{"id":56424,"date":"2025-07-11T08:54:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T08:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/56424\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T08:54:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T08:54:17","slug":"dallas-mavericks-vs-los-angeles-lakers-preview-so-it-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/56424\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Mavericks vs Los Angeles Lakers Preview: So it begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"mJIlb4\">Basketball is finally back for fans of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mavsmoneyball.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a> as the team faces off in a primetime game Thursday evening against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.silverscreenandroll.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a>. It\u2019s the debut of Cooper Flagg, the recent number one overall draft pick. Dallas last saw the court as part of the NBA Play-In where they were waxed by the Memphis Grizzlies. The Lakers last saw the court against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canishoopus.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a>. Though the players are different, this matchup should provide fireworks for all involved. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li id=\"Nl7thi\">\n<strong>WHO: <\/strong>Dallas Mavericks vs Los Angeles Lakers<\/li>\n<li id=\"EXJfdQ\">\n<strong>WHAT<\/strong>: The first game of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/nba-summer-league\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Las Vegas Summer League<\/a> for the Dallas Mavericks <\/li>\n<li id=\"iWbcHo\">\n<strong>WHERE: <\/strong>Thomas &amp; Mack Center, Las Vegas, Nevada<\/li>\n<li id=\"GpBzqp\">\n<strong>WHEN: <\/strong>7:00<strong> <\/strong>p.m. CST<\/li>\n<li id=\"vsJ9Ir\">\n<strong>HOW<\/strong>: ESPN<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"l6S52o\">The injury report&#8230; well, there isn\u2019t one. It\u2019s Summer League. But, as far as we know, everyone we\u2019re interested in playing should suit up and get minutes. As far as what we\u2019re looking for, you can read Tyler Edsel\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mavsmoneyball.com\/2025\/7\/9\/24460427\/power-ranking-the-dallas-mavericks-las-vegas-summer-league-roster-cooper-flagg-debut\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">power ranking of Dallas players<\/a>. David Trink also has this post here about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mavsmoneyball.com\/2025\/7\/10\/24463937\/three-mavericks-players-i-am-excited-to-watch-in-the-las-vegas-summer-league-cooper-flagg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">three players he wants to see<\/a> this weekend. <\/p>\n<p id=\"lEiZ9T\">Having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mavsmoneyball.com\/2025\/6\/30\/24457984\/the-mavericks-should-start-ryan-nembhard-from-opening-night\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ryan Nembhard as point is going to make a big difference<\/a> in the quality of the game, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mavsmoneyball.com\/2025\/7\/10\/24464154\/cooper-flagg-point-forward-pj-washington-ad-anthony-davis-klay-thompson-summer-league-mavericks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seeing Flagg as the play initiator<\/a> is worth paying close attention to. I\u2019m pretty excited about seeing Dallas basketball again; anything resembling good play will be a bonus. <\/p>\n<p id=\"v3oW1i\">Josh and I will have a live show shortly after the game and I\u2019ll be writing a recap. We\u2019re bound to have other content too, so check back with Mavs Moneyball tonight and tomorrow. Thanks for hanging out, let\u2019s go Mavericks. hanks for hangin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Basketball is finally back for fans of the Dallas Mavericks as the team faces off in a primetime&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":56425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,4231,41357,1596,41031,204,5037,8604,4230,6650,8043,8044,4360,41356,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,1685],"class_list":{"0":"post-56424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-angeles","10":"tag-begins","11":"tag-dallas","12":"tag-dallas-mavericks-game-coverage","13":"tag-front-page","14":"tag-it","15":"tag-lakers","16":"tag-los","17":"tag-mavericks","18":"tag-mavs","19":"tag-moneyball","20":"tag-preview","21":"tag-so","22":"tag-texas","23":"tag-tx","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-united-states-of-america","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","28":"tag-us","29":"tag-usa","30":"tag-vs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114833762885417830","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56424","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=56424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}