{"id":946301,"date":"2026-10-30T11:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T11:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/946301\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T11:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T11:12:09","slug":"rockets-vs-mavericks-in-nba-cup-group-play-friday-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/946301\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets vs. Mavericks in NBA Cup group play Friday \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houston Rockets (5-0, first in the Western Conference) vs. Dallas Mavericks (3-2, seventh in the Western Conference); Friday, 7 p.m. CST<\/p>\n<p>LINE: Rockets -4.5; over\/under is 226.5<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: The Houston Rockets visit the Dallas Mavericks in an NBA Cup in-season tournament group play matchup.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas went 26-56 overall and 14-37 in Western Conference play a season ago. The Mavericks gave up 119.6 points per game while committing 18.4 fouls last season.<\/p>\n<p>Houston went 52-30 overall, 10-6 in Southwest Division action and 22-19 on the road last season. The Rockets averaged 8.5 steals, 5.8 blocks and 14.4 turnovers per game last season.<\/p>\n<p>The teams meet for the second time this season. In the last meeting on Oct. 22, the Rockets won 128-110, led by 30 points from Jabari Smith Jr., while Cooper Flagg scored 32 points for the Mavericks.<\/p>\n<p>INJURIES: Mavericks: Santi Aldama: out (knee), Tarik Biberovic: out (heel), Sergio De Larrea: out (knee), Dereck Lively II: out (foot), Naji Marshall: out (illness).<\/p>\n<p>Rockets: Alperen Sengun: day-to-day (back), Marcus Smart: day-to-day (forearm), Steven Adams: out (soleus).<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston Rockets (5-0, first in the Western Conference) vs. Dallas Mavericks (3-2, seventh in the Western Conference); Friday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":946302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,7235,7220,590,85],"class_list":["post-946301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-houston-rockets","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946301","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=946301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/946302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}