The Dallas Mavericks (12-22) host the Philadelphia 76ers (17-14) Thursday evening in a match up on New Years Day. The Mavericks are coming off a few days of rest following an annoying loss to the Blazers in Portland where they got down huge early and couldn’t claw all the way back in. The Sixers played a wild game on Tuesday against the Memphis Grizzlies where they pulled it out in overtime.
Heres the main things you need to know before tipoff.
- WHO: Dallas Mavericks vs Philadelphia 76ers
- WHAT: New year, new Mavs?
- WHERE: American Airlines Center, Dallas, Texas
- WHEN: 97:30 p.m. CST
- HOW: NBAtv, KFAA Channel 29, MavsTV streaming, NBA League Pass
The Mavericks have a fairly clean injury report for them.
The usual three are out: Dereck Lively, Kyrie Irving, Dante Exum. Joining them today for certain is D’Angelo Russell, who is out with an illness. Anthony Davis is not showing up on the report at all. On the Sixer side of things, Kelly Oubre is out as is Trendon Watford. Joel Embiid is listed as probable, a bit of a surprise to me.
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The Sixers are slight favorites according to the betting odds, but its so close that it’s a tossup. I think the Mavericks win this one easily and that’s because Embiid is playing. He’s a defensive traffic cone these days and offensively, he needs the ball a lot, taking away from the guy who killed Dallas last time in Tyrese Maxey. But maybe I’m wrong, that’s why they play the game. Dallas is simply too healthy (relatively, for them) to be bad this many games in a row. I think they’ll pull something aburd out and win.
Consider joining Josh and I on Pod Maverick live after the game on YouTube, we should start LATE. Thanks so much for spending time with us here at Mavs Moneyball. Let’s go Mavs!
