{"id":394367,"date":"2026-01-06T02:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T02:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/394367\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T02:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T02:07:10","slug":"dallas-mavericks-to-face-houston-rockets-during-pre-season-at-nba-china-games-in-macau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/394367\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Mavericks to face Houston Rockets during pre-season at NBA China Games in Macau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Basketball fans from around the world can now start planning their trip to Macau after the NBA announced the teams and dates for this year\u2019s NBA China Games on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The two upcoming matches will mark the second year of a five-year deal between the NBA and Sands China to host the China Games.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The first edition last year featured the Brooklyn Nets and the Phoenix Suns playing two games in front of a combined attendance of 22,634.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Future Games are expected to feature the Portland Trail Blazers, who drafted Chinese centre Yang Hansen as a No 16 pick last summer, and the Boston Celtics, partly owned by Mario Ho Yau-kwan, the youngest son of the late Macau casino magnate Stanley Ho Hung-sun.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The first edition of the NBA China Games attracted 22,634 spectators over two games. Photo: Karma Lo\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/787b5d22-8adf-4b49-8149-81b6dfd002ee_cb0d819f.jpg\" title=\"The first edition of the NBA China Games attracted 22,634 spectators over two games. Photo: Karma Lo\"\/>The first edition of the NBA China Games attracted 22,634 spectators over two games. Photo: Karma Lo<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">NBA Deputy Commissioner and chief operating officer (COO) Mark Tatum said last year\u2019s China Games showed \u201chow much passion and enthusiasm\u201d there was for the NBA among fans in China and across Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Basketball fans from around the world can now start planning their trip to Macau after the NBA announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[23895,1724,64,63,3686,1664,5997,512,7235,210753,26288,7220,19697,13797,7216,13798,53573,49035,36287,590,106739,72321,210755,7185,4621,113667,65118,4933,85,65114,23073,210754,210752,5661,54232],"class_list":["post-394367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-alperen-sengun","tag-asia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-beijing","tag-boston-celtics","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-china","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-grant-chum","tag-guangzhou","tag-houston-rockets","tag-jabari-smith-jr","tag-jason-kidd","tag-kevin-durant","tag-kyrie-irving","tag-macau","tag-manila","tag-mark-tatum","tag-nba","tag-nba-china-games","tag-patrick-dumont","tag-patrick-fertitta","tag-phoenix-suns","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-saitama","tag-sands-china","tag-shanghai","tag-sports","tag-stanley-ho-hung-sun","tag-taipei","tag-the-venetian","tag-venetian-arena","tag-yang-hansen","tag-yao-ming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}