doncic — beat the Utah Jazz 126-118 on Thursday night to take a 2-1 lead in the first-round playoff series. Read more https://www.espn.com/nba/recap?gameId=401430235
