Brooklyn Nets (11-25, 13th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Dallas Mavericks (14-25, 12th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Dallas; Monday, 8:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Mavericks -4.5; over\/under is 221.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Brooklyn is looking to break its three-game slide with a win against Dallas.<\/p>\n The Mavericks have gone 10-10 at home. Dallas is last in the Western Conference shooting 33.8% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n The Nets have gone 6-10 away from home. Brooklyn is last in the Eastern Conference scoring 12.1 fast break points per game.<\/p>\n The Mavericks average 113.0 points per game, 0.9 fewer points than the 113.9 the Nets allow. The Mavericks average 108.8 points per game, 8.3 fewer points than the 117.1 the Mavericks give up to opponents.<\/p>\n The two teams match up for the second time this season. The Mavericks defeated the Nets 119-111 in their last meeting on Dec. 13. Anthony Davis led the Mavericks with 24 points, and Michael Porter Jr. led the Nets with 34 points.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Cooper Flagg is averaging 18.9 points, 6.4 rebounds and 4.2 assists for the Mavericks. Naji Marshall is averaging 13.7 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Noah Clowney is scoring 13.2 points per game and averaging 3.9 rebounds for the Nets. Egor Demin is averaging 3.4 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Mavericks: 3-7, averaging 112.8 points, 45.6 rebounds, 25.8 assists, 6.6 steals and 4.9 blocks per game while shooting 48.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 117.9 points per game.<\/p>\n Nets: 4-6, averaging 106.8 points, 39.0 rebounds, 24.8 assists, 10.0 steals and 4.6 blocks per game while shooting 44.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 109.6 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Mavericks: Moussa Cisse: day to day (shoulder), Dereck Lively II: out for season (foot), Kyrie Irving: out (knee), Dante Exum: out for season (knee), Anthony Davis: out (hand), P.J. Washington: day to day (ankle), Brandon Williams: day to day (illness).<\/p>\n Nets: Haywood Highsmith: out (knee), Michael Porter Jr.: out (rest), Drake Powell: day to day (knee), Ben Saraf: day to day (knee), Ziaire Williams: day to day (illness), E.J. Liddell: day to day (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":"Brooklyn Nets (11-25, 13th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Dallas Mavericks (14-25, 12th 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":[9],"tags":[52197,732,9121,1770,102,104,103,6539,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-119718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-52197","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-athlete-injuries","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-dallas","13":"tag-dallas-headlines","14":"tag-dallas-news","15":"tag-nba-basketball","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119718","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=119718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119718\/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=119718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}