{"id":477917,"date":"2026-10-27T06:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T06:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/477917\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T06:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T06:48:13","slug":"oklahoma-city-faces-dallas-on-3-game-win-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/477917\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma City faces Dallas on 3-game win streak"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\/oklahoma-city-thunder-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> (3-0, second 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> (2-2, seventh 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; Wednesday, 9:30 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=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: Oklahoma City will try to prolong its three-game win streak with a victory against Dallas.<\/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, 14-37 in Western Conference play and 16-25 at home during the 2025-26 season. The Mavericks averaged 114.1 points per game while allowing opponents to score 119.6 last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Oklahoma City finished 64-18 overall and 41-11 in Western Conference games during the 2025-26 season. The Thunder averaged 25.8 assists per game on 43.1 made field goals 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: Tarik Biberovic: out (heel), Caleb Martin: out (thumb), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/sergio-de-larrea-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sergio De Larrea<\/a>: day to day (knee), Dereck Lively II: out (foot), Naji Marshall: out (illness), 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=\"\">Thunder: Cason Wallace: out (shoulder), Nikola Topic: out (back), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/thomas-sorber-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Sorber<\/a>: out (knee), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/chet-holmgren-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chet Holmgren<\/a>: out (knee), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/jalen-williams-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jalen Williams<\/a>: out (ankle), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/alex-caruso-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Caruso<\/a>: day to day (ankle).<\/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":"Oklahoma City Thunder (3-0, second in the Western Conference) vs. Dallas Mavericks (2-2, seventh in the Western Conference)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[11241,11244,102,104,2582,103,64550,10135,16585,6382,124194,10136],"class_list":["post-477917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-alex-caruso","tag-chet-holmgren","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-dallas-news","tag-event_preview","tag-jalen-williams","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-sergio-de-larrea","tag-thomas-sorber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477917","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=477917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}