{"id":407234,"date":"2026-08-15T09:26:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T09:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/407234\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T09:26:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T09:26:25","slug":"dallas-mavericks-fans-are-confident-in-this-years-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/407234\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Mavericks fans are confident in this year\u2019s team"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier in the week I was somewhat aghast when clicking through the win totals over at our partner FanDuel. The Dallas Mavericks have an over\/under of 32.5<\/a>! What in the WORLD. Dallas won 26 games last season and didn\u2019t have Kyrie Irving or any other actual NBA level guards.<\/p>\n

So this week\u2019s poll question was easy: Do you think the Mavericks will win at least 33 games this year?<\/p>\n

9 in 10 voters think Dallas is going to beat that win total. I agree and am one of them. This sort of thing is so baffling to me; I am grumpy about the team because Cooper Flagg is a future superstar and the team is going to be hard pressed to make even the play-in. But they\u2019re still WAY better than last season!<\/p>\n

Kyrie Irving exists, what in the world is happening here? Other books have them between 32-36 wins. I am setting my win total for Dallas at 37, an 11-game improvement. I\u2019ve been scoffed at when talking with non-Mavericks fans friends, but I don\u2019t see why that\u2019s unreasonable.<\/p>\n

Perhaps it has to do with the schedule for the Mavericks<\/a>. Dallas has both a brutal start and brutal close to the 2026-27 regular season. And while it\u2019s perhaps silly to be concerned about March and April games on paper now, the opening to the season is no joke.<\/p>\n

And yet, 32 wins as a maximum ceiling seems ridiculous. What do you think happens? Would you make a bet on this team? I think I would, which is saying something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier in the week I was somewhat aghast when clicking through the win totals over at our partner…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[11326,102,104,103,2663,11325],"class_list":["post-407234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-betting-and-daily-fantasy","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-mavericks-game-coverage","tag-mavericks-odds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407234","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=407234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}