New Orleans Pelicans (1-6, 15th in the Western Conference) vs. Dallas Mavericks (2-5, 14th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Dallas; Wednesday, 8:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Mavericks -7.5; over\/under is 227.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: New Orleans hits the road against Dallas looking to break its four-game road slide.<\/p>\n Dallas finished 39-43 overall and 8-8 in Southwest Division action a season ago. The Mavericks averaged 7.8 steals, 5.4 blocks and 13.3 turnovers per game last season.<\/p>\n New Orleans went 21-61 overall and 13-38 in Western Conference play during the 2024-25 season. The Pelicans averaged 109.8 points per game while allowing opponents to score 119.3 last season.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Mavericks: Anthony Davis: out (leg), Kyrie Irving: out (knee), Dante Exum: out (knee), Dereck Lively II: out (knee).<\/p>\n Pelicans: Yves Missi: day to day (illness), Zion Williamson: out (hamstring), Dejounte Murray: out (leg).<\/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":"New Orleans Pelicans (1-6, 15th in the Western Conference) vs. Dallas Mavericks (2-5, 14th in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[22836,732,102,104,103,6539,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-36153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-22836","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-dallas-headlines","12":"tag-dallas-news","13":"tag-nba-basketball","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36153","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=36153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36153\/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=36153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}