{"id":174060,"date":"2026-02-21T07:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T07:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/174060\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T07:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T07:58:11","slug":"dallas-faces-indiana-on-10-game-losing-streak-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/174060\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas faces Indiana on 10-game losing streak"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dallas Mavericks<\/a> (19-36, 12th in the Western Conference) vs. Indiana Pacers<\/a> (15-42, 15th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

Indianapolis; Sunday, 5 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Dallas heads into the matchup with Indiana as losers of 10 in a row.<\/p>\n

The Pacers are 10-18 in home games. Indiana is 4-24 in games decided by at least 10 points.<\/p>\n

The Mavericks are 5-20 on the road. Dallas allows 117.5 points to opponents while being outscored by 3.6 points per game.<\/p>\n

The Pacers average 111.2 points per game, 6.3 fewer points than the 117.5 the Mavericks give up. The Mavericks are shooting 47.0% from the field, 1.4% lower than the 48.4% the Pacers’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n

The two teams square off for the second time this season. The Mavericks defeated the Pacers 107-105 in their last matchup on Oct. 30. Brandon Williams<\/a> led the Mavericks with 20 points, and Pascal Siakam<\/a> led the Pacers with 27 points.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Jarace Walker<\/a> is shooting 39.9% and averaging 10.7 points for the Pacers. Jay Huff<\/a> is averaging 1.8 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Naji Marshall<\/a> is averaging 15.1 points for the Mavericks. Max Christie<\/a> is averaging 12.8 points over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Pacers: 4-6, averaging 115.6 points, 41.7 rebounds, 29.0 assists, 8.0 steals and 3.5 blocks per game while shooting 48.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 119.7 points per game.<\/p>\n

Mavericks: 0-10, averaging 111.7 points, 43.7 rebounds, 22.9 assists, 7.5 steals and 4.6 blocks per game while shooting 45.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 121.7 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Pacers: Aaron Nesmith: out (ankle), Obi Toppin: out (foot), Johnny Furphy: out for season (knee), Andrew Nembhard<\/a>: out (back), Ivica Zubac: out (ankle), Pascal Siakam: out (personal), Tyrese Haliburton<\/a>: out for season (achilles).<\/p>\n

Mavericks: Dereck Lively II: out for season (foot), Kyrie Irving<\/a>: out for season (knee), Cooper Flagg: out (foot).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Mavericks (19-36, 12th in the Western Conference) vs. Indiana Pacers (15-42, 15th in the Eastern Conference) Indianapolis;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[36290,31207,102,104,2582,103,64550,6390,61483,61485,4641,4645,31208,16585,61481,61482],"class_list":{"0":"post-174060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-andrew-nembhard","9":"tag-brandon-williams","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-dallas-headlines","12":"tag-dallas-mavericks","13":"tag-dallas-news","14":"tag-event_preview","15":"tag-indiana-pacers","16":"tag-jarace-walker","17":"tag-jay-huff","18":"tag-kyrie-irving","19":"tag-max-christie","20":"tag-naji-marshall","21":"tag-national-basketball-association","22":"tag-pascal-siakam","23":"tag-tyrese-haliburton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174060","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=174060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}