New York Knicks (8-5, fifth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Dallas Mavericks (4-11, 13th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Dallas; Wednesday, 9:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: New York hits the road against Dallas looking to break its four-game road losing streak.<\/p>\n
The Mavericks are 3-7 on their home court. Dallas is the leader in the Western Conference with 18.2 fast break points led by Cooper Flagg averaging 3.2.<\/p>\n
The Knicks are 0-4 in road games. New York ranks sixth in the NBA with 46.8 rebounds per game. Karl-Anthony Towns leads the Knicks with 12.7.<\/p>\n
The Mavericks are shooting 44.9% from the field this season, 2.6 percentage points lower than the 47.5% the Knicks allow to opponents. The Knicks are shooting 45.9% from the field, 0.3% higher than the 45.6% the Mavericks’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Flagg is averaging 15.5 points, 6.3 rebounds and 3.1 assists for the Mavericks. Jaden Hardy is averaging 17 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Josh Hart is scoring 9.2 points per game and averaging 6.5 rebounds for the Knicks. Miles McBride is averaging 25.0 points and 4.0 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Mavericks: 2-8, averaging 111.5 points, 45.9 rebounds, 24.3 assists, 9.1 steals and 6.6 blocks per game while shooting 45.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 118.1 points per game.<\/p>\n
Knicks: 6-4, averaging 124.7 points, 45.6 rebounds, 28.7 assists, 8.5 steals and 4.1 blocks per game while shooting 47.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 117.7 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Mavericks: Dereck Lively II: out (knee), Kyrie Irving: out (knee), Dante Exum: out (knee), Anthony Davis: out (calf), Ryan Nembhard: out (knee), Daniel Gafford: out (ankle).<\/p>\n
Knicks: Jalen Brunson: out (ankle), OG Anunoby: out (hamstring).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Knicks (8-5, fifth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Dallas Mavericks (4-11, 13th in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[25153,597,12188,4583,9,24,55,54,56,319],"class_list":{"0":"post-43726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-25153","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-athlete-injuries","11":"tag-nba-basketball","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-city-news","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}