The Dallas Mavericks hosted the Atlanta Hawks on Wednesday night as they looked to make up for their horrific loss to the Brooklyn Nets. Dereck Lively II returned to action, but P.J. Washington missed the game with an illness, joining Kyrie Irving, Dante Exum, and Olivier-Maxence Prosper out.

Davis proved his dominant Dallas debut on Feb. 8 wasn’t a mirage with a 34-point, 15-rebound performance Wednesday against Atlanta.

Right when the Mavericks got Dereck Lively II and Daniel Gafford back in their lineup, their frontcourt took another painful hit. During the first quarter of Wednesday’s Mavericks-Hawks game, Anthony Davis was hit with some friendly fire, catching a stray elbow near his right eye from Gafford.

Anthony Davis’ driving floater with 3.4 seconds left capped his 34-point night, his highest scoring game with Dallas, in the Mavericks' 120-118 victory over the Atlanta Hawks on Wednesday. Davis also had 15 rebounds and five blocks despite missing most of the second period with an eye injury as Dallas overcame an 11-point

Davis was famously the primary return in arguably the most controversial trade in NBA history, which saw Dončić head to the Los Angeles Lakers in a three-team swap that triggered a torrent of criticism, both from fans and the media, against Dallas and general manager Nico Harrison.

Dallas inbounded the ball with a little less than eight seconds remaining to Davis, he dribbled to the left and had a step on Atlanta's Onyeka Okongwu, and Davis put up a difficult floater over Okongwu while falling to the left,

With the score tied at 118, Davis sunk a floater to give Dallas the lead with seconds remaining, capping his 34-point outing.