Dallas Mavericks (11-17, 11th in the Western Conference) vs. Philadelphia 76ers (15-11, fifth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Philadelphia; Saturday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> 76ers -1.5; over\/under is 228.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Dallas visits the Philadelphia 76ers after the Mavericks took down the Detroit Pistons 116-114 in overtime.<\/p>\n The 76ers have gone 8-7 in home games. Philadelphia ranks seventh in the Eastern Conference with 16.2 fast break points per game led by Tyrese Maxey averaging 5.7.<\/p>\n The Mavericks are 3-8 on the road. Dallas is 3-3 in one-possession games.<\/p>\n The 76ers average 116.8 points per game, 0.1 more points than the 116.7 the Mavericks give up. The Mavericks are shooting 46.0% from the field, 0.1% higher than the 45.9% the 76ers’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Maxey is shooting 46.6% and averaging 31.4 points for the 76ers. Andre Drummond is averaging 3.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Cooper Flagg is scoring 18.6 points per game and averaging 6.4 rebounds for the Mavericks. Max Christie is averaging 2.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: 76ers: 6-4, averaging 114.4 points, 45.9 rebounds, 23.9 assists, 9.3 steals and 5.7 blocks per game while shooting 43.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 113.4 points per game.<\/p>\n Mavericks: 6-4, averaging 118.5 points, 43.0 rebounds, 26.7 assists, 7.6 steals and 5.8 blocks per game while shooting 48.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 118.0 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: 76ers: Trendon Watford: out (thigh), Hunter Sallis: day to day (shoulder), Kelly Oubre Jr.: out (knee), Joel Embiid: day to day (illness).<\/p>\n Mavericks: Dereck Lively II: out for season (foot), Klay Thompson: day to day (knee), Anthony Davis: day to day (illness), Kyrie Irving: out (knee), Dante Exum: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Mavericks (11-17, 11th in the Western Conference) vs. Philadelphia 76ers (15-11, fifth in the Eastern Conference) Philadelphia;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[35310,1165,10377,69,71,70,726],"class_list":{"0":"post-66454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-35310","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-nba-basketball","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","13":"tag-philadelphia-news","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}