{"id":605303,"date":"2026-02-21T07:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T07:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/605303\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T07:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T07:34:13","slug":"dallas-faces-indiana-on-10-game-losing-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/605303\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas faces Indiana on 10-game losing streak"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dallas Mavericks<\/a> (19-36, 12th in the Western Conference) vs. Indiana Pacers<\/a> (15-42, 15th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

Indianapolis; Sunday, 5 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Dallas heads into the matchup with Indiana as losers of 10 in a row.<\/p>\n

The Pacers are 10-18 in home games. Indiana is 4-24 in games decided by at least 10 points.<\/p>\n

The Mavericks are 5-20 on the road. Dallas allows 117.5 points to opponents while being outscored by 3.6 points per game.<\/p>\n

The Pacers average 111.2 points per game, 6.3 fewer points than the 117.5 the Mavericks give up. The Mavericks are shooting 47.0% from the field, 1.4% lower than the 48.4% the Pacers’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n

The two teams square off for the second time this season. The Mavericks defeated the Pacers 107-105 in their last matchup on Oct. 30. Brandon Williams<\/a> led the Mavericks with 20 points, and Pascal Siakam<\/a> led the Pacers with 27 points.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Jarace Walker<\/a> is shooting 39.9% and averaging 10.7 points for the Pacers. Jay Huff<\/a> is averaging 1.8 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Naji Marshall<\/a> is averaging 15.1 points for the Mavericks. Max Christie<\/a> is averaging 12.8 points over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Pacers: 4-6, averaging 115.6 points, 41.7 rebounds, 29.0 assists, 8.0 steals and 3.5 blocks per game while shooting 48.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 119.7 points per game.<\/p>\n

Mavericks: 0-10, averaging 111.7 points, 43.7 rebounds, 22.9 assists, 7.5 steals and 4.6 blocks per game while shooting 45.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 121.7 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Pacers: Aaron Nesmith: out (ankle), Obi Toppin: out (foot), Johnny Furphy: out for season (knee), Andrew Nembhard<\/a>: out (back), Ivica Zubac: out (ankle), Pascal Siakam: out (personal), Tyrese Haliburton<\/a>: out for season (achilles).<\/p>\n

Mavericks: Dereck Lively II: out for season (foot), Kyrie Irving<\/a>: out for season (knee), Cooper Flagg: out (foot).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Mavericks (19-36, 12th in the Western Conference) vs. Indiana Pacers (15-42, 15th in the Eastern Conference) Indianapolis;…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,17374,23294,1596,3139,255655,1267,143966,33388,11018,57678,151372,37352,6322,358,3187,3374,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-605303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-america","tag-andrew-nembhard","tag-brandon-williams","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-event_preview","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-jarace-walker","tag-jay-huff","tag-kyrie-irving","tag-max-christie","tag-naji-marshall","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-pascal-siakam","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-tyrese-haliburton","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116107468185077728","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605303","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=605303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}