{"id":240514,"date":"2025-10-21T07:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T07:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/240514\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T07:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T07:45:09","slug":"mavericks-host-the-spurs-in-season-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/240514\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks host the Spurs in season opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7979a9d5=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/san-antonio-spurs-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Antonio Spurs<\/a> vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/dallas-mavericks-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7979a9d5=\"\">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-7979a9d5=\"\">BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Mavericks -3; over\/under is 225.5<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7979a9d5=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: The Dallas Mavericks host the San Antonio Spurs in the season opener.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7979a9d5=\"\">Dallas finished 39-43 overall, 8-8 in Southwest Division action and 22-18 at home last season. The Mavericks averaged 114.2 points per game last season, 51.0 in the paint, 16.9 off of turnovers and 15.1 on fast breaks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7979a9d5=\"\">San Antonio went 34-48 overall and 22-30 in Western Conference play during the 2024-25 season. The Spurs averaged 8.2 steals, 5.5 blocks and 13.3 turnovers per game last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7979a9d5=\"\">INJURIES: Mavericks: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/kyrie-irving-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kyrie Irving<\/a>: out (knee).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7979a9d5=\"\">Spurs: De&#8217;Aaron Fox: day to day (hamstring), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/jeremy-sochan-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeremy Sochan<\/a>: day to day (wrist), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/lindy-waters-iii-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lindy Waters III<\/a>: out (eye).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7979a9d5=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7979a9d5=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Antonio Spurs vs. Dallas Mavericks Dallas; Wednesday, 9:30 p.m. EDT BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Mavericks -3; over\/under is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-240514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}