{"id":297660,"date":"2025-10-12T16:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T16:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/297660\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T16:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T16:04:11","slug":"exclusive-nets-beat-suns-to-tie-nba-china-games-series-mavericks-rockets-up-next-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/297660\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive | Nets beat Suns to tie NBA China Games series, Mavericks, Rockets up next in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Brooklyn Nets beat the Phoenix Suns 111-109 in Macau on Sunday to split the first NBA China Games series, and fans can look forward to another mouthwatering clash at The Venetian Arena one year from now.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Dallas Mavericks owner Patrick Dumont, who is also the president and chief operating officer of Las Vegas Sands, which runs The Venetian, told the Post a heavyweight Texas derby would happen in Macau in 2026.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cYes, the [Dallas] Mavericks and the [Houston] Rockets, here in Macau next year. Are you ready?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">On the court, a sluggish start from the Nets allowed the Suns to surge to an early 15-point lead, behind Devin Booker and Dillon Brooks\u2019 combined 18-point effort.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Powered by Michael Porter Jnr and Cam Thomas, who sank five consecutive free throws inside the last minute, the Nets fought back in the second quarter to trail by only two points at half-time.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Both teams will have only one pre-season game left after their trip to the Far East. Photo: Karma Lo\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/8a9edaec-14bf-447d-9068-e88ebb83bdef_4fd5bad7.jpg\" title=\"Both teams will have only one pre-season game left after their trip to the Far East. Photo: Karma Lo\"\/>Both teams will have only one pre-season game left after their trip to the Far East. Photo: Karma Lo<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Both teams appeared to have found their missing energy after the break as the game suddenly sparked to life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brooklyn Nets beat the Phoenix Suns 111-109 in Macau on Sunday to split the first NBA China&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":297661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[1339,3124,1260,149738,1721,62,67,132,68,151798],"class_list":{"0":"post-297660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-brooklyn-nets","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-nba-china-games","12":"tag-phoenix-suns","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-venetian-arena"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115362049007225380","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}