{"id":476150,"date":"2026-10-25T08:30:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T08:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/476150\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T08:30:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T08:30:36","slug":"mavericks-vs-spurs-preview-start-time-tv-schedule-and-injury-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/476150\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks vs Spurs Preview, Start Time, TV Schedule, and Injury Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Dallas Mavericks (1-1) play host to the somehow winless 2026 Western Conference Champion San Antonio Spurs (0-2) on Saturday night. Dallas is coming home after thumping the Indiana Pacers on Friday night. The Spurs are visiting Dallas after a painful loss to the Houston Rockets. Both teams are playing on the second end of a back-to-back. Here\u2019s what else you need to know:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The injury report is one very familiar to Dallas fans who suffered through last season. Cooper Flagg is likely to miss the next 4 games or more, including this one, after suffering an AC joint sprain when he was fouled from behind on Friday night. Kyrie Irving is also missing this one, likely part of planned rest as he\u2019s returning from his 2024 ACL tear. Then on top of that, they\u2019re missing Santi Aldama and Dereck Lively, but you probably could\u2019ve assumed at least the first guy. Caleb Martin is out as is Tarik Biberovic. That leaves head coach Dusty May witha short bench. The Spurs are giving Tobias Harris the night off, but that\u2019s all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">This one might be ugly. The Spurs lost last night in kind of embarassing fashion and the Mavericks are in front of San Antonio next. Look for Victor Wembanyama to go off. But on the flip side, this means we should get a long look at all the newer Mavericks, including Marcus Sasser, Sergio De Larrea, and Morez Johnson. Don\u2019t let this one get you down and who knows, maybe Dallas will surprise us!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">you\u2019re checking out this post, it\u2019s for one of two reasons:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">If you\u2019re part of the former, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/account\/profile\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">please consider signing up for an account<\/a>. You get way fewer ads, and you can comment! If you\u2019re part of the latter group: GO GET THE APP. I\u2019m serious. The app has some real-time features specifically for game threads like this one and you can comment and get notified really, really easily. It\u2019s part of what\u2019s keeping this whole series of sites going. So go do it for us and in doing so, you\u2019ll see why the experience is simply better.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Consider joining me on Pod Maverick live<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@Pod_Maverick\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> after the game on YouTube<\/a>; I will be going live tonight after the game and it\u2019s the show where I need y\u2019all to join and participate!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Mavericks (1-1) play host to the somehow winless 2026 Western Conference Champion San Antonio Spurs (0-2)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,2663],"class_list":["post-476150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-mavericks-game-coverage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476150","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=476150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}