{"id":471393,"date":"2026-10-20T07:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/471393\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T07:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:58:08","slug":"houston-hosts-dallas-in-season-opener-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/471393\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston hosts Dallas in season opener"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/dallas-mavericks-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a> vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/houston-rockets-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Rockets<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Houston; Wednesday, 8:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">LINE: Rockets -8.5; over\/under is 229.5<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: The Houston Rockets start the season at home against the Dallas Mavericks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Houston went 52-30 overall and 10-6 in Southwest Division play last season. The Rockets averaged 115.2 points per game while allowing opponents to score 110.0 last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Dallas went 26-56 overall and 4-12 in Southwest Division play during the 2025-26 season. The Mavericks averaged 114.1 points per game last season, 52.8 in the paint, 15.9 off of turnovers and 17.8 on fast breaks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">INJURIES: Rockets: None listed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Mavericks: Dereck Lively II: out (foot), Santi Aldama: out (knee).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press Dallas Mavericks vs. Houston Rockets Houston; Wednesday, 8:30 p.m. EDT LINE: Rockets -8.5; over\/under is 229.5&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2582,64550,56,58,57,4854,16585],"class_list":["post-471393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-event_preview","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-houston-rockets","tag-national-basketball-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471393","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=471393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}