The Dallas Mavericks finally play basketball again, even if it doesn’t quite count. Tonight, they host the Oklahoma City Thunder, but do so in Fort Worth at the Dickies Arena (pretty sure it’s the first
time an NBA game has been played in this location). Dallas is playing their first preseason contest out of four, while the Thunder are, for some reason, playing night two of a literal back-to-back. Despite sitting most of their best players, they walloped the Charlotte Hornets, 135-114.
- WHO: Dallas Mavericks vs Oklahoma City Thunder
- WHAT: The first preseason game of the year!
- WHERE: Dickies Arena, Fort Worth, Texas
- WHEN: 7:30 p.m. CST
- HOW: MavsTV, Channel 29 (local fans), NBAtv, NBA League Pass, also Playback with Kirk
Join us on Playback!
Make sure to check out the Mavs Moneyball Playback stream to watch games with us! To sign up:
- Head over to playback.tv and create an account with your email address
- Connect and select your NBA League Pass login as your streaming account (sign up for League Pass here first if you don’t have it)
- Go to https://www.playback.tv/mavsmoneyball and hit the JOIN button
- Make sure to activate push notifications so you know when we’re going live
The preseason is for… well… in this day and age, it’s hard to make a reasonable argument for what the NBA preseason does. The coaching staff knows the roster and when the games don’t count, the concern for injury is high. The seasons are just too long. But for the Mavericks, they likely will want to get at least some glimpse of how their big roster looks against an athletic and talented team like the 2025 NBA Champion Thunder.
Injury reports and information aren’t reliable as of this writing, but for Dallas, it’s safe to say Kyrie Irving, Daniel Gafford, and Dante Exum won’t see the floor. Expect heavy doses of Andrew Nembhard and some of the guys we’d consider backend players once any of the top half of the rotation plays more than 15-25 minutes.
As you can tell below, you can join me and some other Mavs Moneyball guys in a room on Playback (embed below) during the game (though I may not be able to start it until halftime). Also consider joining Josh and I on Pod Maverick live after the game on YouTube, we should start around 10:15 pm. Thanks so much for spending time with us here at Mavs Moneyball. Let’s go Mavs!
