Dallas Mavericks (23-49, 13th in the Western Conference) vs. Denver Nuggets (44-28, fourth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Denver; Wednesday, 10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Nuggets -14; over\/under is 245.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Denver will try to keep its four-game home win streak intact when the Nuggets play Dallas.<\/p>\n The Nuggets are 26-16 in conference matchups. Denver is 8-11 in games decided by less than 4 points.<\/p>\n The Mavericks have gone 12-32 against Western Conference opponents. Dallas is 5-7 in one-possession games.<\/p>\n The Nuggets average 120.8 points per game, 1.8 more points than the 119.0 the Mavericks allow. The Mavericks average 10.8 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.6 fewer made shots on average than the 13.4 per game the Nuggets allow.<\/p>\n The teams square off for the fourth time this season. The Nuggets won the last meeting 118-109 on Jan. 15. Jamal Murray scored 33 points to help lead the Nuggets to the victory.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Tim Hardaway Jr. is scoring 13.8 points per game and averaging 2.6 rebounds for the Nuggets. Nikola Jokic is averaging 25.0 points and 12.5 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Naji Marshall is averaging 15.3 points and 3.3 assists for the Mavericks. Cooper Flagg is averaging 20.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Nuggets: 6-4, averaging 123.0 points, 43.7 rebounds, 31.4 assists, 6.7 steals and 3.0 blocks per game while shooting 50.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 118.3 points per game.<\/p>\n Mavericks: 2-8, averaging 115.2 points, 44.6 rebounds, 27.5 assists, 7.4 steals and 4.7 blocks per game while shooting 46.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 127.5 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Nuggets: Peyton Watson: out (hamstring).<\/p>\n Mavericks: Dereck Lively II: out for season (foot), Caleb Martin: out (foot), Kyrie Irving: out for season (knee), Daniel Gafford: day to day (shoulder), Brandon Williams: day to day (concussion protocol).<\/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 (23-49, 13th in the Western Conference) vs. Denver Nuggets (44-28, fourth in the Western Conference) Denver;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[9121,31207,26179,16378,943,4642,102,104,2582,103,4647,49066,1615,6389,4644,32334,4641,31208,3080,6539,6408,32333,154,27,85539,1760],"class_list":["post-219316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-athlete-injuries","tag-brandon-williams","tag-caleb-martin","tag-co-state-wire","tag-colorado","tag-cooper-flagg","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-dallas-news","tag-daniel-gafford","tag-data-skrive","tag-denver","tag-denver-nuggets","tag-dereck-lively-ii","tag-jamal-murray","tag-kyrie-irving","tag-naji-marshall","tag-nba","tag-nba-basketball","tag-nikola-jokic","tag-peyton-watson","tag-sports","tag-texas","tag-tim-hardaway-jr","tag-tx-state-wire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219316","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=219316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}