Houston Rockets (21-10, fourth in the Western Conference) vs. Dallas Mavericks (12-23, 13th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Dallas; Saturday, 8:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Houston aims to keep its four-game win streak intact when the Rockets take on Dallas.<\/p>\n
The Mavericks are 6-16 in Western Conference games. Dallas is fourth in the Western Conference with 34.4 defensive rebounds per game led by Anthony Davis averaging 7.4.<\/p>\n
The Rockets are 11-9 against Western Conference opponents. Houston ranks second in the Western Conference shooting 40.0% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n
The Mavericks score 113.6 points per game, 2.1 more points than the 111.5 the Rockets allow. The Rockets average 12.0 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.2 more makes per game than the Mavericks allow.<\/p>\n
The teams meet for the third time this season. The Mavericks won 122-109 in the last matchup on Dec. 7. Davis led the Mavericks with 29 points, and Kevin Durant led the Rockets with 27 points.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Cooper Flagg is averaging 19.2 points, 6.4 rebounds and 4.1 assists for the Mavericks. Max Christie is averaging 18.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Amen Thompson is scoring 18.0 points per game and averaging 7.3 rebounds for the Rockets. Durant is averaging 22.0 points and 5.0 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Mavericks: 3-7, averaging 117.9 points, 45.4 rebounds, 26.3 assists, 6.8 steals and 6.4 blocks per game while shooting 49.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 122.2 points per game.<\/p>\n
Rockets: 6-4, averaging 119.7 points, 48.5 rebounds, 26.5 assists, 7.6 steals and 6.1 blocks per game while shooting 50.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 113.9 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Mavericks: Dereck Lively II: out for season (foot), Kyrie Irving: out (knee), Dante Exum: out for season (knee), D’Angelo Russell: day to day (illness).<\/p>\n
Rockets: Fred VanVleet: out for season (acl), Steven Adams: day to day (ankle), Clint Capela: day to day (illness).<\/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":"Houston Rockets (21-10, fourth in the Western Conference) vs. Dallas Mavericks (12-23, 13th in the Western Conference) Dallas;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[48656,732,56,58,57,6539,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-108229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-48656","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-headlines","12":"tag-houston-news","13":"tag-nba-basketball","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}