Dallas Mavericks (2-3, 12th in the Western Conference) vs. Detroit Pistons (3-2, sixth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Mexico City; Saturday, 10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Detroit Pistons square off against the Dallas Mavericks in Mexico City.<\/p>\n
Detroit went 44-38 overall last season while going 22-19 at home. The Pistons shot 47.6% from the field and 36.2% from 3-point range last season.<\/p>\n
Dallas went 39-43 overall, 23-29 in Western Conference games and 17-25 on the road last season. The Mavericks averaged 16.9 points off of turnovers, 13.8 second-chance points and 37.9 bench points last season.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Pistons: Marcus Sasser: day to day (hip), Jaden Ivey: out (knee).<\/p>\n
Mavericks: Daniel Gafford: day to day (ankle), Anthony Davis: day to day (leg), Kyrie Irving: out (knee), Dante Exum: day to day (knee), Dereck Lively II: day to day (knee).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Mavericks (2-3, 12th in the Western Conference) vs. Detroit Pistons (3-2, sixth in the Eastern Conference) Mexico…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[141569,966,355,1063,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-262802","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-141569","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-nba-basketball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262802","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=262802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}