{"id":929370,"date":"2026-10-11T19:58:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T19:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/929370\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T19:58:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T19:58:20","slug":"mavericks-rockets-macau-friday-game-draws-sellout-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/929370\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks-Rockets Macau Friday game draws sellout crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">The Mavericks and Rockets had two games in Macau, China, with Sunday\u2019s game drawing 11,711 fans, which was down from a sellout crowd of 14,000 on Friday. The crowd include actor Jackie Chan, former NBAer Yao Ming and Inter Miami co-owner David Beckham. Mavs majority shareholder Miriam Adelson, her son-in-law and team governor Patrick Dumont and their family were \u201con hand as the trip\u2019s hosts\u201d and the owners of the Venetian Arena (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/article\/dallas-mavericks-houston-rockets-nba-macao-china-22467825.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/article\/dallas-mavericks-houston-rockets-nba-macao-china-22467825.php\">DALLAS MORNING NEWS, 10\/11<\/a>). While Mavs G Kyrie Irving and Rockets F Kevin Durant were the main draws on the court, even they \u201cdid not elicit the roar that greeted the sight\u201d of Ming sitting courtside. Others in attendance included Alibaba founder Jack Ma and Nets owner Joe Tsai (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/sport\/basketball\/article\/3370404\/no-kyrie-irving-yet-mavericks-rockets-still-put-show-nba-china-games-fans?module=top_story&amp;pgtype=subsection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/sport\/basketball\/article\/3370404\/no-kyrie-irving-yet-mavericks-rockets-still-put-show-nba-china-games-fans?module=top_story&amp;pgtype=subsection\">SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, 10\/9<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">Crowds for Friday\u2019s game \u201cgathered hours in advance\u201d of the opening tip-off and \u201clengthy queues\u201d snaked past the prominent fan festival NBA House. Liang Xiaoye, a teacher from Hangzhou, \u201cturned to the secondary market after standard tickets sold out.\u201d She said she \u201cpaid four times the original 888 yuan face value.\u201d She said she was asked by someone if they \u201ccould buy it from me for 3,500 yuan, and I immediately said no.\u201d Melissa Tranquille, a fan from Western Australia, said she thinks organizers of the NBA House have \u201cdone a fantastic job.\u201d She said the NBA House \u201chas been amazing,\u201d adding, \u201cthe way it\u2019s set up, you can walk through all of it, it\u2019s not too crowded and the experience is amazing\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/sport\/basketball\/article\/3370391\/nba-china-games-draw-fans-near-and-far-irving-just-one-star-attractions?module=top_story&amp;pgtype=subsection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/sport\/basketball\/article\/3370391\/nba-china-games-draw-fans-near-and-far-irving-just-one-star-attractions?module=top_story&amp;pgtype=subsection\">SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, 10\/9<\/a>). If the crowd \u201coutside the players\u2019 hotel is any guide, the NBA\u2019s China comeback is gaining traction\u201d (CNBC SPORT, 10\/9).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">The Trail Blazers, led by Chinese C Yang Hansen, \u201ccould face\u201d the Pacers at the Venetian Arena next year, per a source (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/sport\/basketball\/article\/3370334\/homebodies-portland-tipped-face-well-travelled-pacers-2027-nba-china-games?module=top_story&amp;pgtype=subsection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/sport\/basketball\/article\/3370334\/homebodies-portland-tipped-face-well-travelled-pacers-2027-nba-china-games?module=top_story&amp;pgtype=subsection\">SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, 10\/9<\/a>). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mavericks and Rockets had two games in Macau, China, with Sunday\u2019s game drawing 11,711 fans, which was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":929371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[461,49,48,22387,459,6705,82],"class_list":["post-929370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-basketball","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mavericks","tag-nba","tag-rockets","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/929371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}