{"id":526227,"date":"2026-01-09T02:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T02:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/526227\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T02:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T02:08:14","slug":"utah-jazz-vs-dallas-mavericks-preview-start-time-channel-injury-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/526227\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah Jazz vs Dallas Mavericks: Preview, start time, channel, injury report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Utah Jazz will take on the Dallas Mavericks the day after a hard-fought game with the Oklahoma City Thunder tonight in Salt Lake City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Dallas Mavericks are coming off a win against the Sacramento Kings on Wednesday. The Mavericks and Jazz are competing for draft position, and tonight\u2019s game is extremely important for both teams in the lottery. But it\u2019s probably most important for the Jazz because they can lose their pick this year, the Mavericks own theirs outright. If Utah can lose this game tonight and put space between them and the Mavericks, it will go a long way towards Utah having a successful season of keeping their pick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Tonight, it looks like the Jazz will be without Jusuf Nurkic and Ace Bailey once again. Bailey is out with a hip flexor, and the Jazz are obviously trying to be careful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Where: Delta Center &#8211; Salt Lake City, UT<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">When: 7:00 PM MT &#8211; 1\/8\/2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Utah Jazz will take on the Dallas Mavericks the day after a hard-fought game with the Oklahoma&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3785],"tags":[7,423,52756,6,422,427,8572,3972],"class_list":{"0":"post-526227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-utah-jazz","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-jazz","10":"tag-jazz-game-preview","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-utah","13":"tag-utah-jazz","14":"tag-utah-jazz-game-coverage","15":"tag-utahjazz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115862706804882772","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}