{"id":241615,"date":"2026-04-09T06:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T06:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/241615\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T06:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T06:57:12","slug":"san-antonio-takes-home-win-streak-into-matchup-with-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/241615\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio takes home win streak into matchup with Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dallas Mavericks<\/a> (25-55, 13th in the Western Conference) vs. San Antonio Spurs<\/a> (61-19, second in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

San Antonio; Friday, 8 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: San Antonio hosts Dallas trying to prolong its six-game home winning streak.<\/p>\n

The Spurs are 35-15 in Western Conference games. San Antonio ranks sixth in the NBA<\/a> allowing only 111.2 points per game while holding opponents to 45.0% shooting.<\/p>\n

The Mavericks are 4-11 against opponents in the Southwest Division. Dallas ranks fifth in the league scoring 52.9 points per game in the paint led by Cooper Flagg<\/a> averaging 11.3.<\/p>\n

The Spurs average 119.6 points per game, 0.3 more points than the 119.3 the Mavericks allow. The Mavericks are shooting 46.5% from the field, 1.5% higher than the 45.0% the Spurs’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n

The teams play for the fourth time this season. The Spurs won the last matchup 138-125 on Feb. 7, with Stephon Castle<\/a> scoring 40 points in the victory.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: De’Aaron Fox<\/a> is scoring 18.5 points per game with 3.8 rebounds and 6.1 assists for the Spurs. Keldon Johnson<\/a> is averaging 15.8 points and 4.7 rebounds while shooting 48.4% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Max Christie<\/a> is scoring 12.2 points per game and averaging 3.3 rebounds for the Mavericks. John Poulakidas<\/a> is averaging 1.6 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Spurs: 9-1, averaging 125.5 points, 50.4 rebounds, 32.0 assists, 8.1 steals and 5.5 blocks per game while shooting 50.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 108.8 points per game.<\/p>\n

Mavericks: 2-8, averaging 116.1 points, 43.1 rebounds, 25.3 assists, 8.4 steals and 4.6 blocks per game while shooting 44.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 125.1 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Spurs: David Jones Garcia: out for season (ankle), Stephon Castle: out (knee), Victor Wembanyama<\/a>: out (rib).<\/p>\n

Mavericks: P.J. Washington<\/a>: out (elbow), Dereck Lively II: out for season (foot), Daniel Gafford: out (shoulder), Caleb Martin: out (foot), Brandon Williams<\/a>: out (illness), Kyrie Irving<\/a>: out for season (knee), Naji Marshall: out (hip), Klay Thompson: out (rest).<\/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 (25-55, 13th in the Western Conference) vs. San Antonio Spurs (61-19, second in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[31207,4642,102,104,2582,103,16024,64550,74080,41579,4641,4645,16585,20769,1066,1504,509],"class_list":{"0":"post-241615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-brandon-williams","9":"tag-cooper-flagg","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-dallas-headlines","12":"tag-dallas-mavericks","13":"tag-dallas-news","14":"tag-deaaron-fox","15":"tag-event_preview","16":"tag-john-poulakidas","17":"tag-keldon-johnson","18":"tag-kyrie-irving","19":"tag-max-christie","20":"tag-national-basketball-association","21":"tag-p-j-washington","22":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","23":"tag-stephon-castle","24":"tag-victor-wembanyama"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241615","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=241615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241615\/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=241615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}