{"id":475260,"date":"2026-10-24T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T08:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/475260\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T08:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T08:00:14","slug":"san-antonio-faces-dallas-for-conference-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/475260\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio faces Dallas for conference showdown"},"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\/san-antonio-spurs-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Antonio Spurs<\/a> (0-2, 13th in the Western Conference) vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/dallas-mavericks-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a> (1-1, ninth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Dallas; Saturday, 8 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: Spurs -12.5; over\/under is 231.5<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: Western Conference foes Dallas and San Antonio square off on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Dallas finished 26-56 overall and 4-12 in Southwest Division play a season ago. The Mavericks averaged 114.1 points per game last season, 19.5 on free throws and 33 from deep.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">San Antonio went 62-20 overall, 13-3 in Southwest Division action and 30-12 on the road last season. The Spurs averaged 17.1 points off of turnovers, 15.5 second-chance points and 41.8 bench points last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">INJURIES: Mavericks: Cooper Flagg: day to day (shoulder), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/tarik-biberovic-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tarik Biberovic<\/a>: day to day (heel), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/caleb-martin-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caleb Martin<\/a>: day to day (thumb), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/jett-howard-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jett Howard<\/a>: day to day (calf), Dereck Lively II: day to day (foot), Santi Aldama: day to day (knee).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Spurs: Jayden Quaintance: out (knee), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/tobias-harris-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tobias Harris<\/a>: day to day (calf).<\/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 San Antonio Spurs (0-2, 13th in the Western Conference) vs. Dallas Mavericks (1-1, ninth in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[26179,102,104,2582,103,64550,161014,16585,161013],"class_list":["post-475260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-caleb-martin","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-dallas-news","tag-event_preview","tag-jett-howard","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-tarik-biberovic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475260","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=475260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}