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LOS ANGELES -- After four seasons in the Golden State Warriors supporting cast, Harrison Barnes is seizing his opportunity to be the main man in Dallas.Barnes scored 31 points, Seth Curry added 23 and the Mavericks won their second straight game after an 0-5 start, 109-97 over the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday night.Two days after Barnes scored a career-best 34 in the Mavs victory over Milwaukee, he hit 11 of 18 shots at Staples Center while leading Dallas past the Lakers for the 11th consecutive time since April 2, 2013. Barnes scored seven consecutive points after Los Angeles took a lead with 7 1/2 minutes to play, and his teammates finished it off.Im just being aggressive, Barnes said. That was the biggest thing in my first few games (with the Mavs), figuring out when to be aggressive and when not to. You just kind of have to leave the switch on, and if you fail, fail aggressively.Its working: Barnes has scored 30 points three times in Dallas last six games after hitting that mark once in his first four seasons with Golden State.After getting their first win of the season Sunday against Milwaukee, the Mavs won again without injured Dirk Nowitzki and Deron Williams. Nowitzki missed his second straight game with a sore Achilles tendon, while Williams missed his second straight game with a strained calf muscle.Dallas used only eight players in LA, but it was enough.This is two team efforts, just scrappy and grinding, Barnes said. Everyone is getting in the mix offensively and defensively. Its not always pretty basketball, but were getting it done, and thats the most rewarding thing about it.JJ Barea had 18 points, seven rebounds and eight assists for the Mavericks, who beat the Lakers on the road for the sixth straight time.Our guys stuck to a game plan of tempo and patience and discipline, and they won the game, Dallas coach Rick Carlisle said.TIP-INSMavericks: Carlisle shared a quick pregame moment with Lakers F Metta World Peace, who played for Carlisle in Indiana a decade ago. Carlisle, who still calls him Ron, said World Peace has reached out to him to ask questions about coaching. ... Mavs rookie Dorian Finney-Smith had five points in his first NBA start.Lakers: Luke Walton coached Barnes and Curry as an assistant with Golden State. ... Luol Deng scored two points in 30 minutes, going 1 for 5. ... Julius Randle had 15 points and 10 rebounds, but also committed six turnovers.LAKERS LOSSJordan Clarkson scored 22 points and Nick Young had 20 as the Lakers three-game winning streak ended with 17 turnovers and some late-game struggles. Lou Williams scored 15 points for Los Angeles, which rallied from an 11-point deficit in the second half before failing to execute in the final minutes.I thought we did a little better job in the second half fighting, Walton said. I thought we were a little soft in the first half. We had our chances.Young scored 13 points in the first 3:15, staking the Lakers to an early lead. Dallas scored the final 11 points of the half to move ahead 58-54.HEADING BACKBarnes had his latest monster game one night before he returned to Oakland to take on the Golden State Warriors for the first time since leaving as a free agent during the summer. Barnes was a key player on the Warriors 2015 championship team and last seasons runner-up, but left after the Warriors renounced his rights when they landed Kevin Durant.When asked if the homecoming was anything special, Barnes said: Nah. ... Its another game. Were 2-5, so its another game. Trying to 3-5 and go back home.SHORT-LIVEDThe Lakers (4-4) had moved above .500 for just the second time since Dec. 6, 2013, with a victory over Phoenix on Sunday. Los Angeles also hadnt won three straight games since the 2012-13 season, but couldnt make it four.UP NEXTMavericks: At Golden State on Wednesday.Lakers: At Sacramento on Thursday.Trent Alexander-Arnold Jersey . -- The Portland Timbers and Real Salt Lake played to a 0-0 tie Saturday night that left the top of the Western Conference standings unchanged. England Soccer Jerseys . 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Gary Cahill England Jersey .com) - The Montreal Canadiens will try to halt their longest losing streak of the season when they host the struggling New York Islanders in tonights clash at the Bell Centre.Leicester captain Wes Morgan believes the Foxes success this season has permanently changed the dynamic of the Premier League.Claudio Ranieris side are five points clear at the top of the table ahead of Sundays trip to title rivals Arsenal.A 3-1 win at Manchester City last weekend saw them installed as favourites to win the league in one of the most open title races for years. We chat to Riyad Mahrez about that win at Manchester City and Leicester’s hold on top spot They beat the drop last term by winning seven of their last nine games and were widely tipped for relegation at the start of the current campaign.But, after a stunning season which has so far brought just two league defeats, Morgan feels the Foxes have altered the landscape of English football.Its a bit of a fairy tale, a big surprise to everyone, but we have real belief in ourselves and deserve to be here, said the centre-back, who still refused to talk about Leicesters chances of the title. Aaron Ramsey explains why Arsenal have to beat Leicester on Sunday to close the gap, otherwise they could be 8 points behind the leaders In Premier League history you have the top four who tend to be the outstanding teams that beat most of the teams, and this season has been a bit of a change.ddddddddddddThere have been teams promoted from the Championship coming and competing and beating the top teams. That dynamic has changed a lot this season and I think it will continue through the seasons coming.The so-called bigger teams will have to re-analyse how they go about buying players. If you have spent £100m on a player it doesnt necessarily mean they are going to bring you the title or bring you success.Teams will probably look at us and the likes of Bournemouth and Norwich and think, maybe we need to re-analyse how we go about buying our players and our policy of signing people. Jamie Vardy says Arsenals win at Leicester could have gone either way and the Foxes frontman is confident they have enough to cause the Gunners problems Leicester lost 5-2 to Arsenal in September, but Morgan was keen to look forward to Sundays match - and the run-in that follows - rather than back at that loss.That was the start of the season when everyone is trying to find their way, the 32-year-old said. This is the probably the more crunch part of the season and these next few games are going to define where everyone finishes.The pressure is definitely on Arsenal to try and prove a point. We relish that and we want to go into the game and show what we are capable of.Watch Arsenal v Leicester live on Sky Sports 1 HD from 11.30am on SundayAlso See:Key battle: Koscielny v VardyLeicester 2-5 Arsenal - how they wonTitle race: Fear and cheerThis time last year... ' ' '