Denver Nuggets (21-7, third in the Western Conference) vs. Dallas Mavericks (11-19, 11th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Dallas; Tuesday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Nuggets -7.5; over\/under is 237.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Denver hits the road against Dallas looking to extend its 11-game road winning streak.<\/p>\n The Mavericks are 5-13 in Western Conference games. Dallas gives up 116.9 points and has been outscored by 3.9 points per game.<\/p>\n The Nuggets are 15-6 in Western Conference play. Denver ranks second in the Western Conference with 16.6 fast break points per game led by Christian Braun averaging 3.8.<\/p>\n The Mavericks average 11.0 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.2 fewer makes per game than the Nuggets give up (13.2). The Nuggets are shooting 51.3% from the field, 5.5% higher than the 45.8% the Mavericks’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n The teams meet for the second time this season. The Mavericks won 131-121 in the last matchup on Dec. 2. Anthony Davis led the Mavericks with 32 points, and Nikola Jokic led the Nuggets with 29 points.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Cooper Flagg is averaging 18.7 points, 6.3 rebounds and 3.6 assists for the Mavericks. Klay Thompson is averaging 5.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Jokic is scoring 28.9 points per game and averaging 12.1 rebounds for the Nuggets. Tim Hardaway Jr. is averaging 6.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Mavericks: 6-4, averaging 119.1 points, 44.2 rebounds, 27.0 assists, 7.4 steals and 6.1 blocks per game while shooting 49.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 118.5 points per game.<\/p>\n Nuggets: 8-2, averaging 126.1 points, 41.6 rebounds, 30.1 assists, 7.3 steals and 4.0 blocks per game while shooting 52.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 117.4 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Mavericks: Max Christie: day to day (illness), Dereck Lively II: out for season (foot), Kyrie Irving: out (knee), Dante Exum: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n Nuggets: Christian Braun: out (ankle), Aaron Gordon: out (hamstring).<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denver Nuggets (21-7, third in the Western Conference) vs. Dallas Mavericks (11-19, 11th in the Western Conference) Dallas;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[45836,732,1770,102,104,103,6539,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-99523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-45836","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-dallas","12":"tag-dallas-headlines","13":"tag-dallas-news","14":"tag-nba-basketball","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99523","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=99523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}