Mavs' Daniel Gafford Sets NBA Record for Most Consecutive Made Field Goals

Dallas Mavericks big man Daniel Gafford set the NBA record for most consecutive field goals made in Monday's game against the Chicago Bulls.

Dalton Trigg | Mar 11, 2024

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As soon as the Dallas Mavericks traded for fifth-year big man Daniel Gafford at this year's trade deadline, everyone knew that he'd be a seamless fit playing alongside star guards Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving. However, setting an NBA record in his first 13 games as a member of the Mavs might not have been something people might not have seen coming.

In the second quarter of the Mavs' game against the Chicago Bulls on Monday night, Gafford set the NBA record for most consecutive field goals made with 23 in a row (dating back to the 1996-97 season when play-by-play data started being tracked).

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"As long as I stay out of my head, the sky's the limit for me," Gafford said after Saturday's win over the Detroit Pistons. "Just keeping my teammates in tune with keeping me from being frustrated and keeping me from getting down on myself and at the end of the day, just coming out and doing my job. Blocking shots, having energy, talking on defense [and] being an anchor."

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Coming into Monday's game against Chicago, Gafford was averaging 9.9 points, 7.1 rebounds and 1.6 blocks while shooting 73.5 percent from the field in his 12 games played with Dallas. The long, athletic big man is fitting in nicely into his new environment, and that should only continue to get better with time as chemistry with his new teammates grows.

Stay tuned to DallasBasketball.com for postgame coverage following Mavs-Bulls.

Published Mar 11, 2024

DALTON TRIGG

Dalton Trigg is the Editor-In-Chief for Dallas Basketball, as well as the Executive Editor overseeing Inside The Rockets, Inside The Spurs, All Knicks, and The Magic Insider. He is the founder and host for the Mavs Step Back Podcast, which is a proud part of the Blue Wire podcast network. Trigg graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi’s College of Business and Economic Development with a bachelor’s degree in entrepreneurship in 2016. After spending a few years with multiple Dallas Mavericks-related blogs, including SB Nation’s Mavs Moneyball, Trigg joined DallasBasketball.com as a staff writer in 2018 and never looked back. At the start of 2022, he was promoted to the EIC title he holds now. Through the years, Trigg has conducted a handful of high-profile one-on-one interviews to add to his resume — in both writing and podcasting. Some of his biggest interviews have been with Mavs owner Mark Cuban, Mavs GM Nico Harrison, now-retired legend Dirk Nowitzki and many other current/former players and team staffers. Many of those interviews and other articles by Trigg have been aggregated by other well-known sports media websites, such as Yahoo Sports, CBS Sports, Bleacher Report and others. You can find Trigg on all major social media channels, but his most prevalent platform is on Twitter. Whether it’s posting links to his DBcom work, live-tweeting Mavs games or merely giving his opinions on things going on with Dallas and the rest of the NBA, the daily content never stops rolling. For any inquiries, please email Dalton@MavsStepBack.com.